As firms grapple with the advantages – and risks – associated with ChatGPT, Dentons has developed its own version of the product that it will launch later this month. Called “fleetAI”, the chatbot is based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model. It has been developed with Microsoft to ensure that data uploaded to the service […]
Simmons Solutions experienced record growth of 16 per cent last year, taking it to £25m from the £22m recorded the year before. Nearly a 14 per cent increase on the previous year, this makes it Simmons & Simmons’ fastest growing international practice group, having been integrated as a practice group at the firm at the […]
In-house lawyers want firms to be using cutting-edge technology, but firms are less keen, according to new research
What does it mean to be a disruptive GC? For Liberis’s Alexis Alexander, being disruptive means being clever with what you already have. Disruption and innovation doesn’t always have to come with hefty price tags and new tech launches. Having progressed from being a head of legal to a GC, she wanted to prove that […]
There has been a change in mindset at one North West firm, not least a greater interest in building products.
Eversheds Sutherland is looking to rip up the traditional legal services rule book with a range of AI-focused policies and processes, in a direct response to the extraordinary rise of ChatGPT at the start of this year. The firm’s new approach is likely to result in Eversheds mandating the use of AI technology wherever possible […]
Every year, hundreds of trainees are recruited into some of the top law firms in the UK with the end goal of becoming top, technical solicitors. But something that isn’t widely talked about, is what do you do if the technical law you are practising isn’t really for you? Tom Grogan puts himself in this bracket, […]
Days after Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling sent shockwaves through the market, 18 managing partners found themselves sitting in the Chartered Accountants Hall. Organised by The Lawyer and LexisNexis, the event brought together law firm leaders together to discuss the effects of generative AI on the legal profession. LexisNexis opened the evening by […]
Fuse, Allen & Overy’s tech incubator, has picked a series of start-ups for its latest intake. This intake makes up Fuse’s seventh cohort, and boasts two streams: one focused on legal tech, and the second on digital assets including NFTs, payment and security tokens and derivatives. In total, 226 companies applied in the hopes of […]
Patience will pay off on AI
Gowling WLG has launched an internal competition to encourage staff to develop and implement ideas that the firm can use to its advantage. Any one at the firm can submit an idea and the process is currently in its early stages. The firm has named the project “The CoLab ’23 Challenge” and so far over […]
A UK top 100 firm has integrated the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT to give its lawyers more time to focus on client care. Conveyancing firm O’Neill Patient, along with sister brands Grindeys and Cavendish Legal Group, will use the technology to automate document analysis in the conveyancing and remortgage process. This should allow its people […]