Last week, we put forward in HBR a fairly straightforward argument but one that hadn’t really been made before: If political volatility is going up and the cost of legal actions (due to AI) is going down, then legal exposure of companies will go way up. This will likely give rise to a flood of legal attacks …
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I contemplate terms and conditions while taking an autonomous taxi. Hence also launches a fashion fundraiser to support the next generation of female Rwandan coders! Last Saturday night, I was chauffeured around Los Angeles in an autonomous Waymo taxi with a friend. The taxi had no driver but picked us up and dropped us off …
Legal departments in multi-national corporations must navigate the impacts of trade wars and economic sanctions, political instability and conflict, inter-region regulatory divergence, cybersecurity and state-sponsored cyberattacks, and standards applying to environmental stewardship and human rights throughout supply chains. In this interconnected global environment, says Sean West, an entrepreneur, consultant, and author, in-house counsel must increasingly …
Erin Levine is on a mission to provide affordable divorce services to expand access to justice. She told me she first looked to scale up her family law practice using technology, but quickly realized ABA’s Rule 5.4 on lawyer independence would prohibit her from raising capital from non-lawyers. That meant she’d have to run a technology company …
The African Startup has devised an AI platform that combines data and technology to revolutionize the way companies manage their legal needs. Better Call Saul. Or rather, Better Call Hence. One could borrow the title of a famous TV series starring actor Bob Odenkirk, who plays the unscrupulous lawyer Saul Goodman in the Breaking Bad …
Today, Hence Technologies was announced as a winner of Zurich Insurance‘s Global Innovation Championship. Out of 3,500 applications, Hence joins 12 other winners in applying cutting-edge technology to pushing the insurance industry forward. In particular, Hence is focused on how enterprises select and work with lawyers at scale. This is a massive challenge in the insurance industry where …
The global COVID-19 pandemic, conflict in the Ukraine, rising inflation and interest rates, debt levels, and volatile food and fuel prices, among other things, are creating acute macroeconomic headwinds. So it’s perhaps no surprise that corporate desire for greater agility and flexibility in response to geopolitical instability is the No. 1 factor considered to have …
One of the great paradoxes of the legal profession is that lawyers are stereotyped as allergic to technology while simultaneously being at the bleeding edge of the way society interacts with technological advancement. The Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Gathering in Las Vegas, which I attended last week, provided a first-hand opportunity to explore this …
Revantage, which provides leading corporate services to portfolio companies of one of the most prominent private equity firms, has partnered with Hence Technologies to transform how they use data to establish, evaluate, and build relationships with external law firms. Revantage’s team, from paralegals to attorneys (including the Chief Legal Officer), are using Hence to quickly …
