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Legal Industry Rules on Cusp of Sea Change as Tech Forces Gather

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

News, November 29, 2023
News, November 29, 2023

Legal Industry Rules on Cusp of Sea Change as Tech Forces Gather

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

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News, November 17, 2023

Better Call Hence

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

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HENCE WINS GLOBAL INNOVATION CHAMPIONSHIP OF ZURICH INSURANCE
News, May 22, 2023

HENCE WINS GLOBAL INNOVATION CHAMPIONSHIP OF ZURICH INSURANCE

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

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News, November 16, 2022

Geopolitics And Legal Tech — The Risk And Resilience Nexus For Corporates

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

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News, November 1, 2022

Lawyers — Our Only Hope In The Metaverse!

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

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News, October 3, 2022

Revantage Innovates Management of Law Firm Relationships with Hence Technologies

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

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News, September 27, 2022

Retaining Knowledge During Today’s Great Talent Migration

There’s a bit of geopolitically triggered whiplash going on in the market for legal talent. After more than a decade of easy money and fiscal stimulus, the global economy was dealt a COVID-19 curve-ball. As the virus took hold across the world in 2020, governments pumped untold amounts of money into their countries to keep

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News, September 13, 2022

Is The NYT Jones Day Take-Down Actually A Take-Down?

It’s not often that you open up the New York Times and see a major investigative story on a Biglaw firm. But in late August, the NYT Magazine ran a sprawling story on how Jones Day purportedly reshaped the American judiciary by masterminding and orchestrating the appointment of a massive number of conservative judges, including no less

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News, August 25, 2022

The rise of the ethically empowered corporate legal team

Corporations must look inside to define their own value system with respect to managing external counsel. Following this, the company is prepared for technology to help drive that alignment.

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News, August 22, 2022

There Are Only Law Firms That Have Been Hacked And Those That Will Be

What do the legal departments of Volkswagen, Ikea, Jones Lang LaSalle, Citibank, and Caterpillar all have in common? Some amount of their legal work in Russia may have been made public this summer by hactivist group Anonymous’ action against Russian law firm Rustam Kurmaev and Partners, also known as RKP Law. I had written in Harvard Business Review about

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