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With this LegalTech blog, we aim to inspire engagement with legal technology tools in a creative and transformative manner. We share insights for optimized, value-added legal services and more efficient business processes.

2020-01-17

contract management aivan.ai investcee legaltech

Getting Started with Contract Lifecycle Management? Pick the Lowest Hanging Fruits!

Managing the contract lifecycle and making the most of contract data is one of the all-time top priorities of corporate legal teams. Improving contract management efficiency is easier with new technologies, yet there's typically a gap between the importance of these challenges and success in solving them. Given there are many contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions available on the market, it is rather confusing to understand which capabilities really drive the most value. Here's a summary from our partners from Aivan.ai explaining how they differentiate their tool on the legaltech market.

2020-01-06

Inesting in Legal Technology InvestCEE Guide to Strategic Acquisitions

Investing In Legal Technology: a Guide to Strategic Acquisitions

In a changing legal market -- responding to a data-driven economy -- companies and law firms often play it safe, look for the perfect solution and wait for the right moment to jumpstart innovation of legal workflows. Investing into technology requires some expenses and the return on investment is often difficult to predict. Clearly, legal technology acquisitions need to be carefully and strategically considered. Yet study after study shows: strategic thinkers are found to be among the most highly effective leaders, and those organizations that look to the future and take well-managed risks are the ones that persevere and grow. We help apply this wisdom in legal innovation context.

2019-11-29

CEE LegalTech Report 2019

A couple of years ago, legal technology (legaltech) was still an unnoted topic of discussion among most lawyers in Central Eastern Europe (CEE). Even in more mature legal markets, the legaltech sector was just picking up, but often still poorly defined. Today, innovative software tools targeting the legal industry are being developed across Europe and legaltech startup maps are increasingly populated in several local jurisdictions. Our team at InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy decided to look more closely at various legaltech solutions originating from the CEE region specifically and to provide an overview of this nascent market. We are excited to release the final version of the CEE legaltech report today!

2019-11-20

ELTA Congress 2019 in Madrid, Spain

On November 20-22, the annual conference of the European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) will take place in Madrid, Spain. On Wednesday afternoon, ELTA members will hold a general meeting discussing innovation goals and strategies for the continental European legal market. […]

2019-11-14

Managed Legal Services Bucerius Conference

Bucerius Workshop on Managed Legal Services

Managed Legal Services is a new breed of standardized legal service offerings. Supported by legal technology, Managed Legal Services are typically deployed to meet the growing demand from in-house counsel for solutions to complex problems that must be capable of being integrated into the client’s own systems and processes. Workshop by Bucerius CLP with contribution from InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy team!

2019-10-25

Contract Data Management Legal Data Analytics by InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy

5-Step Plan for Contract Data Analytics

Smart data management, contract analytics or AI-assisted contract management are some of the various terms used to describe technology tools that help more efficiently access and assess information embedded in contracts. While traditional document management systems force us to carry out and execute routine operations manually (like searching for specific phrases or sections in contracts, reporting on contract data, etc), smart technology helps to automate most of these manual tasks.

2019-09-23

Legal Design Helsinki 2019 LDS2019 take away notes

Takeaway Notes from LDS2019: Why Does Legal Design Matter?

In September 2019, the third edition of the Legal Design Summit (#LDS2019) took place in Helsinki, Finland. With its six hundred participants from all around the world, #LDS2019 was the largest legal design event so far -- and the first event of its kind that the InvestCEE professional designer team attended. In this blog post, we share the take-away notes by our designer Forián-Szabó Ferenc.

2019-09-13

Helsinki Legal Design Summit

Legal Design Summit is the world's largest legal design event held in Helsinki on the 13th of September 2019. InvestCEE team is attending to be part of this unique forum for forward-thinking professionals and to exchange knowledge and expertise on law, design and digital services through interdisciplinary collaboration.

2019-07-22

Top LegalTech Contributors in CEE – 2019 Research & Study

In 2019, InvestCEE launched a project to determine and quantify key players enabling innovation of legal services across Central Eastern Europe (CEE). We are quite excited about this first regional study aimed to examine a new market currently carving out an innovative aspect of legal services, often referred to as newlaw. This blogpost is a sneak peek into our research project and the more detailed report to follow.

2019-06-02

Innovative Legal Services Forum 2019 InvestCEE Workshops

Takeaway Notes from ILSF2019: Strategy, Structure & Culture for Legal Innovation

Growing from a simple idea into a dominant legal innovation event in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) was as quick as lightning for the Innovative Legal Services Forum (ILSF). Our team shared know-how at two interactive and practical workshops on the pre-conference day just to see specific aspects of our approach reinforced by a number of speakers on the main conference day. This blogpost contains our takeaway notes and an excerpt of our workshops.

2019-05-22

Document Automation Webinar: Takeaway Notes & Video

On May 15, 2019, InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy hosted a webinar organized by the European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) regarding practical aspects of implementing document automation for law firms and corporate legal departments. The panel of experts included Kaisa Kromhof and Hannele Korhonen from our legaltech partner Contract Mill.

2019-05-15

ELTA Live: Document Automation — The Back-End Tool for Legal Service Delivery

The upcoming public event of the ELTA Live webinar series will focus on document automation as a key back-end tool for legal service delivery. The Document Automation Webinar is free to attend but requires prior registration HERE. In the context […]