2021-12-16
InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy in collaboration with Hungarian digital law firm SimpLEGAL issued a practical guide on legal AI to showcase how smart legal technology opens up new opportunities for digitizing legal services. Law firms and in-house legal departments often still lack clarity as to the use cases and basic terminology used in the legal AI domain.
2021-11-16
Investing in legal technology is fundamentally a business decision: will the benefits of the investment outweigh the costs? Return on the investment must justify the effort and expense of upgrading a legal team’s infrastructure and skills. A return-on-investment (ROI) calculation should help the decision making process with realistic numbers and flexible variables to account for different users and use cases. In this article, InvestCEE’s legaltech advisor Chuck Henrich explains what metrics legal teams should take into account in calculating ROI for tech-assisted legal services, and how to do it.
2021-10-08
In a recent legaltech implementation project, InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy and our LegalTech Marketplace vendor Dealsign brought end-to-end digital contract management to a leading player in the CEE region's online food ordering industry. In a multi-disciplinary teamwork that included our client's operational, legal, HR and IT departments, the project focused on shifting from paper-based traditional contracting (with ink-on-paper signatures) to 100% virtual contract management.
2021-09-28
The Polish team behind LegalTech Academy is organizing this online meetup on October 5th, 6pm CET to focus on the potential of data in the legal industry. Register and stop by this event to learn our insights on using data as a strategic tool for legal teams!
2021-07-08
Seamless contracting is a top priority for all organizations, irrespective of company size and industry. Technology is within reach to assist with certain parts of the contract lifecycle or to manage the entire process on a single platform (end-to-end). Yet despite the abundance of tools available, there are many impediments to change for better contracting habits. Here’s an overview of three typical challenges and our best-practice tips for improving contracting with technology.
2021-06-15
Since year 2000, June 30 marks the anniversary of the ESIGN Day in the United States. As eSignature is increasingly part of everyday business life on a global scale, the ESIGN Day is becoming a cause for celebration in various jurisdictions across continents. At InvestCEE we view electronic signatures as a true cornerstone of digital transformation and are delighted to take part in the second eSign Day Conference to be hosted in Hungary in 2022.
2021-04-07
In a digital economy, the value of legal work largely results from core human expertise multiplied by the ability to efficiently “package” legal know-how into technology. Legal analytics tools designed for lawyers allow a shift away from the billable hour and enable workflow data analytics that capture core human expertise.
2021-03-16
At the end of 2020, EXE.legal, a Lithuania-based specialized law boutique, and InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy, a legal innovation advisor, have announced their cooperation agreement on consultancy services aimed at law firms and in-house legal departments with a focus on deploying legal technology solutions. Since then, the collaboration has kicked off with full speed, Dr. Paulius Astromskis, Managing Partner at EXE.legal, and Dr. Orsolya Szabó, CEO of InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy, shared their take-aways from the past few months.
2021-01-14
Unless carefully planned, all the value added at the contract negotiation and electronic signing stage disappears as soon as the executed contract gets randomly filed. Smart contract management in the post-signature stage is necessary to harness the benefits of contracts in an organization. We’ve condensed our best practice tips in this 5 step plan based on InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy’s experience with digital contracting processes.
2020-12-13
Adminisztráció. Mindenki szeretné gyorsabban, könnyebben, lehetőleg papír- és érintésmentesen, környezetbarát módon intézni. Az elektronikus aláírás a digitális transzformációs projektek kulcsfontosságú eleme, ami számos gyakorlati kérdést szokott felvetni az elektronikus aláírások egyes fajtáinak joghatásaival, kötelező erejével kapcsolatban egy-egy ország joghatósága alatt. Az InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy és a SimpLEGAL ügyvédi iroda közös piacelemző riportja Magyarországra fókuszál és a hagyományos, tintával papírra írt kézjegy itthon elérhető elektronikus alternatíváit elemzi. Az elemzés kivonata a FintechZone blogon is olvasható.
2020-12-10
In the September 2020 issue of CEE Legal Matters Magazine, InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy founder and CEO Orsolya Szabó shared the story behind developing the business model for innovative legal service delivery. Edited by Tereza Green, the article later also appeared on the online blog of CEE Legal Matters. In addition to the key focus areas for InvestCEE's innovative legal service delivery, the article also shares feedback and insights from InvestCEE clients and partners in various CEE jurisdictions: Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
2020-11-20
Legal innovation conference Legal Accelerators will take place virtually next week on November 26-27 and we are delighted to be a part of it! InvestCEE Founder & CEO Orsolya Szabó will share practical insights on data-driven legal services and host a strategic planning workshop for legal teams on Day 1. Check out the event agenda and sign up to join the discussion! We empower legal departments and law firms to put data culture in the center of their value-added legal service delivery. For this, we bring together legal and business know-how, legal technology solutions, strategic consulting and implementation expertise as a unique approach to help our clients provide a new generation of legal services. This strategic planning webinar session is a unique opportunity for legal teams to understand how to combine legal technology solutions with their particular expertise and package legal services into digital tools.