Rhys Dipshan

Rhys Dipshan

CT-born, New York-based legal tech reporter covering everything from in-house technology disruption to privacy trends, blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, and ghosts-in-the-machine. Continually waiting for law to catch up with tech. (It's like waiting for Godot, but without the clowns)

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May 28, 2024 | Legaltech News

A&O Shearman's Fuse Incubator Announces 8th Cohort of Startups

In addition to legal tech startups, this year's Fuse cohort includes many companies innovating with blockchain technology.

By Rhys Dipshan

3 minute read

May 24, 2024 | Legaltech News

Contract Review Startup Superlegal Announces $5 Million Seed Funding Round

Started by the founders of LawGeex, Superlegal looks to cater specifically to small- and medium-sized businesses.

By Rhys Dipshan

2 minute read

May 24, 2024 | Legaltech News

Court Reporting Startup Skribe.AI Raises $3.5 Million in Seed Funding

Austin, Texas-based Skribe.AI was one of the three winners of the ABA Tech Show's Startup Alley pitch competition in February.

By Rhys Dipshan

2 minute read

May 23, 2024 | Legaltech News

Parent Company of Privacy Compliance Provider ActiveNav Announces $8M Investment

The investment for Data Discovery Solutions, the parent company of ActiveNav and relatively new data mining and forensics company Actfore, comes just two years after the company closed on a smaller funding round involving the same investor.

By Rhys Dipshan

2 minute read

May 22, 2024 | Legaltech News

Evisort and NetDocuments Become Latest in Legal Tech to Integrate With Microsoft Copilot

The integrations, announced during the week of the "Microsoft Build" developer conference, aim to allow more seamless interactions between the legal tech platforms and applications in Microsoft's ecosystem.

By Rhys Dipshan

3 minute read

May 20, 2024 | Legaltech News

From In-House at AstraZeneca to an E-Discovery Startup: New Fileread GC Discusses Major Career Move

As the head of legal services at pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, Josh Kreamer created an internal e-discovery program from scratch. Now, he's looking to show legal professionals the value of generative AI in e-discovery as GC and chief strategy officer at startup Fileread.

By Rhys Dipshan

7 minute read

May 16, 2024 | Legaltech News

SurePoint Technologies Acquires Business Intelligence Provider Leopard Solutions

The acquisition of Leopard Solutions, founded by Laura Leopard, comes a little over two years after Surepoint bought Cole Valley Software, developer of law firm client relationship management (CRM) software company ContactEase.

By Rhys Dipshan

2 minute read

May 16, 2024 | Legaltech News

Swedish Gen AI Assistant Leya Raises $10.5M in Seed Funding

Leya offers a generative AI assistant that looks to streamline legal tasks such as document analysis, due diligence review, data extraction, legal research and drafting legal documents. The company will use the funding to grow its international expansion.

By Rhys Dipshan

3 minute read

May 06, 2024 | Legaltech News

Contract Analysis Company eBrevia Launches Gen AI-Powered DraftPro Months After Co-Founders' Buyback

eBrevia was bought back from Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) by co-founders Adam Nguyen and Jacob Mundt in December 2023—five years after they first sold the company.

By Cassandre Coyer | Rhys Dipshan

5 minute read

May 03, 2024 | Legaltech News

E-Discovery Startup Fileread Hires Former AstraZeneca Head of Legal Services Josh Kreamer as GC

The hire comes less than a year after Fileread closed on a $6 million funding round led by an investment firm backed by Google.

By Rhys Dipshan

2 minute read


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