Slaughter and May Picks Six Startups for Inaugural Legal Tech Programme
The applicants fought off competition to gain access to advice from firm's lawyers and clients.
April 29, 2019 at 06:21 AM
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Slaughter and May has selected six startups to join its maiden legal technology programme, Collaborate.
The successful applicants include AI-powered litigation platform LitiGate, document automation tool Clarilis, and Logiak, a platform that lets non-coders create their own apps.
Slaughters said it received more than 50 applications after the programme was announced earlier this year.
The six companies will be given access to the corporate in-house teams as well as partners and lawyers at the firm. The programme will run for three months.
Slaughters clients GlaxoSmithKline, John Lewis, Santander, Standard Chartered and Vodafone have all agreed to test and assess the small firms' products in development.
The companies will also have access to two dedicated mentors from the firm – one lawyer and one member of the knowledge team – and dummy data to develop their products.
Collaborate is led by partners Anna Lyle-Smythe and Nilufer von Bismarck, and supported by innovation head Jane Stewart, knowledge head Alexandra Woods, and senior technology lawyer Natalie Donovan.
von Bismarck said in a statement: "We are very pleased with the businesses we are taking into Collaborate in this first cohort. They fought off some very strong competition from a high calibre of applicants. We look forward to working with some of the best legaltech entrepreneurs to bring new tools to the legal sector."
2019 Collaborate cohort:
- Tabled – a platform that helps lawyers manage tasks and projects by automating workflows and assigning tasks to team members, providing a full picture of the team's legal work.
- StructureFlow – a platform that helps lawyers and their clients quickly and easily visualise complex legal structures and transactions.
- Clarilis – a document automation tool that can be used for even the most complex of legal documents without the need to amend existing precedents or templates first.
- JUST: Access – an easy-to-use transcription and dictation solution, using AI and natural language processing to produce transcripts and related analysis.
- Logiak – a tool that allows users with no coding experience to create complex logic/rule-based systems, for example to create an app to assist in working out if a particular law or regulation applies in a certain situation.
- LitiGate – an AI-powered litigation platform that uncovers hidden insights, provides a bird's eye view of each case and automates day-to-day tasks.
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