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Elliott Advisors launches legal petition to oust AkzoNobel chairman Antony Burgmans
May 9th, 2017
Activist investor Elliott Advisors has launched legal action to oust AkzoNobel chairman Antony Burgmans. The hedge fund, which has worked to push the Dutch paint giant into takeover talks with US rival PPG, called Akzo’s rejection of PPG’s third ...
The legal war between Uber and Waymo
May 4th, 2017
It promised to be an eye-opening battle royale between tech giants. So let’s check in with Uber and Waymo, the ride-hailing app maker and the Google self-driving car spinoff, which are duking it out in court. When autonomous vehicle ...
Legal tech platform invest in Artificial Intelligence powered expertise finding platform
May 3rd, 2017
Nextlaw Labs, the innovative legal tech venture development company launched by global law firm Dentons, today announced its investment in AI-powered expertise finding platform, ProFinda. The deal was closed through Nextlaw Labs’ investment fund, Nextlaw Ventures. “The difficulty of ...
Global law firms based in UK merge to create the sixth largest legal practice in the world
May 2nd, 2017
CMS UK, Nabarro and Olswang today announce the completion of their transformational merger, creating a new London powerhouse and the 6th largest law firm in the UK by revenue and 6th largest globally by headcount. Globally, CMS has over ...
Optical technology maker Nikon initiates patents’ global legal actions
April 26th, 2017
Nikon Initiates Global Legal Actions Against ASML and Carl Zeiss to Protect Patented Semiconductor Lithography Technology Nikon Corporation (“Nikon”) today initiated a series of legal actions in the Netherlands, Germany and Japan intended to halt infringement of its intellectual ...
Law firm in Australia launches patented legal technology
April 21st, 2017
Australia’s leading independent law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has received a patent from IP Australia for a new optical character recognition (OCR) analysis technology. The technology identifies documents with low quality searchable text and will be used as part ...
Bitcoin to gain legal status in India, reports local media
April 21st, 2017
A televised news report from CNBC India on 20th April reveals that the Indian government is leaning toward granting legality to bitcoin and virtual currencies in the country amid regulations with taxes to be levied on adopters. Last week, ...
LexisNexis announces first legal tech accelerator participants
April 5th, 2017
LexisNexis has announced the first five participants in its new Silicon Valley legal tech accelerator programme created to give startups a leg up in the legal tech industry and transform the business of law. LexisNexis’ aims to transform the ...
A redaction error just revealed the other Uber employee facing legal action from Google
April 4th, 2017
Uber had tried to keep the name of Lior Ron out of the spotlight in its case against Waymo. However, an error in court redactions revealed that Otto cofounder Lior Ron was the second employee facing legal action in ...
US crowdsourced legal research platform closes $12m funding round
March 23rd, 2017
In one of the legal technology industry’s largest-ever funding rounds, US crowdsourced legal research platform Casetext has closed a $12m Series B funding round in order to expand the capabilities of its AI-backed automated research assistant CARA and build ...
