Managing partners have been running some version of this conversation for thirty years: a lateral arrives, a conflict surfaces, a screen goes up, the file gets walled. An ethical wall (also called an ethics wall) is a documented, court-recognized information barrier that separates an attorney from matters where their prior client relationships create a conflict […]

Aileen Johnson, director of knowledge at Charles Russell Speechlys, explores how AI is quietly reshaping the way lawyers learn and outlines why knowledge teams hold the key to ensuring the profession grows sharper, not shallower, as a result Learning in law firms has followed a familiar pattern for decades. Knowledge was built up over time, […]

What if the problem with legal CRM is not lawyer adoption, but the way firms measure CRM value? Legal CRM has reached a point where more investment doesn’t automatically mean more value. Zena Applebaum is joined by Sarah Happy, Director of Marketing Technology at Harbor, and Laura Saklad, Vice President, Legal Industry at Intapp, to look at what […]

This episode of Legal Helm features a conversation at the intersection of artificial intelligence, professional services, and the future of knowledge work. For this episode, we’re pleased to welcome Kourosh “KZ” Zamani, co-founder of Laurel, an AI platform helping professional services firms rethink one of the most fundamental aspects of their business: time itself. Laurel […]

Felix Steffek — legal AI advisor, Cambridge professor, and one of the sharpest minds in the profession — issues a bold call to arms: to reimagine legal work from the ground up or risk being left behind. Find out more and watch Felix Steffek at the Legal Innovation Summit here Felix covers: Law and Transaction […]

Before joining Legora as its first UK employee, Amy Conroy’s career had already taken a somewhat unconventional path for a law graduate. Amy studied law at the University of Bristol, where her final-year research explored AI and the right to be forgotten, specifically the extent to which personal data can be removed from machine learning […]

Harbor, the leading provider of professional and technology services to the legal industry, just launched Harbor Deploy, a dedicated offering that puts AI to work inside law firms and corporate legal departments. Harbor Deploy embeds specialist teams, including forward-deployed engineers and delivery leads, directly inside client organizations to move AI from pilot into daily use […]

Partnerships are often treated as a shortcut to innovation. They offer access to technology, data, customers, infrastructure or market reach without the time and cost of building everything internally. That is why they are attractive in the C-suite. The commercial logic is usually easy to understand. One organisation has the distribution, another has the platform, […]

Deals that used to take months can now take less than 2 weeks. Here is how we got here. And why we think this is only the beginning. Legora is expanding rapidly, and M&A is a tool to accelerate our roadmap. We just announced our fourth acquisition in three months (Walter, Qura, Graceview, and Cadastral). […]

CFOs attribute onboarding friction to compliance. The commercial exposure the data reveals sits somewhere else entirely, and at an earlier point in the timeline than most firms are looking. When the Briefing CFO research asked CFOs to name the two factors that most significantly slow down their onboarding process, compliance dominated. Compliance check speed and compliance complexity […]

What would you keep, and what would you change, if you were building a law firm from scratch today? In this episode of the Katchr Podcast, we are joined by Alex McPherson, founder and partner of Ignition Law, to explore how the firm has been deliberately designed around a different model: flexible working, business development […]

Helping law firms scale AI adoption without compromising client confidentiality or conflict management. As legal AI moves from chat to agents, the governance question has shifted. It’s no longer whether AI can do the work. It’s whether firms can deploy AI without compromising the professional responsibility obligations that matter most: managing conflicts of interest and […]

Finance legal work rarely arrives in the right order. A finance document set lands late. A lender call moves forward. The partner needs a position before the briefing. A waiver, amendment, covenant or security point has to be checked against the documents. The commercial position shifts after drafting has begun. The answer then needs one […]