2 April 2024 – Luminance, the leader in ‘legal-grade’ AI, today announced that it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round. The investment is led by Santa Monica-based growth-stage venture firm, March Capital, with participation from National Grid Partners and other existing investors, including Slaughter and May.   Luminance’s specialist legal Large Language Model (LLM) automates the generation, negotiation and analysis of contracts and other legal documents for a rapidly growing customer base spanning 600 organisations in 70 countries, from global manufacturers such as Ko ..read more

Presolv360, an ODR Institution working with various courts, and government and private entities has formed an advisory council comprising of Justice U U Lalit, Justice B N Srikrishna and Justice Kannan Krishnamoorthy to guide the institution on legal, ethical, procedural and policy related activities. From left to right: Former Chief Justice of India U U Lalit and former judges Justice B N Srikrishna and Justice Kannan Krishnamoorthy With the enactment of the new legislation on Mediation and the ongoing review of the Arbitration law, there is a renewed focus on institutional ADR in India. Al ..read more

About the Bootcamp: In collaboration with Dot Legal Pvt. Ltd., The Legal Lock is organizing a boot camp on contract drafting from the 9th of June, 2023, to the 11th of June, 2023. The objective of conducting the boot camp is to provide first-hand knowledge about drafting with full-time assistance to people of the legal fraternity and enhance the understanding of people thereby. There will be live sessions of 1-1.5 hours each day, and the recorded sessions will also be provided for those who failed to attend the session for any reason. About the Speakers: Adv. Gautam Pratap Rai Matani Leg ..read more

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance launched its new report yesterday – Defining tomorrow’s legal function through its relationships. The report captures the views and insights from some of the world’s leading companies to help define the expectations and aspirations for in-house counsel. The report looks at how the role of in-house legal function is evolving to one that is more outward facing, internally connected and empowered by data and technology. A selection of the report’s highlights: In-house legal teams’ relationship with data and technology is transforming all i ..read more

1 March 2022 – Singapore: Global law firm Reed Smith today announces the appointment of Bryan Tan as partner in its Entertainment & Media Industry Group and Singapore office. Tan joins from Pinsent Masons MPillay, Pinsent Masons’ joint law venture in Singapore, where he was head of its Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) practice. Prior to joining Pinsent Masons MPillay, Tan was the director of Keystone Law Corporation, a firm he founded in 2005. With over 20 years’ experience, Tan has a broad practice focused on transactional, regulatory and legislative work. He is renowned fo ..read more

About Mr. Hsiang Low: Hsiang is Head of Asia-Pacific at SeedLegals, one of the hottest law tech offerings which provide the legals for creating, funding and running startups. Hsiang oversees SeedLegals’ operations and strategy across Hong Kong and Singapore. With his unique combined offering of international legal practising experience and technological product expertise, Hsiang has helped to deliver cutting-edge and game-changing products.  Previously, Hsiang was Co-Head of Asia at Nakhoda, an in-house legal tech startup at Linklaters, a magic circle lawfirm with a global footprint. He l ..read more

Let’s see what 2022 looks like for legaltech! The past decade has been monumental in the evolution of the human race because of the birth and rise of technology. Tech has integrated itself with almost all aspects of our lives and continues to underpin numerous industries. Law, or legal, is no different. We have witnessed a steady rise in the legaltech space. Of course, technology is not a new concept in Law. However, economic trends like rising inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and jaw-dropping tech valuation multiples have led to a paradigm shift in the industry. There are two reasons for thi ..read more

About CCCL Before diving into the National Conference, here’s a brief history about CCCL: Established in 2018, the Centre for Corporate and Competition Law (CCCL) is a student-run centre aiming to provide a platform for students of the institute to explore and learn more about the nuances of Corporate and Competition Law, and to prepare them for the corporate world. To advance our agenda, CCCL has been successful in conducting multiple landmark events in the history of our institute, which has carved a niche corner for our Centre within the legal fraternity. Amongst others, CCCL conducted our ..read more

The Legal Lock is pleased to announce its first-ever National Article Writing Competition. The initiative is to provide a platform for the participants to express their views lucidly in a concise manner upon the various legal topics and ongoing problems which will capture and gauge the students’ distinctive ability and skill to vividly express their opinions on any topic. This competition can be used as a great opportunity for the students to explore and develop their writing skills. Last date to register: 14th September,2021 Link to register: https://forms.gle/R4jrr77VTfekYXsA8 DETAILS: Eligi ..read more

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) or confidentiality agreements are a fact of life if you’re in business. You’ve probably read tons of them, and you know more or less what you would accept. Still, every NDA has different legal language. Meaning that a lawyer is needed to review each one. This costs time and money, which should not be necessary for a simple standard document like this. IT lawyer Arnoud Engelfriet took a different approach: he created a robot lawyer that reads and amends NDAs automatically. His company, JuriBlox Labs launched a lawyerbot named ‘NDA Lynn’. Here’s how it works NDA ..read more