Today I taught the Legal Prediction Module in the Legal Informatics Course at Stanford CodeX. Thanks to Roland Vogl, Michael Genesereth, Susan Salkind, Jameson Dempsey and the students for having me! #LegalInformatics #LegalTech #LegalData #LegalPrediction
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It was a very nice day here at the 2019 Stanford CodeX Future Law Conference – connected with some old friends and new friends — Dirk Hartung Dazza Greenwood Pablo Arredondo Brian W Tang Jerrold Soh and many others !
It was nice to speak about a range of topics with Rose Ors as part of the Curious Minds Series of the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute ! There was much more I could say on all topics (from both academic and industrial perspective) … more to come
The First Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) will take place as part of the larger North American Association of Computational Linguistics Conference in Minneapolis June 2019. NAACL is one of the premier technical events in the field of NLP / Computational Linguistics. Thus, I am very happy to give one of the Keynotes at this workshop. It is one more step toward making Legal Informatics and Legal AI / NLP a mainstream idea within the technically oriented portion of the academy.
I plan to highlight both my work with Mike Bommarito and others as well as provide an overview of the state of the field from both a technical and commercial perspective.
So I think this is one of the more interesting developments worthy of consideration. The 21st Largest UK Law firm DWF went public last week on the mainboard of the London Stock Exchange.
Here is the rough numbers as of the go public date —
2018 Revenue of £236m and a go public valuation of £366m = ~1.6x times Revenue.
I view this as being about the right multiple here (particularly given the fact that expensive labor is such a large part of the equation).
To my knowledge, they do not have serious software or AI offerings with which the can boost the revenue multiple … (product/software biz gets like 3x – 7x+ Rev).
One question is whether they can use the new money to build products and then press for a higher multiple downstream? Everyone is trying to nail the {product, service} bundle … perhaps a £95m cash infusion will help ?
This week I am teaching at IE Law School here in Madrid -The Masters in LegalTech program features students from across the globe interested in how to use tech to #MakeLawBetter….
It is worth noting that the The Spanish Market has grown significantly since I was here first in 2015 (when there were barely 10-20 LegalTech companies to be found — now there are 122 Legal Tech startups in Spain alone as of Feb 2019) … see this company map !
Yesterday I gave the Opening Keynote at the 2019 GlenLegal Conference here in Scotland! Thanks to team at Legal IT Insider for having me!
Legal Technology and Innovation is global and I am proud to have the chance to teach in the LegalTech Masters Program at IE Law School in Madrid. This week, I will offer an online kickoff seminar on topics related to the program (sign up using the link) I look forward to meeting all of the students in the program next month in Madrid.
#PredictiveAnalytics #LegalInnovation #LegalAI#LegalData
#MachineLearning #LegalTech#LegalTechnology #LegalScience
Now accepting applications for the Legal Technology and Operations Summer School – July 1 – 19 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. This program is open to both law students as well as legal professionals looking to learn more about how to bring both technology and operations discipline to the legal industry. I am happy to help direct this program with Dirk Hartung and look forward to 2019 Edition of the Summer School. #LegalTech#LegalInnovation #LegalOperations
Tomorrow I am in Iowa City speaking about all things Legal Innovation at the University of Iowa Law School ! Access the #MAKELAWBETTER Talk Slides Here.
The LexPredict Team is excited to announce that our company has been acquired by Elevate. We believe that joining forces with Elevate is the most effective way to bring enterprise solutions to market more quickly, by combining the artificial intelligence, data science and data engineering capabilities of LexPredict with the award winning legal services of Elevate. Once again our team is very excited !
See the Press Release here
Detailed Coverage in Artificial Lawyer
Additional Coverage on Law.com
Additional Coverage in the ABA Journal
Additional Coverage in LegalIT Insider
Yesterday I was in Park City, Utah to deliver the keynote at the NetDocuments NDElevate Conference!
#LegalTech #LegalInnovation #LegalPlatforms #LegalAI
