Pramata’s General Counsel and Chief Evangelist Foster Sayers will present during a workshop on the reshaping of the legal industry and how to thrive in the age of generative AI and ChatGPT. Sayers will also join CrushContracts CEO Roma Khan to present “Becoming a Contract MVP: Establishing a Focused Approach to Contract Management.” In-house legal teams, stretched thin on headcount and resources, are searching for streamlined contract management solutions that are easy to deploy while providing maximum value. Because of its straightforward approach to contract management, Pramata is experiencing extraordinary revenue growth and customer adoption with a solution that gives legal teams their time back.


Who:

  • Foster Sayers, General Counsel and Chief Evangelist, Pramata
  • Aaron Crews, Chief Product and Innovation Officer, UnitedLex
  • Ilona Logvinova, Associate General Counsel, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
  • Danielle Benecke, Founder, Baker McKenzie Machine Learning, Baker & McKenzie LLP
  • Jeff Reihl, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, LexisNexis

What:   Generative AI has taken the legal world by storm and this workshop session will share insights on how it works, legal applications, and where it can take the industry long term.

When:  Monday, March 20, 2023 at 1:30 p.m.

“With a spotlight on generative AI, the legal industry is in a race to better understand and navigate the opportunities and risks of adoption,” said Sayers. “It’s mission critical for legal professionals to get this right and educate themselves and their clients about generative AI because of the ethical concerns and potential impacts on attorney-client privilege. I look forward to participating in the workshop at Legalweek to help others successfully navigate these issues and adopt amazing applications of generative AI in the legal field.”

Becoming a Contract MVP: Establishing a Focused Approach to Contract Management

Who:    Foster Sayers, General Counsel and Chief Evangelist, Pramata,  Roma Khan, CEO, CrushContracts

What:   This session will provide a fresh take on how legal professionals can flip the script and be viewed as a strategic partner and accelerator.

When:  Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.

Where: Trianon Ballroom, New York Hilton Midtown, New York, New York

 

The session will offer actionable tactics in-house counsel teams can take to bring cost savings and revenue generation to the business and will give attendees an action plan on:

  • How to flip the script from roadblock to strategic partner and accelerator
  • How to simplify and align your contract management program with your business goals for long-term success and better adoption
  • How to find a tech solution that helps you raise the value of the contracts you manage (without slowing you down)

Pramata will be exhibiting at booth 3121, and attendees can book a demonstration of Pramata’s radically simple contract management solution here.

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This step now means that the digital transformation company covers key markets, with offices already established in London, Leicester, Barcelona and New York.

The move to the GCC opens a wealth of opportunity for the company in an expanding region. Cyferd leads the way in digital transformation bringing to life the vision of frictionless business operations and trade for both government and enterprise customers.

The long-standing relationship between Ranjit Bahia, the CEO of Cyferd, and Abdulla Al Mutaiwee, now President Cyferd Dubai, led to a partnership between them both that resulted in the opening of Cyferd LLC Dubai.

“The rate of progress and hunger for innovation in the GCC region is unparalleled and aligns with our own values as a company to constantly push the boundaries of what is possible using technology,” said Ranjit Bahia, CEO.

“Cyferd’s expansion into the GCC region is crucial to meeting the high demand seen for digital business transformation and innovation and an important catalyst for future growth opportunities,” said Abdulla Al Mutaiwee.

For Cyferd, opening an office in Dubai has highlighted the importance of the location for start-up tech companies. The Middle East is the future for tech giants, and with the support of Abdulla, the opening of Cyferd LLC Dubai is crucial for the future expansion of the company.

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Hanzo significantly improves the corporate legal team’s experience managing Microsoft Teams data for ediscovery through pre-collection intelligence, allowing innovative, targeted collections and rapid actionable insights during data analysis.

Hanzo, a global provider of enterprise solutions for legal, governance, and compliance teams, announces the first pre-collection dynamic mapping technology for Microsoft Teams. Hanzo’s Dynamic Mapping technology for Slack powers Hanzo Illuminate, the industry’s first intelligent collection and culling solution for collaboration data empowering enterprise ediscovery teams with best-in-class defensibility and reduction of extraneous data collections by up to 85 percent.*

Microsoft Teams collaboration data has grown to nearly 80% market share** and is increasingly becoming a standard request during the legal ediscovery process. Hanzo’s proprietary technology automatically addresses a critical enterprise ediscovery challenge of automating analysis for huge volumes of data and pinpointing what to collect, reducing the hassle, cost, time, and risk typical of enterprise ediscovery and downstream review processes.

“Why collect everything into a data lake when it is unnecessary,” posited Hanzo VP of Product Dave Ruel. “We know from our years of experience with collaborative data that the scale and complexity of enterprises require a better way to target their collections. They need up-front intelligence to help them effectively cull it to improve all downstream workflows.” 

Dynamic Mapping offers enterprises a pre-collection preview

 

Another typical challenge enterprises face with Microsoft Teams collaboration data is needing more critical context for efficient ECA evaluation. Time and context are especially essential for enterprises when navigating vast amounts of messaging data. Hanzo’s pre-collection intelligence speeds up early case assessment by highlighting where the conversations are happening. Unlike many competitive solutions offered today, Hanzo automatically organizes messaging content into contextual threaded conversations because reviewing data in siloed streams as is standard in Microsoft Purview is complex and inefficient, especially at the scale large enterprises face.

“Hanzo’s mission is to quickly and accurately reduce the noise pointing users to the truth within their data as soon as possible,” commented Ruel. “We leverage our vast experience helping enterprises navigate the complexities and vast volumes of collaboration data, so they have the information they need to limit their risk and make better decisions regarding case strategy.”

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Hanzo Illuminate offers enterprise legal teams key features that significantly improve the user experience:

  • Pre-Collection Intelligence – Provide enterprise teams with a preview of their collaboration environment before collection to target collections, efficiently respond to ediscovery requests, and conduct investigations.
  • Contextual Data Threading – Automatic contextual threading of Microsoft Teams communication data brings the entire conversation into view, delivering clarity and chronological context essential for understanding while saving mission-critical time.
  • Pre-Packaged Review-Platform-Ready Exports – Streamline processes with review-platform-ready exports. Efficiently review custodial chat data in context, including edits/deletes, metadata, message/custodial relationships, and more. Your ediscovery review team will permanently save time by not having to re-process data before reviewing.

 

To learn more about Hanzo Illuminate’s support for Microsoft Teams and how we can help your enterprise better manage ediscovery with collaboration data, contact Hanzo. Be sure to connect with us during Legalweek at Booth 2123 or schedule a meeting at hanzo.co/2023_legalweek.

*Based on aggregated enterprise customer data.

**Source: 2022 Collaboration Data Benchmarking Report, ACEDS & Hanzo

About Hanzo

Hanzo helps global enterprises manage and reduce legal risk wherever work gets done. Our vision is to provide enterprises with a single source of truth for their complex communications data. Hanzo solutions capture investigations, litigation, and compliance data from wherever employees collaborate — efficiently tackling the massive volume and unique complexities that emerging data sources present. Hanzo’s software empowers defensible preservation, targeted collection, and efficient review of dynamic content. Hanzo is SOC 2® Type 2 certified, demonstrating its commitment to data security and serving large corporations worldwide. Learn more at hanzo.co and follow updates on Twitter: @gethanzo or on LinkedIn.

 

Contact

Sarena Regazzoni

Senior Director of Communications

Hanzo

503-407-4208

sarena@hanzo.co

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NEW YORK, NY March 14, 2023 – Priori Legal, the leading legal marketplace for in-house legal teams, today announced significant growth in 2022 on the heels of achieving important milestones for the company. In July 2022, Priori closed a $15 million Series A-1 financing round, setting the stage for growth and development throughout the year. In addition to this financing, the company reported triple-digit revenue growth and net revenue retention. The company more than doubled its headcount in 2022, including adding four new vice presidents to the senior management team.

“We are very proud of our 2022 accomplishments and are so grateful for the trust of our investors and clients as well as the extraordinary hard work of our team, who made our growth possible,” commented Basha Rubin, CEO and Co-Founder of Priori.

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Business systems management consultancy Tick9 and digital transformation company Cyferd are delighted to announce a new solution partnership, where Tick9 will be a solution provider and reseller for the Cyferd Platform.

Tick9, based in East Yorkshire, has extensive experience in leveraging intelligent data solutions to help clients understand their business better. They employ a number of smart technology suites to help provide key data to decision-makers and help businesses align their strategic goals for the future.

Tick9 utilises a host of software tools including PowerBI, Qlik, Microsoft PowerApps, and more. They help build custom solution packages for their clients’ data needs. Along with Tick9 software, the company plans on utilising the Cyferd Platform to help aid digital solutions for companies.

Previously, Tick9 achieved smart data solutions in several industries, including logistics, manufacturing, and recruitment. One of their most recent case studies saw the company streamlining customer intelligence and finance integrations for recruitment solutions provider Smart Temps.

Cyferd is an agile digital transformation platform that enables users to create scalable, secure business applications in the cloud without the requirement for coding, accelerating digital business transformation. It aims to tackle the problem of data fragmentation and data silos at the source, reducing the need for legacy systems and disparate applications.

Greg Merten, Senior VP of Alliances and Partnerships at Cyferd, is excited to have Tick9’s expertise to address new sectors like manufacturing and logistics.

“Tick9 will be able to implement Cyferd as a tool to build their bespoke digital solutions,” Merten notes. “It’s a valuable joint venture for us to be able to achieve intelligent business execution.”

Steve Fewster, Founder at Tick9, is looking forward to integrating the Cyferd platform into the Tick9 toolkit.

“Cyferd provides a great solution to build integrated applications on a data-first platform,” Fewster notes. “This reduces time-consuming tasks with no-code automation for our customers’ operational systems.”

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Reveal-Brainspace Announces Acquisition of LIGL – integrating legal hold and eDiscovery workflow automation onto its AI-powered Reveal 11 platform

“The acquisition of LIGL highlights Reveal’s commitment to an ongoing approach to growth that emphasizes customer needs over everything else. The LIGL team and the technology they bring to Reveal will augment Reveal 11’s seamless investigative and eDiscovery functionality,” said Wendell Jisa, Founder & CEO.

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Harrier Search, the first bespoke recruitment agency to serve the LegalTech community, has just launched an anonymised talent marketplace (Harrier Candidates) that will bring transparency to the salaries on offer in what is still a new sector but also to the skills that are required for the variety of roles in LegalTech & Legal Operations.

Commission rates for candidates sourced via the talent marketplace will be as low as 11% for logo customers. The other benefit to employers is speed. Not only will employers be able to identify and approach talent on Day 1 of a search, but before the search has even begun they can advise the Harrier team of their future needs and in turn the team will encourage candidates to sign up in anticipation of the role going live. Employers who would benefit from the talent marketplace include:

  • in-house legal teams looking to hire legal operations professionals;
  • law firms in need of technologists, legal engineers, developers, thought leaders and those involved in the wider business of law such as Knowledge lawyers and Legal IT professionals;
  • LegalTech vendors and consultancies with vacancies in Sales, Product, Business Development, Engineering, Customer Success and Leadership roles.

Harrier’s founder, Henry Venmore-Rowland (first non-technical hire at Luminance) explains why he chose this approach: “I’m grateful for the lessons I learned having joined a LegalTech company pre-launch to the point where it had 120 customers globally. Traditional recruitment agencies are dependent on hiring consultants to grow, which means high commission rates to cover overheads, searches that can drag on for weeks and a shortlisting process that isn’t always transparent. A platform approach empowers candidates and employers alike, potentially halves costs and reduces time to hire.”

Harrier Candidates will be free to all candidates and of value to everyone from active jobseekers through to those with no intention to leave their employer. Signing up to the platform grants guest access, which will allow users to do their own benchmarking of skills and salaries. Candidates will also self-rate how active or passive they are as a jobseeker to encourage or deter potential employers from reaching out with live roles. Crucially, current renumeration is hidden from employers but desired renumeration is shared. No employer will have access to profiles of their own employees while browsing.

The platform already has its first 15 employers signed up pre-launch. Most of the LegalTech companies operate in the UK, but they also represent employers from Singapore, Sweden, Australia, Germany and the US. The marketplace is also currently free at point of use to employers, but once a threshold of candidates is met there will be a subscription charge, except for early adopters who will have a grace period for all 2023.

 

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LegalWeek New York, March 20, 2023 — Inovitech LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based legal technology and consulting company and Certified 100% Woman Owned Small Business, announced today the release of IS-A-TASK 9.0 to centralize legal project management and metrics for corporate eDiscovery. This latest release of the cloud-based application features an improved user experience, more robust security, and enhanced reporting for metrics.

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Book marks another milestone for the founder and CEO of multi-award-winning Edge Marketing, the go-to PR and marketing firm serving the legal and accounting communities, now in its 26th year

 

March 16, 2023 – MINNEAPOLIS – Edge Marketing, Inc. (formerly Edge Legal Marketing and Accounting Edge Marketing), a Minneapolis-based public relations and marketing firm serving the needs of organizations in the legal and accounting industries, announces CEO Amy Juers, MBA, has published her first book: The Marketing Edge: A Sharper Way to Approach Building a Brand.

The Marketing Edge offers actionable and practical tips on performing a SWOT analysis, crafting SMART goals, building buyer personas, defining your unique value proposition, using storytelling to your advantage, building a positive company culture, getting the most out of your website, performing market research and data mining and combining the power of PR, marketing, and advertising.

As a 26-year veteran of the industry, Juers believes the future of any organization depends on understanding your current position in the market while envisioning the heights you’d like your business to reach. “To be successful, businesses must be willing to devote time and energy to the actions that lead to more clients, increased revenue and business longevity,” says Juers, such as strategic planning, brand positioning, marketing and advertising, employee participation, website maximization and strategic outsourcing.

Recently, having raised her three children as well as an internationally successful company, it was time for Juers’ next “baby.” This newest arrival, The Marketing Edge, is an insightful guide to the nuances of today’s marketing. “Going through the pandemic, it seemed like an opportune time to highlight what works today,” Juers says. “I felt the time was right as we settle into the new normal to examine what that looks like from A to Z in legal marketing and public relations.”

The Marketing Edge is now available for purchase on Amazon.com.

About the Author

Amy Juers, MBA, is founder and CEO of Edge Marketing, Inc., a multi-award-winning marketing and public relations firm that services the legal and accounting communities. Edge Marketing has been recognized by the National Law Journal, Texas Lawyer, the New York Law Journal and many others.

She possesses a work ethic that reflects an indefatigable drive, dedication and astute mind. All this culminates in the raging success of what’s considered to be the go-to PR and marketing firm for savvy legal and accounting entities.

Spontaneous, exuberant and fun-loving are just a few of the adjectives that describe Amy Juers, whether she’s cheering on the Minnesota Vikings, teeing off on a lush course or just hanging out with family and friends at the lake house. Of course, there’s her other side, too: the studious, ambitious and highly focused entrepreneur who has successfully built a company that’s now in its 26th year.

About Edge Marketing

Edge Marketing, Inc., formerly known as Edge Legal Marketing and Accounting Edge Marketing, delivers strategic marketing and public relations expertise to clients in the legal and accounting industries. As an award-winning full-service agency, Edge provides fractional CMO services, strategic planning and budgeting, public relations, branding, website development, email campaigns and digital advertising for clients globally. Since 1997, Edge has helped B2B organizations reach the top. To learn more, visit www.edgemarketinginc.com.

Media Contact:

Vicki LaBrosse
Director of Global Public Relations
Vlabrosse@edgemarketinginc.com
651.552.7753

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Since the events of the Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, several organisations in the United Kingdom have been focused on ameliorating and improving building strategies in the UK – to ensure that such a tragedy would never be repeated.

But the issues of the built environment in the UK extend far beyond Grenfell; such is the premise of Dame Judith Hackitt’s 2018 Building a Safer Future report. The report outlines the concept of a ‘golden thread’; this was the suggestion that digital information needed to be effectively introduced and managed to enable decision-making through all stages of a building. The thread links all people and processes together as part of a broader strategy to make sure that built environment and building strategies within the UK are safer than ever.

But, how exactly does this function in practice? What does this mean for organisations?

The built environment has never been a more important issue for Data Clan, a Yorkshire-based solutions collective pioneering innovative ways to tackle issues and streamline organizational change. Data Clan is a multi-disciplinary research and consultancy firm with a passion for getting things done and a reputation for talking straight. Their track record certainly reflects it: CEO Chris Lees and Executive Director for Research Dr Rob Wray are working pro-bono on developing BRAC Golden Thread advice.

Data Clan utilises a cross-disciplinary approach to built environment and building challenges, enhancing outcomes like cost-efficiency, organisational cohesion, and solution efficacy, particularly in the context of safety-critical systems.

As Data Clan announces the “Age of Data”, they take a tech-focused approach to their new partnership agreement with digital transformation platform Cyferd. The partnership, which was signed this week, aims to combine digital innovation expertise and technology to help implement emergent Golden Thread requirements for the building industry.

Cyferd is innovating a digital transformation platform that enables users to streamline business processes through the creation of cloud-native, secure, no-code business applications. As they grow their platform, Data Clan’s extensive experience in the building industry will help them achieve solutions across the entire sector.

Chris Lees, CEO of Data Clan, said, “We are delighted to play our part in improving building safety, and this partnership allows us to apply Cyferd’s innovative platform to the existing and new challenges of digital asset information management. We see the potential to exploit the rapid deployment and lower total cost of ownership of the platform with clients in the housing and real estate sectors to meet both forthcoming legislative needs and current digital transformation ambitions.”

Greg Merten, SVP of Alliances and Partners at Cyferd, notes how critical Golden Thread policy is to linking aspects of the built environment.

“From the building owner to the construction worker, we can work with Data Clan to enable them to continue to innovate solutions to help connect communities with the buildings they’re intertwined in.”

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