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How Do You Implement Security and Privacy by Design? Try This
September 27, 2019
A proponent of both privacy by design and security by design, Lisa Hawke, VP of Security and Compliance at Everlaw, has integrated those values into the company culture.
She notes: "It's important to make sure folks on the team understand that privacy involves everything relating to personal data, which is a very broad category of information. And privacy is about the actual person's control over that data. While security involves how we're protecting that data."
What to Know about FedRAMP
August 28, 2019
How similar or different is FedRAMP to other types of certification, authorization, and compliance (such as ISO, SOC-2, GDPR, even HIPAA); and what does it mean for a startup to go through organizationally, culturally? Lisa Hawke, VP of Security and Compliance at Everlaw, shares her expertise and their experience in navigating all this, as well as the resources below, in this episode of the a16z Podcast hosted by Everlaw board partner Steven Sinofsky.
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Reynen Court Launches in Beta With an Assist from Big Law
August 15, 2019
The Reynen Court app store will allow lawyers to shop for legal tech vendors and download their programs onto their phones and work computers in private, highly secure “cloud” environments.
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Facebook Settlement Gives FTC Opening to Set Precedent for Privacy Standards
May 2, 2019
The power of technology and the large-scale aggregation of personal data means tech companies face “unintended inferences” that can threaten our anonymity, reputation, credit, and even our safety. Even Facebook may be coming to grips with this notion.
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The Secret Trust Scores Companies Use to Judge Us All
April 6, 2019
When you’re logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly into a single score, then evaluated along with other personal data to determine if you’re a malicious bot or potentially risky human.
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Why VCs and Private Equity See Increasing Possibilities in Legal Tech
March 25, 2019
If you have some spare change laying around, legal tech seems like the place to put it these days. Earlier this month, legal contract AI company LinkSquares raised $4.8 million during its latest round of financing. In February, Amity Ventures and Village Global led a seed funding round that saw Evisort raise $4.5 million. Numerous other businesses have also seen an influx of cash that has led to a host of M&A activity.
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Top 20 Legal Technology Companies – 2019
February 1, 2019
The advancements in technology have paved new inroads for legal companies to come up with more effective strategies to serve their clients.
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LegalTech Companies Snap Up $106M In VC During Active January
January 31, 2019
For the second time in two weeks, a company focused on making lawyers’ lives a bit easier has secured venture capital. Yesterday, Ironclad, a San Francisco-based company working on contract management, announced that it raised a $23 million Series B, bringing its total known funding up to $34 million, according to Crunchbase data.
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An Arsenal of Skype, Voice Recorders and FOIAs
January 30, 2019
How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, discussed the tech she’s using.
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Looking Back at the Year in Legal Tech Finance
December 20, 2018
The changing technological landscape of the legal sector continued to drive deal activity this year. Below is a round-up of some of the most notable legal tech transactions of the past 12 (or so) months.
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Legal Tech’s Predictions for 2019 in Cybersecurity and Privacy
December 18, 2018
From Equifax to Facebook to the GDPR, cybersecurity and privacy had a banner year in 2018. But according to attorneys and cyber experts, the cyber focus shows no sign of stopping.
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Legal analytics – when big data meets big law
November 30, 2018
Automated data analysis has changed how scientists think about health research, and is helping uncover inefficiencies in transport systems. Now it’s making waves in the legal sector.
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From Berkeley California to London Shoreditch: Everlaw launches in the UK
November 28, 2018
Fast-growing cloud-based eDiscovery provider Everlaw is to open an office in London to expand its services into the UK and continental Europe.
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Legal tech uses AI to help business to help itself
November 24, 2018
Top 10 legal tech companies with the greatest impact on practice and business of law; Everlaw, founded 2011. The tech: The software is used by law firms, companies and US state attorney-general offices to manage litigation and ediscovery. The impact: Its ease of use and speed have helped Everlaw expand its market share and attract $25m in investment this year. It allows lawyers to work more collaboratively to build timelines and arguments for litigation cases together.
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Why this CEO thinks more startups should move to the East Bay
October 23, 2018
Oakland typically doesn’t attract hot startups or large tech companies — but AJ Shankar, the CEO of legal tech startup Everlaw, thinks it should. Everlaw recently secured a 50,000-square-foot lease at 2101 Webster St. in downtown Oakland.
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Lawyers reach information overload
October 4, 2018
Start-ups such as Luminance (founded by mathematicians from Cambridge university), Toronto-based Kira Systems, or eBrevia and Everlaw of the US have used artificial intelligence methods such as natural language processing to automate many contract review and discovery processes.
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Contracts take center stage as LegalTech funding on course to top $1 billion in 2018
September 25, 2018
Interestingly, $355 million of this has been invested in legal solutions utilizing AI. This AI-focused funding represents a bigger sum than the investment across all legal technology solutions in 2017.
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Read This List of Books to Succeed in Business and Life
September 17, 2018
Iain Banks's Culture series describe a plausible universe in which humans and AIs live in great harmony and respect. It serves as a reminder that technology is neither good or bad; we determine how it's used, whether to our detriment or benefit.
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Is AI The Great Equalizer For Small Law?
August 15, 2018
One of the most common misconceptions about the application of artificial intelligence technologies to the legal profession is that it is only for the big firms.
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Investment money pouring into legal AI
August 3, 2018
$200 million in new investment capital has found its way to legal tech companies in just May and June of this year. The money went into companies that are either based in machine learning (sometimes called “artificial intelligence”), an increasingly important sector of legal technology.
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