TLT and LegalSifter combine artificial intelligence and legal advice in contract negotiation solution

Pittsburgh, PA USA | December 13, 2017 LegalSifter has partnered with TLT to launch a “combined intelligence” solution for contract negotiation for in-house legal, procurement and operations teams in the UK and Ireland. This world’s first solution will dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of contract reviews and business transactions, and minimize risks inherent in the negotiation process.

The solution combines powerful artificial intelligence technology from LegalSifter with in-built legal advice and ad hoc legal support from TLT. Users start by uploading draft contracts into LegalSifter. Sifters – software trained to read text for a specific concept that learns over time – and in-context advice from TLT’s commercial lawyers then help users to identify missing terms and conditions and make changes that protect their interests.

The software completes a contract review within a minute or two, with greater consistency, less risk of errors or missed terms and the assurance that a lawyer is available when needed. It can also be customized to each client – for example to enforce a company’s sign-off procedures – enabling consistency across the business and can be up and running within a few days.

James Touzel, partner and head of technology, media and telecoms at TLT, says: “People and artificial intelligence together will deliver better results than either alone. Clients will inevitably have questions that software cannot answer, or they will want the assurance that an expert is available when needed. At the same time, artificial intelligence offers a speed that people cannot possibly deliver. That is why TLT has partnered with LegalSifter to create what we believe is the first solution of its kind in the UK and Ireland legal market.”

Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter, says: “Contract negotiation is a slow and risky process, and the cost of missing an egregious term can be catastrophic. By combining intelligent software with intelligent lawyers to make contract reviews quicker, safer and cheaper, we’re hoping to make this pain a thing of the past. We are excited to be partnering with TLT to bring this new solution to market.”

TLT has entered a strategic, multi-year partnership with LegalSifter, which includes a minority equity share in the business. For further information about the solution, please email James Touzel at TLT on james.touzel@tltsolicitors.com or call +44 (0)333 006 0156.

About LegalSifter
LegalSifter is dedicated to bringing affordable legal services to the world by empowering people with artificial intelligence. LegalSifter intends to achieve its mission by working with the legal profession, not against it. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA), LegalSifter offers its products directly to organizations as well as through and with law firms.

About TLT
TLT supports large corporates, public institutions and high growth businesses on their strategic and day-to-day legal needs. Able to advise across the three UK legal jurisdictions of England & Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the firm has offices in Bristol, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast, as well as a specialist ship finance team in Piraeus, Greece.
With significant experience advising organizations in the energy & renewables, financial services, housing, leisure, public sector, retail & consumer goods and technology, media and telecoms sectors, the firm has a strong track record of consistent growth driven by client need. TLT has more than 100 partners and employs around 1,000 people.

LegalSifter launches product that reviews contract drafts on other party’s paper in a minute or two
Software-as-a-service product uses machine learning and natural language processing

Pittsburgh, PA USA | September 27, 2017  LegalSifter proudly introduces a better way to review and negotiate a contract. At least one party in every negotiation must review someone else’s contract, an unfamiliar document full of complex legal language. That party has three options: (1) ask colleagues or external counsel for help (expensive & slow), (2) review the document alone (challenging), or (3) skip the review, sign the document, and hope for the best (risky).

“People routinely review draft contracts they did not write with tight deadlines, distractions, and the expectation of perfection,” said Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter and a licensed attorney. “Our new product helps people read draft contracts faster, access the advice of their lawyers and leaders in seconds, make fewer errors, and shave days off of their contract negotiations.”

Users of LegalSifter upload the first draft of a contract to a secure website. Sifters – software trained to read text, look for a specific concept, and learn from experience – then review the document and identify important concepts that demand attention or are missing entirely. The Sifters trigger in-context advice tailored to the customer’s business and position in the negotiation. Users may export the advice for redlining.

LegalSifter sells its product directly to companies and through law firms. For companies, users tend to be general counsels looking to scale, procurement or sales team members wanting to take a more active role in a negotiation, or leaders who quickly need a second set of eyes on a contract.

Law firms are both users and resellers of the product. Junior attorneys and paralegals use LegalSifter to access the experience of their partners 24×7. Partners use LegalSifter just like pilots use checklists in airplanes – a subtle, important reminder of where they should focus their time and what not to forget.

Law firms brand and resell LegalSifter to clients who want to access their trusted advisors on low-level contract reviews at a speed and cost that aligns with their business needs. They combine their advice with the Sifters to create a powerful self-service software product for clients, and improve revenues, client satisfaction, and margins with a new product that makes them money while they sleep.

“We will achieve our mission by working with the legal profession, not against it,” said Miller. “Artificial intelligence is becoming part of our daily lives. Amazon brought AI into our homes with Alexa. Apple brought AI to our smartphones with Siri. LegalSifter will start the legal profession on its own artificial intelligence journey.”

DISCO Appoints New CRO and CFO and Promotes Etheridge to CMO

DISCO deepens its bench of senior executives to prepare for global expansion in 2018.

Houston, TX – CS Disco Inc., the legal technology company that makes the market-leading SaaS ediscovery solution DISCO, today appointed Andrew Shimek as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Michael Lafair as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and promoted Neil Etheridge to Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

This expansion of DISCO’s leadership team follows a year of tremendous growth, including more than 85% growth in headcount and the launch of field sales and services teams in all major U.S. markets. More and more, law firms and corporate legal departments have jettisoned their legacy platforms and adopted DISCO as their firm-wide or company-wide ediscovery solution. DISCO is now the acknowledged market leader in next-generation cloud ediscovery.

“We are thrilled to bring Andrew’s and Michael’s leadership to DISCO,” said founder and CEO Kiwi Camara. “Both share our core values – what we call the Inventor’s Spirit – and both are mature, effective leaders with remarkable track records throughout their careers to prove it. In addition, I couldn’t be more proud of Neil’s accomplishments with us. When we searched for a CMO, we concluded the best candidate was already here.”

Shimek, DISCO’s new CRO, is a lawyer and a 20-year industry veteran who held successive leadership roles at LexisNexis and Epiq, ending as President of Legal Services and Electronic Discovery at Epiq. At DISCO, Shimek’s focus will be growing revenue worldwide. “I am thrilled to be here to help build out the offering and team as we expand our market footprint around the world and become the dominant player in ediscovery,” said Shimek. “When I met the DISCO team and saw a clear passion and commitment to bring product differentiation back to ediscovery, the pull was too great to resist.”

Lafair, DISCO’s new CFO, previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Offers.com and was instrumental in executing the sale of Offers.com to Ziff Davis, LLC in 2015. After the acquisition, Lafair served as Global Head of Finance, Ziff Davis B2B. Prior to Offers.com, Lafair served as Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of All Web Leads, Inc. and Vice President and General Counsel of Interlogix, Inc. and practiced corporate law at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. With the addition of Shimek and Lafair, two thirds of the DISCO executive team are former practicing lawyers.

“Michael is both a lawyer and a highly regarded financial executive. We are delighted he will be joining DISCO,” said Camara. “He has key experiences and a unique skill set in moving companies forward from a financial and investment standpoint, and we look forward to seeing his contribution to DISCO.” Lafair said, “I am pleased to join Kiwi and his team. I was impressed by DISCO’s innovative and transformative approach to using technology to improve the practice of law. I look forward to helping this talented team continue its success.”

Etheridge, assuming the role of CMO, has been with DISCO since 2015 and has been instrumental in the growth of the company as Vice President of Marketing. In his new position, he will continue to lead DISCO’s go-to-market strategy, brand strategy, lead generation, product marketing, communications, and more – both domestically and internationally. “Neil is the kind of transformative visionary who helps businesses such as ours quickly position themselves for go-to-market success,” said Camara. “He has a track record of accomplishments in coordinating internal and external resources and stakeholders to capture and grow market share. We would not be where we are today without him.”

For more information, or to learn more about DISCO contact us today.

About DISCO

 

As the leading provider of Software as a Service solutions developed by and for lawyers and legal professionals, DISCO partners with law firms and corporate legal departments to improve legal outcomes by building and deploying great legal technology. More than 400 law firms, including over 75 of the AmLaw 200, have embraced Disco as their first choice for innovative technologies that help great lawyers and their teams secure justice and win cases.

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Archive360 to Showcase the Industry’s Leading Legally Compliant Cloud-Based Data Archive at Legalweek New York

 

Archive2Azure Enables Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments to Ensure Legally Defensible, Regulatory Compliant, and Secure Data Archiving in the Customer’s Own Azure Cloud Subscription, While Dramatically Lowering Costs over that of Proprietary Cloud Archives

 

NEW YORK – January 23, 2018 – Archive360, the world’s leading provider of data migration and management solutions for the Microsoft Cloud, today announced it will showcase its Archive2Azure, cloud-based legally compliant data archive built specifically for the Microsoft Azure cloud, at next week’s Legalweek New York (January 29 – February 1, New York Hilton Midtown, New York, NY).

 

Business, legal and IT professionals attending Legalweek New York that visit Archive360’s Booth #2006 will see firsthand how its Archive2Azure enables them to ensure all data is maintained in their Azure account in a legally defensible, regulatory compliant and secure manner that preserves legal chain of custody while mitigating risk – onsite and/or in the cloud. With Archive2Azure, clients can migrate, store, manage, and search large legal data sets with 100% data fidelity and security including native format storage with full encryption of data at rest using their own encryption keys and, full preservation of all metadata and content is authenticated with legally defensible audit reporting. Archive2Azure includes case management functionality including search, review, tagging, legal hold, and export in several formats including EDRM, XML, and CSV formats.

 

“Archive2Azure enables law firms and corporate legal departments to securely store, manage, search and work with case-related data for just pennies per GB per month — a huge capabilities improvement accompanied by an enormous savings over traditional on premise and proprietary cloud storage,” said Bill Tolson, Vice President of Marketing, Archive360. “With Archive2Azure, law firms and legal departments can can ensure full data fidelity, while speeding access to eDiscovery result sets. Moreover, by moving email archives, file shares, SharePoint data and other unstructured data to the low cost Azure cloud for legal data storage, law firms can free up valuable floor space for billable attorneys.”

 

Legalweek New York brings together the entire team that manages the business of law to explore the business and regulatory trends, technology, and talent drivers impacting the industry. To learn more about the event, please visit: http://www.legalweekshow.com/.

 

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About Archive360
Archive360 is the world’s leading provider of data migration and management solutions for the Microsoft Cloud.  Since 2012, Archive360 has securely migrated data into the Microsoft Cloud with record-breaking speed, verifiable data fidelity and legally defensible chain of custody. Archive360’s Archive2Azure^TM solution is the compliance and unstructured data storage and management solution based on the Microsoft Azure platform. Archive360 is a global organization that delivers its solutions both directly and through a worldwide network of partners. Archive360 is a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider and the Archive2Azure^TM solution is Microsoft Azure Certified. To learn more, please visit: www.archive360.com.

 

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Responding to Cyber Attacks: LegalCIO 2018 Roundtable Offers Practical Advice for Law Firms and Legal IT Professionals   

Delta Risk Experts to Share Best Practices on February 1 at LegalCIO 2018 Conference in New York

SAN ANTONIO, TX — January 23, 2018 — Delta Risk, a global provider of cyber security and risk management services, announced today that it will host a roundtable on incident response best practices on February 1 as part of the LegalCIO conference. The conference is held in conjunction with Legalweek New York 2018 January 29 – February 1 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Delta Risk experts John Hawley, VP of Product Strategy and Andrew Cook, Manager, ActiveResponse, will lead a discussion on, “Is Your Organization Prepared for a Cyber Attack? Key Takeaways from Real-Life Incidents.”

• Learn more: https://deltarisk.com/resources/events/legalcio/

Hawley and Cook will share learnings from recent incident response engagements with participants, along with insights on best practices. Other topics of discussion will include:

• How incidents occur and key warning signs
• The pros and cons of migrating to cloud services
• Practical steps for prevention, preparation, and mitigation

“Law firms and legal professionals are under significant pressure to reduce cyber risk and demonstrate that they have documented incident response plans,” said Hawley. “As we’ve seen in our work with legal clients, even a single ransomware attack, for example, can have a dramatic impact on the day-to-day business.”

As a sponsor, Delta Risk is offering registrants discount codes for a Legalweek MasterPass or Exhibit Plus Pass. The Legalweek MasterPass offers attendees all-access privileges to all events at Legalweek New York 2018, including LegalCIO. Legalweek features 14 educational tracks, three interactive keynote sessions, 100+ speakers, 75+ sessions, and extensive networking opportunities, and is expected to draw more than 9,000 legal professionals. Delta Risk will also be at table three in the LegalCIO exhibit area.

About the Speakers
John Hawley, Vice President of Product Strategy, has been in the security space for more than 15 years. Prior to joining Delta Risk in 2017, he served as Vice President, Portfolio Strategy for the Worldwide Security business at CA Technologies. Prior to CA, John founded and managed a venture funded SaaS company providing performance monitoring for cloud applications. Before this, he served in senior leadership roles at UUNET/WorldCom and Ernst & Young, LLC. John holds an MBA from the KATZ School of Business at University of Pittsburgh and a BS in Information Systems from Virginia Tech.

Andrew Cook is the Manager of Delta Risk’s ActiveResponse service. In this role he is responsible for the firm’s solutions to discover, investigate, contain, and eradicate incidents and intrusions on customer networks. In addition, he provides defensive and offensive cyber security training and exercises to commercial and government clients. Drawing from his Air Force background, he is one of the firm’s leading subject matter experts in cyber threat hunting and incident response.

About Delta Risk
Delta Risk LLC, a Chertoff Group company, provides customized and flexible cyber security and risk management services to government and private sector clients worldwide. Founded in 2007, we are a U.S.-based firm offering a wide range of advisory services as well as managed security services. Our roots are based in military expertise, and that background continues to drive our mission focus. We are passionate about keeping our clients safe and secure. For more information, visit https://www.deltarisk.com.