A quick guide to...
A quick guide to all the things you need to know... at least about legal tech...
- A quick guide to..., Legal Knowledge Engineering, LKE Life, The road to qualification, What is an LKE, anyway?
Qualification and LKEs
There are two questions people ask me relating to qualification and Legal Knowledge Engineering: ‘do you need to be qualified?’, and ‘can you qualify?’. So, in case you are wondering, here are the answers. Do you have to be qualified…
Why Document Automation IS Valuable, even for you
While I have talked at length on hows of Document Automation, I seem to have omitted to talk about the whys. So, with no further ado, here are the top 5 reasons why document automation is valuable, even for you.…
Being Agile
Agile is the hot new toy in the playground this year, suddenly everyone wants to be more “Agile”. Like ‘AI‘, though, what this means seems to depend on who you are asking. There is a plethora of resource on exactly…
DocAuto Tools Revisited
So, a little over a year ago, I wrote about the big three in DocAuto tools – Exari, Hot Docs and Contract Express. But a year is a long time in technology, and a lot has changed. In 2018, £1.2bn…
Legal Design
Legal documents are well known for being long, dense and generally intractable. This is a fact of life; something everyone just seems to roll their eyes and accept. This does us more harm than good. Not only does it mean…
Document automation systems are old, stable and useful, and so rarely adopted in practice?
I recently stumbled upon a slightly satirical glossary of legaltech/lawtech terms accusing document automation of being “a system for generating a tailored contract or other document based on the answers to questions. Document automation systems are old, stable and useful, and…
Document Automation Software
There are three big players in the Document Automation field, they are Exari, Contract Express and HotDocs. None of these give a very clear picture on their websites of how they work or how they differ, so I shall endeavour…
AI, Machine Learning and Document Automation
One of my pet peeves is the conflation AI, machine learning and Document Automation. AI was the 2017 buzz word, and now seems to be used as a blanket term for any kind of automation ever. The AI effect is…
What is a Legal Knowledge Engineer, anyway?
A Legal Knowledge Engineer, or LKE, is a support role in the legal industry. The role is positioned between lawyers and developers, and is responsible for facilitating the development of legal tech tools. The history The term was coined by…
