Finance
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Finance Q&A: Nota’s Paul Garibian
The fintech executive weighs in on personalized software and the future of legal tech.
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Corporate Crowdfunding: An Untapped Resource
Could crowdfunding revolutionize how law firms reduce costs for clients while still getting paid for their work?
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On The Fintech Carousel: Entering The Mobile Payments Space Requires Vision And Equilibrium
What lies ahead in fintech is a groundswell of rapidly and constantly developing regulatory requirements and unbridled opportunity.
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The Uber IPO Will Be Like Chernobyl For The IPO Market
This is going to be the granddaddy of all tech IPO disasters.
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Lyft Threatens To Sue Morgan Stanley For… Acting Shady, We Guess?
The buttfumble that is the Lyft IPO has reached its ‘Torts?!’ level of desperation.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
A new report looks back on some of the notable tech M&A deals and IPOs that punctuated the worlds of healthcare and biotech, legal, finance, and cybersecurity in 2018 and the outlook for those deals this year.
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* Hail Mary pass interference? President Donald Trump reportedly asked then-acting AG Matthew Whitaker if U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman (S.D.N.Y.) — a “perceived loyalist” — could be put in charge of the Michael Cohen probe even though he’d already recused himself. [New York Times]
* Chief Justice John Roberts once again sided with the Supreme Court’s liberals in refusing to agree with a Texas court’s decision to execute a death row inmate with intellectual disabilities, writing that the lower court’s review of the case “did not pass muster under this court’s analysis last time,” and “[i]t still doesn’t.” Justice Samuel Alito dissented, and was obviously joined by the high court’s conservatives. [Washington Post]
* Emoji are popping up more and more in court cases, and courts still don’t know what to do with them — which is a shame, because “[j]udges need to be aware of the importance of the emojis to the overall communication when we run into … odd evidentiary issues.” [The Verge]
* This Fox Rothschild partner is facing sanctions over missed deadlines in several cases for his client, porn producer Strike 3 Holdings. He’s repped the “copyright troll” in about 2,500 infringement cases since 2017. [American Lawyer]
* If you’re interested in investing in the future of law, alternative legal services provider Axiom will be going public and has applied for an IPO. The number of shares up for grabs and their price range is still undecided. [ALM International]
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Looking Back at the Year in Legal Tech Finance
The changing technological landscape of the legal sector continued to drive deal activity this year.
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Evolve the Law Podcast: Steven Lofchie
Steven Lofchie is a top ranking lawyer and partner at Cadwalader. He’s also the mastermind behind the ultimate workspace for financial regulatory lawyers. He talks to Ian in this week’s ETL podcast.
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Spreadsheet: Creating A Financial Model For Your Legal Tech Startup
The chief reason for designing a financial model is that it and your pitch deck are going to be the main inputs that a savvy investor will want to see from a startup.
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How Will the SEC Treat Crypto? Here’s What’s Been Said So Far
There’s clearly a few different opinions about the future of cryptocurrency, even within the SEC itself.
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Boutique Law Firms, Money, Small Law Firms, Technology
The Advent Of ‘Blockchain’ And What It May Mean For Lawyers
Blockchain will bring disputes — and good lawyers need to be ready.
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Litigation Finance, Litigators
The Best And Worst States For Litigation Finance (Part I)
Professor Michael McDonald examines why the differences between funding exist between states.
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Money, Technology, Wall Street
What People Can Teach Machines
The reality of machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype — and this creates opportunities.
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Biglaw, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Technology
5 Ways In Which The Business Of Law Is NOT Changing Anytime Soon
Are we experiencing, or about to experience, a revolution in the world of legal services? Slow your roll….
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Stats Of The Week: Legal Tech Startups So Hot Right Now
Legal industry startups received a record number of deals in 2016.
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How Much Should You Charge Your Clients? Data Analytics Has The Answer!
Data analytics can help attorneys win new clients and make these clients profitable ones.
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Conferences / Symposia, Technology
Daniel Katz Launches Fin [Legal] Tech
It’s a big challenge to organize a day-long legal technology conference—but it’s not every day that organizers find themselves competing with five million people pouring into their venue. The inaugural Fin [Legal] Tech conference, held November 4 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology, started at 7:30 a.m.—as planes, trains, cars and feet […]