Innovation

The Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, in partnership with the Georgetown University Law Centre for the Study of the Legal Profession and the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, has launched a major study: ‘The 2017 Alternative Legal Service Study – understanding the growth and benefits of these new legal providers’.

Distributed ledger technology - commonly called 'blockchain' - may potentially be game-changing for several industries, including legal. A new white paper explains why the world's leading companies are investing in advancing blockchain.

Although law firms and legal departments in the Middle East are beginning to recognise the importance of technology to streamline processes and boost workflow efficiencies, they still have work to do to adopt new legal tech and play catch-up with global law firms. Read our new report to find out more.

The law is fertile ground for predictive analytics and machine learning. In part 2 of this series, we look at the social benefits of potential uses of analytics in legal.

Could predictive analytics help lawyers to avoid miscarriages of justice? What are some of the use cases that could help transform the legal industry, and what benefits might they bring to society at large?