CLOC's law firm community, Stuart Fuller heads KPMG's legal services & more - August 2, 2019 - a podcast by LAC Group

CLOC launches community for law firm legal operations professionals
https://cloc.org/about-us/cloc-in-the-news/cloc-announces-launch-of-law-firm-community/

CLOC's Law firm Community is in response to the growing number of law firms creating legal operations roles and recognizes the need for increased collaboration between law firms and corporate legal operations. The community is open to legal professionals who dedicate the majority of their focus to legal operations or business management and who are employed at a private law firm. Those employed by companies who provide goods and services to the legal market aren't eligible to participate.

Survey finds a third of U.K. consumers access legal services online
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/one-in-three-legal-consumers-using-online-services

The Legal Services Consumer Panel's annual tracker survey found one in three legal consumers use online services. The proportion of consumers using online services has grown at a steady rate in the last eight years and rose from 30% to 33% in the last year. Those seeking legal services by phone dropped from 14% to 12%, while those seeking face-to-face advice was at 45%. Satisfaction levels depended on the delivery method with 95% satisfied with face-to-face service, followed by online (79%) and by telephone (74%).

ASEAN LegalTech Association launches to promote regional legal tech ecosystem
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/new-group-promotes-growing-southeast-asian-legal-tech-ecosystem

The Southeast Asian group wants to take advantage of the legal tech industry in Singapore and nearby countries by building and nurturing a regional legaltech ecosystem. Members of the ASEAN LegalTech Association include legal tech startups, law firms, legal departments and regulators in the region.

Diligen introduces self-training system to quickly learn new contract clause types
https://www.legaltechnology.com/latest-news/diligen-launches-ml-based-self-training-system/

Diligen Prodigy is a self-training system that allows legal departments and law firms to train Diligen to recognize new clause types in contracts. The system offers data for users to classify, removing the need to dig through documents to highlight relevant text.

Clyde & Co partners with AI company NVT to develop machine learning offering
https://www.clydeco.com/firm/news/view/clyde-co-to-use-innovative-visual-search-tool-in-development-of-machine-lea

The firm's Data Lab will leverage Neural Vision Technologies' (NVT) visual search engine, NVT VISTA, to speed up the search and retrieval of records and documents. Data Lab will be able to automate record retrieval and perform analysis of large document collections. The firm says the partnership with NVT will allow it to identify data more efficiently and use it to provide insights and more value to clients.

KPMG appoints Stuart Fuller as global leader of legal services business
https://www.australasianlawyer.com.au/news/australian-legal-heavyweight-tapped-to-lead-kpmgs-global-legal-business-264756.aspx

Fuller, who will be based in Australia, succeeds Swiss-based Juerg Birri, who will retire from the firm at the end of the month. Fuller joined KPMG from King & Wood Malleson in 2018 to lead KPMG Law in Australia. Partner Kate Marshall will be promoted to head of KPMG Law in Australia once Fuller assumes his new role.

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