Tim Pullan is founder and CEO of ThoughtRiver, the intelligent contract pre-screening leader.In 2015 Tim relocated from Singapore to the UK to develop ThoughtRiver’s technology in Cambridge, one of the world’s leading centres for natural language processing and machine learning.Tim is a regular writer and speaker on the role of data and machine learning in…
We had the pleasure of speaking to Chris Fowler today. Chris is General Counsel Technology at BT Group plc in London. He is accountable for the legal support to Technology which is the unit in BT responsible for the design, delivery and management of BT’s fixed and mobile network infrastructure, its research and development activities and…
Andy has 20 years of experience in building innovative legal technology solutions and leads a product management team at Thomson Reuters that builds a number of drafting and automation related products such as Contract Express, Drafting Assistant, West km, Legal Search Connect and Case Notebook. Andy joined Thomson Reuters in 2015 with the acquisition of Contract…
Welcome to the first SYKE newsletter of the new 2020/21 financial year. With everyone in the midst of managing Covid-19, I thought I’d take the opportunity to give you my thoughts on the current crisis, and also bring you up to speed with a few changes at SYKE that are designed to support you through…
In episode 2 we catch up with the founder of Alacrity Law, Christopher Thurn, and hear his journey from investment banking to legal tech. Chris founded Alacrity, to help companies get the most out of their legal relationships including reduced costs, better service and improved transparency on important metrics like diversity. “Our clients can show…
This is episode 1 of Legal Tech Made Simple with Dom Burch, marketing director at SYKE. In this episode Dom interviews Alistair Maiden, CEO & Founder of SYKE. Alistair tells us how he got involved in legal tech, charting the history of his personal story of implementing contract management and automation at Asda, before setting up…
From day one SYKE has been a business without fixed office premises and most of our colleagues regularly work from home. Many of you will be doing this long term for the first time so here are a few pointers to help you get the most of your new way of working: Separation The key…
SYKE is delighted to announce the appointment of Simon Hurst to the role of senior legal engineer and to head up its new financial services practice. He starts with immediate effect. Simon joins SYKE having previously spent more than 15 years at Barclays in a variety of positions, but most recently he headed up transaction…
The availability of AI technology and the pressure on corporate legal departments to become more efficient is encouraging the adoption of data-driven decision making. By that I mean, using data from prior transactions or matters to inform strategic and tactical
I’m delighted to announce today John Buxton and I have officially joined forces with our former colleague at Asda, Alistair Maiden, to help grow SYKE – the world’s fastest growing independent legal tech consultancy. John has joined the company as business development