We regularly speak to in-house GCs who see the benefits of adopting new technology, but they simply can’t get off the starting blocks. They’re faced with a myriad of confusing and often competing choices – the Legal Tech noise can be deafening. To help you find your way we, along with our new Legal Operations partner LOD, have explored some of the most…
Magle Chemoswed is a contract development and manufacturing organization based in Sweden. It serves companies in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry on a contract basis to provide services from product development to manufacturing. It has a strong track record of successfully bringing their own and customer products to market. Megi Medzmariashvilli, Legal Counsel at Magle Chemoswed, is…
One of the things I’m most proud of as the CEO at SYKE is being able to give young, gifted students a foot up onto the first rung of the career ladder. In the first of a series of blogs featuring some of our rising stars, I’d like to introduce you to Alfie Thackeray. Alfie is a legal engineer who has been with SYKE…
Life as a busy general counsel is stressful enough without the added dread of not having everything you need at the touch of a button. We’ve all been there. A crisis strikes, the executive board demands to know what the impact is, where the problems are, how big the risk is, and what mitigating action…
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…
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
Increasingly SYKE is being asked to run virtual tours of Office 365 for in-house legal teams, to help them understand what is available at their fingertips and how the individual elements complement one another. First things first, to save any blushes I won’t be naming any names.
If you think buying a new car is tricky, imagine spending a few hundred thousand pounds on legal tech. Particularly when your current mode of transport / way of working will get you to the right destination, eventually. The reality facing in-house lawyers who want to move
I attended CLOC earlier this week and was struck not by what was being said by the multitude of speakers on stage, but what was being discussed over coffees and at the bar afterwards. The big theme coming out loud and clear from GCs was a desire to more effectively triage all of the requests…