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LegalTech and law school It's great to see law schools around the world including new legal innovation and design modules in their syllabuses and it's indicative of the fact that the legal ecosystem is recognising that lawyers of the future will need a broader skillset, drawing o... Co-operation between machines and humans - the secret to success for machine learning? One of the largest barriers that must be overcome by a business looking to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into their current workflows is ensuring the co-operation between machines and humans or else the technology is destined to fail.  Whether it... Design thinking - listen to your user... but not too much! I recently had the opportunity to attend a session on design thinking led by Treehouse Innovation. Design thinking is an innovation methodology which can be used to generate innovative solutions to challenges. In a legal context, it can be applied to chal... Should lawyers learn to code? Over the last few months there has been a lot of speculation about whether or not lawyers should learn to code, with some advocates predicting that all lawyers will be coders in the not too distant future. Whilst I have no doubt that the lawyers of the fu... Veil of ignorance - London Law Expo 2018 To design the law firm of the future, we should adopt a "veil of ignorance" - or so argues Dr Heather Anson.  Anson, speaking at the London Law Expo (an annual event with exhibitors and speakers from across the legal tech world), suggests that too often l... Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach an AI to recognise a fish... ... and you enable a man to feed thousands more. The story that a Norwegian company has developed a scanner capable of recognising salmon by their faces (more specifically, "the distinct pattern of spots around their eyes, mouth and gills") and of identif... M&A deals under the microscope In recent years, dealmakers have grappled with an increasingly interventionist and unpredictable regulatory environment for M&A. However, there are signs that the momentum of interventionism is beginning to change with calls from politicians to make m... Private capital's year of building momentum: Is the stage set for 2025? 2024 remained a challenging year for private equity fundraisings, investments and exits. Assets purchased in the era of cheap leverage and high multiples remained locked, with many auction processes failing to take off or being interrupted, while macro-ec... M&A health-check: will favourable conditions and regulatory easing drive M&A growth in 2025? 2024 was a mixed year for dealmaking, with deal values, if not volumes, increasing compared to 2023. Whilst private capital saw a moderate increase in activity, 2024 has been notable for the significant uptick in larger corporate-to-corporate activity in ... Private equity: the evolution of an industry Since the advent of the modern private equity industry in the early 1980s, private equity houses have traditionally adopted the classic model of a buyout fund, raising capital from a club of large institutional investors to fund acquisitions and drive gro...