Welcome to Venture Legal: Where Capital Meets Legal Innovation
PitchBook reported in January that “One out of every three VC dollars invested globally in 2024 went to an AI startup.”
We are at a pivotal moment, as AI continues to transform industries, including the legal sector, regulatory frameworks, and the broader ecosystem for legal tech innovation. Venture capital is playing a key role in driving this change, funding technologies and companies that are reshaping how legal services are delivered.
With over two decades of experience as a law innovation leader, legaltech entrepreneur, patented tech inventor, enterprise-level legal advisor, startup investor, tech founder, and former banker, I have a unique and diversified perspective on the industry. I also see first-hand how AI and other innovations are enhancing legal support services, helping professionals and firms work more efficiently while adapting to new regulatory and market challenges.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how to compile and share my insights, observations, and analysis more broadly with the LinkedIn community, and that’s why I’m excited to launch this newsletter.
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Welcome to Venture Legal: Where Capital Meets Legal Innovation
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Alternative Legal Services Providers (ALSPs): A Look Back, and What’s Ahead
Professional services, including legal, stand at an AI inflection point, with rapid changes ongoing and even greater transformations on the horizon ahead – and sometimes, in order to look forward, it helps to first also take a look back. For this edition of Venture Legal, I wanted to look back at the evolution of a…
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The Future of AI + LegalTech @ SF Tech Week
As cloud computing and AI expert David Linthicum recently wrote, “AI is often described as a transformative technology, but transformation is anything but easy.” That’s why, as AI transforms the legal sector, it was imperative to convene a panel during SF Tech Week composed of legal industry leaders who’ve made AI work – Okta’s Russell…
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LegalTech Goes Global! (Part 2)
In just the past two weeks, since publishing Venture Legal’s LegalTech Goes Global (Part 1): As VC-funding startups rapidly scale globally, this week’s edition of Venture Legal is Part 2 of the LegalTech Goes Global series. This week I’m exploring: Follow me on Substack and subscribe to read the featured story! Venture Legal,…
