ILTA Announces the 2021 Influential Women in Legal Tech List Global News Editor
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) is pleased to announce its 2021 Influential Women in Legal Tech List.
This annual list recognizes five outstanding women-leaders in the legal technology community, based on their mentorship history and overarching level of impact on Legal Technology.
With the judging and intensive review process recently finalized, ILTA received 91 total nominations. Of worthwhile note, from the almost 100 nominations, the nominee list had nine countries represented, showcasing this truly global, industry-leading honor.
From the diverse and inspiring applicant pool, ILTA is pleased to share the 2021 Influential Women in Legal Tech:
California firm Weintraub Tobin rolls out compareDocs for more efficient comparison of legal documents USA/Canada News Editor
Today DocsCorp announced that Weintraub Tobin, a prominent California full-service law firm with locations across the state, has rolled out compareDocs for legal document comparison and review.
compareDocs was chosen because of its ability to compare different file formats and produce consistent results and because its integration with Worldox adds value to the firm’s document management system.
On the decision to move to compareDocs, Caleb Gibbs – Director of IT, said, “Our firm was already using document comparison software, but we switched to compareDocs because we saw it would deliver better results in terms of accuracy and efficiency.”
Estonian legal technology innovator Avokaado expands into banking Continental Europe News Editor
Estonia’s flagship legal tech startup Avokaado announced cooperation with Swedbank, the largest Nordic-Baltic banking group, bringing automated contract lifecycle management to the traditional banking sector.
Through the partnership, Swedbank invites business customers to draft, negotiate, sign and store contracts online on the Avokaado platform that reduces time spent on working with documents from hours to minutes, as reported by existing Avokaado users.
„We at Swedbank are driven by helping the Estonian companies to grow. Through the years we have promoted financial literacy and entrepreneurship. We believe working along with Estonian startups, like Avokaado, will bring great value to our business customers in taking the digital leap towards data-driven contract processes,“ said Aira Nigul-Lepp, Head of Business Banking Department at Swedbank in Estonia, wh