For the second year TechTorget was brought together by Peter van Dam, Chief Digital Officer at Simonsen Vogt Wiig, and Erik Ødegaard, with the full support and collaboration of the Norwegian Bar Association. This year as a 100% virtual event.
The platform from where the event was held, gave the participants the opportunity to network and chat with other participants and all the exhibitors as well as listen to speakers consisting of well-known lawyers and several parallel sessions on 7 topics: Document Management, Document Analysis, Case Administration, Modern Accounting, Legal Information, Compliance and Security.
The event is designed to help those in the legal sector stay up to date with IT in general, and what legal-focused digital solutions are available in the marketplace.
As a participant the experience was very pleasant and with a lot of relevant and interesting topics. We are looking forward to next years event, hybrid, virtual or physical.
TechTorget is the arena where lawyers can find out and stay up to date on modern IT solutions that are relevant to the legal sector. This is where you meet several of the providers of these products and services.
Join our Legal Tech panel sessions and get all the relevant connections in the legal industry!
Our panel sessions match startups and legal tech providers with law firms, lawyers, tech experts, and experienced startup mentors.
For tech providers, this is a great opportunity to showcase your product or idea and to engage in depth with potential customers and stakeholders.
Whether you just had a new groundbreaking idea or you’re already scaling – you are very welcome!
This event is for you if you want to:
gain insights into the industry
get mentoring and advice
show how amazing your idea / product is
meet potential customers and stakeholders
find out how to move your early-stage idea forwards
scale your startup to the next level
This is a private event, meaning that the panel sessions give you and your organization a chance to meet each of our three panels for a half-hour in a closed room. There’s no audience – so you can talk freely.
Tech providers – and everyone with a great idea – sign up hereor use the form below.
Join our Legal Tech panel sessions and get all the relevant connections in the legal industry!
Our panel sessions match startups and legal tech providers with law firms, lawyers, tech experts, and experienced startup mentors.
For tech providers, this is a great opportunity to showcase your product or idea and to engage in depth with potential customers and stakeholders.
Whether you just had a new groundbreaking idea or you’re already scaling – you are very welcome!
This event is for you if you want to:
gain insights into the industry
get mentoring and advice
show how amazing your idea / product is
meet potential customers and stakeholders
find out how to move your early-stage idea forwards
scale your startup to the next level
This is a private event, meaning that the panel sessions give you and your organization a chance to meet each of our three panels for a half-hour in a closed room. There’s no audience – so you can talk freely.
Tech providers – and everyone with a great idea – sign up hereor use the form below.
Join our Legal Tech panel sessions and get all the relevant connections in the legal industry!
Our panel sessions match startups and legal tech providers with law firms, lawyers, tech experts, and experienced startup mentors.
For tech providers, this is a great opportunity to showcase your product or idea and to engage in depth with potential customers and stakeholders.
Whether you just had a new groundbreaking idea or you’re already scaling – you are very welcome!
This event is for you if you want to:
gain insights into the industry
get mentoring and advice
show how amazing your idea / product is
meet potential customers and stakeholders
find out how to move your early-stage idea forwards
scale your startup to the next level
This is a private event, meaning that the panel sessions give you and your organization a chance to meet each of our three panels for a half-hour in a closed room. There’s no audience – so you can talk freely.
Tech providers – and everyone with a great idea – sign up hereor use the form below.
Join our Legal Tech panel sessions and get all the relevant connections in the legal industry!
Our panel sessions match startups and legal tech providers with law firms, lawyers, tech experts, and experienced startup mentors.
For tech providers, this is a great opportunity to showcase your product or idea and to engage in depth with potential customers and stakeholders.
Whether you just had a new groundbreaking idea or you’re already scaling – you are very welcome!
This event is for you if you want to:
gain insights into the industry
get mentoring and advice
show how amazing your idea / product is
meet potential customers and stakeholders
find out how to move your early-stage idea forwards
scale your startup to the next level
This is a private event, meaning that the panel sessions give you and your organization a chance to meet each of our three panels for a half-hour in a closed room. There’s no audience – so you can talk freely.
Tech providers – and everyone with a great idea – sign up hereor use the form below.
This month saw the inaugural launch of TechTorget in Oslo. The event was brought together by Peter van Dam, Chief Digital Officer at Simonsen Vogt Wiig, and Erik Ødegaard, with the full support and collaboration of the Norwegian Bar Association.
The event aims to provide the legal sector with an overview of legal tech solutions that are proven and available to legal practitioners to implement right now.
“We saw the legal sector and vendors using enormous amounts of time to meet each other. So we created a sort of marketplace for them.”
TechTorget’s inaugural event in Oslo
Spending just 2-3 hours at the event, says van Dam, can help lawyers to stay informed on the many vendors they would otherwise be unaware of in the market who are providing some great solutions.
What’s more, the event makes future legal tech concrete. It can really demonstrate how, through small steps and investing in real solutions, the legal industry has nothing to fear as it prepares for that future.
The 10th and final QV Forum was held in Stockholm this year. Its central theme was Law 2.0 – an exploration of the potential disruption of the legal market.
Nordic Legal Tech was there, with a provocative presentation, “Software Is Eating the World”. CEO Nicholas Hawtin warned:
“The next generation of solution builders are focused on users and their problems. The solutions they are building are built on solving the user’s problems as intuitively and simply as possible. They are focused on the task the user is trying to perform, not on the legal issue related to that task. The resulting solutions integrate seamlessly and are often invisible.
“This may sound straightforward, but it is very hard to do – and it is not something law firms do well. Their processes do not support it. Their business model directly hinders it. Eventually, their inability to master it will cost them lots of jobs and massive revenue. And ‘eventually’ is coming faster than many of them understand.”
Nordic Legal Tech couldn’t make LegalGeek London this year but we have one of our trusty members reporting on this increasingly important event. Torsten Torpe, head of Legal Tech Innovation at Bech-Bruun, gives us a run down of Bech-Bruun’s presentation at the conference and some comments on the gig generally.
Torsten Torpe speaking at LegalGeek 2019, London
Discussing best practice for AI adoption at LegalGeek
At this year’s LegalGeek conference, we were invited by Luminance (an AI software provider) to talk about how you actually get started using Artificial Intelligence. Being among the early adopting law firms of AI, we were asked to share our experience and pinpoint the dos and don’ts.
Although vendors and technologists often tend to claim the opposite, getting started with AI and technology in general isn’t easy. Our vast experience shows that it requires a strong buy-in from the top management. A point that is as surprising as it is constructive. We discussed what strong management buy-in means in Bech-Bruun and how we have succeeded in establishing a legal tech innovation unit with direct report to the top management.
