During a merger and acquisition (M&A), the in-house counsel and legal team are responsible for most of the arduous processes involved in due diligence. Issues always arise during the transaction — and preparing for everything is never on the table. However, there are several strategies the team can implement to ensure a smooth and successful […]
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Between 70-90% of corporate Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) deals result in failure, depending on which reports you read. And yet according to the latest Harvard Law School M&A report, total deal volume in 2017 made it the fourth busiest year on record for M&A activity. For General Counsel (GCs), those numbers making for nervous reading; […]
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We wanted to blow the assumptions about data analytics, creativity and legal out the water. And that’s exactly what we did at our recent  Exigent Mashup held recently at The Chicago House of Blues, where art and music meet! The mentality that it’s either data or creativity, right brain or left brain, legal or business, […]
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Dr. Crystal Morrison, founder and CEO of EverRise, explains why data should be your greatest asset and how you can use it to unite your organization for smarter decision making that drives results. I heart data. As a graduate student, I could spend hours, days, weeks crunching numbers to loud music.  I couldn’t wait to […]
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Medical malpractice litigation is stressful for clients and lawyers, which can result in not achieving the best case outcomes; but there is another way, according to Amy Dennerlein, the Director of Medical-Legal Solutions at Exigent. Our medical malpractice experts can help. There are 850,000 medical negligence claims made in the US every year. Sounds like […]
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Exigent’s Global Managing Director Nicola Stott on how legal leaders should develop themselves and their teams in the face of increased technological complexity Would you get on an autonomous aeroplane, piloted by an algorithm? That’s what I was asked at a recent event led by Thimon de Jong about Business Strategy. I was surprised to […]
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Nicola Stott, Exigent’s Global Managing Director, spoke to International Financial Law Review about leadership in legal, diversity and the secret to her success as a female legal leader Exigent’s Global Managing Director, Nicola Stott, was interviewed by the Women in Business Law group (WiBL) to share her point of view on where the industry is […]
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As the first big fines start hitting businesses, data privacy and compliance legislation are back at the top of the board agenda. Here’s how you can be prepared and why a GRC strategy is the secret to sustainable compliance. With GDPR a little over 12 months old, British Airways (BA) has become the first public […]
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Exigent’s CEO talks to Legal Tech News about how legal tech providers should prepare for the approaching recession and how in-house teams should tackle it. “A slowdown will hit legal department budgets, and if they haven’t invested in legal technology during a boom, it’s likely they won’t during a slowdown,” said David Holme, CEO of […]
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By Matt Hoy, Associate Director, Legal Solutions UK, Ireland and Europe What do rubber ducks and Nikes have to do with legal data analytics? Nothing at first glance. Until you take a closer look. In 1992 a shipping crate fell off the deck of a cargo ship that was making its way to the US […]
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As a cornerstone investor in Bright Minds Capital Partners, Exigent’s mission is to change the way legal tech is funded, led and developed. By David Holme, Exigent’s CEO and Bright Mind’s Chairman Legal tech has been getting a lot of attention lately: it has made the headlines with stellar injections of cash and private equity […]
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Contract management is laborious, time-consuming and, according to multiple statistics, not performed adequately by the majority of businesses, leading to between 5%-40% loss of value on any given deal. The challenge of contract management is fourfold: the sheer volume of contracts to manage; the lack of visibility of your contracts; the absence of uniformity; and […]
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Everyone knows that knowledge is power. But in our fueled, fast-moving economy, it’s not just any knowledge; yesterday’s knowledge isn’t as powerful as today’s.  In a business context, markets move by the millisecond, environmental and situational disasters occur in minutes and societal shifts arise overnight. All of which can have a serious impact on organizational […]
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