Luminance expands AI offering with in-house-focused contracting platform
01 June 2021
Tech has already been adopted by in-house teams including Vodafone and Ferrero
Shutterstock In-house legal teams including Vodafone, Featurespace and Ferrero are using London-based legaltech firm Luminance’s new artificial intelligence platform to help their departments get a better grip on their contracting issues. The platform – Luminance Corporate – streamlines the contract lifecycle process by automating contract drafting, version control and renewal, enabling in-house lawyers to better understand, manage and negotiate their contracts. The platform’s AI capabilities also provide insights on those contracts, meaning lawyers don’t have to manually search for key information.
Luminance expands AI offering with in-house-focused contracting platform
01 June 2021
Tech has already been adopted by in-house teams including Vodafone and Ferrero
Shutterstock In-house legal teams including Vodafone, Featurespace and Ferrero are using London-based legaltech firm Luminance’s new artificial intelligence platform to help their departments get a better grip on their contracting issues. The platform – Luminance Corporate – streamlines the contract lifecycle process by automating contract drafting, version control and renewal, enabling in-house lawyers to better understand, manage and negotiate their contracts. The platform’s AI capabilities also provide insights on those contracts, meaning lawyers don’t have to manually search for key information.
9th Circ found Unicolors copyright application knowingly inaccurate
Supreme Court to decide if fraud required to invalidate registration
The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will hear an appeal of a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsâ decision that allowed H&M Hennes & Mauritz LP to escape a ruling that it infringed Unicolors Incâs copyright based on inaccuracies in the fabric companyâs copyright application.
The high court will weigh in on whether the 9th Circuit correctly determined that evidence of fraud isn t required before invalidating a copyright registration based on inaccurate information in an application, a decision that Unicolors says created a circuit split and countered Congressional intent.
U.S. law firm K&L Gates has hired Eugene Yeung, who focuses on aviation finance and restructuring and insolvency, as a partner in Hong Kong from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, where he was a counsel.
Yeung acts for financial lenders, aircraft owners, airlines, and ultra-high net worth individuals on commercial transactions within the aviation sector, including aviation finance, restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency, and investments and general corporate advisory matters.
He joined Pillsbury in January 2018 from Eversheds Sutherland, where he was a consultant. Prior to that, Yeung worked at Mayer Brown for nearly seven years.
Yeung’s arrival takes the number of Hong Kong-based partners at K&L Gates to 16. He is the firm’s first lateral hire in Hong Kong since it snapped up three lawyers from the exiting Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in August last year.
U.S. law firm K&L Gates has hired Eugene Yeung, who focuses on aviation finance and restructuring and insolvency, as a partner in Hong Kong from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, where he was a counsel.
Yeung acts for financial lenders, aircraft owners, airlines, and ultra-high net worth individuals on commercial transactions within the aviation sector, including aviation finance, restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency, and investments and general corporate advisory matters.
He joined Pillsbury in January 2018 from Eversheds Sutherland, where he was a consultant. Prior to that, Yeung worked at Mayer Brown for nearly seven years.
Yeung’s arrival takes the number of Hong Kong-based partners at K&L Gates to 16. He is the firm’s first lateral hire in Hong Kong since it snapped up three lawyers from the exiting Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in August last year.