AI has the ability to revolutionise various aspects of the legal profession, such as improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing access to the justice. Such areas might include automating routine tasks to allow legal professionals to focus on more complex and value-added work, predictive analytics to assist in strategy development and to offer clients a competitive edge, providing affordable legal assistance to those who might not have the resources to hire traditional legal services, and risk management and compliance to ensure adherence to legal standards.
But, we want to hear your big ideas.
We’re looking for legal technology start-ups seeking to drive both business success and industry transformation to pitch at our Global Legal Technology Competition on 19 February 2025 in Edinburgh on the theme, “Artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on legal practice.”
About the Global Legal-Tech Competition
Legal Tech is rapidly expanding, and new players and startups are bursting onto the scene in extraordinary ways, providing powerful solutions and innovative opportunities for law firms, corporations, and both private and public organisations.
Edinburgh Law School is pleased to team up with IE Law School, LexisNexis, and the Law Schools Global League to host the next Global Legal-Tech Competition on Wednesday, 19 February 2025 in Edinburgh.
We want to give back to the blossoming Legal Tech industry and help these promising young companies realise their potential to become harbingers of change and innovation within the industry.
This cutting-edge and highly anticipated competition has been designed to seek out and support startups that have a positive and forward-thinking outlook on the major challenges faced by legal operators and legal systems today.
Finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their projects in June 2025 in Madrid to an exclusive virtual audience of industry experts, comprised of investors, VC’s and mentors—all pioneers in the legal and business worlds respectively.
Criteria
We are looking for inclusive innovators and startups that are using technology to solve important legal challenges faced by companies, governments, public institutions, and civil society in a wide range of areas.
The startups participating in the competition must meet the following criteria:
- Constituted or being constituted as a startup
- Innovation: product/service, business model, and/or route to market
- Scalability: international commercial potential and scalable business model
- Team: relevant skills and experience mix
- Market: clear and large market opportunity
Each submission will be judged based on the following criteria: originality, financial stability, and the ability to take on major challenges faced by the legal sector today.
The opportunity
This is your chance to pitch your innovative solutions to a panel of industry leaders and experts.
The winner of the Edinburgh round will receive:
- The opportunity to be one of three global startups to pitch their idea in the Global Legal Tech Competition final at the South Summit in Madrid in June 2025.
- Costs towards travel to the South Summit.
- Passes for the South Summit, giving them:
- Access to the Investor’s Den;
- Full access to all conferences and stages; and
- One-on-one meetings and matchmaking services with investors and big corporations.
The overall winning startup will be mentored by the LexisNexis VP of Strategy and M&A CEMEA over a six-month period and will meet with a range of clients to whom they will pitch their product or service.
Submissions
If you are a startup who is developing cutting-edge legal technologies, we want to hear from you.
Submissions should be made through the below link by 17 January 2025 and shortlisted entries will be notified by 24 January 2025. The shortlisted companies will be expected to make their pitch in Edinburgh on 19 February 2025.