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Global Legaltech Competition

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Global Legaltech Competition

LegalTech is experiencing rapid growth, with new players and startups emerging in groundbreaking ways, providing powerful solutions and innovative opportunities for law firms, corporations and both private and public organizations. 

To support this dynamic industry, our Global LegalTech Competition aims to give back by empowering young companies to unlock their potential and become catalysts for change and innovation.

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    THE COMPETITION

    With the aim of promoting a positive use of technology in the legal environment, IE Law School launches the Global LegalTech Competition: international events designed to foster the entrepreneurial ecosystem, connecting startups, investors, corporations, accelerators and thought leaders.

    Every competition lasts between 4-8 hours, and its format is a combination of keynote speakers, panel discussions and a startup competition with the most-promising entrepreneurs of the region.

    The conferences are open to the public, and IE students and alumni as well as individuals from the local and regional entrepreneurial communities are invited to participate.

    These cutting-edge and highly anticipated competitions have 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.

  • WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

    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.

    We are particularly interested in projects that innovatively tackle issues in the operations of legal practice.

    The startups participating in the competition must meet the following criteria:

    • Constituted or being constituted startup.
    • Innovation: product/service, business model, and/or route to market.
    • Scalability: international commercial potential & scalable business model.
    • Team: relevant skills & experience mix.
    • Market: clear & large market opportunity.

NEW EDITION

IE Law School, LexisNexis and the Law Schools Global League want to help promising young companies from Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Mexico City (Mexico) and Nairobi (Kenya) unlock their full potential as catalysts for change and innovation in the legal industry.

The final of the seventh edition of the Global LegalTech Competition will take place at the South Summit Madrid 2025, the biggest annual event in the south of Europe that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, startups and corporations.

PARTNERS

HOSTS AND PARTNER UNIVERSITIES

PAST EDITIONS

MEET THE WINNING ENTREPRENEURS

Global LegalTech Competition innovators from across the globe share their projects and experience.

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    TOKYO – BERING LAB

    Bering Lab is an AI translation solution specializing in legal and business document translations. This Japanese company was developed to address the complexities and improve the accuracy of legal document translations.

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    RIO DE JANEIRO – LEGAL-PYTHIA

    The Brazilian startup Legal-Pytha uses AI to power a fraud detection system, enabling fraud identification and promoting transparency to build trust and informed decisions. Its Explainable AI fraud detection system software reveals hidden patterns, detects conflicts, and identifies synergies effortlessly.

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    BELFAST – TALKTERMS

    TalkTerms provides practical, accessible tools that facilitate simple, effective resolution of consumer disputes, complaints and claims within industry. This company brings people, businesses and industry together to solve claims and disputes.

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    AUSTRALIA – DEELIGENCE

    The goal of Deeligence is to revolutionize the way lawyers manage legal due diligence. This Australian startup aims to move deal management away from static Excel sheets and into an intelligent, comprehensive, and intuitive platform, streamlining the due diligence process with advanced automation and workflow tools.

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    NEW DELHI – AMTO.AI

    Amto.ai is an AI-powered digital legal assistant, driven by ChatGPT. This Indian startup addresses common challenges faced by many legal practitioners. The solution tackles demanding work hours, eliminates the need to switch between multiple applications and platforms, and offers a personalized, bespoke service in the process.

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    TURIN – ZEPHORUM

    This Italian startup is a one-of-a-kind “webetery”—the first online ecosystem for digital estates and memorials. Each user chooses what should happen with their digital data after death; Zephorum then allows the deceased’s family members to download and remove information from social media platforms for private use with Urn or public commemoration via Mausoleum.

  • BOGOTÁ - JUZTO

    This company is dedicated to building a fairer society by offering legal services to Colombians over its digital platform. In turn, Juzto.co, as well as offering expert legal advice, allows users to create documents and carry out business or personal administrative procedures.

  • ONLINE - AREXTECH

    This Canadian startup has a SaaS Proptech that empowers institutional real estate investors to efficiently capture, analyze and share quality investment data in a connected digital environment.

  • SYDNEY - RESOLVE DISPUTES ONLINE (RDO)

    This dispute resolution software as a service empowering ADR experts, courts and tribunals with innovative technology to improve access to justice around the world. The startup’s software allows clients to create and host their own branded negotiation, mediation and arbitration tools for case management, including valuable data insights and analytics.

  • LONDON - JUST: ACCESS

    This non-for-profit legal tech start-up harnesses technology to overcome barriers accessing justice and advocates for a more open and transparent justice system. JUST: Access models alternative ways of providing legal services that benefit everyone, including the most vulnerable and uses an automatic speech recognition technology to revolutionize the legal transcription industry.

  • SAO PAOLO - JUIT

    This online platform allows legal practitioners to work smarter, using technology as a bridge that will ease their work. Their goal is to organize judicial information in a way that nobody has done before, creating a universal legal data schema that takes aspects from every legal system into account.

  • TURIN - SLIDINGLIFE

    This Italian startup provides a national list of professionals, useful for people involved in a divorce. Their platform, that serves as a specialized marketplace, can find the best professionals to help individuals in the divorce process and can also buy divorce documents from the Court. SlidingLife uses AI software to predict the outcome of the divorce case in the court.