Topic: Artificial intelligence

Uber Brazil’s new general counsel has set the wheels of its legal department in motion like never before. In an interview with LACCA, Ianda Lopes explores the role Uber plays in supporting Brazil’s gig economy, ways that artificial intelligence can complement human talent and making diversity a priority when choosing external counsel.

31 August 2023

Compliance officers need to link internal policies to business metrics and employee accountability to drive home the commercial benefits of robust compliance frameworks, while embracing AI can help companies build more engaging internal programmes, said panellists at Global Investigations Review and Latin Lawyer’s Anti-Corruption & Investigations summit in Mexico City last month.

31 July 2023

Ferrere (Uruguay) has helped Microsoft open an artificial intelligence laboratory in Montevideo, the first in Latin America.

04 July 2023

Pinheiro Guimarães has helped Brazil’s B3 stock exchange acquire local artificial intelligence (AI) company Neurotech for 1.1 billion reais (US$220 million).

30 November 2022

Mexico’s largest data centre operator KIO Networks has enlisted Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC to increase its share in local software-as-a-service (SaaS) company MasNegocio, becoming the target's sole owner.

22 November 2022

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Our latest technology survey charts the growing dependence of Latin American corporate counsel on ‘lawtech’, or advances in legal technology. We present some of the key data points that illustrate how in-house counsel in the region use technology today.

15 July 2021

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LACCA's technology survey shows Latin American corporate counsel are becoming more reliant on data analytics, AI and machine learning. What could advanced technological innovation mean for the space these lawyers occupy within their companies?

15 July 2021

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The legal industry has been slower to embrace digital transformation than most, but in the last 18 months has undergone a profound change. Has the covid-19 pandemic helped dispel lawyers’ cultural aversion to technology once and for all?

15 July 2021

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Data suggests most in-house counsel in Latin America have complaints about the inter-operability, budget, risk or efficiency of the technology tools they use. Why do these problems arise and how can company lawyers overcome them?

15 July 2021