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This week’s Highlights:

• Virtual real estate: New-age fad or feature of the future?

• Headlines From Around the Web You Shouldn't Miss

• Syntheia: Unlocking the Power of Deal Data

• AI Tools to Supercharge your producivity

• Legal prompt of the week

Virtual real estate: New-age fad or feature of the future?

If you were born before 4 September 1998, you are officially older than Google. If you were born after that, then the concepts discussed in this article might not seem so farfetched. So, if you’re part of the first category, then buckle up for a mental rollercoaster.

Land has long been held as one of the most financially prudent investments, as its limited availability and high demand have always seen property prices continue to rise. In the words of Mark Twain: “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.”

Or are they?

The concept of virtual real estate is a difficult one to get your head around. Paying actual money for a digital plot of land that you cannot physically occupy, seems counter-intuitive. Accordingly, you would be forgiven for thinking that no-one was buying into this notion. But they are. In 2023, the virtual real estate market was estimated to be worth around $2.17 billion – with a single plot of virtual land selling for $4.3 million! Further, if the anticipated growth continues, it is estimated that the market will grow to around $54.95 from 2024 to 2033. It’s clear that there is plenty of hype around digital real estate, with companies all over the world pledging money towards its development, as well as purchasing digital space themselves. But what exactly is virtual real estate and how does it operate within the confines of the law?

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🔍 UAE to launch Virtual Lawyer, the first AI-guided legal professional in the region (Gulf Today)

🔍 European Parliament expands access to their archives with Claude (Anthropic)

🔍 ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Producers Sue Elon Musk, Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery, Alleging Copyright Infringement (Variety)

🔍 Incoming tech Commissioner wants EU to become 'AI continent' (Euro News)

🔍 Justice of Ontario’s Top Court Urges Lawyers and Judges to Prepare for AI in Court (Just.)

Legal Technology

Syntheia: Unlocking the Power of Deal Data

In today’s legal environment, contracts are more than just documents that set out the parameters of an agreement between parties. In the right hands, contracts are treasure troves of strategic data, filled with insights that lead to better outcomes. Syntheia, an award-winning platform for law firms, promises to create exactly that. Syntheia turns contracts from static documents into a structured database that empowers data-driven decision-making and negotiation capabilities. Their secret sauce is an engine that automates the extraction of provisions from any contract. Together with these extracted provisions, Syntheia offers transactional lawyers purpose-built applications that improve how they review, negotiate, and draft contracts.

What is Syntheia?

Syntheia is more than a point solution; it’s a collection of discrete applications built on top of a platform that centralizes provisions from your firm’s past deal documents.

Imagine you are an M&A lawyer and you want to identify provisions from your document that are out of market, Syntheia offers you a specific application that can collate relevant terms from across similar documents for your review. Imagine you are a private funds lawyer and you want to build a compendium from many side letters, Syntheia offers you another specific application that can assemble those terms into a master side letter. Or imagine you’re a banking lawyer that doesn’t want to verify if a proposed term in your credit agreement has ever been agreed by your client, Syntheia offers you a different application to scan across your database in a single click.

At its core, Syntheia’s versatility hinges on their capability to automate the extraction of reliable and reusable data from contracts. This database of provisions remain private to each law firm, and continues to be enriched and refined as their lawyers do more work.

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