Articles written by Noah Waisberg

Noah Waisberg
CEO and Co-Founder
Kira Systems

Prior to co-founding Kira Systems, Noah practiced at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he focused on private equity, M&A, and securities. Noah is an expert on contract analysis, legal technology, and artificial intelligence; has spoken at conferences including SXSW Interactive, ILTACON, and ReInvent Law; and has been named the FT’s Intelligent Business Market Shaper and ILTA’s Innovative Thought Leader of the Year. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. from Brown University, and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.

DiligenceEngine in VentureBeat

A recent piece “All rise: The era of legal startups is now in session” by Nicole Bradick in VentureBeat describes how funding for companies in the legal space (technology providers as well as Newlaw firms and LPOs) is starting to catch up to the market’s potential.

DiligenceEngine Not Impacted by the Heartbleed SSL Bug

We are happy to report that the DiligenceEngine system was not impacted by the serious Heartbleed SSL bug.

DiligenceEngine in The Globe and Mail

A recent piece “After Heenan Blaikie, is it all over for Big Law?” by Alec Scott in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine included DiligenceEngine in a discussion of changes in large firm law.

Automated Contract Review in The Wall Street Journal

Automated contract review came up in a recent piece in The Wall Street Journal on “The Data Companies Wish They Had.

DiligenceEngine Featured in Presentation on Legal Market Developments in Barcelona

The delightful Spanish legal market expert Eva Bruch discussed DiligenceEngine in her recent presentation “Herraminetas tecnológicas de gestión, marketing y comunicación de los despachos de abogados” given at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in February.

Improving Contract Management and Analysis — Ron Friedmann

Improving Contract Management and Analysis — Ron Friedmann I have found Ron Friedmann to be a terrific resource on law practice technology and legal profession changes.

Machine Learning-Based Contract Provision Extraction on Poor Quality Scans

ML-based contract provision models can be robust enough to work on poor quality scans and unfamiliar agreements, includes video showing this.

Recent External Coverage of DiligenceEngine

We have had law firm and corporate users doing real deals with the assistance of our contract review software for quite some time.

Machine Learning Based Automated Contract Provision Extraction

Put contract provision examples in, get provision models out. If machine learning is so powerful, why would anyone build a contract provision extraction system any other way?