Former Sidley global practice leader and software engineer Jennifer Coplan will join Lindsey Savage from Blackstone and Rob Parr from Wilson Sonsini in expanding Norm's technology transactions capabilities. “Jennifer’s experience is highly complementary to Lindsey's work in enterprise commercial contracts and AI governance, giving clients a team that has decades of experience advising on leading-edge technology transactions on behalf of innovators, licensees, purchasers, in

Fearn, a patent generation platform relying on artificial intelligence, announced on Wednesday the raising of $5.5 million in a seed funding round from Kindred, a16z Speedrun, and other investors to expand Fearn's platform and pivot into an AI-native patent prosecution firm. It's "not a software tool sold to lawyers, but a firm that employs its own former Big Law patent experts and runs its drafting through a system called FearnOS," as reported in Tech Funding News on Septemb