noslegal news
April 2026
Draft v4 taxonomy consultation
April 2026
Short stories workstream published nine short stories written by community members, called Strange Legalities. Read it
October 2025
Community member Rosie Ashbourne published an interactive Power BI dashboard demonstrating noslegal in use. See it
September 2025
Workstreams commenced aiming for April and May 2026 releases.
15 August 2025
iManage make noslegal v3 easily available to their customers. See demo
10 July 2025
Minor release - v3.1 of facets 1-6 fixing minor issues on GitHub and Google Drive. Minor updates also made to taxonomy guide and release notes.
25 June 2025
noslegal 5th birthday party in London!
31 March 2025
Major release - v3.0 - published on GitHub and Google Drive comprising,
- significantly refined eight taxonomy facets
- guide and release notes
28 March 2025
Refreshed website
November 2024
First meetings held of two new bodies - a design board and a community board - each with six members. These are to meet approximately quarterly. Each has established some initial working groups.
2 October 2024
Around fifty of us met in London and discussed way forward in small groups including developing our structures for governance and organising future work
7 August 2024
Draft phases workstream outputs published for feedback in Aug and Sep 2024
7 July 2024
Periodic updates of places released
3 May 2024
10 sponsors announced for 2024/25
1 Mar 2024
Three developments announced in the areas of
- Operationalising taxonomies in law firms
- Intended updates of places
- New phases workstream - relevant to pricing, process and legal operations
8 May 2023
Major release - v2.0 - published on Github comprising
- Updates to the previous four facets
- Five new facets: needs, sectors, laws, information assets and combinations
- New format: JSON as well as Excel
- Detailed release notes
- Slide deck containing an overview of content
- Slide deck on implementation topics
5 November 2022
Minor updates to Legal Places published on Github.
1 September 2022
Next phase of work commenced.
31 March 2022
v1.0 published on Github with four facets (places, work, subjects and perspectives)
14 December 2021
Published a video and detailed consultation paper on status and plans, accessible via this Miro link.
7 November 2021
We're happy to announce that four organisations have agreed to provide some financial support for noslegal's work.
- Herbert Smith Freehills LLP are the lead sponsor
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer LLP, Juralio Ltd and Osborne Clarke LLP are also providing sponsorship
Other organisations with people actively involved at this early stage included
- Legal services providers: Allen & Overy, Ashurst, Clifford Chance, Factor Law, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Pinsent Masons, Shearman & Sterling and Slaughter and May.
June 2020
Article proposing what became noslegal, followed by discussions with interested people and early prototyping.
