noslegal news

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