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On LawNext Podcast: Lawmatics Founder Matt Spiegel On Automating CRM for Law Firms

Above the Law - Technology

Stories are increasingly common of lawyers who leave law practice to start legal technology companies, but few achieve the level of success as an entrepreneur of Matt Spiegel. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase , one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies.

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Lawyer Ranking Company Best Lawyers Acquires Digital Legal Marketing Agency Good2bSocial

Above the Law - Technology

Earlier this year, it announced that it was ending its relationship with US News & World Report, with which it had partnered since 2009 to publish law firm rankings, and instead would publish its Best Law Firms rankings independently.

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Exclusive: iManage Reveals Details On Its Growth, Lays Out Plans to Further Leverage Gen AI, Partnerships

Above the Law - Technology

Founded in 1995, its collaborative approach to content management made it popular among among law firms virtually out of the gate, and it was acquired eight years later for $171 million by Interwoven. billion of the $11.1 billion purchase price and years of litigation that continues even now.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

The year 2008 saw the launches of the first two cloud-based law practice management platforms, Clio and Rocket Matter, followed in 2009 by the launch of MyCase. In 2011, LexisNexis leapt onto this bandwagon with its release of Firm Manager , a web-based practice management platform designed for smaller law firms.

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2018 - Something Old, Something New

Trial Technology

The archive is intended to preserve these older articles, which were written prior to the Court Technology and Trial Presentation blog, which I started writing in 2009. Although these articles are somewhat "dated," many of them are still surprisingly relevant. Things are different for writers now, in that you can click, and publish.

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The Law Library of Babel: Exploring the Infinite Dimensions of Law and Technology

Colin S. Levy

This realization led me to begin exploring the emerging field of legal informatics, which sought to apply the tools and methods of information science to the study and practice of law. I have tried to avoid overly technical books, either philosophically or technologically. Bloomsbury, 2009. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Former Legal Tech Company President Sentenced to 120 Years In Prison for Child Porn

Above the Law - Technology

Raymond Zwiefelhofer had been president of Worldox since 2009 when police in Tempe, Ariz., The former president of legal document management company Worldox has been sentenced by a court in Arizona to 120 years in prison after having been found guilty of 10 counts of possessing child pornography.