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Over Seven Years, Scant Progress in Law Firm Diversity, New Survey Shows

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law firms have made little progress towards achieving greater diversity, with only minimal gains over the last seven years, according to a new analysis by Law360 Pulse. More strikingly, in the seven years since 2014, the percentage of minority attorneys in law firms rose just four points, from 14.1% of partners.

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Exclusive: UK top 100 firm Browne Jacobson to go live on Aderant Expert 

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UK top 100 law firm Browne Jacobson is set to go live on Aderant Expert this month, swapping out the LexisOne enterprise resource planning system that it selected in 2014.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. It started in 2014 at the University of Toronto as a student-built entrant in a cognitive-computing competition staged by IBM to develop applications for its Watson computer.

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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns

Above the Law - Technology

million pre-seed funding round led by two venture capital firms, Maple , which invests in companies with Canadian roots, and Haystack , which invests in early-stage companies. The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1

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Aderant Begins the New Year with a New CEO

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The new year begins with news of a new chief executive at Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms. Cartrett has been with Atlanta-based Aderant since 2014, coming to the company from Thomson Reuters, where he had most recently been vice president, sales and account management, for large law firms.

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How Greg Rada Saved 20 Hours a Week and Built a Stronger Firm 

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He saved over 20 hours every week, improved client onboarding, and built a firm with a stronger foundation for future growth. The Challenge Gregs firm, After Service LLC, is a fully remote, nationwide law firm specializing in VA benefits law.

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Ashley Miller, Formerly of EY and Thomson Reuters, Joins Litera as VP Sales for North America

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A 2013 graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Miller also worked at the technology and management consulting firm Kraft Kennedy from 2011-2014 as a business development consultant, and from 2006-2010, was a territory manager for LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.

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