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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

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While the last few years have brought an abundance of new and innovative legal tech products to market, the fact of the matter is that not every new product will succeed. Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years. In 2016, legal tech entrepreneur Derek Bluford was riding high.

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I Am Deeply Saddened To Report The Death Of Monica Bay: Friend, Mentor and Role Model to So Many in Legal Tech

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As a dear friend, trusted mentor, and inspirational role model to so many in the world of legal tech, Monica stood alone. For many years at the annual Legal Tech conference in New York, Monica hosted a bloggers’ breakfast. Monica also hosted one of the early legal tech podcasts, called Law Technology Now.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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RIP Michael Mills, Legal Tech Visionary and Innovator

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Well before the rest of the legal industry was talking about artificial intelligence, Michael Mills was talking about artificial intelligence. “The legal community needs to navigate the world of Artificial Intelligence,” he advised back in 2016.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

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There are 49 that I found, and together they offer an overview of how a legal tech startup evolves into a mature company. While its focus has changed over the years, one characteristic has not: From the very start, Casetext was an innovator, always pushing the envelope for what a legal tech product and company should look like.

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A Former Legal Tech Founder Is At the Center of the Musk Affair Allegations

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” As it happens, Shanahan is the former founder of a legal tech company. Shanahan was among the women I featured in a 2017 post, 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech. The company raised $3.7 million in seed capital and was acquired in 2020 by competitor IPwe.

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What’s 2021 Been Like for Legal Tech Companies? Consider Evisort, which Doubled its Revenue

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In the world of corporate legal, the pandemic drove an urgent need to better understand what is in a company’s contracts and to better manage the process of creating contracts in the first place. That is exactly the sweet spot into which Evisort falls. Seems likely that one of those case studies will be Evisort, itself.