Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

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. Among the most enduring yet dramatic success stories in legal tech is that of iManage , the document and email management company.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Does your law firm work allocation model leave too many associates behind? Historically, work allocation in law firms has primarily been driven by partner s. In a National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Foundation survey, law firms cited dissatisfaction with work quality as the top reason for associate departures.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 16, 2024

Long called Legaltech New York, it was renamed Legalweek in 2017 , and is one of the largest, longest-running and most-anticipated conferences focused on legal technology and the business of law, last year drawing over 6,000 attendees and featuring more than 300 speakers. Legalweek, Jan. 1 Legalweek is the OG of legal tech conferences.

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Clio

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When it comes to law firm billing, hourly billing is still a mainstay of the legal industry. But the billable hour is no longer the only option for law firms. Alternative fee arrangements (also known as AFAs) can fill gaps, complement your practice’s billing structure, and benefit your clients and firm.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Seven times since 2016, Thomson Reuters has conducted a survey on the state of small law firms in the U.S., and every time, it found that small firms had made virtually no progress on one of their greatest challenges, which is that they spend too much time on administrative tasks to the exclusion of practicing law.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

2017 Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding. Law Librarians Name Casetext’s CARA as New Product of the Year. 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech. 2018 Casetext Adds New Databases to Help Zero In On Black Letter Law and Key Holdings. Top Law Firm Invests $8.2M

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Colin S. Levy

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

And if clients refuse to pay for humans to handle routine work, what will that mean to a law firms bottom line? Weve heard all of the fears about GenAIs use in the practice of law. Imagine a world in which a law firm has figured out a way to use GenAI to do simple tasks quickly and well. We dont think so.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.” The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1 In 2015, they secured $4.3

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 17, 2023

“Now, Leah will support corporate legal teams and law firms for other legal matters beyond contracts.” I first wrote about LiquidText in 2017 , describing it as an app “that may forever change how you read and annotate complex documents.”

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LawSites

JANUARY 3, 2022

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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LawSites

MAY 17, 2021

Founded in 2017 by two lawyers, CEO Tom Dreyfus and COO Sam Flynn , and engineer Kirill Kliavin , now CTO, the company — which is named for the protagonist in Kafka’s novel The Trial , Josef K — says its software has so far been used to create over 6,000 bots. .

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JUNE 28, 2021

Alma Asay , the former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, has joined the law firm Crowell & Moring as senior director of practice innovation and client value. When Allegory was purchased by Integreon Discovery Solutions in 2017, Asay became its chief innovation officer.

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Trial Technology

AUGUST 17, 2017

Ethics, Law & Technology Event Information Provider: Alameda County Bar Association Location: Alameda County Bar Association 1000 Broadway, Suite 480 Oakland, CA 94607 Phone: 510-302-2222 Date: 08/23/2017 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Credits: 0.5

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LawSites

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“ZenCase is a platform that allows law firms with advanced workflows to move to the cloud to increase productivity and efficiency.” From 2017 to 2019, Mockel was vice president of customer experience at LEAP, where she was responsible for the strategy and management of the CX and the design and automation teams.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AltFee Elevator Pitch: AltFee revolutionizes law firm pricing by offering a foundation for alternative fee structures. This system empowers firms to precisely assess and assign value to projects, vital in a landscape where AI/efficiency gains drastically shorten task timelines. We have small and midsize law firm customers.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 15, 2021

.” Spiegel, a former lawyer who was the original founder in 2009 of law practice management platform MyCase, and CTO Roey Chasman , who first worked with Spiegel as a software engineer at MyCase, cofounded Lawmatics in 2017. “We are trying to deliver value to law firms through enhancing the client experience.”

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JULY 6, 2021

Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms. These acquisitions come after MyCase was acquired last September in a $193 million deal by private equity firm Apax Partners. CASEpeer, founded in 2015 and based in Newport Beach, Calif.,

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Legal Talk Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Their backstay of tuned-up educational programming was designed to help practitioners run leaner more profitable law firms. This year’s conference featured five tracks to choose from (Legal Technology, Business of Law, Industry Workshops, Clio University, and Clio University Workshops).

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In an integration between two law practice products, Lawmatics , the legal CRM product founded by Matt Spiegel in 2017, now integrates with MyCase , the law practice management platform that Spiegel originally founded in 2009 and left in 2015. You can’t go home again, Thomas Wolfe famously wrote.

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LawSites

JUNE 29, 2022

26, 2017, and later had the opportunity to visit its Los Angeles headquarters and record an interview for my LawNext podcast with founder and CEO Rick Merrill and Justin Brownstone , the company’s former VP of sales and litigation counsel. . Merrill told me at the time of his 2017 launch. In 2018, the company raised $3.2

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

It began by acquiring Bill4Time in 2017, followed by PracticePanther in 2018, MerusCase in 2019, and Headnote in 2020. Paradigm says it has seen substantial growth in recent years as law firms have moved to cloud-based products, and that it currently serves 11,000 law firms. 7, 2021).

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LawSites

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Case Status , a mobile client portal and messaging platform with a primary focus on consumer law firms, has raised $5 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding to over $11 million. . Last January, the company raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital round, and it had previously raised of $1.5

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 15, 2020

At its core, knowledge management is about finding lawyers who or documents or matters that can answer another lawyer’s questions about law, transactions, regulatory matters, judges, investors, clients, or industries. For much of this century, one product dominated search in large law firms. Why the excitement?

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In 2017, he returned to law to start his current company, Lawmatics , a client relationship management (CRM) platform for law firms. He developed the product because he saw a gap in the legal market for software that would help firms automate their marketing and run their businesses as sales organizations.

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LawSites

JANUARY 21, 2022

Case Status , a mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms, raised $3.5 The company was cofounded in 2017 by lawyer Lauren Sturdivant , who later returned to law practice but remains chairman of the board, and Andy Seavers , who was its CTO before becoming CEO after Sturdivant’s departure.

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JULY 29, 2021

started Hello Divorce in 2017 as part of her law firm and spun it off in 2018 as a platform for do-it-yourself divorces. When a consumer buys a Hello Divorce membership that includes legal advice, the consumer signs two separate agreements, one with the tech company and one with the law firm.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Gavel founder and CEO Dorna Moini joins LawNext this week to discuss how her company has evolved from document automation to come to support law firms, courts, legal aid organizations, and even legal tech companies such as Hello Divorce, as they build tools to automate legal services.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Lawmatics , a company whose product provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, is now adding timekeeping and billing tools, with the goal of offering law firms a comprehensive platform with everything they need to manage their administrative sides.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Several companies and law firms were already using the Documate platform to build legal products, including the companies Hello Divorce and Landlord Legal and the law firm Wilson Sonsini, Moini told me. “Smaller firms are really going head first into making their tools client facing.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Thomson Reuters launched Firm Central in 2013 at a media event in its then-headquarters in Eagan, Minn., At the time of the launch, TR differentiated Firm Central from other products on the market by building in direct integrations with Westlaw and with Microsoft Outlook. 30 sunset date.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In 2017, seeing how difficult it was for larger law firms to adopt modern technology, Klein, a lawyer, entrepreneur and investor, launched Reynen Court with the mission of making it easier for law firms and legal departments to test, adopt and manage modern cloud-based applications without fear of compromising sensitive firm data.

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Colin S. Levy

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2023 Caravel Law was Excellence Awardee for LexisNexis Canada Award for Best Use of Technology In a Law Firm, and this year Monica was nominated for Canadian Lawyer most influential lawyer in the changemaker category. Further, many law firms already have programs in place to educate their lawyers on cybersecurity issues.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

“We have a superior product already that is preferred by over 9,000 law firm customers, including over 40 of the AmLaw 200,” he said. That, too, won the AALL product of the year award in 2017 and spawned a slew of similar products from other legal technology companies.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What with COVID, the economy and the day-to-challenges of practicing law and managing a firm, it’s been a tough three years. Yet despite it all, smaller law firms have a bullish outlook on their future prospects — and with good reason. 2017 Survey. Exclusive: First Look At New Survey Of Solo And Small Firms.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet a 2017 study by law firm Baker McKenzie found that less than a third of companies maintain inventories of trade secrets and have action plans for responding to theft. Major law firms, including DLA Piper and Ulmer, are also piloting Tangibly for their clients and their firms’ own use.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Elevator pitch: Affordable cybersecurity solutions are lacking and 29% of law firms have suffered a security breach.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2017, he returned to law to start his current company, Lawmatics , a client relationship management (CRM) platform for law firms. He developed the product because he saw a gap in the legal market for software that would help firms automate their marketing and run their businesses as sales organizations.

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