Above the Law - Technology

MAY 1, 2023

There were two notable moves in the legal tech world announced today, both to newly created positions, as the law f irm Crowell & Moring announced that it has named Alma Asay as its first chief innovation and value officer, and Relativity said that it has named Laurie Usewicz as its first chief partner officer.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

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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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

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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LawSites

JULY 28, 2022

” 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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Above the Law - Technology

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 was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase , one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies. In the years since, he has raised $12.5

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MAY 26, 2022

Both in its programs and its exhibit hall, the AALL conference is one of the top conferences for anyone interested in legal tech. But the role of the law librarian has metamorphized in recent years in such a way that it is nearly impossible to be a law librarian without also being a legal technologist. Consider the agenda.

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JULY 6, 2021

Woodpecker, based in Boston and founded in 2017, provides AI-enabled legal document automation software. CASEpeer, founded in 2015 and based in Newport Beach, Calif., is a cloud-based case management platform for plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers. Gabriela Cubeiro , who cofounded the company, has been its CEO since January 2020.

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Artificial Lawyer

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Fuse legal tech / fintech incubator, which is part of A&O Shearman (AOS), is calling for applications to join its latest cohort the ninth since it launched in 2017 in both its London an

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

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

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LawSites

JANUARY 29, 2025

To this day, one of my most popular and viral posts ever involved the 2017 launch of LegalBoard, a keyboard designed for lawyers by lawyer Brian Potts, who is now a partner at Husch Blackwell. Hits to that post went through the roof, far exceeding any post Id ever before published. Now, Potts is back, […]

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 28, 2023

Notes to my (legal) self. The post 2017 Seems Like Last Century appeared first on Above the Law.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Honestly, Michael Bommarito 12:49 another non answer is funny, like, maybe one of the more salient and relevant accounts is in like 2017, or 18. I mean, do people know, for the most part in the legal tech community, or is it something that most people don’t know? And Lex predict, we got an ISO 27,001. I can imagine this.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Anne worked as a patent paralegal at a Chicago IP firm before arriving at the CBA in 2017 as the Law Practice Management and Technology department’s trainer/coordinator. They have written 18 books published by the ABA, including “The Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guides” and “Encryption Made Simple for Lawyers.” .

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influential Women in Legal Tech. ” Alma began her career as a successful attorney at an Am Law 10 firm. She holds a J.D.

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JUNE 28, 2021

When Allegory was purchased by Integreon Discovery Solutions in 2017, Asay became its chief innovation officer. Asay has been a frequent author and speaker on innovation in the legal industry and has appeared on podcasts (including one I formerly hosted ), at conferences, and hosted her own series on Litera TV.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

In 2017, he was promoted to executive vice president, and then named president last July. “There are a lot of transformational things happening in legal tech right now and I am confident that Aderant will be a driving influence in the industry’s future direction,” Cartrett says. She was named CEO in 2017.

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2024

With four different legal tech companies announcing executive appointments over the last week, including two to top sales spots, the timing leads me to wonder whether this is because companies are staffing up for the Legalweek conference that is just around the corner.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

But legal tech news announced today suggests otherwise. 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.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Neither ranking includes two static pages that are consistently in the top 15, my list of legal tech startups and my tally of the states that have adopted the duty of technology competence. Longtime Competitors Fastcase and Casemaker Merge, Reshaping the Legal Research Landscape (Jan. 8, 2021).

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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. For more on investor The Legal Tech Fund, listen to my LawNext interview with cofounder Zach Posner.).

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JUNE 29, 2022

The hardest stories I have to report are the ones about legal tech startups that are forced to shut down. Merrill told me at the time of his 2017 launch. Today brings news that Gavelytics , a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Voting ends this Friday to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete in the ninth annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW in April. As it turns out, I recently got an update from the winner of the very first Startup Alley back in 2017, then known as Time By Ping, but […]

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Xakia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Six years ago, it felt like both a punch to the gut and a direct challenge: “Your product is interesting, but we’ll see if you’re still around in a few years,” commented several attendees as they strolled by Xakia’s little booth at the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting. Lawyers sure are a tough bunch to impress. Motivating?

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 16, 2024

If you are hungry to learn more about the latest trends and developments in legal tech, then keep the last week of January open on your calendar, as there are three separate legal tech conferences worthy of your time. 1 Legalweek is the OG of legal tech conferences. Legalweek, Jan. The conference runs Feb.

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Legal Talk Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

At the risk of being too editorial, if you want more profits from your legal practice, you should definitely review all editions of the Clio Legal Trends Report (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019). The latest @goclio Legal Trends Report reveals a troubling truth about lawyers [link] @atlblog pic.twitter.com/V4GYjNrnIp.

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LawNext podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

He has been with Clio since 2017, and has been its CTO since 2021. Recorded Live At #ClioCon: A Deep Dive into the 2024 Clio Legal Trends Report, with Joshua Lenon, Clio’s Lawyer in Residence. Watson and LawNext host Bob Ambrogi recorded this conversation live at the Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, in October.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 18, 2024

With four different legal tech companies announcing executive appointments over the last week, including two to top sales spots, the timing leads me to wonder whether this is because companies are staffing up for the Legalweek conference that is just around the corner.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Since the very first Startup Alley in 2017, the legal tech pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW. Your company has never before exhibited at a national legal technology conference. 14-17, 2024.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It began by acquiring Bill4Time in 2017, followed by PracticePanther in 2018, MerusCase in 2019, and Headnote in 2020. In February 2019, ASG merged the two companies to create a unified legal technology business under the name ASG LegalTech, naming as CEO Nettimi, who had taken over as PracticePanther CEO the prior October.

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JUNE 24, 2022

I asked Schwadron about how his dual-entity model compares to that set up by Atrium, the dual-entity company that vowed in 2017 to “revolutionize legal services,” only to shut down three years later. “To become one of the most important companies, we have to control our own space.”. Ghosts of Atrium/Clearspire?

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JANUARY 21, 2022

Here are some of the other legal tech stories from the week: Case Status raises $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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LawNext podcast

JUNE 29, 2020

Achieving success as a legal tech startup is notable in itself, but James and Kristina Jones also were among the few Black founders in an industry with a striking diversity problem. One survey of the legal tech industry found that only 2.3% In their time running the company, they had raised $7.1 were Latinx.

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Colin S. Levy

APRIL 16, 2024

She has been named as one of the 10 Women to Watch in Tech in the Journal of the American Bar Association and has won a 2017 Fastcase 50 Award. Please tell me a bit about your role as Director of Legal Innovation and how you shepherd innovation projects.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Return to Legal Tech Ovbiagele was a 21-year-old computer scientist when he, Arruda, then a practicing lawyer, and another computer scientist, Pargles Dall’Oglio , founded ROSS a decade ago. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.” Denton’s NextLaw Labs made ROSS one of its earliest investments.

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Ron Friedmann

JUNE 29, 2020

I last blogged about the Law Firms in Transition survey in 2017, here ] Views of GFC-Induced Trends are Stable Question: “Which of the following legal market trends do you think are temporary and which will be permanent? Part 2 of this post will cover additional trends, mainly around creating value for clients. [I

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 1, 2023

There were two notable moves in the legal tech world announced today, both to newly created positions, as the law f irm Crowell & Moring announced that it has named Alma Asay as its first chief innovation and value officer, and Relativity said that it has named Laurie Usewicz as its first chief partner officer.

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