Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Learn more about Alt Legal on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. This is Alt Legal’s fourth acquisition. After the end of the year, Madhani said, he will work with customers on an individual basis “to make sure the pricing makes sense for them.”

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 3, 2023

Whether they work in law firms or corporate legal, academia or government, law librarians play a central role in testing, recommending and deploying legal technology, according to the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2023 State of the Profession report, an exhaustive 252-page survey of the legal information landscape.

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InsideLegal

JANUARY 23, 2019

In July, 2015, ALM’s Legaltech News last unveiled the winners of the LTN Innovation Awards, an annual recognition of the best legal technology leaders, products and projects in the legal community. Three and a half years have passed and now it's time to once again recognize industry leaders in legal technology innovation.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2019, I visited ROSS’s Toronto research and development office, after which I wrote a lengthy post about what I saw and learned, as well as about the company’s history and its potential future. Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades.

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JUNE 6, 2021

For the legal technology industry, where IPOs have been few and far between, the news is significant. Although it is becoming increasingly common for legal technology companies to talk of plans for future IPOs, few have actually completed them. In 2019, KLDiscovery became a public company.

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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. 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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Advocate's Studio

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Legaltech 2019 It is, in fact, a little embarrassing. I have been writing about legal technology issues for probably close to a decade. However, I have never been able to get myself to Legaltech.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Hg , a global private equity investor, is leading a further majority investment in legal technology company Litera , which it acquired in 2018 from the investment firm K1 Investment Management. Deal-management platform Doxly in August 2019. company Workshare in July 2019.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Earlier this month, e-discovery company Everlaw became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion.

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JULY 1, 2021

The Chicago-based legal technology company Litera has acquired Objective Manager , a UK company that provides a SaaS platform for law firms to use in strategic planning, performance measurement and talent engagement. company Workshare and deal-management platform Doxly.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

The legal technology company Casetext celebrates its 10th anniversary today. LawNext Episode 3: Casetext’s Founders on their Quest to Make Legal Research Affordable. 2019 Casetext’s New ‘SmartCite’ Citator Is Its Clever Answer to Shepard’s and KeyCite. ” That sums it up well.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The cloud-based law practice management company ZenCase has named Olivia Mockel , a lawyer and legal technology executive, as its president and chief operating officer. “I am driven to help legal professionals become more efficient through innovative legal technology,” Mockel said in a statement announcing her hire.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2023

Last year, Rasa was selected as the 2022 Access to Justice winner at the American Legal Technology Awards. Also last year, the Utah State Bar honored Sudbury with its 2022 Distinguished Service Award and, in 2019, Utah Business Magazine named her its 2019 Woman of the Year. Last month, Inc.

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Global LegalTech Hub

MARCH 1, 2021

Today, there are more than 2,000 crypto-assets outstanding (ESMA, 2019). Nevertheless, in spite of their transparency, decentralization and suitability for further applications, crypto assets are still considered a novelty and are characterized as a risky asset class (Borri, 2019). Journal of Empirical Finance, 50(C):1–19, 2019.

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InsideLegal

JANUARY 16, 2019

Legalweek 2019 is less than two weeks away. This will be our 20th year heading to the big apple for a legal tech, legal business, legal operations submersion. With 11 months to learn the ropes and get a lay of the legal land, what's Mark's vision for not only Legalweek but all ALM events? Let's find out!

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InsideLegal

JANUARY 28, 2019

Here are some Legalweek 2019 'coping' tips which will hopefully have you looking back at the week ahead with enthusiasm not vitriol. Legaltech's timing is unique in that it allows you to kick off the new year with a bang, however it can also make for a brutal week. With the morphing of Legaltech into Legalweek, this is even more so the case.

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Advocate's Studio

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yesterday, I was creating a timeline of legal technology to help me prepare for presenting at Duke Law School’s Duke Law Tech Lab Demo Day 2019 and then I thought, Hey, why not make an infographic? So, here is my personal take on 50 years of legal technology. But my blog is always on my mind.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Attention legal technology startups: Applications are now open for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW , the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. . What Do I Get Out of This? .

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LawSites

DECEMBER 5, 2022

million in seed funding in 2020 and $750,000 in funding in 2019. Learn more about Case Status in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. 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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LawNext podcast

APRIL 15, 2025

In the gold rush of generative AI, it seems that every legal tech vendor wants to be a one-stop shop for legal technology. After LexisNexis acquired Ravel in 2017, Reed moved into strategic product management there, and then joined Knowable in 2019 to lead its product research and development.

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Law Technology Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Danielle Hall has served as the Executive Director for the Kansas Lawyers Assistance Program since December 2019.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 14, 2022

On the heels of raising an $8 million Series A financing round in May, Paladin , a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, has named two legal industry veterans to its board to help it usher in a new phase of growth. .

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MAY 13, 2021

Published for the fourth consecutive year by Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, the Business of Law and Legal Technology Survey was conducted during August and September 2020.

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APRIL 18, 2023

The good: Solos are on their own, which means they have more freedom to run their practices and their lives as they see fit, including being more innovative in implementing new forms of legal technology. The good: Solos have maintained a stable level of business over the last two years and and business overall is up from 2019.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Against that backdrop, here are my picks for the top legal tech trends of 2021. For 2019, I replaced the year-end list with a decade-end list. In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching development, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.). Legal tech went public. The new normal became the endless uncertainty.

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Technically Legal

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyer Assistance) are implicated by advances in legal technology and legal innovation. and adopted by most states) says that as part of a lawyer’s duty of competence, lawyers must stay abreast of changes in technology. Jim explains how Model Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 25, 2023

Spread across five days and with some 350 distinct educational opportunities, ILTACON 2023 , the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, is a marathon, not a sprint. With over 3,400 registrants, attendance was up from the last two years (although still lower than 2019’s 3,800).

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.

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LawSites

JANUARY 19, 2024

The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software has hired Misti Holmes , a 20-year veteran of the legal technology, as its new chief operating officer in the United States. Learn more about LEAP on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Misti is an expert in legal technology.

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LawSites

AUGUST 10, 2021

Kira Systems , a 10-year-old Toronto company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in contract analysis, is to be acquired by the global legal technology company Litera , its 12th acquisition over the span of two years. Hg first invested in Litera in 2019. Kira’s founders Noah Waisberg and Dr. Alexander Hudek.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance. Brett Burney ( @BBurney ) is Principal of Burney Consultants LLC , an independent legal technology consulting practice.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The legal technology company Clio today announced the expansion of its leadership team, naming four people to C-suite positions as chief operating officer, chief people officer, chief technology officer and chief marketing officer. The new executives are: Ronnie Gurion, chief operating officer.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

The legal technology company Litera has acquired Lynch Marks LLC, a California company that is the developer of PS/Ship , a provider of software for management of shipping and invoicing for law firms and professional services firms. Deal-management platform Doxly in August 2019. company Workshare in July 2019.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

I learned this technique early in my legal career; see my 1990 article Software Makes Decision Analysis Easy ( Legal Technology Newsletter, December 1990; with David Post). Bill Henderson’s 2019 post reviewing Randall Kiser ’s book. Those who assume gut decisions suffice should read Prof.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In advance of today’s launch, Kimball Dean Parker , CEO, and Derek Parry , vice president of legal product, gave me a demonstration of the new business documents. Read about SixFifty in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. A New Marketplace. “We have now an in house attorney unit.”

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is another big investment in contract lifecycle technology, as London-based ContractPodAi today announced a $115 million Series C investment headed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 , reportedly at a valuation five times greater than the company’s Series B round in 2019.

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