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Clients Are Spending More on Legal Tech: Can Smaller Firms Keep Up?

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the percentage of in-house legal budgets spent on technology is expected to increase threefold by 2025 from 2020 levels as legal departments “increase spending on technology to reduce the dependency on outside counsel, address COVID-19, and satisfy a long-overdue need to modernize, digitize and automate legal work.”.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.

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Voting Is Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024 in February

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Traction: We are adding about 25 people a day as registrants, having fully launched in late October 2023, and have begun demos with attorneys. Demo video: [link] Founded: 10/28/2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada Target customer: Solos, small and medium size firms. In this way attorneys can always be confident in the results of their work.”

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

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They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. Unprecedented Adoption of Technology. Improved Participation Rates.

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Friday Wrap: Four Notable Legal Tech Deals as Athennian Raises $33M, Nexl Acquires Jade, Proof Raises $7M, and Justpoint Raises $6.9M

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I first wrote about Athennian in 2020, when it stepped out of its stealth development mode to announce an $8 million CAD Series A investment, on top of a previously unannounced $2 million CAD seed financing round in 2019. . . Fishman founded Jade in Atlanta in 2020. Justpoint offers tools for both potential clients and attorneys.

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Machine vs. Human Translation: When to Use Which for Legal Translation

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The COVID-19 pandemic may have dampened global trade in 2020; however, the World Trade Organization forecast a strong growth recovery in 2021 continuing into 2022. Multilingual E-Discovery . To compound the challenge, corporate attorneys and law firms must now sift through terabytes of electronic data.

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On LawNext Podcast: Carl Malamud on His Three-Plus Decades of Working to Free the Law

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From putting the SEC’s EDGAR database online in 1993 – effectively shaming the SEC into putting it online itself two years later – to his 2020 U.S. Paradigm , home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time , and MerusCase , and e-payments platform Headnote.