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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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MyCase Quietly Makes Two Key Acquisitions Of Legal Tech Companies

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Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms. Gabriela Cubeiro , who cofounded the company, has been its CEO since January 2020. Woodpecker, based in Boston and founded in 2017, provides AI-enabled legal document automation software.

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Win More Clients by Using Document Automation Differently

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It was sometime around April 2020. I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. Download: The Complete Guide of Document Automation Software for Law Firms. It was document automation. Read it here.

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My Most-Read Posts of 2021

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For somewhat of a time capsule of the past decade in legal technology, see my prior years’ lists of my most-popular posts: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 ). 20 For 2020: The Legal Tech Trends that Defined the Year (Dec. 20 For 2020: The Legal Tech Trends that Defined the Year (Dec.

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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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LawNext: With $40M Series B, LinkSquares CEO Sets Sights On The Impossible In Contracts Tech

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He was previously a guest on the show in the episode posted on June 2, 2020. Woodpecker , legal document automation for solo and small firms. Sunak returns to LawNext to discuss this latest funding round and his vision for the future of legal contracting. Thank You To Our Sponsors. A reminder that we are on Patreon.

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Paradigm, Parent to Three Practice Management Platforms, Acquired By Francisco Partners

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It began by acquiring Bill4Time in 2017, followed by PracticePanther in 2018, MerusCase in 2019, and Headnote in 2020. LawSites also broke the news in July that MyCase had acquired case management platform CASEpeer and document automation company Woodpecker.