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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Whereas 2020 ended with a newfound sense of the possible, 2021 ends with us still not knowing what is ahead, and therefore which way to turn. Whereas 2020 ended with great promise for regulatory reform, 2021 ends with little further progress on that front – and even retreats to some extent. I should be more optimistic.

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Case Management Company Filevine Raises $108M Series D to Fuel Expansion

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Filevine , a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams.

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Milestones, Startup that Automates Client Updates, Raises $2.1M Seed Round, Rebrands As Hona

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In what is clearly a major milestone for Milestones , a legal tech company whose product provides law firm clients with automatic updates on their cases, it has closed a $2.1 The company, founded in 2021, had previously raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding. It completed a Y Combinator batch in March.

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Updates from CEO Jack Newton On Recent Clio News: Midsized Firms, Gen AI, Legal Aid, and Clio Draft

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.” Drawing a parallel to the Steve Jobs quote that bringing iTunes to Windows users was “like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell,” Newton expressed the belief that the legal aid market is not well served by existing case management software designed for them.

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No Smoke and Mirrors: Smokeball Is an Impressive Toolbox for Law Firm Management

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Like most case management software, Smokeball aggregates matters by matter type – which can also be used as templates to set up new matters more quickly. But, Smokeball also captures leads, having built CRM (customer relationship/lead management software) features into its system, which is not as common for case management tools.

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MyCase Quietly Makes Two Key Acquisitions Of Legal Tech Companies

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The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public. On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer , a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys. He also said that more acquisitions by MyCase are likely in the future.

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

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Over the summer, this blog broke the news that Thompson Street Capital Partners had acquired Tabs3 Software, one of the oldest practice management products, and which also owns cloud platform CosmoLex. LawSites also broke the news in July that MyCase had acquired case management platform CASEpeer and document automation company Woodpecker.