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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

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While the last few years have brought an abundance of new and innovative legal tech products to market, the fact of the matter is that not every new product will succeed. Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years. In 2016, legal tech entrepreneur Derek Bluford was riding high.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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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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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns

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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. Although still in somewhat of a beta mode, the product will be generally available in the second half of this year, he said.

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Law Librarians Play Central Role In Legal Tech Adoption And Use, AALL ‘State Of The Profession’ Report Shows

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While the report’s coverage is wide-ranging, I tend to jump to the findings related to legal technology. Similar to what I wrote about the AALL’s 2021 report and 2019 report , this year’s survey continues to underscore the instrumental role law librarians play in innovation and technology adoption within their organizations.

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What’s 2021 Been Like for Legal Tech Companies? Consider Evisort, which Doubled its Revenue

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The company, which provides AI-driven contract management, is today releasing a year-end report that reveals that it has doubled both its revenue and headcount in 2021. It would be naïve to suggest that every legal technology company thrived this year. Consider Evisort.

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In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital

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primary legal research materials, vLex originally partnered with the legal research service Casemaker to obtain U.S. After Fastcase acquired Casemaker in 2021 , vLex partnered with Fastcase for U.S. “Legal research is the most used and most important legal tech that exists,” Walters said.

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The Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2021

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.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice, from developing new technology to driving greater diversity. These are among the topics that listeners found most interesting during 2021, based on their downloads of LawNext episodes. Valuation.