Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We’ve quietly become the market leader in cloud-based law practice management for midsized law firms, with over 1,000 customers in that market,” he said. Even so, there are a number of other law practice management companies also serving that market, including Actionstep, Centerbase, Filevine, Litify, Neos and Surepoint.

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MARCH 19, 2024

InfoTrack may be one of the fastest growing yet least known legal technology companies in the United States. You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process servers, One Legal for California court filing, LawToolBox for court calendaring, and the Legal Talk Network group of legal podcasts.

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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. iManage went through an IPO nearly 20 years ago , in 2002.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2021

Black , in 2021 cloud computing software is the most prevalent. In fact, even before the pandemic, lawyers were adopting cloud-based legal software at higher rates than ever before. According to the 2020 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, 59% of lawyers surveyed were already already using cloud-based software pre-COVID.

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LawSites

JULY 6, 2021

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.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

In fact, legal technology is far more accessible and affordable than even two years ago. As a result, nimble small and medium-size firms can level the playing field and increase growth by understanding and leveraging technology. A growing number of practice management software providers now offer native e-payment capabilities.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Having worked as a chief information officer, library and information governance director, law professor, and legal technology consultant, she has an extensive background in both IT and information management. Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The legal technology company Litera today announced the winners of The Changing Lawyer awards for 2021, which recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models, or behavior across five different categories.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. 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. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. But in 2021, progress felt slower, as if we were mired in malaise.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, your firm may have had to make quite a lot of changes quickly to meet the new remote normal. Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Bessemer Venture Partners , a VC firm that has already made substantial investments in legal technology companies such as Clio, DISCO and Anaqua, has acquired a majority stake in Litify , a law practice management platform founded in 2016 by a team of people who came out of Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiffs’ law firm in the United States.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Smokeball is a law practice management software with document assembly capabilities. Smokeball has an unusual name, to be sure; but, it actually comes from a famous legal case , which just about every substantive law-loving attorney can appreciate. (I I love the smell of precedent in the morning.)

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Lawmatics

DECEMBER 27, 2023

With emerging new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, many people have started considering what legal software might mean for the legal profession’s future. Most lawyers recognize the productivity and efficiency gains brought about by legal technology. Software as a Service (SaaS).

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ABA TECHSHOW

JANUARY 29, 2021

Jim and Sharon welcome this year’s co-chairs, Allan Mackenzie and Roberta Tepper, to hear all about the reinvention of TECHSHOW 2021 in the virtual realm. Allan Mackenzie Allan Mackenzie is a 25-year veteran of the legal technology world. What will an online ABA TECHSHOW look like for attendees? Nelson Sharon D. Nelson, Esq.

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LawNext podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When Zach Posner was last on this podcast , it was 2021 and he was less than a year into having cofounded The LegalTech Fund , the first venture capital firm to be laser-focused on law and legal technology. Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A legal industry report released today by the sibling legal technology companies LawPay and MyCase provides unique insights into the technology tools that matter most to smaller law firms in the post-pandemic era. Other types of cloud software used by firms: Calendar management software, 44%.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. Traction: We have three paying mid-sized customers and have pilot negotiations underway with Microsoft’s and Facebook’s in-house legal departments. Founded: 7/6/2021.

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LawSites

JUNE 9, 2022

In a deal that is sure to shake-up the already hyperactive market for law practice management software, AffiniPay , the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay , has acquired the law practice management company MyCase. “It’s simple, it’s powerful, its customers love it.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Justia has been this blog’s home for 10 of its 20 years, and, as if that was not enough, Stacy, Tim, and the Justia team — most importantly Vasu Kappettu , COO and CTO — have this year been our partners and supporters in developing and launching the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Law Technology Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Implications for the Future of the Legal Profession Automated data collection of online court records has enormous implications for the future of the legal profession, as the ability to easily access aggregated court data directly impacts law firm operations, the quality of legal services, and meaningful access to justice for consumers.

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LawSites

APRIL 17, 2023

Now, an analysis of passive timekeeping data by the law practice management company MyCase finds that lawyers who use passive timekeeping billed an extra 64 hours last year. Learn more about MyCase on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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LawSites

APRIL 27, 2021

The legal technology company Clio this morning announced a Series E investment of $110 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve so-called unicorn status and one of only a small number of legal tech companies overall to achieve that status.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That led her to subscription-based legal services, charging her clients a flat monthly fee, and it worked so well for her that she became not just an adopter of the model, but an evangelist – a frequent speaker and writer on starting and scaling a subscription-based law practice.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Briefpoint aims to create a world where litigation attorneys’ success is tied only to their ability to formulate creative legal arguments and execute thoughtful litigation strategies. Demo video: [link] Founded: 2/9/2021, San Rafael, California [HQ], Chicago, Illinois. Demo video: [link] Founded: 1/10/2021, Oshkosh, WI.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If so, then we now officially have a pattern of legal technology companies rebranding, as it has happened three times in the last three weeks. This announcement follows two other recent rebrandings of legal technology companies: Documate’s rebranding as Gavel on Jan. In March 2021, it was acquired by Thomas H.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Anne Haag (@CBA_LPMT) is a Practice Management Advisor at the Chicago Bar Association. Anne worked as a patent paralegal at a Chicago IP firm before arriving at the CBA in 2017 as the Law Practice Management and Technology department’s trainer/coordinator. Most conferencing challenges are not that scary.

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ABA TECHSHOW

JULY 16, 2020

We are excited to announce that we are bringing the best legal technology conference right to you. ABA TECHSHOW 2021 is going virtual! Whether you’ve attended and loved TECHSHOW before, or have always wanted to come but just couldn’t swing it, TECHSHOW 2021 is for you.

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ELTA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Two new ambassadors were appointed in August 2021: With the nomination of Jeremy Small and Jon Bartman representing the United Kindom, the European Legal Technology was able to further consolidate its Ambassador network. “We says Holger Zscheyge, ELTA’s president. “We says Holger Zscheyge, ELTA’s president.

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Lawmatics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The investment in the legal technology market has profoundly impacted the legal industry over the last few years. The market size of legal tech is ballooning , underscoring the demand for innovative legal software and its growth potential. Working smarter, not harder, means embracing technological advancements.

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Clio

JANUARY 15, 2024

Investing in legal practice management (LPM) technology can also help your client relations. Network more The 2021 Legal Trends Report found that when looking for a lawyer, 81% of legal consumers seek positive referrals from friends and family. Learn more about running a client-centered law firm.

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LawNext podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Having worked as a chief information officer, library and information governance director, law professor, and legal technology consultant, she has an extensive background in both IT and information management. Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In October 2021, Clio , the law practice management company, launched Clio Payments , native e-payments technology built into the Clio Manage law practice management platform — a launch that CEO Jack Newton described at the time as the company’s most important product release since its debut in 2008.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Having worked as a chief information officer, library and information governance director, law professor, and legal technology consultant, she has an extensive background in both IT and information management.

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LawSites

AUGUST 16, 2022

In the world of legal technology, perhaps no company looms larger than Thomson Reuters, whose products such as Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Findlaw, 3E and many others span virtually every aspect of law practice and are used by legal professionals throughout the world. . Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The legal technology company Litera today announced the winners of The Changing Lawyer awards for 2021, which recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models, or behavior across five different categories.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influential Women in Legal Tech. In 2012, Alma founded her own legal technology company.

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LawNext podcast

MAY 17, 2021

former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law, where her research focuses on legal pedagogy, the use of technology in legal education, and law and technology.

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