Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Both Watson and Kashyapp also share their thoughts on generative AI and its potential impact on legal technology and legal practice. Paradigm , home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time , MerusCase and LollyLaw ; the e-payments platform Headnote ; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Law firms of all sizes are feeling pressure to meet client demand for both tailored services and greater efficiencies in this rapidly changing industry. Legal teams are being pressed to control costs and better respond to changing regulatory and risk management obligations. Increasing law practice specialization.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Are you looking for ways to take your law practice to the next level? Consider using document automation tools to help streamline your workflow and produce more accurate documents faster. Document automation tools can help you create and manage documents more efficiently, which can save your firm time and money.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

Choosing which legal software systems to use in your law practice is a big decision. New innovations in legal tech have become the great equalizer for many law firms, helping them output that’s competitive with other, larger law firms. Selecting the Right Type of Law Office Technology.

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CaseFox

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

One of the biggest changes is the introduction of legal technology. Law tech helps improve and streamline legal processes, ranging from document automation to artificial intelligence (AI) tools for legal research. In 2023, it’s crucial for big & small law firms to adapt to law tech.

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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. Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms.

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LawSites

AUGUST 31, 2022

Today, we are seeing the fruits of two of those acquisitions, as MyCase rolls out legal accounting as a fully integrated feature of its platform, as well as a robust document automation integration. Read more about MyCase at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Document Automation.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

Yet, while it is common for legal document automation software to detect the male or female gender of the subject of the document and adjust the pronouns accordingly, the same is not true for individuals who identify as nonbinary. Learn more about Smokeball on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

Law specialization has become increasingly common — almost a necessity. . Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice.

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Rocket Matter

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The post Digital Transformation for Law Firms: A Guide to Modernizing Your Practice appeared first on Rocket Matter. Today, better and expedited access to legal services is simply a baseline to meet, not a privilege. The answer is simple: a lack of digital transformation in law firms. What Is Legal Digital Transformation ?

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This week on The Geek in Review podcast Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert featured guests Colin Levy , Ashley Carlisle , and Dorna Moini discussing Levy’s recently published book “ Handbook of Legal Tech.” Levy edited the book and contributors included Moini, Carlisle’s CEO, Tony Thai, and many more legal technology experts.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

program at Santa Clara University School of Law. As law schools come under fire for failing to teach the practical skills students need to succeed in the real world, this program does the opposite. Prior to joining the Santa Clara Law faculty, Norris was in private practice representing technology startups and entrepreneurs.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

On this episode of How It Works : Woodpecker , AI-enabled legal document automation for solo and small firms. Melehy and his team of engineers and attorneys say they believe that generating accurate legal documents should not be something that consumes the resources of small law firms. About How It Works.

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LawSites

MAY 16, 2023

The majority of law firms use just five or fewer unique software products, according to a legal industry study published today by the law practice management company Smokeball. Document automation, 26%. Practice management or case management, 34%. Teams or Slack, 29%. Client portal, 25%. E-discovery, 22%.

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LawSites

MAY 16, 2022

The law practice management company MyCase said today that it has acquired Docketwise , a software platform for immigration attorneys that provides case management, immigration forms, and client-relationship management. another all-in-one practice management platform for immigration law firms.

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LawSites

JUNE 21, 2023

A new generative AI product for immigration lawyers announced today is designed to help them conduct research, draft and summarize complex legal documents, and engage with potential clients through a chat interface. documents, and several books and guides. “Immigration law is an incredibly complex, high-stakes area of law.

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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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Clio

MARCH 17, 2025

AI is rapidly transforming legal work, with new AI solutions emerging to assist with everything from streamlining document review to optimizing caseload distribution and beyond. Increasingly, AI is giving legal professionals access to new knowledge and capabilities that were unthinkable just a few years ago.

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CaseFox

APRIL 25, 2023

Innovation is a buzzword that is often associated with tech startups and Silicon Valley, but it is becoming increasingly important in every industry, including the legal profession. One of the main reasons why innovation is so critical for law firms is that clients are becoming increasingly demanding.

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Law Technology Today

MARCH 28, 2023

It’s happening right now, and it’s changing the way you practice law. Legal tech startups are disrupting traditional law firms and offering new ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their services. Benefits of Legal Technology Organizations These companies offer many benefits to law firms.

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LawSites

MARCH 5, 2024

For many leaders who participated in this survey, the legal field is at a watershed moment that offers them the chance to reimagine law firm management and to influence a new era of success. And the results are consistent with that view: 90% explained that legal technology helps their firms increase revenue.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Each year, the team at Lawyaw talks to thousands of legal professionals who are looking for solutions to the myriad challenges of practicing law in the 21st century. The survey found that technology-leading firms were almost 3x more likely to have increased profitability during the past year compared to tech-trailing firms.

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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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LawSites

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A common pain point for law firms is failing to track and invoice all reimbursable client expenses, resulting in losses to firm profits. Launching initially for MyCase, and later in other AffiniPay products, MyCase Smart Spend provides law firms with a LawPay-branded Visa credit card for their attorneys and staff.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Inspired by early legal bloggers such as Denise Howell , who started Bag and Baggage on Nov. Over time, I broadened the breadth of coverage to include not only websites, but also legal technology, legal innovation, legal ethics and legal media. 18, 2002, I thought a blog would be the ideal medium.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Paradigm says it has seen substantial growth in recent years as law firms have moved to cloud-based products, and that it currently serves 11,000 law firms. This news comes amid a period of unprecedented investment in law practice management technology. The transaction is slated to be completed before the end of the year.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This was the International Legal Technology Association’s return to a live event, and I had fully intended to be there in the flesh. And Now Another Legal Tech IPO: LegalZoom Files To Go Public (June 6, 2021). Intapp, Tech Provider to Legal and Financial Firms, Files Papers for IPO (June 6, 2021). 8, 2021).

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LawSites

MAY 27, 2022

As more and more legaltech companies add their product listings to the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , which we launched in February , I am periodically featuring the latest listings. “Quickly and easily plot deeds, tracts and legal descriptions by entering metes and bounds descriptions. . ” HotDocs.

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Colin S. Levy

APRIL 16, 2024

Monica Goyal is the Director of Legal Innovation for Caravel Law. In her role as Director of Legal Innovation, she evaluates new technologies and implementation within the firm. Monica was formerly an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Institute of Future of Law Practice.

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Lawyerist

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In that time, Lawyerist has continued its mission to help solo and small law firm owners build healthier businesses. But after graduating from law school in 2011, she ended up at the small two-person family law firm where she had clerked. During her four years at the firm, her ardor for practicing law never materialized.

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Technically Legal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This episode is a conversation with Spellbook co-founder Scott Stevenson about intersection of technology and creativity. Despite founding a legal technology company, Scott is not a lawyer but is computer engineer by training. Spellbook is a AI contract co-pilot for transactional lawyers that plugs into Microsoft Word.

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

It can also help with legal research, finding relevant case laws or statutes quickly without endless hours of manual searching. Natural Language Processing (NLP) Natural language processing is what helps AI tools make sense of human language, even the complex and technical terms often used in legal documents.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Abacus Payment Exchange (APX) is a proprietary tool that has been built from the ground up and engineered exclusively for law firms. If queried, most law firms would point to March of 2020 as the point in time that everything changed. APX is a unique offering to the legal community in many ways.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Legal tech went public.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

program at Santa Clara University School of Law. As law schools come under fire for failing to teach the practical skills students need to succeed in the real world, this program does the opposite. Prior to joining the Santa Clara Law faculty, Norris was in private practice representing technology startups and entrepreneurs.

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Centerbase

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Law firms across the country are buzzing, and it feels suspiciously like 2008. Weathering the storm will be challenging, but the law firms that come out strongest on the other side will be the ones that have figured out how to optimize their performance as part of their recession-proofing strategy. Convenience and automation.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 16, 2023

The majority of law firms use just five or fewer unique software products, according to a legal industry study published today by the law practice management company Smokeball. Document automation, 26%. Practice management or case management, 34%. Teams or Slack, 29%. Client portal, 25%. E-discovery, 22%.

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