Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 7, 2023

ABA TECHSHOW kicked off in Chicago last week with its traditional opening event, the Startup Alley pitch competition, in which 15 legal tech startups present three-minute pitches in pursuit of top honors. In his pitch, founder Tony Valenti told the audience that Universal Migrator supports migrations between more than 60 applications.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Paradigm — the parent company to practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time and MerusCase and payments platform Headnote — is being acquired by Francisco Partners , a major investment firm that specializes in investments in technology businesses. Hot Market for Practice Management.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

For practice management and case management systems, look for Service Organization Control 2 (SOC 2) compliance, which assures clients that your firm has the infrastructure, tools and processes in place to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. Legal tech meets fintech. Remote work is here to stay.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

I recently spoke to two lawyers turned legal tech entrepreneurs about their early stage software companies. I start with a discussion of the problem each sets out to solve, then turn to observations of and implications for the legal tech market more broadly. Practice managers struggle to assess availability and capacity.

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 21, 2024

TLDR: The Global State of Legal Tech. The state of legal tech and its adoption across the globe reflects a profound shift in the legal industry, driven by the intersection of law and technology. Across Europe, legal tech adoption varies by country but is steadily gaining traction.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 6, 2023

. “The legal community needs to navigate the world of Artificial Intelligence,” he advised back in 2016. His map of AI in legal practice was, for a time, ubiquitous on PowerPoints at legal tech conferences. ” Liam Brown, CEO of Elevate Law said he was a “visionary strategist.”

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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

AUGUST 31, 2023

Actionstep , a cloud-based law practice management platform, has acquired the Australian practice management company FilePro and its 4,000 law firm customers in Australia. Check it out in the Law Next Legal Tech Directory. In 2022, Actionstep acquired the Australian practice management company LawMaster.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

But legal tech news announced today suggests otherwise. In an integration between two law practice products, Lawmatics , the legal CRM product founded by Matt Spiegel in 2017, now integrates with MyCase , the law practice management platform that Spiegel originally founded in 2009 and left in 2015.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Stories are increasingly common of lawyers who leave law practice to start legal technology companies, but few achieve the level of success as an entrepreneur of Matt Spiegel. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase , one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You would be hard-pressed to find two people in legal technology more experienced in user interface and user experience design than Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart. Bradick is founder and CEO of the legal tech design and development firm Theory and Principle. Woodpecker , legal document automation for solo and small firms. .

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 8, 2023

million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners , with participation from Bain Capital Ventures , Behance founder Scott Belsky , and Clio Ventures , the investment arm of legal technology company Clio. ” Bain, which participated in today’s round, has also been investing heavily in legal tech companies.

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LawSites

MARCH 12, 2024

With new requirements for companies to collect, document and submit previously unreported information – and with many companies confused about what the law means for them — legal tech companies are stepping up to help, with new products specifically designed to facilitate understanding and compliance.

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LawSites

JULY 23, 2024

The law practice management company Clio today announced a record-setting raise of $900 million, at a valuation of a whopping $3 billion, in an oversubscribed Series F investment round that the company says will accelerate its ability to continue to build and develop its multi-product platform and expand its market both to larger firms and […] (..)

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 10, 2024

To listen to the prior two, check out: Two KM Keynotes – Andrea Alliston, KM Leader At Fasken, and Mark Smolik, GC at DHL, On Disruption and Innovation in Legal , in which we spoke with the conference’s two keynote speakers. Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Recently, I posted here an exclusive analysis of legal tech funding from 1984 to 2020, a video timeline showing the evolving bar chart of investments in legal tech over nearly four decades. The top three categories of deals, based on numbers of deals, were e-discovery, practice management and contract 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. On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer , a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys.

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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. The post Lawyer Tech Tips: Things That Go Bump in Legal Tech!

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 25, 2023

It was major news April 4 when the legal research and technology companies Fastcase and vLex announced their merger, creating a single entity that they say now has the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms and a legal research library of more than 1 billion documents from more than 100 countries.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

It is a day of major legal tech deals.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 24, 2024

AffiniPay is kicking off this initiative by releasing the first two of these features in beta within the MyCase law practice management platform. ” Listen: On LawNext: AffiniPay CEO Dru Armstrong on the Intersection of Fintech, Legal Tech and AI. .

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Colin S. Levy

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Purchasers of legal tech, don’t get too creative: Buy “configurable” tech, not “customizable” “My cousin Cleatus says he’ll get it running in a year or two, just as soon as he’s done customizing it.” My uncle Chuck had a ski boat. He entrusted it to my Dad because he was tired of taking care of it.

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Law Technology Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If you are in legal tech, change is constant. That’s why tech-savvy practitioners will soon be heading to the ABA TECHSHOW ( see everything NetDocuments has planned ). Last year, we shared 10 legal tech trends driving success in the legal industry. There’s a lot more to come in 2023. See you in Chicago!

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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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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 3, 2023

Curtis Brewer, the new CEO of Litify, spoke to Legaltech News about what excites him about the legal tech market, and how he expects artificial intelligence to impact practice management.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As ALSP Axiom Opens A Law Firm in Arizona, Its Chief Strategy and Legal Officer Catherine Kemnitz Shares Details. Theory and Principle Founder Nicole Bradick on Designing and Building Legal Tech Products. Documate Founder Dorna Moini on Rebranding As Gavel and How Law Firms Can Productize their Legal Services.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 31, 2023

Actionstep , a cloud-based law practice management platform, has acquired the Australian practice management company FilePro and its 4,000 law firm customers in Australia. Check it out in the Law Next Legal Tech Directory. In 2022, Actionstep acquired the Australian practice management company LawMaster. “We

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 10, 2023

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 One key to achieving that, he believes, is maintaining strong relationships with case and practice management systems.

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LawSites

APRIL 1, 2022

Catching up on recent legal tech news, there are four notable deals to report. First up is Athennian , the Canadian company that offers a cloud-based entity management platform. The company’s software allows legal departments and professional services firms to automate management of subsidiaries and legal entities.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 17, 2023

Related: Legal Tech Veteran Derek Miller, Former inData CEO Who Oversaw Trial Director, Joins Lit Software to Help Drive Enterprise Growth of Its Litigation Suite. To do that, Derek Miller and Tara Cheever join host Bob Ambrogi to share their experiences and perspectives. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2023

On July 18, 2023, the top legal officers of three Boston-area technology companies came together for a live panel discussion about the city’s unique contributions to the legal tech landscape, which I moderated The panelists graciously agreed to allow LawNext to record the conversation, and this episode is that recording.

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LawSites

AUGUST 6, 2024

Among the world’s top 100 private cloud computing companies are two in the legal tech sector, according to Forbes Cloud 100 2024. This is […]

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LawSites

AUGUST 29, 2023

I am just back from Orlando, Florida, where I attended ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Mic in hand, I recorded a series of brief interviews with some of the legal tech companies that were in attendance. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.

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LawSites

JANUARY 3, 2024

Today on LawNext, we feature two brief, back-to-back interviews with the founders of two separate legal tech startups, both recorded live during the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 11, 2024

With new requirements for companies to collect, document and submit previously unreported information – and with many companies confused about what the law means for them -- legal tech companies are stepping up to help, with new products specifically designed to facilitate understanding and compliance.

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LawSites

MARCH 19, 2024

Already, its products are used every day by lawyers throughout the United States to file court cases, track court dockets, search court records, and arrange service of process, and it integrates with most major law practice management platforms. InfoTrack in the U.S. InfoTrack expanded first to the U.K. and then in 2016 to the U.S.

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