Multinational law firm Clifford Chance, one of the 10 largest law firms in the world, has hired legal-industry veteran Jeroen Plink as CEO of Clifford Chance Applied Solutions, where he will lead a global team tasked with developing and bringing to market new technologies to solve major problems faced by the firm’s clients.…
My Last Episode of Lawyer2Lawyer: What We’ve Learned About Podcasting
Now available is the latest episode of the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, which, as I recently explained here, will be my last after 13 years, as I turn my attention…
At ILTA Conference, Teen Proves How Easily Law Firm Networks Can Be Breached
In July, CNBC reported that a Russian hacker is selling access to the data of a New York City law firm for $3,500 on the dark web. What’s even more alarming is that, according to Q6 Cyber, a cybersecurity company, the firm isn’t alone. Similar information is for sale from firms nationwide.
The report said…
LawNext Episode 9: Bill Henderson on Changing the Non-Lawyer Ownership Rules
Should legal ethics rules be changed to allow non-lawyer ownership of legal services providers? So controversial is the question that it was major news in July when the State Bar of California voted to appoint a task force to study and make recommendations on the issue. What spurred the bar to take this action was…
Innovative Law Firm/Tech Company Atrium Raises $65 Million
When it rains it pours for investment in legal technology. Just last week, I reported on a $50 million investment in artificial intelligence company Kira Systems. Now comes news that Atrium — the combination law firm and legal technology company — has raised $65 million in a round that includes some…
PracticePanther Rolls Out A Number Of New Features And Integrations
When last I checked in with the practice management platform PracticePanther last March, it had just taken a “large” private equity investment. At the time, CEO David Bitton told me that the company had seen exponential growth over the prior year, doubling its customers. Since March, the company has rolled out a number…
iManage Expands into Client Intake and Conflicts Checking with Acquisition of Elegrity
iManage, the company whose document and email management platform is used by 70 percent or more of the large firm market, said today that it has acquired Elegrity, a San Francisco provider of risk and compliance management software for law firms and businesses whose primary products are designed to help firms reduce risk…
Study Says Casetext Beats LexisNexis for Research, But LexisNexis Calls Foul
A study released this week pitted two legal research platforms against each other, Casetext CARA and Lexis Advance from LexisNexis, and concluded that attorneys using Casetext CARA finished their research significantly more quickly and found more relevant cases than those who used Lexis Advance.
The study, The Real Impact of Using Artificial Intelligence…
AI Company Kira Systems Gets $50 Million Series A Investment
Kira Systems, a Toronto-based developer of machine-learning software for contract review and analysis, today announced a $50 million Series A minority investment from Insight Venture Partners in New York City.
This is the first outside investment taken by the company, which was founded in 2011 by Noah Waisberg, a former corporate lawyer at…
LawNext Episode 8: Shruti Ajitsaria, Head of Fuse, Allen & Overy’s Legal Tech Incubator
In September 2017, venerable Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy launched Fuse, setting aside a portion of its London office for a collaborative innovation space to develop and test new legal technologies, and it named lawyer Shruti Ajitsaria to head the project. On the latest episode of LawNext, Ajitsaria joins me to discuss why…
Utah Courts Begin Unique ODR Pilot for Small Claims Cases Tomorrow
The Utah State Courts will launch a pilot program tomorrow using online dispute resolution to seek to resolve small claims cases in the Justice Court in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City.
This appears to be only the second court in the United States to offer ODR for all small-claims…