For my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV, tomorrow I will interview Judy Perry Martinez, the president of the American Bar Association.
Our conversation will be streamed live tomorrow, May 14, at 9:30 a.m. CDT / 3:30 p.m. BST at Litera TV.
A lawyer who has made public service a part…
We may all be working from home, but that doesn’t mean investment money isn’t flowing into legaltech — and particularly into legaltech for commercial contracts. This week, three companies, all providers of technology for contract review or management, announced financing rounds, raising a total of $26 million among them.
LawGeex: $20 MillionThe largest of…
Today I am pleased to introduce something new for this blog: The LawSites Resource Center.
The Resource Center is a library of free downloadable content that will include white papers, webinars, product guides, case studies, industry analysis and more, all provided by experts and vendors within the legal industry.
(The Resources link in the…
It seems that Zoom has become the go-to video conferencing platform for all sorts of uses, and that extends to conducting online depositions and mediations. But why use generic video conferencing software for depositions when there is a product specifically designed for that purpose?
Recently, I was given a demonstration of vTestify, a cloud-based…
As some states begin to loosen stay-at-home restrictions and allow certain businesses to reopen, and other states prepare to do so, employers face a difficult balancing act between reopening their workplaces and ensuring the safety of their employees and customers.
In the early days of the pandemic, I wrote about the launch of a tool…
Virtually overnight, COVID-19 changed the landscape for law firms and how they serve clients. While some firms were caught unprepared – struggling to adapt to a remote work environment and lacking the technologies and procedures to ensure seamless client service and team performance –…
Starting today is a free, week-long virtual bankruptcy summit designed for attorneys who would like to transition their practices into bankruptcy law as well as for current practitioners who want to take a deeper dive into specific types of cases.
Called Bankruptcy Week, the five-day program is presented by NextChapter, the cloud-based bankruptcy…
Last week, for my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV, I interviewed Joe Calve, chief marketing and business development officer at McGuireWoods. Our topic: legal marketing in the midst of a pandemic.
At McGuireWoods, Calve oversees client relations and development, communications, media relations and marketing. Before joining McGuireWoods, he was CMO…
A New York City law firm that represents superstar musicians such as Lady Gaga, Elton John and Madonna has allegedly been hit with a ransomware attack that threatens to expose celebrities’ privileged legal information.
Attackers have posted images of documents and file folders to the leak site for the REvil ransomware that appear to be…
Tomorrow, we’re going to try an experiment. We’re convening a live video panel of leading legaltech journalists for an open, roundtable discussion of the week in review.
Consider it the legaltech version of Washington Week, but with less gravitas and more attitude.
Later, we’ll put the audio out as an episode of my new podcast,…
The legal research startup ROSS Intelligence came out fighting this morning in response to a lawsuit filed against it yesterday by Thomson Reuters alleging ROSS surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.
ROSS says it had no need or desire to obtain Westlaw’s copyrighted material —…
[Update: ROSS Comes Out Swinging, Vows To Fight Thomson Reuters’ Lawsuit Alleging Data Theft]
In what could be a Goliath v. David legal battle, legal research giant Thomson Reuters has filed a lawsuit against legal research startup ROSS Intelligence alleging that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research…
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