Articles Posted in January, 2022

At a time when corporations are demanding greater accountability, transparency and predictability from their legal departments, automation of manual processes is a critical strategic priority, offering the promise of greater efficiency and effectiveness. But what does it really mean for a legal department to digitally transform itself and how should it go about it? …

Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022.

The program is…

The legal technology company Clio has named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.

Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.…

As a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. That inspired Clark to found Trellis in 2018, to collect and provide access to that data so that other…

The Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City later this month has been moved to March due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant.

Originally scheduled for Jan. 31-Feb. 3, the conference is now scheduled for March 8-11, still at the New York Hilton Midtown.

Mark Fried, CFO…

Friday is the final deadline for legal technology startups to apply for a spot in the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. 

This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to showcase your startup before an audience of legal…

 Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has acquired docketing technology and rules-based calendaring company American LegalNet (ALN). 

Aderant began notifying customers by email today of the acquisition, and the ALN website now carries the Aderant logo.

ALN offers a cloud-based national docketing and calendaring product,…

With the goal of providing full end-to-end legal operations support to corporate clients worldwide, Integreon and UpLevel Ops have formed an alliance to offer what they are calling Legal Operations Support-as-a-Service.

The alliance combines the managed services offerings of alternative legal services provider (ALSP) Integreon with the outsourced strategic advisory services of corporate…

I had the great privilege to be a guest on the year-end edition of Talk Justice, the podcast produced by the Legal Services Corporation and hosted by Jason Tashea, a member of LSC’s Emerging Leaders Council.

Also on the episode were Zachariah DeMeola, director of legal education and the legal profession…

The new year begins with news of a new chief executive at Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms. Effective today, Chris Cartrett is succeeding Deane Price as the company’s CEO.

The move had been planned since July 2021, when the company announced that Price would…