A Hungarian law firm is partnering with a Los Angeles legal tech company and an anonymous legal industry influencer to create an international database of pro bono attorneys willing to represent Ukrainian refugees in need of immigration or asylum aid, and they are looking for more attorneys to sign up.
As of Saturday, they had…
I am looking to hire a versatile editorial assistant on a part-time basis to help with a variety of projects here at LawSites and LawNext.
The ideal person would be a self-starter who is comfortable handling various editorial and production tasks. These may include some combination of:
A product launched this week claims to be the fastest search and review platform in legal for matters involving large document collections — discovery, investigations and compliance — and the first to seamlessly combine keyword and algorithmic search.
The chief data scientist who helped develop it said it is “an order of magnitude faster than…
Is there a better way to train lawyers to draft and negotiate contracts? Laura Frederick thinks so. This former Tesla and BigLaw commercial contracts attorney is the founder of How to Contract, a learning platform that trains lawyers and professionals how to draft and negotiate contracts in the real world. She is also…
Multifaceted is barely word enough to describe Jason Tashea. Lawyer, startup founder, legal affairs writer, law professor, consultant and podcaster, he is now taking on another role: creator of speculative fiction about the criminal justice system.
Over the past decade, Tashea says, the topics he has covered in his non-fiction writing about criminal justice…
Last week, I announced the launch of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which we hope will become the most trusted source of legal tech products in the market.
If you are curious to learn more about it, I will be joining Ari Kaplan’s Virtual Lunch today, Feb. 23, at noon Eastern time,…
It is not my practice to endorse a book without having read it. But I am doing so today because I know the book, I know the author, and you can save money if you buy it today.
The book is the just-released third edition of Solo by Choice, by Carolyn Elefant, creator of…
Two of the companies whose products are among the most widely used in the legal profession, iManage and Microsoft, are today announcing a global strategic development partnership aimed at innovation, development of new solutions, and delivery of better business outcomes for customers.
The agreement announced today expands on the “better…
In this new normal of working remotely, many lawyers have opted to relocate their home offices to more desirable climes, moving out of state to vacation homes in places where the sun shines and the beach is nearby.
One such destination for many lawyers has been Florida, and now a decision from the Florida Supreme…
Paradigm, the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — today adds a fifth, as it acquires TrustBooks, the cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms.
With this acquisition, Paradigm adds legal accounting to a product line-up that already includes three separate…
In a move sure to shake up the market for practice management software for mid-sized law firms, the cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies has acquired Cole Valley Software, developer of ContactEase, a popular client relations management (CRM) software for law firms.
The companies say that the acquisition creates the first legal technology…
Practice management company MyCase has named Arman Samani, an executive with more than two decades’ experience leading product development and innovation at high-growth SaaS companies, as its chief product and technology officer.
Samani’s experience is in building and implementing SaaS software products for businesses that serve professionals. He most recently served as chief…
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