With both Arizona and Utah now allowing nonlawyers to deliver legal services through alternative business structures, the American Bar Association today issued a formal ethics opinion that addresses the question of whether lawyers outside those states may passively invest in an ABS.
The issue hinges on ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.4, which…
In its second acquisition in six weeks, law practice management company Clio has acquired Lawyaw, a document automation and assembly platform designed for solo, small and mid-sized law firms.
This news follows Clio’s July 28 announcement that it acquired CalendarRules, an automated court calendaring product. It is Clio’s third acquisition ever, including its…
With companies facing a Nov. 1 deadline to comply with China’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, is today launching a product to help organizations automate the paperwork they need to comply with the law, generating the necessary documents in both English…
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Gavin McGrane was a litigation attorney in San Francisco when he saw an opportunity to improve how legal professionals interface with the federal courts electronic records system, PACER, and to enable them to better tap into the data and knowledge contained within that system.
In 2012, he…
Marking its third acquisition in the last year and its fourth since 2019, Onit, the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired Bodhala, a New York company whose SaaS platform provides in-house legal departments with AI-powered legal spend analytics, benchmarking and market intelligence.
Onit says…
The legal analytics platform Lex Machina has introduced a “fetch” functionality that allows users to request and retrieve specific documents from state court dockets.
The functionality is designed to enable users to dig into the details of analytics research they perform on Lex Machina, obtaining specific motions, orders or other documents that can provide…
I wrote last March about Clearbrief, a first-of-its-kind product designed to strengthen your legal writing, and that was backed by some big-name early investors, including Mark Britton, the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner, legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary; and Bill Neukom, longtime Microsoft general counsel.
Now, Clearbrief…
It has been quite a journey for the document management company iManage. Cofounded in 1995 by Neil Araujo and Rafiq Mohammadi, it was acquired in 2003 by Interwoven for $171 million. In 2009, Autonomy acquired Interwoven for $775 million, and then in 2011 Hewlett Packard purchased Autonomy for $11.1 billion, getting iManage…
The billable hour has been unfairly painted as the villain of law firm pricing, when in fact opacity is the issue
Guest Post By Nicholas d’Adhemar, Founder and CEO, Apperio
A while back I had a contractor out to my home to quote some remodeling work. The job seemed straightforward, and the contractor gave…
(This post has been updated with the latest numbers provided by ILTA.)
Much uncertainty surrounded attendance at this years ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, and the first hybrid version of the conference, as the rise in the Delta variant of COVID-19 cause some to reconsider in-person attendance.
Last week,…
There may be no more critical issue facing the legal profession than reregulation of legal services. Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to loosen restrictions on non-lawyers investing in and providing legal services.
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