Legal professionals agree that the pandemic accelerated the critical role of technology in the future success of their law firms and legal departments, but only a third believe their organizations are well prepared for addressing technology’s increasing importance.
This is a key finding of the 2021 Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report, the…
Just a year after its founding the legal tech startup Anü has shut down, having struggled to find customers and develop the right business model.
As I wrote about Anü in a post last November, it set out to solve the problem of startup founders unable to find the right lawyer, particularly founders…
The Friday Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable is back today at 3 p.m. E.T., when a panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
We were off last week, so we have two weeks to catch up on. Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you…
I reported here last week on a statement issued by a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court recommending that law firms and other legal employers permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception.
Maintaining flexibility in individual working arrangements serves the dual purposes of enhancing lawyer well-being while also advancing…
Two years ago, I wrote a column calling for the duty of technology — which applies to lawyers in 39 states — to be extended to judges. While that has not happened in the United States, it has now happened in Canada.
Yesterday, the Canadian Judicial Council published a new and modernized…
As we emerge from the pandemic, it is clear that the workplace of 2021 and beyond is going to be drastically different than the workplace of yesteryear.
To help businesses address this new era of workplace legal challenges, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, is releasing
The past year has seen the launch of several legal technology marketplaces, but Theorem LTS aims to be something more — an integrated legal technology ecosystem to power workflow-driven tech adoption by law firms and legal departments, as well as a marketplace for…
These days, the duty of technology competence requires lawyers not only to know how to use Zoom, but also to remember that it can record you.
It seems a lawyer inconveniently forgot that fact when he flipped the bird during his opponent’s appellate argument on Zoom, and then denied it.
It was an expensive lesson,…
There is no denying that some law firms view alternative legal services providers such as Factor as competitors, particularly for corporate legal work.
But over the past year, Factor has demonstrated that it can have highly productive partnerships with law firms, as it did in a unique partnership with Allen & Overy to…
A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries.
The product, Compose, introduced in February 2020 by legal research company Casetext, helps attorneys automate the creation of the first draft…
As companies plan for safely returning to the office, two new resources — including one that is free — are available to help legal professionals advise them with access to comparative federal and state legal requirements and case law.
One of these new back-to-office resources is an expansion of the COVID-19 State & Federal…
I just wrote about Intapp’s filing of papers with the Securities & Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO, noting how rare IPOs are in legal tech, only to find out that LegalZoom also filed on Friday for an IPO.
LegalZoom had previously filed for an IPO in 2012 but then postponed the offering…
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