Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper, known for early investments in companies such as Twitter, Skype and DocuSign, has invested $1 million in seed capital in Jur, a blockchain-based dispute resolution platform founded in Switzerland.
Draper described Jur’s dispute resolution platform as “the future of decentralized justice” and its recently issued cryptocurrency, the…
Eight students in the LawX legal design lab at BYU Law have developed an online resource, called Goodbye Record, that is designed to address flaws in the process for expunging criminal records in Utah and potentially other states as well.
I’ve written a number of times about LawX, a lab program
In today’s episode of How It Works, we look at Ironclad, the contract lifecycle management platform used by innovative companies such as L’Oréal, Staples and Mastercard to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence.
To introduce the product and demonstrate how…
The cloud-based e-discovery and litigation platform Everlaw today kicks off Illuminate 2021, its first industry conference, and as it does, it is reporting a year of record growth.
Over the past year, the company saw 67% compound annual run rate growth (CAGR) over the prior three years, and a 140% increase in U.K.…
The legal technology company Clio this morning announced a Series E investment of $110 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve so-called unicorn status and one of only a small number of legal tech companies overall to achieve that status.
In special episode of…
The online dispute resolution service FairClaims is taking on established commercial arbitration services such as JAMS and the American Arbitration Association with a new offering that it says will resolve disputes far faster and at a fraction of the cost.
FairClaims’ new FastTrack Arbitration service is designed for business disputes of…
In case you missed it, here is the video of yesterday’s Legaltech Week journalist’s roundtable.
This week’s top stories:…
Reynen Court, the so-called app store for legal technology, yesterday announced a new full-service offering aimed at making it easier and more economical for mid-sized law firms and corporate legal departments to test and deploy innovative cloud-based applications.
The new offering provides provides firms and legal departments turn-key access to what the company describes…
In today’s episode of How It Works: Storybuilder by Everlaw, a free, secure narrative building and trial preparation platform.
Product Lead Kevin Kraft presents an introduction of the product and a walkthrough of how it works.
How It Works is a sponsored video series that lets you see how legal technology…
A common service that law firms perform is to compile multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other legal data. But an equally common problem is presenting that data in a way that is visually informative and compelling.
A new product called Map Engine aims to solve that problem by making it easy and economical…
The online legal services provider Rocket Lawyer has raised $223 million in growth capital financing to help it meet what it says has been a strong and accelerating demand for its digital legal documents and advice.
The financing was led by Vista Credit Partners a strategic credit investor and financing…
The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, today announced that it has expanded its coverage of state courts in California to include Orange County Superior Court, its seventh California county.
Lex Machina now provides analytics for over 1.5 million California superior court cases and has total state court coverage of…
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