As reported here Wednesday, the Florida Supreme Court has asked The Florida Bar to undertake a study of the rules governing the practice of law in order to determine whether revisions are needed to improve the delivery of legal services within that state.
This comes as a growing number of states — including Arizona,…
The document technology company Litera is telling customers it is prepared to continue full operations, even as it takes steps to reduce risk associated with the outbreak of coronavirus.
In a statement posted to its website and being distributed to customers, the company outlined the steps it is taking to address the outbreak…
On Monday, this blog broke the news that Epiq Global, the international e-discovery and managed services company, had taken its systems offline globally after becoming the target of a ransomware attack.
Now, new details are emerging about exactly what happened to force Epiq to shut down its systems.
The information security and technology news…
Citing concerns about coronavirus, Stanford University has cancelled this year’s CodeX FutureLaw Conference, which had been scheduled for April 9 and would have been the conference’s eighth year, as well as the 15th anniversary of CodeX.
In an email this morning, Roland Vogl, executive director of CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics,…
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The Florida Supreme Court has asked The Florida Bar to undertake a study of the rules governing the practice of law in order to determine whether revisions are needed to improve the delivery of legal services within that state.
In…
The International Legal Technology Association said yesterday that its international legal technology events will go forward as planned, even as the association closely monitors developments concerning COVID-19.
“As our ILTA event season begins, we are closely monitoring COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) updates, including reports from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), U.S. Department of State,…
ABA Techshow kicked off last week with the Startup Alley Pitch Competition, in which 15 companies pitched their companies in three-minute presentations in front of an audience of Techshow attendees.
At the conclusion of all the pitches, the audience got to vote for their favorites. Here were the top three winners:…
On Jan. 12, this blog broke the news that Atrium, the company that said it would “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of a law firm and a technology company, was letting go most of its legal staff and would pivot towards “building a professional services network dedicated to founders.”
Today, founder…
Recent years have brought a surge of outside investment in legal technology and other “new law” companies. But a survey out today finds that women-founded new law companies received less than 1 percent of that investment over the last 10 years.
Dana Denis-Smith, CEO of Obelisk Support in London, conducted the survey on…
Epiq Global, an international e-discovery and managed services company, has taken its systems offline globally after detecting unauthorized activity.
Epiq made the move on Saturday as part of its data security response plan and has brought on a third-party forensics firm to conduct an investigation.
A company spokesperson provided the following statement:…
In a major update of its practice management platform, Rocket Matter is launching a number of new features today, several of which are targeted at the growing number of mid-sized firms that use the platform.
Among the new features announced today is what Rocket Matter CEO Larry Port says is the most robust integration…
Launching today is a new service that will deliver free legal and litigation news derived largely from court dockets, just a month after a similar service launched.
Coming out today is Legal Radar, slated from legal and business news company ALM, the publisher of Law.com, The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and other legal publications.
The…
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