Bob Ambrogi

Often called the app store of law, Reynen Court has fast become one of the most talked-about companies in legal technology. Its mission is to make it easy for law firms and legal departments to adopt and manage modern cloud-based software applications without having to trust firm or client content to the rapidly growing universe…

Yesterday, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round — one of the largest ever for a legal technology company.

Shortly after making the announcement during an event in Clio’s Burnaby, B.C., headquarters, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jack Newton, Clio’s cofounder and CEO, for…

Axiom, one of the world’s largest alternative legal services providers, said today that it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Permira by which a company backed by Permira funds will take a significant investment in Axiom.

Axiom’s management team, led by CEO Elena Donio, will continue to lead the company,…

Cloud law practice management company Clio is today announcing a $250 million Series D funding — one of the largest investments ever for a legal technology company and the largest ever for a Canadian company.

Clio is also announcing that Mark Britton, who founded Avvo in 2006 and sold it last year to…

After three years as editor and publisher of the ABA Journal and 18 years as a member of the editorial staff, Molly McDonough is leaving the magazine after the next issue is put to bed on Oct. 4.

Her decision to leave comes after several years of ABA-imposed budget cuts at the magazine…

When Toni Morrison died last month, Alli Gerkman posted this Morrison quote on her Facebook page: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

If Alli believed language to be the measure of a life, then hers was a life exceptionally well…

Two sets of legal technology awards were announced during the recent ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association — ILTA’s own Distinguished Peer Awards and The Changing Lawyer Awards sponsored by Litera Microsystems.

ILTA’s Distinguished Peer Awards recognize those who have delivered great business value and transformational…

The Utah Supreme Court voted unanimously yesterday to approve the recommendations of a work group that called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.”

In an email, Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas, who cochaired the Utah Work…

Update 8/29/19: Utah Supreme Court Votes to Approve Pilot Allowing Non-Traditional Legal Services.

Faced with an ever-widening gap in access to legal services, a Utah task force has called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.”

Appointed…

It’s our 50th episode of LawNext, so we could think of no more appropriate topic than the state of podcasting in the legal industry. And we could think of no two guests better suited to the topic than Adam Camras, CEO of the Legal Talk Network, and Laurence Colletti, its executive producer.

Camras is…

A new app called Opinion Minion uses your mobile phone’s camera to read case citations and then deliver you the opinion from Google Scholar.

The app, which describes itself as “your legal helper,” uses text-recognition software to read the case citation and then search for it on Google Scholar. As of this writing, it…

Home now from ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. It is five frenetic days of seminars, exhibitors and networking by legal technologists and vendors from all over the world. Here are some of my somewhat-random thoughts about the event.

Let’s start with what many were thinking: Orlando in August?…