Bob Ambrogi

Knowing whether a case is good law is elemental to legal research. To do this, lawyers have long relied on citator services such as Shepard’s from LexisNexis and KeyCite from Westlaw. Now, the legal research service Casetext has introduced a citator of its own, called SmartCite, with many of the features you would…

Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions, a provider of technology for enterprise management of legal matters and legal spend, has acquired CLM Matrix, a provider of contract lifecycle management (CLM) software, for $35 million.

The acquisition will enable Wolters Kluwer to offer a more comprehensive suite of solutions to address the growing…

Four months after receiving a $200 million strategic investment, Onit, a Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for large corporations and legal departments, is putting that money to good use — acquiring SimpleLegal, a six-year-old Silicon Valley company that provides legal spend, matter and vendor management software to the mid-sized corporate legal market.…

This week on LawNext, we get to reveal a project that could change the face of contracting for small businesses worldwide. Pulse — backed by LegalZoom — is a new initiative to deliver better contracts to small businesses. And to help develop it, Pulse has hired widely known contract-drafting specialist Ken Adams, author of the…

I have only read the press release, not seen it in action, but this sounds interesting: Neota Logic, developer of an AI automation platform, and LawGeex, an AI contract review platform, have partnered to automate a step in contract negotiations.

As described in the release, the integration works when a counterparty insists on…

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory says its Cheetah legal research platform will be back online on Thursday, May 9, at 10 a.m. EDT. However, some content updates may be delayed and certain features will not be immediately available, the company says.

As I reported here and here, Wolters Kluwer was forced Monday to…

As I reported here yesterday, Wolters Kluwer was forced to take a number of its platforms and applications offline after discovering malware in its systems.

Since then, the company has been able to restore services to a number of applications and platforms, a spokesperson told me. However, while it is making progress, several services…

Legal and business publisher Wolters Kluwer says it has discovered malware in a number of its platforms and applications and has taken them offline in order to reduce the malware’s impact.

It has found no evidence that customer data was compromised or that the malware has spread through its systems to any customers, it says.…

Tali, a product that allows lawyers to track their time through voice commands using Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, is shutting down, effective June 30.

The company notified customers by email of the news this morning. Customers will have until the end of June to download any data that have stored with Tali.

Monthly…

Three years after acquiring document technology company Litera and then investing $100 million into creating the portfolio company Litera Microsystems, the investment firm K1 Investment Management has sold the company to Hg Capital Trust Plc.

During its ownership, K1 says, Litera tripled its revenue to become one of the world’s leading providers…

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you have probably noticed that I have closely followed the evolution of the duty of technology competence for lawyers, frequently writing about it and even devoting a page to tracking states’ adoption of the duty.

The duty is derived from the American Bar Association’s Model…

A tremor rolled through the legal industry recently when Thomson Reuters announced that it had sold its managed services business, Pangea3, to global Big Four professional services firm Ernst & Young, a sign of Ernst & Young’s increasing expansion into legal services.

On the latest episode of LawNext, I speak with…