Over the past two years, the company Alpine SG (ASG) has acquired two legal technology companies, the practice-management platform PracticePanther in 2018 (which I covered here) and the time, billing and practice-management platform Bill4Time in 2017. Now, ASG is merging the two companies to create a unified legal technology business, ASG…
Where You’ll Find Me At ABA TECHSHOW (As Well As Beer and Food)
ABA TECHSHOW is just a week away. Here are some of the events I’ll be attending there:
Wednesday, Feb. 27…
Catching Up: Three Notable News Items from Last Week: Smart Contracts, AI Referrals and Women of Legal Tech
Because I was traveling last week to attend the ctrl ALT del conference of the Association of Legal Technologists (which I wrote about here), I fell behind on some notable news stories from the world of legal technology. Here are three:
Monax Launches Blockchain Smart Contracts PlatformLast year, I wrote here about the…
Breaking: ILTA Names Joy Heath Rush as CEO
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) said today that Joy Heath Rush, who has been serving as its interim chief executive officer since October 2018, has been formally named as CEO effective immediately.
“When we brought Joy on as interim CEO, it was with the hope that ILTA would become her new home,” Angela…
Alternative Legal Service Company Axiom Prepares for IPO; Spins Off Two Companies
Major news today regarding the alternative legal services provider Axiom: the company has taken steps to prepare for an initial public offering and, separately, has spun off two companies as separate entities.
Axiom said today that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating…
Freelance Lawyer Company LAWCLERK Adds Service for Corporate Counsel
LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects, has launched a new service targeted at corporate counsel, LAWCLERK for General Counsel.
Like the company’s standard service, LAWCLERK for General Counsel allows corporate counsel to post one-off projects to the LAWCLERK marketplace for short-term help from freelance…
For ALT, Its Second Conference Was A Reckoning
In 2017, a group of longtime and prominent members of the International Legal Technology Association, unhappy with the association’s direction, broke off and formed an alternative, the Association of Legal Technologists.
At the time, nQueue CEO Rick Hellers, who spearheaded the split, wrote on LinkedIn that he and others were concerned…
AI Contract Management Company Evisort Raises $4.5 Million in Seed Funding
Evisort, an artificial intelligence-based contract management company, today announced that it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding.
In a post here in December, I write that Evisort “might just be the hottest legal tech and AI company you’ve never heard of.”
The funding round announced today was led by Village Global and Amity…
LawNext Episode 28: Cisco CLO Mark Chandler on Legal Department Innovation
For some two decades, Mark Chandler has been a leading voice for innovation and technology in the operation of legal departments and the delivery of legal services. Executive vice president and chief legal officer at technology giant Cisco, he has been the company’s top lawyer since 2001 and a member of its legal department since…
Startup Launching Today Will Develop Software to Help Firms and Organizations Better Use Data
Making its official launch today is Infinnium, a software company that aims to redefine how law firms, corporations and other organizations interact with data in order to improve information management, information governance, regulatory and privacy compliance, and e-discovery.
The Chantilly, Va., company says it will develop software using artificial intelligence and machine learning designed…
UK AI Company Luminance Gets $10 Million Series B Funding
The UK company Luminance, an artificial intelligence platform for contract review, today announced that it has completed a Series B funding round of $10 million, at a valuation of $100 million.
The funding was raised from existing investors Invoke Capital, Talis Capital and Slaughter and May. The funds will be used to support product expansion and…
Chatbots are Coming to Lexis Advance, to Help Guide Your Legal Research
“What if legal research was more human, more like a conversation, the kinds we have among ourselves?”
With that tantalizing query, Serena Wellen, senior director of research information at LexisNexis, revealed during a Legalweek media briefing that the legal research platform Lexis Advance will soon include chatbots to help guide users in their research.…
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