It was eight years ago that Thomson Reuters unveiled WestlawNext to great fanfare, eventually phasing out classic Westlaw entirely. A lot has changed in those eight years, both in the legal market and in legal technology.
Today, Thomson Reuters is officially announcing its next-generation legal research platform, Westlaw Edge, which uses advanced artificial intelligence…
With the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries convening this weekend in Baltimore, you can expect to see a flurry of product announcements coming up. Today, the news is from Bloomberg Law, which is announcing a number of enhancements to its legal research service, including more than 30 Practical Guidance…
Scott Mozarsky is out as president of Bloomberg Law, a position he has held since November 2016. Replacing him as president is Joe Breda, formerly executive vice president of product.
I spoke briefly today with Breda, who informed me of the transition but provided no further details. The news comes just days before…
Legal directory Avvo is shutting down its controversial Avvo Legal Services, a service that provides fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys.
Internet Brands, the company that acquired Avvo last January, has decided that the service does not align with its business and focus, according to a letter sent by B.…
Legal research company Fastcase today announced its eighth annual Fastcase 50 honorees, the “smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”
Fastcase has compiled the awards annually since 2011 as a way of highlighting entrepreneurs and visionaries who are helping to drive the future of law. This year’s selections bring the…
It was three years ago this month that Wolters Kluwer formally introduced Cheetah, its next-generation legal research platform that it described at the time as “a re-envisioning of the legal research experience.” As I explained in an ABA Journal review in December 2015, Wolters Kluwer presented Cheetah as a faster, more…
Docket Alarm, the docket tracking and analytics platform acquired last January by legal research company Fastcase, says it has released a new tool, the Analytics Workbench, that will allow legal professionals to build their own bespoke litigation analytics across any court, practice area or litigation event.
Generally, legal analytics products tend…
The World Economic Forum, a Geneva-based nonprofit focused on entrepreneurship in the global public interest, has recognized 61 early-stage companies as Technology Pioneers for their design, development and deployment of potentially world-changing innovations and technologies. Of the 61, only one is a legal technology company.
That one is Casetext, the legal research…
For years, the conventional wisdom was that big Silicon Valley and New York investors had no interest in legal technology. Well, the conventional wisdom is no longer true.
In just the last two months, major investment firms have put nearly $200 million into legal technology. More than half, some $100 million, went to one company.…
Budgeting legal matters is the bane of many a law firm. Whether creating a budget for an hourly matter or setting a price for a fixed-fee representation, firms fear setting prices too low or too high.
A new cloud-based product from Thomson Reuters Elite, 3E Matter Pricing, provides a suite of tools intended…
I reported here Wednesday that two-year-old legal technology startup Doxly, a secure portal for managing corporate transactions, had named Christopher Clapp, an executive who has led three companies through exits, as executive chairman. This morning, I had the opportunity to speak by phone with Clapp and Haley Altman, Doxly’s cofounder and CEO.
Both say…
A new legal industry award is intended to honor innovation in legal practice and legal technology, and nominations are now open.
Sponsored by Litera Microsystems and its online publication The Changing Lawyer, The Changing Lawyer Awards will honor individuals, law firms and companies for their willingness to embrace change through new technology,…
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