Bob Ambrogi

Our live Legaltech Week roundtable is back today at 3 p.m. ET, , where our panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and legal innovation.

Among the stories we’re planning to take up:…

I have said it before and I will say it again: So much of legal ethics is simply common sense. If a lawyer wants to avoid ethical trouble, think before you act.

That would seem to be the case with copying your clients on emails to your opposing counsel. There are various reasons why that…

At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, I sat down for a series of in-person LawNext interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, I speak with Jonathan Watson, Clio’s chief technology officer.

With over 20 years of leadership experience in large-scale SaaS and live gaming solutions, Watson’s unique approach…

In news that had me checking my calendar to see if it is April 1, the practice management company Filevine says that, as part of a new Document Assembly feature, it has developed a proprietary document format, “.vine,” that it believes will replace Microsoft Word and Google Docs in the legal industry.

“We believe…

Docketwise, a case management platform for immigration lawyers, has now added built-in e-signature functionality.

Docketwise says it is now the only legal immigration software platform that has e-signature technology natively within its platform, as opposed to integrating with a third-party signature technology.

More about Docketwise on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

The company…

With its release today of a new line of automated business documents for small- and medium-sized businesses, SixFifty is making three notable changes to what has been its business model to date.

For one, it is expanding into corporate and commercial documents after previously focusing its automation technology on privacy, employment and pro bono…

Recently, I posted here an exclusive analysis of legal tech funding from 1984 to 2020, a video timeline showing the evolving bar chart of investments in legal tech over nearly four decades.

Now I am able to exclusively present another analysis of legal tech deals — this time of exits in the forms of…

Service of process and other documents is an essential function of law practice – one most lawyers deal with on a regular basis. But for Colorado lawyer Eric Voogt, he saw service of process as a broken system, one in which it could be difficult for an attorney to line up a process server…

Way back in 2020, I wrote about how the pandemic had escalated the importance of electronic payments as a feature of law practice management software. That trend has only escalated since then, with any number of practice management platforms launching not just integrated e-payments from third-party payment processors, but their own native e-payments.

Now,…

Mike Suchsland, a veteran of the legal technology industry and the former president of Thomson Reuters’ legal business, today was named interim CEO of SurePoint, a company that provides practice management, financial and client relationship products for law firms.

Suchsland will serve in the role while the company searches for a permanent CEO.…

In a pilot program announced today, Legal Aid Chicago, the largest legal services organization in the Chicago area, is launching an integration pilot program between LegalServer, a case management system for civil legal aid and public defender organizations, and Paladin, the pro bono management program.

Funded by a Legal Services Corporation…

At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, I sat sat down for a series of “bonus” LawNext in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, I speak with Reagan Attle, chief marketing officer at Clio.

Known for building and leading high-performing and award-winning teams, Attle has 20 years of…