Zero to sixty. Two weeks, two back-to-back live conferences, after not having been to one for two years.
I already wrote about the first of the two, ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago, the timing of which made it a karmic bookend to a long strange trip. For many in attendance there, TECHSHOW 2020 had…
A company that says it has developed a “revolutionary” SaaS tool to automate the remote collection and analysis of mobile data from smartphones and short-message chat applications has completed its seed funding round of over $1 million.
The company, ModeOne, was founded by its CEO, Matthew Rasmussen, a litigation support and technology professional…
When legal research company Fastcase announced its acquisition of Judicata, the innovative California legal research platform, in 2020, it held out the promise of building on Judicata’s innovations through integrations with Docket Alarm, another Fastcase-owned product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case-prediction analytics.
In a…
It was as if we were all stepping back into the real world after stepping out two years ago and falling through some portal into a dystopian parallel universe.
On Feb. 29, 2020, ABA TECHSHOW 2020 wrapped its four-day run, and those of us who had attended headed home, exhausted and exhilarated after another successful…
Last year, I wrote here about the launch of Map Engine, an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data.
Although it launched with just one map template, of U.S. states and territories, and later added Europe, it…
ZERØ, a company whose AI-driven products automate time capture and email filing for lawyers and other professional services, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round aimed at enabling it to accelerate market expansion and enter new verticals.
The round was led by Streamlined Ventures with participation from 468 Capital, AltaIR Capital,…
Time By Ping, a company whose product is designed to help lawyers break free from timekeeping and get back hours in their day, has raised $36.5 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $55 million.
Just ahead of today’s announcement, I sat down with Ryan Alshak, cofounder…
Lawmatics, a company whose product provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, is now adding timekeeping and billing tools, with the goal of offering law firms a comprehensive platform with everything they need to manage their administrative sides.
The company also is adding new electronic payment capabilities through a…
Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Josiah Chaves to be vice president of cloud products, a position in which he will be responsible for driving the company’s cloud-first strategy.
A seven-year veteran at Aderant, Chaves was most recently senior director of Expert Sierra, where he was responsible…
A Hungarian law firm is partnering with a Los Angeles legal tech company and an anonymous legal industry influencer to create an international database of pro bono attorneys willing to represent Ukrainian refugees in need of immigration or asylum aid, and they are looking for more attorneys to sign up.
As of Saturday, they had…
I am looking to hire a versatile editorial assistant on a part-time basis to help with a variety of projects here at LawSites and LawNext.
The ideal person would be a self-starter who is comfortable handling various editorial and production tasks. These may include some combination of:
A product launched this week claims to be the fastest search and review platform in legal for matters involving large document collections — discovery, investigations and compliance — and the first to seamlessly combine keyword and algorithmic search.
The chief data scientist who helped develop it said it is “an order of magnitude faster than…
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