The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate, enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says.
This makes Elevate the first non-lawyer-owned law company, LPO, or ALSP in the United States to operate with…
Last week, legal technology company Clio named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.
Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.
Before joining…
On this episode of the video series How It Works: Wolters Kluwer’s VitalLaw, the intuitive legal research platform powered by Wolters Kluwer’s world-class analysis.
Introduced in October as an enhanced and rebranded version of the Cheetah research platform, with intuitive tools, new content, and seamless workflow integration, VitalLaw now also includes a free, public-facing…
In June 2020, I reported on the launch by LinkSquares of LinkSquares Finalize, a pre-signature contract drafting and review product to complement its original product, LinkSquares Analyze, an AI-based, post-signature contract management and analysis platform, creating an end-to-end offering of products for drafting, reviewing and managing corporate contracts.
Now, LinkSquares is announcing the enhancement…
The legal technology company Litera has acquired Lynch Marks LLC, a California company that is the developer of PS/Ship, a provider of software for management of shipping and invoicing for law firms and professional services firms.
Litera says the acquisition adds another piece to its platform for law firms looking to solve more…
In its largest deal so far in a recent string of acquisitions, Onit, the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired SecureDocs, a Santa Barbara, Calif., software company with products for contract management, virtual deal rooms and electronic signatures.
Onit says the acquisition strengthens its…
A new legal software product unveiled today, MatterAlert, is a web-based, matter-centric docketing, tickler and calendar application designed to help law firms manage all matter-related dates, deadlines and other information in a single platform.
The product provides a matter dashboard to view all matter information in one place and matter templates to automate the…
At a time when corporations are demanding greater accountability, transparency and predictability from their legal departments, automation of manual processes is a critical strategic priority, offering the promise of greater efficiency and effectiveness. But what does it really mean for a legal department to digitally transform itself and how should it go about it? …
Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022.
The program is…
The legal technology company Clio has named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.
Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.…
As a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. That inspired Clark to found Trellis in 2018, to collect and provide access to that data so that other…
The Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City later this month has been moved to March due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant.
Originally scheduled for Jan. 31-Feb. 3, the conference is now scheduled for March 8-11, still at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Mark Fried, CFO…
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