It is a busy day for contract lifecycle management technology. First came the news that enterprise CLM company SirionLabs has raised $85 million in a Series D funding round, and now LexisNexis Legal & Professional says it has acquired the CLM platform Parley Pro as part of a broader set of enhancements…
SirionLabs Raises $85M Series D to Drive Growth of its Enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management Platform
SirionLabs, a global provider of AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) software for large enterprises, has raised $85 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raise since its founding in 2012 to $157 million.
Ajay Agrawal, cofounder and CEO, said the company will use the funding to scale its operations and enhance its…
How It Works: LollyLaw, Cloud-Based Case Management Software for Immigration Law Firms
On this episode of the video series How It Works: LollyLaw, a cloud-based, all-in-one case management platform for immigration law firms.
LollyLaw, which was recently acquired by law practice management company Paradigm, is designed to allow immigration lawyers to effortlessly manage all major functions of their practice through a single, intuitive platform.
LollyLaw helps…
Today at 3 ET: Our Legal Tech Journalists’ Roundtable is Back to Unpack the Week’s Top Stories
Today at 3 E.T., the Legaltech Week panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers is back to unpack the week’s top stories in tech and innovation.
Attendance is free, but, if you have not already done so, you need to register, which you can do here. Register once and you are signed up for all…
With the Mission of Turning Contracts into Data, TermScout Raises $5M in Seed Funding
Last year, I wrote about the launch of TermScout, a unique legal technology startup devoted to reviewing, rating and comparing contracts. Well, not only has the company’s scope grown since then, so has its budget, as it today announces a raise of $5 million in seed funding and the launch of a new…
On LawNext Podcast: Carl Malamud on His Three-Plus Decades of Working to Free the Law
No one has worked harder, worked longer or had more success at the cause of making government information accessible to the public than Carl Malamud and his organization Public.Resource.Org. From putting the SEC’s EDGAR database online in 1993 – effectively shaming the…
Pro Bono Management Platform Paladin Raises $8M in Series A Funding to Fuel International Expansion
Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, has raised $8 million in Series A funding, which it plans to use to further develop its product and expand its market internationally.
Bringing Paladin’s total financing to over $12 million, this…
With New Drive Feature, MyCase Users Can Now Sync Documents between Desktop and Cloud
The law practice management company MyCase today introduced MyCase Drive, a feature that provides users with the ability to synchronize folders and documents between their desktop computers and the cloud-based MyCase platform.
Also today, MyCase unveiled a redesigned logo and website, with the goal of making its branding better reflect the product’s all-in-one…
Blockchain Legal Industry Group Aims to Raise Awareness of Legal and Regulatory Issues
Aiming to raise awareness and understanding of the legal and regulatory issues related to blockchain, several legal professionals, legal service providers, academics, technologists and business executives have come together to form the Blockchain + Legal Industry Group, and today the group is releasing the first in a planned series of white papers produced to…
LawNext Podcast: Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson on His Company’s $108M Raise and the Future of Practice Management
Last week, Filevine, the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Founded in 2014 with an original focus on litigation and personal injury law, the company has been steadily expanding its platform into other areas of law practice — including larger firms, insurance defense, corporate legal,…
In Westlaw-ROSS Litigation, Judge Allows ROSS’s Antitrust Case to Move Forward, But Tosses ‘Sham Litigation’ Claim
Last year, in the continuing federal court litigation between now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence and long-established legal research giant Thomson Reuters, ROSS upped the ante when it filed a counterclaim asserting that TR is violating federal antitrust law by maintaining monopolistic and anticompetitive control over the legal research market.
Today, in a…
In Possible First, Smokeball’s Document Automation Now Adapts for Gender-Neutral Pronouns
Earlier this month, in a sign of the increasing legal acceptance of gender-neutral markers, the U.S. Department of State allowed U.S. citizens to select X as their gender marker on their passports.
Yet, while it is common for legal document automation software to detect the male or female gender of the subject of the…
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