Kira Systems, a 10-year-old Toronto company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in contract analysis, is to be acquired by the global legal technology company Litera, its 12th acquisition over the span of two years.
Kira’s CEO, Noah Waisberg, a former corporate lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York,…
LexFusion, the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies, has added legal research company Casetext to the roster of companies it represents.
LexFusion is seeking to change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology by serving as the go-to-market representative of companies that it…
If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”
Fastcase today announced its 11th annual Fastcase 50 honorees, which adds up to…
The Chicago-based legal technology company Litera has acquired Objective Manager, a UK company that provides a SaaS platform for law firms to use in strategic planning, performance measurement and talent engagement.
The purpose of the platform is to enable firms to accelerate their strategic and performance agendas by aligning their people to the…
After struggling privately for decades with her assigned gender, Gillian Power, chief information officer at the law firm Lathrop GPM in Kansas City, finally made the difficult decision to come out as transgender, first to her family and then to her professional colleagues. Through her journey, she acquired compelling insights on diversity, equity…
I reported here last week on a statement issued by a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court recommending that law firms and other legal employers permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception.
Maintaining flexibility in individual working arrangements serves the dual purposes of enhancing lawyer well-being while also advancing…
A panel tomorrow will feature a line-up of legal tech experts to survey what’s happening in the field now and what to expect in the years to come.
Presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, Legal Tech and Where It’s Going will address what legal technology is available now to help lawyers in their practices…
LexFusion, the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of seven legal technology companies, has now added another three members to the roster of companies it represents.
LexFusion aims to change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology by serving as the go-to-market representative of companies that…
Earlier this year, the legal technology company Litera expanded its product line-up into law firm intelligence with the acquisition of Foundation Software Group, developer of a firm intelligence platform for larger law firms, and the consequent formation of the Litera Firm Intelligence business unit.
Now Litera is further rounding out its firm…
Here are the episodes of my LawNext podcast that got the most listens during March.
This reflects only downloads of episodes during the month of November, not for all time.
(In the all-time tally, the most listened-to episode is my April interview with legal futurist Richard Susskind.)
Legal technology company Litera said today it has acquired one of its competitors, DocsCorp, a global software company with a range of products related to document productivity.
With the acquisition, Litera acquires a group of products that complement and round-out its own document-productivity and document-drafting products.
Litera says the acquisition will enable firms…
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Kira Systems, the first company to develop AI-powered contract analysis, technology that is now becoming commonplace in the legal profession. To mark the anniversary, Kira’s cofounders are releasing a book, AI For Lawyers: How Artificial…
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