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At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of brief, in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Curt Sigfstead, chief financial officer. He is responsible for managing Clio’s financial affairs, including finance, accounting, capital, treasury, taxation, and corporate…

In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai have entered into a collaboration agreement with the legal technology and publishing company Fastcase to develop what they say will be a state-of-the-art immigration case management and document automation…

Two of the leading global providers of document management systems for the legal industry are coming together, as the cloud-based DMS company NetDocuments has acquired Worldox, one of the oldest DMS systems still operating, in business since 1988, and one that primarily serves small- to medium-sized law firms.

In a media briefing yesterday,…



In an episode of LawNext recorded in person at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton discusses the “antifragile” law firm, a concept he introduced in his conference keynote — derived from the book, Antifragile: Things That…

Question: What do you call the best team in baseball when it’s off its A-game for a night? Answer: The best team in baseball.

So what do you call the best conference in legal tech when it is off its A-game for a year? The best conference in legal tech.

Monday and Tuesday this week…

At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report.

It finds that law firms are seeing an average 10% increase in the growth of new business, but that their fees are…

As the Clio Cloud Conference kicked off in Nashville this morning – the conference’s 10th anniversary and its first time live since 2019 – Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton took to the stage to deliver a keynote address, during which he announced several new products and product enhancements.

New products he…

With the Clio Cloud Conference kicking off live Monday for the first time since 2019, and with this year marking the conference’s 10th anniversary, I caught up earlier today with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton.

Some of what we talked about is under embargo until Monday, when Clio will be announcing new…

Last January, Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, acquired American LegalNet (ALN), the docketing technology and rules-based calendaring company. 

When it did, Aderant already had a leading rules-based calendaring product of its own, CompuLaw, which it acquired in 2011, and which originally was introduced to…

While recent years have brought a number of products to market for analyzing judges and their rulings, little is available for analyzing private arbitrators, and particularly arbitrators in labor and employment matters.

A new tool introduced today takes a major step towards remedying that. Called Labor Arbitrator and Awards Analyzer, it is part of the…

The folks at Helm360 have been putting their knowledge as a full-service IT company to another use of late, developing products that build on their experience implementing technology solutions for  legal and professional services firms. 

I wrote about one of these products in May, Termi, an AI-enabled chatbot that aims to solve the problems…

Legal professionals face greater pressure than ever before, driven by the “VUCA” environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, but firms that are well-equipped for the future are those that are optimizing their people, processes and technology through a path of continuous improvement.

So says the 2022 edition of The Wolters Kluwer Future Ready…