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I have written twice before about 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 — first when it launched in 2021 and again earlier this year when it expanded its selection of maps to cover…

Less than a week after announcing its acquisition of BigSquare, a provider of financial and business intelligence and analytics for law firms, legal technology company Litera today announced another — of Micron Systems Inc., a developer of talent management software for the legal and accounting professions.

If you’re counting, this is Litera’s…

The legal technology company Litera has acquired BigSquare, a provider of financial and business intelligence and analytics for law firms and corporate legal departments.

Litera said that the addition of BigSquare to its portfolio will empower law firms to make better financial decisions with instant access to financial data and insights.

Founded in 2009,…

One way to avoid the cost of downloading documents from the federal courts’ PACER database is by getting them instead from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by the Free Law Project.

But before you can get a document out of RECAP, the document had to…

Should the legal industry have a common set of data standards for classifying the work we do? The SALI Alliance – short for Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry – believes we should, and it recently released version 2.0 of its Legal Matter Standard Specification, which sets…

Ever since we launched the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which debuted in February, I am consistently fascinated to see the products that get added. As closely as I follow legal tech, I always discover products that are new and interesting.

Here are the 10 latest additions (descriptions taken from product listings). 

Exterro, a provider of software for e-discovery, governance, risk and compliance, said today that it has completed a strategic recapitalization and secured additional committed equity capital as part of a continuation vehicle transaction that has provided it with “several hundred million” in new funding at a valuation of more than $1 billion, putting it…

Priori Legal, a marketplace for in-house legal teams to find and hire outside counsel, has closed a $15 million A-1 financing round, it said today. 

It will use the funds to scale operations to meet what it described as unprecedented demand for in-house counsel, as well as…

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. One interesting aspect of the launch was that nowhere on the company’s website did it mention that it is a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis.

I now…

Smith.ai, a virtual receptionist service serving law firms and other businesses, now offers recording and transcription of all inbound and outbound calls, giving its customers access to the full conversations that the company handles on their behalves. 

Smith.ai says it is the first virtual receptionist service to release call recording and transcription.

For law…

LollyLaw, a cloud-based practice management platform designed for immigration lawyers, is today launching a native electronic payments platform, LollyPayments.

The new e-payments capability enables LollyLaw customers to collect and reconcile payments without having to switch between LollyLaw and third-party vendors. It is available to all LollyLaw customers as of today.

The launch of LollyPayments…

If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50, the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”

Today, Fastcase is…