Epiq, a global company that provides technology-enabled services to the legal industry and corporations, has acquired Fireman & Company, a leading legal industry management consulting firm, it announced today.
The acquisition enables Epiq to deliver broader knowledge management and data management expertise and provides Epiq with an expanded suite of strategic legal advisory…
When legal research company Fastcase announced its acquisition of Judicata, the innovative California legal research platform, in 2020, it held out the promise of building on Judicata’s innovations through integrations with Docket Alarm, another Fastcase-owned product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case-prediction analytics.
In a…
Last year, I wrote here about the launch of 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.
Although it launched with just one map template, of U.S. states and territories, and later added Europe, it…
Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Josiah Chaves to be vice president of cloud products, a position in which he will be responsible for driving the company’s cloud-first strategy.
A seven-year veteran at Aderant, Chaves was most recently senior director of Expert Sierra, where he was responsible…
Two of the companies whose products are among the most widely used in the legal profession, iManage and Microsoft, are today announcing a global strategic development partnership aimed at innovation, development of new solutions, and delivery of better business outcomes for customers.
The agreement announced today expands on the “better…
Paradigm, the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — today adds a fifth, as it acquires TrustBooks, the cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms.
With this acquisition, Paradigm adds legal accounting to a product line-up that already includes three separate…
In a move sure to shake up the market for practice management software for mid-sized law firms, the cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies has acquired Cole Valley Software, developer of ContactEase, a popular client relations management (CRM) software for law firms.
The companies say that the acquisition creates the first legal technology…
Practice management company MyCase has named Arman Samani, an executive with more than two decades’ experience leading product development and innovation at high-growth SaaS companies, as its chief product and technology officer.
Samani’s experience is in building and implementing SaaS software products for businesses that serve professionals. He most recently served as chief…
Paradigm, the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — today announced the expansion of its leadership team with the hiring of two executives, one who will oversee product management and the other marketing.
Joining Paradigm as vice president of product management is Marie Burgess, who…
In a move to become the leading provider of business intelligence, financial and operational analytics for larger law firms, BigHand has acquired Iridium Technology, creating a combined organization with more than 3,600 customers worldwide — including some 81% of the Am Law 200 — and more than 350 employees.
With BigHand already a…
Dean Sonderegger is departing as head of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. (LRUS), a position he has held since May 2019, to become SVP and general manager of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Canada and Research & Learning U.S.
WK has yet to name a successor to the position, the formal title…
Here are some of the other legal tech stories from the week:
Case Status raises $3.5 million. Case Status, a mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms, raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital funding round led by Meeting Street Capital, Panoramic Ventures, VentureSouth, CreativeCo, and others.
I had previously…
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