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…
A new partnership between Free Law Project, a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, and vLex, the international legal research platform, will enable Free Law Project to complete its goal of collecting every precedential court decision from the federal courts and state appellate courts and making them available to…
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is today unveiling an enhanced version of its Legisway product for managing corporate legal departments that is tailored for the U.S. market.
While Legisway is already widely used by legal departments in Europe, this version, built on the same platform, is designed to meet the needs of small…
HaystackID, a company that provides e-discovery services for law firms and corporate legal departments, said today it has acquired Business Intelligence Associates (BIA), an end-to-end e-discovery service provider, as part of a deal facilitated by majority investor and leading middle-market private equity firm, Quad-C Management, Inc.
Hal Brooks, CEO of HaystackID, said…
In a post here in April, I wrote about the imminent launch of Virtual Law Clinic, a product designed to make it easier for law firms and legal organizations to manage their pro bono matters, enabling them to assign matters to lawyers, monitor case statuses, document outcomes, and provide training materials and forms.…
It has been a notable year for the practice management company MyCase, one in which it made four notable acquisitions of other practice management products, and then itself was acquired by AffiniPay, the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay.
Today, we are seeing the fruits of two of those acquisitions,…
For all the advances made in the science of legal search, we are – as Pablo Arredondo, cofounder and chief innovation officer of Casetext likes to say – stuck in the keyword prison.
Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to…
I spent last week at ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association. With nearly 3,000 attendees, it was the third largest ILTACON ever – a particularly significant stat given that we have yet to fully emerge from three years in the grips of the global pandemic.
ILTACON is an opportunity for legal…
Relativity, the global e-discovery and compliance technology company, said today that it has acquired Heretik, an AI contract review company whose product was built on the Relativity platform and whose staff is half composed of former Relativity employees.
Moving forward, Heretik’s end-to-end contract review product will be known as Relativity Contracts. It…
MerusCase, a law practice management software tailored for workers’ compensation, employment and labor, and insurance defense firms, today introduced MerusPay, an e-payments feature built natively in the MerusCase platform.
MerusCase says this native online payments capability enables users to now compliantly process payments without the need for additional third-party applications.
Read more about…
At ILTACON today, BigHand, a company that provides operational and financial products for law firms, said that it has acquired Digitory Legal, whose platform provides cost analytics designed to help law firms and in-house legal departments better price their services and manage their costs.
Digitory says its analytics “unlocks information below the surface of the…
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