Arizona Licenses Elevate As Alternative Business Structure, Making It First Non-Lawyer Owned Law Company with Affiliated Law Firm in U.S.

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The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate, enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says.

This makes Elevate the first non-lawyer-owned law company, LPO, or ALSP in the United States to operate with…

How It Works: VitalLaw, Wolters Kluwer’s Intuitive Research Platform

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On this episode of the video series How It Works: Wolters Kluwer’s VitalLaw, the intuitive legal research platform powered by Wolters Kluwer’s world-class analysis.

Introduced in October as an enhanced and rebranded version of the Cheetah research platform, with intuitive tools, new content, and seamless workflow integration, VitalLaw now also includes a free, public-facing…

Continuing Its Acquisition Streak, Onit Acquires SecureDocs for Deal Rooms and Contract Management

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In its largest deal so far in a recent string of acquisitions, Onit, the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired SecureDocs, a Santa Barbara, Calif., software company with products for contract management, virtual deal rooms and electronic signatures.

Onit says the acquisition strengthens its…

Breaking: Aderant Acquires American LegalNet

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

Aderant began notifying customers by email today of the acquisition, and the ALN website now carries the Aderant logo.

ALN offers a cloud-based national docketing and calendaring product,…

The Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2021

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In my LawNext podcast, I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice,  from developing new technology to driving greater diversity.

These are among…