On LawNext Podcast: How Legal Departments Can Use Data to Drive Smarter Decision-Making, with Jeffrey Solomon of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions

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As head of managed services and analytics at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, Jeffrey Solomon oversees a database that tracks over $150 billion in legal spend data. Legal departments are able to use

Legalweek News Round-Up, Part 1: SurePoint, DISCO, Casepoint, Elevate, For the Record, Onna, and SirionLabs

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Last week brought a flurry of legal technology news, thanks to the first in-person Legalweek conference in two years. In this first of two posts, I will round up the week’s notable announcements. I’ll publish the second half tomorrow.

SurePoint Launches SureTime, Law Firm Time Management Solution

The cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies announced the…

In Major Platform Update, Fastcase Adds Analytics Tracking Motion Grants and Timelines in Federal Courts

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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…

Paradigm Acquires TrustBooks, Adding Accounting to its Suite of Practice Management Products

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Paradigm, the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePantherBill4Time, 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…

SurePoint Acquires ContactEase, Creating First Practice Management Platform to Integrate CRM and Financial Data

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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…

MyCase Names New Chief Product and Technology Officer

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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…