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Bobby Balachandran, founder and CEO of governance, risk and compliance company Exterro, has just been named LegalTech CEO of the Year in the Legaltech Breakthrough Awards. In a year in which so many legal tech companies have seen significant…

It still costs money to download documents from PACER, even though the Senate Judiciary Committee last week advanced a bipartisan bill that would eliminate those fees.

But one way you can reduce PACER fees is through the Free Law Project’s RECAP project, by which PACER users install a browser extension that automatically adds…

A newly published report on spending by corporate legal departments in “megamatters” — any matter having a total spend of at least $1 million — indicates that corporate legal departments are making only minimal use of alternative legal services providers (ALSPs) to reduce costs, even though these megamatters are often the very types of matters…

Sixty percent of general counsel are concerned that their risk landscape is expanding or becoming more difficult to navigate in areas spanning compliance, regulatory enforcement, data privacy, information security, emerging data sources and ongoing impacts of the pandemic.

This is among the findings of a survey of 30 general counsel presented in a report released…

The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics, a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners. 

The LawLytics platform is an all-in-one website publishing and SEO platform for small law firms. Its founder…

Smith.ai, a virtual receptionist service, today introduced business intelligence tools that enable law firms and other businesses to visualize metadata showing who is calling them, when they call, and what actions were taken with each call.

Users of Smith.ai’s receptionist service will now have access, at no additional cost, to a call dashboard that…

The legal technology company Litera today announced the winners of The Changing Lawyer awards for 2021, which recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models, or behavior across five different categories.

The awards were announced during The Changing Lawyer…

At its first-ever customer conference today, the practice management company MyCase announced that it has acquired the cloud-based legal accounting company Soluno, and that it will leverage Soluno’s expertise to develop full-featured accounting natively within the MyCase platform.

The company also announced the launch of MyCase Drive, which syncs a lawyer’s documents between…

As text messaging increasingly becomes a preferred form of communication for many, the cloud practice management platform PracticePanther today said it has added built-in, two-way text messaging as a feature available to all customers at no additional cost.

Lawyers can provide the text number to clients for them to ask questions or upload documents…

The legal technology company Clio today announced the expansion of its leadership team, naming four people to C-suite positions as chief operating officer, chief people officer, chief technology officer and chief marketing officer.

“These additions to Clio’s leadership will extend our capabilities on all fronts, including our products, people, operations, in what’s becoming an exciting…

Hg, a global private equity investor, is leading a further majority investment in legal technology company Litera, which it acquired in 2018 from the investment firm K1 Investment Management.

The terms of this new investment are not being disclosed.

In the two years since Hg acquired Litera, Litera has been on a trajectory…

At its Inspire 2021 customer conference today, the cloud content management platform NetDocuments is announcing that it has acquired Afterpattern, a no-code automation toolkit for legal professionals to produce document and workflow automations.

The company said that Afterpattern will be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform, in order to allow customers to…