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The legal technology company Litera has named Ashley Miller as vice president sales, North America.

Miller was formerly at EY, where she was senior manager, legal function consulting. Earlier, she was with Thomson Reuters, where she served as director, legal managed services, and regional manager, strategic accounts.

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Onit today announced the general availability of InvoiceAI, an artificial intelligence product for first-pass invoice review, and along with it comes a clever promotional video that plays on the threat of AI world domination and legal professionals’ ambivalence around AI.

As I reported last May, the Houston company — which provides enterprise workflow…

In its second acquisition in six weeks, law practice management company Clio has acquired Lawyaw, a document automation and assembly platform designed for solo, small and mid-sized law firms.

This news follows Clio’s July 28 announcement that it acquired CalendarRules, an automated court calendaring product. It is Clio’s third acquisition ever, including its…

Marking its third acquisition in the last year and its fourth since 2019, Onit, the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired Bodhala, a New York company whose SaaS platform provides in-house legal departments with AI-powered legal spend analytics, benchmarking and market intelligence. 

Onit says…

It has been quite a journey for the document management company iManage. Cofounded in 1995 by Neil Araujo and Rafiq Mohammadi, it was acquired in 2003 by Interwoven for $171 million. In 2009, Autonomy acquired Interwoven for $775 million, and then in 2011 Hewlett Packard purchased Autonomy for $11.1 billion, getting iManage…

Last month, AffiniPay, parent of the popular legal payments platform LawPay, named Dru Armstrong as its new CEO. With degrees in both law and business from the University of Chicago, Armstrong was previously CEO of Grace Hill, a company that provides software for owners and operators of real estate properties.

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Barely a week after acquiring AI pioneer Kira Systems, and building on its acquisition earlier this year of Foundation Software, the legal technology company Litera is today announcing another acquisition, of U.K. company Concep, a provider of B2B relationship marketing technology for law firms, corporations, and professional and financial services.

Concep…

After I reported earlier today that Litera had withdrawn its employees from attending ILTACON next week, the company issued the following statement.

“After assessing the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in the US, it is with regret that we have decided that our team will not be attending ILTACON 2021 in Las Vegas. We apologize…

Update: Litera has issued a statement confirming its withdrawal from attending the Las Vegas event. Details here.

Last Friday, I reported that a major exhibitor, iManage, facing mounting fears around the surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus,  had decided to pull its staff from attending ILTACON, while continuing to support the conference…

An international working group of academics, vendors, lawyers and other legal professionals is today releasing the legal industry’s first comprehensive guide to best practices and workflows for creating effective legal documents in Microsoft Word.

Document Competency: What Every Legal Professional Should Know for Effective & Efficient Drafting in Word, is intended to establish for…

A week away from the first hybrid version of ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association, and with mounting fears around the surge in the Delta variant of the virus, a major vendor, iManage, has informed its customers that it will not send staff to the conference in Las Vegas.

“We let…

Kira Systems, a 10-year-old Toronto company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in contract analysis, is to be acquired by the global legal technology company Litera, its 12th acquisition over the span of two years.

Kira’s CEO, Noah Waisberg, a former corporate lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York,…