A new integration between two litigation-focused legal technology products connects more than 500 million federal and state litigation dockets and documents with a database of expert witness and judicial profiles, with the aim of helping lawyers better evaluate expert witnesses.
The integration is between Docket Alarm, a Fastcase-owned product that mines federal and…
In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest.
To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.
The data…
Paradigm — the parent company to practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase and payments platform Headnote — is being acquired by Francisco Partners, a major investment firm that specializes in investments in technology businesses.
A Reuters report valued the deal at $400 million, citing “people familiar with…
FileTrail, a company that provides information governance and records management software for law firms and highly regulated industries, has named Harold Westervelt, a veteran business and sales executive, to the newly created position of chief executive officer.
The 21-year-old company said that Darrell Mervau, cofounder and president, selected Westervelt for the position…
At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis.
The new NetDocuments Highlights embeds LexisNexis case analysis and intelligence technology directly into the NetDocuments platform, automatically scanning and…
The legal technology company Litera has unveiled a new podcast series, Legaltech Matters, and I had the honor of hosting the first episode — an interview with CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on what’s driving Litera’s acquisition strategy and where it’s going.
The new biweekly podcast series is dedicated to creating conversations about technology,…
Our regular Friday Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable will feature a guest today: Jim McGinnis, CEO of practice management company MyCase.
McGinnis will take questions from our panel of legal tech journalists, including about news yesterday of an integration between MyCase and the virtual receptionist service Smith.ai, and also about the inaugural…
MyCase, the cloud-based practice management platform, and Smith.ai, a virtual receptionist service for law firms and other businesses, have created an integration by which MyCase customers will be able to outsource call answering while viewing and tracking call logs directly within MyCase.
To take advantage of the integration, MyCase customers will need a…
Seven weeks ago, as Litera announced its acquisition of Kira Systems, the pioneering AI contract analysis company, Kira announced the spin off of a new company, Zuva, to continue developing machine learning technology for business documents.
Now, Zuva is off to a running start, announcing today that it has secured Series…
You would be hard-pressed to find two people in legal technology more experienced in user interface and user experience design than Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart. Bradick is founder and CEO of the legal tech design and development firm
Recent headlines in the financial press are replete with stories about the new boom in buy now, pay later financing for retail purchases, with many retailers, including Walmart, the nation’s largest, now offering these point-of-sale loans.
Now, the electronic payments company LawPay is bringing buy now, pay later financing to the legal industry.…
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