The Friday Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable is back today at 3 p.m. E.T., when a panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
Having been off last week, we’ll have two weeks to catch up on. Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you can…
The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public.
On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer, a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys.
Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker, which provides legal document automation software for solo and…
Four months after its acquisition by a private equity firm, the law practice management and accounting software company AbacusNext has combined with Zola Suite, a SaaS legal practice management software provider, to create what they are calling “the strongest portfolio of legal software solutions on the market.”
The combined companies now offer a…
As the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell their continued success?
Just out from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is its 2021 Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report, documenting the top trends affecting…
The Chicago-based legal technology company Litera has acquired Objective Manager, a UK company that provides a SaaS platform for law firms to use in strategic planning, performance measurement and talent engagement.
The purpose of the platform is to enable firms to accelerate their strategic and performance agendas by aligning their people to the…
After struggling privately for decades with her assigned gender, Gillian Power, chief information officer at the law firm Lathrop GPM in Kansas City, finally made the difficult decision to come out as transgender, first to her family and then to her professional colleagues. Through her journey, she acquired compelling insights on diversity, equity…
Atlanta-based Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Scott Moretti as senior director of sales for the Eastern U.S. region.
Moretti steps into a position held for the past decade by Kevin Standing, who recently retired after some 35 years in the legal industry, 25 of them with Aderant.…
In today’s episode of How It Works, we learn about LAWCLERK, where attorneys go to hire freelance lawyers and virtual associates. LAWCLERK’s mission is to make general practitioners and law firms more profitable by outsourcing projects to more than 3,600 freelance lawyers with all levels of experience and expertise.
To introduce LAWCLERK and demonstrate…
Legal professionals agree that the pandemic accelerated the critical role of technology in the future success of their law firms and legal departments, but only a third believe their organizations are well prepared for addressing technology’s increasing importance.
This is a key finding of the 2021 Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report, the…
I reported here last week on a statement issued by a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court recommending that law firms and other legal employers permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception.
Maintaining flexibility in individual working arrangements serves the dual purposes of enhancing lawyer well-being while also advancing…
As companies plan for safely returning to the office, two new resources — including one that is free — are available to help legal professionals advise them with access to comparative federal and state legal requirements and case law.
One of these new back-to-office resources is an expansion of the COVID-19 State & Federal…
Palo Alto, Calif., based Intapp, a major provider of cloud-based business applications for larger law firms and financial services firms, filed papers Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock.
For the legal technology industry, where IPOs have been few and far between,…
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