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The results are in. Readers have been voting to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2021, which will be held virtually March 8-12, 2021. These 15 will face off in a virtual pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, with the conference's attendees voting to pick the top winner. The first-place winner gets a package of marketing and advertising prizes. In November, we issued a call for entries. From all the entries we received, a panel of judges narrowed the applications…

The annual Legalweek conference in New York is always the occasion for legal technology companies to roll out announcements of new products and features. This year’s conference, which kicked off yesterday in a virtual version redubbed Legalweek(year) and reformulated as a year-long series of events — is no different, although the announcements…

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. said today it is enhancing its Kluwer Competition Law resource with the addition of the Merger Thresholds Monitor, a knowledge management platform maintained by Granville Knowledge Management that provides up-to-date merger control thresholds, procedural information, exchange rates, interpretation and guidance for 135 jurisdictions worldwide.

Merger thresholds…

TermScout is a unique legal technology startup devoted to reviewing, rating and comparing the software contracts of leading business-to-business companies so that software buyers can better and more easily understand what they are being asked to sign.

Today it marked its official launch with the release of the first major set of its customer-favorability…

In an alliance announced today, KPMG and SirionLabs are teaming up to offer digital contract management to enterprises worldwide, combining KPMG’s consulting expertise in addressing complex business problems with SirionLabs’ AI-driven contract lifecycle management technology.

The alliance encompasses KPMG in the U.S., KPMG in the U.K., and member firms of the global professional…

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Kira Systems, the first company to develop AI-powered contract analysis, technology that is now becoming commonplace in the legal profession. To mark the anniversary, Kira’s cofounders are releasing a book, AI For Lawyers: How Artificial…

As the pandemic has made it more important than ever for law firms to accept electronic payments, Orion Law Management Systems is announcing today its launch of Orion ePay, a seamless and secure online payment system, powered by LawPay, that enables law firms to allow clients to pay legal fees online by credit,…

The role and reach of corporations’ chief legal officers continues to expand, with 78% of them reporting directly to their company’s CEO, and their scope of responsibilities expanding, particularly for issues of privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance.

These are among the findings of the 2021 Chief Legal Officer Survey released today by the Association of…

A new CEO was named today for the practice management company MyCase, following its $193 million acquisition last September by private equity firm Apax Partners.

Taking over as CEO effective immediately is Jim McGinnis, who most recently was EVP/GM of Wolters Kluwer’s Tax and Accounting North America Professional Segment, where he helped…

We need your vote! You can help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2021. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a virtual pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW.

In November, we issued a…

The Australia-based legal technology company InfoTrack, which also operates in the United States, has acquired Lawgical, the parent company of several legal industry brands, including the Legal Talk Network, which produces some 30 law-related podcasts, ServeNow, which says it is the nation’s largest independent network of process service professionals, and ServeManager,…

TrustBooks, a cloud-based program originally designed to make trust accounting simple and foolproof for small and mid-sized law firms, has expanded its platform to also provide operating accounting, enabling law firms to manage both their operating and trust accounts within a single product.

I reviewed TrustBooks in 2016, describing it then as “trust…