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Just a few days into 2021 came news that could end up being one of the biggest legal technology stories of the year. On Jan. 5, two leading legal research companies, Casemaker and Fastcase – two companies that have been rivals for…

ASG LegalTech, a portfolio company composed of four popular legal practice products — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — today introduced a new brand for itself, Paradigm, to better represent how the company views itself, its customers and its plans for moving forward. In a special episode of LawNext recorded in advance of today's announcement, I discussed the rebrand and the reasons for it with Soumya Nettimi, CEO of Paradigm, and Colin Li, chief growth officer of Paradigm. "When people hear the word paradigm, they typically think of paradigm shift. and with that, what we want to…

Just six days into 2021, the year has already brought two major mergers and acquisitions, with the merger of Fastcase and Casemaker and Litera’s acquisition of Foundation Software Group.

Now there is another notable acquisition, as Relativity, the global e-discovery and compliance technology company, has acquired VerQu, a data management software…

Continuing an acquisition sprint that started with three acquisitions last year and two the year before, legal technology company Litera has acquired Foundation Software Group, developer of a firm intelligence platform for larger law firms, and announced the formation of the Litera Firm Intelligence business unit.

Foundation’s platform, which can run in the…

In news akin to a wedding announcement jointly issued by the Hatfields and the McCoys, two longtime competitors in the legal research market, Casemaker and Fastcase, have merged, creating a single company under the Fastcase brand that has an estimated subscriber base of more than three quarters of all lawyers in the United…

LAWCLERK, an online marketplace where solos and small firms can hire freelance lawyers, is expanding today into a new kind of offering — subscription-based virtual associates.

Since its launch in 2018, LAWCLERK has focused on enabling smaller firms to hire freelance lawyers to assist them on a project-by-project, as-needed basis. LAWCLERK says it now…

Whoa, what the f*&% just happened? This was a year few of us will ever forget. It brought untold hardships for many and unfamiliar challenges for all of us. To those who suffered losses of loved ones or illness, to those who lost their jobs or their homes, to any and all who suffered scars this year, I offer my heartfelt condolences. But in the world of legal technology and innovation, the phrase I heard often repeated this year was “silver lining.” It was a silver lining in the form of an accelerant. The challenge to modernizing the delivery of…

My LawNext podcast features conversations with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” But in 2020, “what’s next” was anybody’s guess.

In this list of the 10 LawNext episodes that were most popular during 2020, it may be little surprise that my April interview with legal futurist Richard Susskind…

After docketing technology company CourtAlert.com sued its competitor American LegalNet (ALN) in September alleging theft of trade secrets, ALN has responded with a motion asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit for failing to state a claim, calling it “baseless” and “a transparent effort to chill lawful competition and embarrass its competitor.”

In…

In its second acquisition in a month, Onit, the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired AXDRAFT, a Y Combinator-backed company whose software automates the creation of routine contracts and legal documents.

Founded in 2017, the Ukrainian company says that its technology enables corporate legal…

Twenty executives of legal technology companies and organizations signed on to a letter delivered this morning to Speaker Nancy Pelosi in favor of legislation that would eliminate the PACER paywall and modernize access to federal court records.

Executives from companies and organizations involved in legal research, docket research and legal information wrote in favor of…

Today is E-Discovery Day 2020, and Portland, Ore.-based Exterro is celebrating in a big way.

In a nine-digit deal that it says makes it the only company to address governance, risk, compliance and digital investigations in a single integrated platform, Exterro is announcing that it has acquired AccessData, one of the world’s…