Not surprisingly, the pandemic drove greater use of electronic payments across all industries, with the volume of electronic payments up 11.2 % in the first quarter of 2021 over the prior year.
Law firms were no exception to this trend, as they realized that the old way of collecting payments via paper checks was impacting…
Rian Gauvreau, who in 2008 cofounded practice management company Clio with Jack Newton, has left the company, where he most recently held the position of chief people officer.
He continues to serve on the company’s board of directors.
A company spokesperson said that Gauvreau decided to step down from his position at…
Nominations open today for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards, a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology.
Awards will be given in eight categories: access to justice, court, enterprise, individual, technology, law department, law firm, and startup.
Deadline for nominations is Aug. 31, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome.…
The legal technology company Clio this morning announced a Series E investment of $110 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve so-called unicorn status and one of only a small number of legal tech companies overall to achieve that status.
In special episode of…
A common service that law firms perform is to compile multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other legal data. But an equally common problem is presenting that data in a way that is visually informative and compelling.
A new product called Map Engine aims to solve that problem by making it easy and economical…
LexFusion, the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of seven legal technology companies, has now added another three members to the roster of companies it represents.
LexFusion aims to change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology by serving as the go-to-market representative of companies that…
Trustbooks is cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms. In this debut episode of How It Works, Trustbooks cofounder Chad Todd introduces the product and demonstrates how it works.
How It Works is a sponsored video series that lets you see how legal technology products work. Each episode features a hands-on…
Barely a day goes by that I am not sitting down with the developer of a legal tech product for a demonstration of how it works.
I find these demonstrations enormously helpful in understanding what a product does, how easy it is to use, and why I’d want it in my practice.
You know the…
Earlier this year, the legal technology company Litera expanded its product line-up into law firm intelligence with the acquisition of Foundation Software Group, developer of a firm intelligence platform for larger law firms, and the consequent formation of the Litera Firm Intelligence business unit.
Now Litera is further rounding out its firm…
On Tuesday, I reported here that D. Casey Flaherty, who for the last two years has been director of legal project management at global law firm Baker McKenzie, and who developed the Procertas technology training and benchmarking platform, has joined LexFusion, a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies launched last October, as a cofounder…
D. Casey Flaherty, who for the last two years has been director of legal project management at global law firm Baker McKenzie, and who developed the Procertas technology training and benchmarking platform, has joined LexFusion, a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies launched last October.
He comes to the company as chief…
Here are the episodes of my LawNext podcast that got the most listens during March.
This reflects only downloads of episodes during the month of November, not for all time.
(In the all-time tally, the most listened-to episode is my April interview with legal futurist Richard Susskind.)
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