The document technology company Litera has acquired Bestpractix, a three-year-old, Israel-based company whose platform for contract review, negotiation and drafting uses natural language processing and machine learning to provide contract-drafting recommendations based on both a firm’s own previously negotiated agreements and on publicly available agreements.
Founded in 2017 by CEO Omer Hayun,…
The 2020 Clio Cloud Conference is being moved to a venue apropos of its name — the cloud.
The practice management company Clio, which has staged the law practice and technology conference annually since 2013, has pulled the plug on the physical conference that had been scheduled for Oct. 15-16 in San Diego.…
Haley Altman, who joined the document technology company Litera in August 2019 when it acquired the transactions management company she founded, Doxly, has today been named Litera’s global director of business development and strategy.
In this new role, the company said, Altman will focus on expanding customer development opportunities and helping to define and…
Mark Cohen is a true thought leader in the legal world. An accomplished litigator at both the U.S. Department of Justice and in private practice, he turned his attention to the business of law nearly 20 years ago, founding one of the first legal process outsourcing companies and then cofounding innovative law company Clearspire.
He…
A new partnership announced today between the American Bar Association and practice management company Clio gives Clio customers free ABA memberships and ABA members discounts on Clio’s annual plans.
Under the agreement, any Clio customer with an annual subscription can get free one-year membership in the ABA. The offer extends to anyone who…
A new round of awards will be given out later this summer to honor companies and individuals who are making a difference in law through technology innovation.
Called the American Legal Technology Awards, the organizers say their goal is to honor exceptional achievement in a variety of categories.
The deadline for nominations is June…
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. is out today with its second-annual Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report, and its findings underscore the increasing importance of technology in the legal industry, with 76% of legal professionals in the U.S. and Europe saying that is the top trend.
At the same time, however, only 28% of…
Stephen Allen, head of innovation and digital at the law firm Hogan Lovells, is moving July 1 to law company Elevate, where he will take on one of the best job titles ever: Vice President, Enterprise Solutions and Get Sh*t Done.
Allen was the inaugural recipient last year of the “Law Firm Legal…
Join me tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. ET on Litera TV for a live interview with Daniel W. Linna Jr., director of Law and Technology Initiatives and senior lecturer at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering.
Dan also writes the blog LegalTech Lever, on leveraging legal innovation and technology…
Last week, for my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV today, I interviewed Kathryn DeBord, chief innovation officer at the law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Our 30-minute interview covered a range of topics, including innovation at Bryan Cave and innovation in the midst of a pandemic.
The recording of that interview…
Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from our recently launched LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry.
This week’s featured resource:
The Complete Guide to E-Discovery Preservation, 2nd Edition.
Description:
Master the fundamentals…
I have to confess that I have been surprised by the ease with which many large law firms transitioned to working from home. In various contexts over the past few months, I have spoken with law firm leaders who described transitions that were fairly seamless and that were pulled off within a relatively short time…
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