As chair of the Specialty Treatment Courts in Jefferson Parish, La., Judge Scott U. Schlegel manages what may be one of the most advanced courts in the country for delivering justice online, and he does it almost entirely with off-the-shelf software he cobbled together himself.
Even before the coronavirus crisis caused courts to shut down, Judge…
David Curle, a lawyer who is well known for his writing and analysis on legal technology, has joined the machine-learning contract-analysis company Kira Systems as legal content and research lead.
Since 2013, Curle has been director, enterprise content, technology and innovation, at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, where he has provided research and…
Earlier this week, for my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV, I interviewed Jordan Furlong, legal analyst and futurist and author of The Law21 Blog.
A former journalist, Furlong has for the last decade established himself as a leading analyst of the global legal market and forecaster of its future development.
At his…
Bodhala, a company founded by two Harvard Law School graduates that seeks to disrupt legal spend management through the use of data analytics, has raised $10 million in a Series A financing round led by the growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners.
“With Bodhala, we created an AI-driven platform for the $500 billion legal services…
Editor’s note: When courthouses in Jefferson Parish, La., shut down on March 15 due to the COVID-19 emergency, it presented a unique challenge for drug court probationers who are required to regularly check in on their status and well-being.
A call for help on Twitter, posted by Gabriel Teninbaum, director of Suffolk Law…
My weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV continues tomorrow with this week’s guest Jordan Furlong, legal analyst and futurist and author of The Law21 Blog.
A former journalist, Furlong has for the last decade established himself as a leading analyst of the global legal market and forecaster of its future development.…
As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced legal professionals to work remotely, many are scrambling to find the best tools and technology to help them manage their legal matters and continue to closely collaborate with their colleagues. While many law firms already use Microsoft Office 365, fewer are as familiar with its core collaboration tool,
On Friday, March 27, David C. Dobson, the chief executive officer of Epiq Global, convened a company-wide all-hands meeting. There would be pay cuts across the board, he told staff. But by making the pay cuts, he explained, the company would avoid layoffs.
Then, three days later, on Monday, March 30, the layoffs began.…
The contract management company Knowable is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with the release of two new products designed to help companies understand their crisis-related contractual obligations and entitlements, one of which it is offering free through year-end.
One of these new products, Portfolio Visibility, is a streamlined version of Knowable’s contract management…
Tomorrow is week two of my live-streaming Law Insights program on Litera TV. My guest will be Joy Heath Rush, chief executive officer of the International Legal Technology Association, the world’s largest organization of those who work in or have an interest in legal technology.
Watch our conversation live tomorrow (April 15) at 10:30…
For most of us as we’ve hunkered down in recent weeks, Zoom has become our default application for video conferencing. But while Zoom is fine for generic business meetings and virtual cocktail parties, it is not designed for the specific needs — or specific security concerns — of legal professionals.
For lawyers, there is a…
Last Wednesday, as part of the new Litera TV line-up of live-streaming programming, I interviewed Ralph Baxter, former chairman and CEO of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and now an industry advisor to law firms and corporate legal departments, as well as a blogger and podcaster.
This was the first of a half-hour episode called Law…
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