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As the numbers of COVID-19 cases rose in the United States during March, the numbers of new legal matters coming to law firms dropped sharply — by more than 30% compared to the first five weeks of 2020 and by more than 40% from the year’s highest weekly averages — according to data compiled anonymously…

A nationwide pulse survey finds that the coronavirus crisis has forced 87 percent of law offices to work entirely or partially remotely, as they struggle to maintain financial stability and keep up billable hours.

The survey was conducted by the practice management company MyCase, which published some of the results on its blog…

Following a ransomware attack that took down the company’s servers for nearly a month and then layoffs resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the chief executive officer of Epiq Global said he is proud of how the company handled these incidents and that he expects the company to bounce back to where it was.

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When Am Law 200 law firm Baker Donelson decided to implement the legal workflow application BigHand Now, it planned to roll it out gradually in stages, starting with its headquarters in Nashville.

Then came the coronavirus crisis.

As it became clear to the firm that the pandemic would require its attorneys and staff…

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.…