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…
Top stories this week include more layoffs in legal tech as Epiq, suffering the double blow of a ransomware attack and the pandemic is reported to let go as many as 200. Also in the news, cutbacks at other legal tech companies, a report on the state of legaltech Down Under, Fastcase says…
The international e-discovery and managed services company Epiq Global has laid off some 200 employees, with more layoffs yet to come, according to several sources familiar with the situation.
Epiq has not responded to emails seeking to confirm these reports.
If true, the layoffs follow news first reported on this blog of a…
As sheltering in place rules out traditional legal conferences, I reported last week on a virtual legal conference, Rocket Aid, and now there is another to report.
Litera, the document-technology company, today announced The Changing Lawyer LIVE!, a one-day virtual conference on April 23 that will focus on the changes in…
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today launched a comprehensive free resource for tracking state and federal laws, executive orders, and regulations related to the COVID-19 pandemic, built using WK’s Smart Chart technology that allows users to easily filter by parameters such as jurisdictions and topics to create custom summaries.
WK says it is…
As part of its response to the coronavirus crisis, the document automation company Litera has launched Litera TV, a daily live stream of interviews, educational programs, and tips around legal tech and legal practice.
I am thrilled to announced that starting tomorrow, and for at least the next four weeks, I will host a…
Litera’s business continuity series, which began last week, dives into the unprecedented challenges we are all facing and looks at how technology can help provide what law firms need to continue serving their clients, even while their teams are working remotely, unable to travel or meet face-to-face with clients, and otherwise disrupted from their regular routines.…
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic scrambled any sense of business as usual last week, the document-automation company Litera seemed to stay a step ahead, becoming one of the first major legal technology companies to take steps to continue operations, quickly pivoting to develop a lite version of its deal-management platform to offer for free, and…
The news just keeps coming from document-automation company Litera in recent days. After last week’s announcements of its acquisition of Best Authority and roll-out of a free version of its deal-management platform, it is today announcing a notable hire.
Alma Asay, the founder and CEO of the cloud-based litigation management platform…
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