Lawyers who have the AbacusLaw practice management software can now use their client, calendar and matter information to automatically create documents in the latest version of the HotDocs Advance document-generation software.
AbacusNext, the company that owns both AbacusLaw and HotDocs, said it has launched an integration between the two products that…
In just over a week, on the opening night of ABA Techshow in Chicago, 15 legal technology startups will take the stage in a pitch competition, where each will make its case for why the audience of Techshow attendees should vote for it as the most innovative.
This will be the fourth annual Startup…
Large companies have a problem: Keeping tabs on their hundreds or even thousands of contracts and knowing what is in them.
The legal technology company Knowable believes it has a solution to that problem: Technology that translates contract language into structured data to give companies a broad understanding of what contracts they have, what…
Three years ago, Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions introduced LegalVIEW BillAnalyzer, a service for in-house legal-bill review teams that combines machine learning and other advanced technologies with human expertise to help review law firm invoices and ensure that they accurately and consistently adhere to billing guidelines.
Today, ELM Solutions is introducing a variation on that…
The e-discovery technology company Relativity is today announcing a new payment and pricing model for its cloud-based SaaS product RelativityOne.
Under the new model, customers can now choose a pay-as-you-go pricing plan, under which they will pay for the software month-to-month based on utilization, measured by quantity of data and number of users.…
We live in an age in which how we buy a good or service matters as much as what we buy. The success of companies such as Amazon, Starbucks, Uber and Netflix has less to do with what they sell than with how they sell it.
They have changed the experience of how we consume,…
Just last week, I reported here about the name change of Axiom Managed Services, one of two companies spun off last year from alternative legal services provider Axiom. With its new name, Factor, and a “doubling down” by two long-term investors, the company characterized the move as a relaunch to position…
Building on its 2018 acquisition of the AI technology and consulting firm LexPredict, the global law company Elevate has launched a Digital Strategy and Solutions business unit and hired a big name in legal AI to run it — Brian Kuhn, formerly global managing leader of the IBM Watson Legal business.
The…
In legal technology, it was a decade of tumult and upheaval, bringing changes that will forever transform the practice of law and the delivery of legal services.
Feisty startups took on established behemoths. The cloud dropped rain on legacy products. Mobile tech untethered lawyers. Clients demanded efficiency and transparency. Robots arrived to take over our…
It was an epiphany, of sorts, for Greg Garman. In 2015, after 18 years at the same firm, including several as managing partner, he came to believe that most firms operated under a broken business model. Within weeks, he and several colleagues left the firm to start a smaller, more innovative practice, and he…
The legal technology company Aderant, which provides business and practice management software for larger law firms, has acquired Bellefield Systems, developer of the cloud-based mobile-friendly timekeeping product iTimekeep, which runs on Microsoft Azure, and its related product OCG Live, which works with iTimekeep to enforce compliance with outside counsel guidelines at…
The two legal research companies Fastcase and Casemaker have settled their three-year legal battle over Casemaker’s claims of copyright in Georgia administrative regulations.
In federal court in Atlanta, the two companies jointly filed a stipulated dismissal of the matter. The request did not not reveal the terms of the settlement, but the dismissal was “with…
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