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A conference that has consistently been one of the best for legal professionals interested in learning how to better manage their practices and use technology is the Clio Cloud Conference. The seventh-annual staging of this conference is in a month, and I have a discount code to offer readers that gets you $200 off…

It is quite literally the next chapter for the cloud-based bankruptcy platform NextChapter, as legal research company Fastcase today announces that it has acquired the Columbus, Ohio, company.

Launched in 2015 by Janine Sickmeyer, a former bankruptcy paralegal, NextChapter is a cloud platform for bankruptcy attorneys to prepare, manage and electronically…

An immigration law firm using an AI-based expert system to automate both routine and complex tasks and a law school lab designed to prepare students for innovative practice are the 2019 winners of the College of Law Practice Management’s InnovAction Awards.

The COLPM presents the awards each year “to those unsung heroes and rising…

Nine startups — ranging from a case management platform for pro se litigants to an application designed to automate the estate-settlement process — have been selected to participate in the fourth year of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator program.

LexisNexis launched the accelerator program in 2017 to give startups a leg-up in…

Yesterday, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round — one of the largest ever for a legal technology company.

Shortly after making the announcement during an event in Clio’s Burnaby, B.C., headquarters, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jack Newton, Clio’s cofounder and CEO, for…

Axiom, one of the world’s largest alternative legal services providers, said today that it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Permira by which a company backed by Permira funds will take a significant investment in Axiom.

Axiom’s management team, led by CEO Elena Donio, will continue to lead the company,…

Cloud law practice management company Clio is today announcing a $250 million Series D funding — one of the largest investments ever for a legal technology company and the largest ever for a Canadian company.

Clio is also announcing that Mark Britton, who founded Avvo in 2006 and sold it last year to…

Home now from ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. It is five frenetic days of seminars, exhibitors and networking by legal technologists and vendors from all over the world. Here are some of my somewhat-random thoughts about the event.

Let’s start with what many were thinking: Orlando in August?…



Which firms are best prepared to keep pace with changes in the legal market? That was the question explored in a recent survey of U.S. and European law firms, the 2019…

As I wrote here earlier, Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired Doxly, a four-year-old company founded by a former biglaw partner to manage the legal transactions process. I have just had a phone call with the CEOs of the two companies and can provide more details.

First, to sum up the news. the document technology…

So much legal technology news, I can barely keep up with it all, thanks in part to the fact that Sunday is the start of ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Here are some of the week’s headlines.

Litera acquires Doxly. Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired…

Finalists have been named for The Changing Lawyer Awards, paving the way for the announcement of the winners during ILTACON 2019, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association later this month.

This is the second year of the award, which recognizes individuals, firms and companies in the legal industry for their role…