[Editor’s note: The cloud document management company NetDocuments held its second-annual Elevate conference Oct. 6-8 in Salt Lake City. I was not able to attend, but e-discovery consultant Brett Burney was there and files this report. Be sure to scroll down for Brett’s video from the conference.]
How many of you would be surprised…
Two weeks away from its seventh annual Clio Cloud Conference, the cloud-based practice management company Clio today announced the five legal technology finalists that will compete at the conference for a $100,000 Launch//Code grand prize.
Introduced at Clio’s conference last year, the Launch//Code prize is awarded to…
Technical difficulties have delayed the release of this week’s episode of my own LawNext podcast, but meanwhile I am a guest on the most-recent episodes of two other podcasts. Thanks to both for including me.
Legal Rebels Podcast: Exploring New Frontiers in Research for the Legal Industry. On the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels…
Electronic filing of court documents is one of those technologies that can be both a blessing and a curse. While e-filing eliminates the headaches of paper filing and saves time overall, there is no standardization of the process across different courts, requiring different logins, different filing formats, and different steps to take in completing the…
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?…
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