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Fastcase Acquires NextChapter, the Cloud-Based Bankruptcy Platform

Fastcase Acquires NextChapter, the Cloud-Based Bankruptcy Platform

By Bob Ambrogi
on September 17, 2019

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…

Immigration Firm and Law School Lab Win COLPM’s InnovAction Awards

Immigration Firm and Law School Lab Win COLPM’s InnovAction Awards

By Bob Ambrogi
on September 11, 2019

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…

Fourth Cohort of Startups Named for LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator

Fourth Cohort of Startups Named for LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator

By Bob Ambrogi
on September 11, 2019

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…

LawNext Special Report: Clio CEO Jack Newton on His Company’s $250 Million Investment

LawNext Special Report: Clio CEO Jack Newton on His Company’s $250 Million Investment

By Bob Ambrogi
on September 5, 2019

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…

ALSP Axiom Says It Will Receive Significant Strategic Investment from Private Equity Firm Permira

ALSP Axiom Says It Will Receive Significant Strategic Investment from Private Equity Firm Permira

By Bob Ambrogi
on September 5, 2019

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,…

Major #Legaltech News As Clio Gets $250M Investment; Adds Avvo Founder Mark Britton to Board

Major #Legaltech News As Clio Gets $250M Investment; Adds Avvo Founder Mark Britton to Board

By Bob Ambrogi
on September 4, 2019

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…

#ILTACON19: Post-Mortem Notes, Musings and Observations

#ILTACON19: Post-Mortem Notes, Musings and Observations

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 23, 2019

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?…

LawNext Episode 49: Dean Sonderegger of Wolters Kluwer on the ‘Future-Ready Lawyer’

LawNext Episode 49: Dean Sonderegger of Wolters Kluwer on the ‘Future-Ready Lawyer’

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 19, 2019



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…

Litera’s Acquisition of Doxly: I Speak with the CEOs on What’s Ahead

Litera’s Acquisition of Doxly: I Speak with the CEOs on What’s Ahead

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 16, 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…

Friday Roundup: So Much News, So Little Time, Not to Mention #ILTACON19

Friday Roundup: So Much News, So Little Time, Not to Mention #ILTACON19

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 16, 2019

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 Named for ‘Changing Lawyer’ Awards; Winners to be Named at #ILTACON19

Finalists Named for ‘Changing Lawyer’ Awards; Winners to be Named at #ILTACON19

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 6, 2019

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…

Utah State Bar Will Move to Fastcase Sept. 1

Utah State Bar Will Move to Fastcase Sept. 1

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 6, 2019

The Utah State Bar, which currently offers its members free access to legal research through an affinity deal with the research company Casemaker, will switch to Fastcase as of Sept. 1, Fastcase announced today.

That brings to 33 the number of state bar associations that offer their members free access to legal…

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Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists' roundtable, Legaltech Week.

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