https://www.lawnext.com/category/companies/documate Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Fri, 31 May 2024 02:25:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/new-report-synthesizes-the-data-to-identify-key-legal-tech-trends-and-action-items-for-solos-and-small-firms.html Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:26:00 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45982 For solo and small law firms, the current state of legal technology offers both promises and pitfalls. Technology such as generative AI poses traps for the unwary, but for those who understand and embrace technology, there are opportunities to run more profitable and efficient practices, provide better customer experiences, and improve work-life balance. In light […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/02/on-lawnext-podcast-documate-founder-dorna-moini-on-rebranding-as-gavel-and-how-law-firms-can-productize-their-legal-services.html Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:34:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=42842 Last week, Documate, the no-code document automation platform, rebranded as Gavel, a move designed to better reflect the company’s mission to become the platform of choice for legal professionals and legal organizations wanting to “productize” the delivery of legal services by packaging services as online legal products. Gavel founder and CEO Dorna Moini joins LawNext this week to discuss […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/01/documate-rebrands-as-gavel-as-it-expands-beyond-document-automation-into-providing-a-platform-for-building-online-legal-products.html Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:14:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=42729 Documate, a company whose no-code automation platform is used by law firms and legal organizations to automate the creation of legal documents, is rebranding under a new name, Gavel, to better reflect its continuing expansion into serving as the platform on which law firms, legal organizations, and legal tech startups can build online legal products. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/11/4-3m-in-grants-to-36-legal-services-programs-underscore-role-of-tech-in-driving-access-to-justice.html Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:57:31 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=38409 For all the money being poured into legal technology development these days, woefully little gets spent on technology designed to enhance access to justice for low-income Americans. That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically targeting such […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/06/cle-tomorrow-legal-tech-and-where-its-going.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/06/cle-tomorrow-legal-tech-and-where-its-going.html#respond Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:53:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=36707 A panel tomorrow will feature a line-up of legal tech experts to survey what’s happening in the field now and what to expect in the years to come. Presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, Legal Tech and Where It’s Going will address what legal technology is available now to help lawyers in their practices and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/06/cle-tomorrow-legal-tech-and-where-its-going.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2021/05/nominations-open-for-2021-american-legal-technology-awards.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/05/nominations-open-for-2021-american-legal-technology-awards.html#respond Tue, 04 May 2021 13:00:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=36398 Nominations open today for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards, a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology. Awards will be given in eight categories: access to justice, court, enterprise, individual, technology, law department, law firm, and startup. Deadline for nominations is Aug. 31, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome. Finalists will […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/05/nominations-open-for-2021-american-legal-technology-awards.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/guest-post-the-future-of-document-automation-in-the-legal-world.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/guest-post-the-future-of-document-automation-in-the-legal-world.html#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:39:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=34211 Though the debate of whether or not law firms should embrace legal technology continues, the pandemic has brought to light the advantages of document automation.  Since mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the way law firms operate. While some firms were forced to adapt on the fly as they spent weeks setting up a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/guest-post-the-future-of-document-automation-in-the-legal-world.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/five-startups-named-finalists-for-clios-100k-launch-code-contest.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/five-startups-named-finalists-for-clios-100k-launch-code-contest.html#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:20:42 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=34120 The law practice technology company Clio this week announced the five finalists that will compete for the title of “Best New Integration” and a $100,000 grand prize in the 2020 Launch//Code developer contest. This is the third year of the contest, which recognizes innovative third-party apps that integrate with the Clio Manage practice management platform and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/09/five-startups-named-finalists-for-clios-100k-launch-code-contest.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/winners-named-in-law-for-everyone-legal-tech-student-challenge.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/winners-named-in-law-for-everyone-legal-tech-student-challenge.html#respond Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:34:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=33736 In June, Documate founder Dorna Moini  and Northwestern Law professor Dan Linna issued a challenge to law students: Build an innovative legal technology application to solve a legal problem using the Documate document-automation platform and win $1,000. Today, the winners of that Law for Everyone Challenge, selected by a panel of independent judges, were announced, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/winners-named-in-law-for-everyone-legal-tech-student-challenge.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/erin-levine-is-taking-her-innovative-hello-divorce-platform-to-all-50-states.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/erin-levine-is-taking-her-innovative-hello-divorce-platform-to-all-50-states.html#respond Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:58:38 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=33586 The recognitions keep stacking up for Emeryville, Calif., attorney Erin Levine and her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. Earlier this year, the American Bar Association awarded her its James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering, and just a few months before that, the practice management company Clio named her recipient of its 2019 […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/08/erin-levine-is-taking-her-innovative-hello-divorce-platform-to-all-50-states.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/on-the-latest-lawnext-how-one-tech-savvy-judge-jury-rigged-an-online-court.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/on-the-latest-lawnext-how-one-tech-savvy-judge-jury-rigged-an-online-court.html#respond Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:09:25 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=32555 As chair of the Specialty Treatment Courts in Jefferson Parish, La., Judge Scott U. Schlegel manages what may be one of the most advanced courts in the country for delivering justice online, and he does it almost entirely with off-the-shelf software he cobbled together himself. Even before the coronavirus crisis caused courts to shut down, Judge Schlegel was conducting hearings via […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/04/on-the-latest-lawnext-how-one-tech-savvy-judge-jury-rigged-an-online-court.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/01/documates-new-guerilla-marketing-campaign-takes-a-page-from-salesforce-and-a-jab-at-hotdocs.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/01/documates-new-guerilla-marketing-campaign-takes-a-page-from-salesforce-and-a-jab-at-hotdocs.html#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:58:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=31398 In 2002, three years after its founding, when Salesforce was still an upstart startup seeking to make its mark in the enterprise CRM space, founder Mark Benioff and his team conceived of a brash guerilla advertising campaign to take on the company that was then the incumbent industry leader, Siebel Systems. With the tag line, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/01/documates-new-guerilla-marketing-campaign-takes-a-page-from-salesforce-and-a-jab-at-hotdocs.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2019/07/annual-fastcase-50-named-honoring-laws-innovators-and-visionaries.html https://www.lawnext.com/2019/07/annual-fastcase-50-named-honoring-laws-innovators-and-visionaries.html#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:45:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=29958 Annually since 2011, legal research company Fastcase has named the Fastcase 50, an award that honors “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” Today, Fastcase named its 2019 honorees, a list that includes practicing lawyers, legal academics, law librarians, corporate counsel, journalists, company executives, bar leaders, and government officials. [Full disclosure: I […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2019/07/annual-fastcase-50-named-honoring-laws-innovators-and-visionaries.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/lawnext-episode-30-aba-techshows-startup-pitch-competition.html https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/lawnext-episode-30-aba-techshows-startup-pitch-competition.html#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:09:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=29206 Last week, ABA TECHSHOW presented the third annual Startup Pitch Competition, which I was thrilled to moderate and help organize. Fifteen legal technology startups presented three-minute pitches before a live audience of TECHSHOW attendees, who then voted for their favorite. In this special edition of LawNext, we partner with the Legal Talk Network to present a recording of the live […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2019/03/lawnext-episode-30-aba-techshows-startup-pitch-competition.html/feed 0