Companies

Earlier this month, at the NetDocuments three-day Inspire 2022 conference for customers and partners, one of the speakers was Jeff Pfeifer, chief product officer for LexisNexis for Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. He was there to speak about a unique partnership between LexisNexis and NetDocuments called Highlights, which embeds LexisNexis case analysis and intelligence technology…

A hitherto stealth legal AI startup emerged from the shadows today with news via TechCrunch that it has raised $5 million in funding led by the startup fund of OpenAI, the company that developed advanced neural network AI systems such as GPT-3 and DALL-E 2.

The startup, called Harvey, will build on the…

Not surprisingly given the economy, a survey of inhouse legal professionals finds that companies are slowing down or freezing hiring, reducing outside counsel spending, and conducting layoffs.

To help counter these cuts and reduce their workloads, legal departments are increasingly bullish on leveraging legal technology, the survey finds.

The survey by contract management company…

What with COVID, the economy and the day-to-challenges of practicing law and managing a firm, it’s been a tough three years. Yet despite it all, smaller law firms have a bullish outlook on their future prospects — and with good reason.

So says the 2022 State of U.S. Small Law Firms survey conducted by…

In a pilot program announced today, Legal Aid Chicago, the largest legal services organization in the Chicago area, is launching an integration pilot program between LegalServer, a case management system for civil legal aid and public defender organizations, and Paladin, the pro bono management program.

Funded by a Legal Services Corporation…

Hello Divorce, a startup whose platform facilitates low-cost do-it-yourself and attorney-assisted divorces, has raised $3.25 million in an oversubscribed seed round to enable it to develop a broader range of tools and services to cover the entire divorce lifecycle, including the financial and other issues that arise in the wake of a divorce.

The…

The practice management company CosmoLex has added a new client relationship management module to its all-in-one platform with the release of CosmoLex CRM.

The new CRM module is designed to enable law firms to manage, track, and communicate with prospective clients; automate intake workflows; and provide reporting to help better analyze marketing campaigns.…

The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, has again expanded its coverage, this time adding a Chapter 11 bankruptcy module that provides legal analytics for over 115,000 Chapter 11 proceedings.

The module includes the entire docket in any bankruptcy proceeding filed after 2009 in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court under Chapter…

Lawpath, an eight-year-old Australian company that has become the leading legal document and contract management platform for small businesses in that country, has now launched in the United States to serve American small businesses.

You might think of Lawpath as similar to LegalZoom. In fact, LegalZoom is a major investor in the company, which…

Devshi Mehrotra was a computer science undergraduate at the University of Chicago when she and classmate Leslie Jones-Dove developed JusticeText, an platform that makes it easier for public defenders to review and analyze the massive quantities of police body cam and other video footage that is becoming increasingly common in criminal cases. 

At the…

Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. It is called Westlaw Precision and, as the name suggests, its focus is on delivering research results that are more precise than ever before, and delivering them with greater speed than ever before.…

Lighthouse, the Seattle-based company that provides technology and services for e-discovery, compliance and information governance, said today that former Microsoft vice president and CIO Ron Markezich will become its chief executive officer effective Oct. 1, succeeding Brian McManus, who has been in that role since 2011.

McManus will remain with the company…