It was a mighty bold move for the legal technology company Mighty. After seven years in business serving personal injury lawyers, the company recently pivoted to launch Mighty Law, a law firm that directly competes against those PI firms by offering lower fees,…
LawNext Podcast: Joshua Schwadron On Pivoting His Legal Tech Company to A Law Firm to Compete with His Former Customers
TCDI Completes Its Acquisition of Aon’s E-Discovery Practice, Expanding Its Reach Into the U.K.
North Carolina-based TCDI, a company that provides e-discovery and cybersecurity software and services, has completed its acquisition of the e-discovery practice of London-based global professional services firm Aon.
The acquisition expands the range of advisory services TCDI offers while also expanding its e-discovery capabilities and geographic reach into the U.K., TCDI says.
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Legaltech Week – Here Are Our Topics for Today’s Live Panel. Join Us!
Every Friday at 3 E.T., the Legaltech Week panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers convenes live to unpack the week’s top stories in tech and innovation.
Here are the stories we plan to discuss today (but others can always come up):…
LexisNexis Parent RELX Quietly Launches Legal Research Service for Bar Associations and Small Firms
A new legal research service has quietly launched, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms, but what is not obvious from the service’s website is that the company behind it was formed as a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis.
Search through the website of the new service, which is called
In Bid to Disrupt PI, Legal Tech Company Pivots, Launches Legal Service to Compete with the Very Firms It Has Long Served
For the last seven years, Mighty has been a legal technology company operating a portal that helps personal injury law firms interface more seamlessly with the lienholders, such as medical providers, who have claims against their clients’ recoveries.
But as of today, Mighty is making a mighty big pivot, directly competing against those personal…
LawNext Podcast: LawVu CEO Sam Kidd Explains Why He Believes His Company Is Revolutionizing Corporate Legal Operations
LawVu is a New Zealand company that says it is revolutionizing legal operations by waging war on a multiplicity of point solutions and providing in-house legal teams with the first truly connected platform for matter, contract and spend management.
LawVu recently conducted a…
CEOs of Clio, Paradigm and ProfitSolv React to News of LawPay’s Acquisition of MyCase
With the acquisition last week by payments company AffiniPay, parent of LawPay, of practice management company MyCase, one intriguing aspect of the deal was that, until then, LawPay had been the legal tech equivalent of Switzerland, partnering with virtually every practice management platform, but always neutral as to which should win…
In Major Deal, LawPay Acquires MyCase; Read full Details and Listen to Exclusive Podcast Interview with the Two Companies’ CEOs
In a deal that is sure to shake-up the already hyperactive market for law practice management software, AffiniPay, the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay, has acquired the law practice management company MyCase.
Not only are LawPay and MyCase among the most widely used products in their respective sectors of…
The 10 Latest Legal Tech Products Added to the LawNext Legal Technology Directory
As more and more legaltech companies add their product listings to the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which we launched in February, I am periodically featuring the latest listings. Here are this week’s 10 most recent additions:…
First Amendment Protects Non-Lawyers in Providing Legal Advice in Debt Cases, Federal Court Rules
Non-lawyers will be allowed to provide legal advice to low-income New Yorkers who face debt collection actions, under a preliminary injunction ordered yesterday by a federal judge in New York.
In a case brought by Upsolve, a company that uses technology to help low-income consumers in bankruptcy and debt matters, seeking to block New…
New Beta Feature of Law.com Radar Uses Algorithm to Detect Trends and Surges in Litigation News
Two years ago, the legal and business news company ALM launched Law.com Radar, a service of the legal news site Law.com that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, rather than by human editors. It later added transactional news to the…
LexisNexis Acquires CLM Company Parley Pro As Part of Broader Enhancement of Its CounselLink ELM Platform
It is a busy day for contract lifecycle management technology. First came the news that enterprise CLM company SirionLabs has raised $85 million in a Series D funding round, and now LexisNexis Legal & Professional says it has acquired the CLM platform Parley Pro as part of a broader set of enhancements…