Companies

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…

Last year, in the continuing federal court litigation between now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence and long-established legal research giant Thomson Reuters, ROSS upped the ante when it filed a counterclaim asserting that TR is violating federal antitrust law by maintaining monopolistic and anticompetitive control over the legal research market.

Today, in a…

In a notable expansion upward in the judicial hierarchy, the legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, has launched Appellate Analytics — legal analytics for federal courts of appeals — giving users an end-to-end overview of what happens during litigation, from trial all the way through appeal, and enabling legal professionals to…

The law practice management company Paradigm has acquired LollyLaw, a cloud-based, all-in-one practice management platform designed for immigration law firms.

The acquisition adds immigration software to Paradigm’s portfolio of law practice products that already includes the practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase; the payments platform Headnote; and the legal…

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Centerbase, a Dallas-based company providing cloud legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, has has acquired Legalfit, a Kansas City company that provides web marketing and content management technology tailored specifically for small and mid-sized law firms.

Centerbase says the acquisition enables it to expand its practice management product — which already offers…

LEAP Legal Software, an international provider of cloud-based practice management software for smaller law firms, has acquired WealthCounsel, a leading provider of software, training and support for estate planning lawyers, and its related company ElderCounsel.

Founded in 1997, Utah-based WealthCounsel provides software and templates for drafting estate planning and business documents. It…

At its Momentum customer conference today, DocuSign introduced CLM Essentials, a contract lifecycle management product built specifically for small and medium-sized organizations to centralize and automate the creation, negotiation and storage of their contracts.

DocuSign said the product is designed to “democratize CLM” by reducing the…

Catching up on recent legal tech news, there are four notable deals to report.

Athennian Raises $33M

First up is Athennian, the Canadian company that offers a cloud-based entity management platform. It announced this week that it has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Centana Growth…

PandaDoc, a San Francisco company whose platform automates document creation and workflows, said today that it has acquired the e-notary platform LiveNotary and and leveraged its technology to launch PandaDoc Notary, its own platform enabling customers to legally sign and notarize documents online.

PandaDoc Notary’s Remote Online Notarization (RON) is an all-in-one product…

Potentially one of the biggest legal tech stories to come out of the Legalweek show in New York last week was the release by LexisNexis Legal & Professional of a new API Developer Portal. The self-service portal enables law firms to access some 99% of LexisNexis content – both raw content and metadata…

Last week brought a flurry of legal technology news, thanks to the first in-person Legalweek conference in two years. Yesterday, in the first of two posts, I began a round up the week’s notable announcements. Here is the rest of my round-up.

Reveal Releases Major Enhancement of its Platform

Reveal, a global provider…