Companies

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…

JusticeText, a three-year-old startup that makes it easier for public defenders in criminal cases to review body cam and other video footage, has raised a seed round of $2.2 million, it said today.

Investors in the round include Bloomberg Beta, True Ventures, Tubbs Ventures, Higher Ground Labs, Parameter Ventures, Incite.org, Google Black Founders Fund,…

It has been a notable year for the practice management company MyCase, one in which it made four notable acquisitions of other practice management products, and then itself was acquired by AffiniPay, the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay.

Today, we are seeing the fruits of two of those acquisitions,…

I spent last week at ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association. With nearly 3,000 attendees, it was the third largest ILTACON ever – a particularly significant stat given that we have yet to fully emerge from three years in the grips of the global pandemic.

ILTACON is an opportunity for legal…

LegalEase Solutions, a company that provides customized legal solutions for corporations, in-house legal departments and law firms, has acquired the contract lifecycle management (CLM) consulting firm CLM Gurus, along with key executives and staff.

LegalEase says that the acquisition adds senior talent and experience for its end-to-end CLM implementation offerings, which encompass selection, requirement scoping,…

Today kicks off the first full day of ILTACON22, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Already, the day has brought a slew of news announcements from legal technology companies.

Here is a roundup of news announced this morning.

DISCO Joins the LexFusion Go-to-Market Collective As Its E-Discovery Provider

The e-discovery company…

Tangibly, a trade secret management platform, has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed financing, with participation from WS Investment Company (law firm Wilson Sonsini’s venture arm), Madrona Venture Group, and a number of seed funds, influential founders and angel investors.

Others who invested in this round are Brainstorm Ventures, Incisive Ventures, PatentVest (an IP…

In the world of legal technology, perhaps no company looms larger than Thomson Reuters, whose products such as Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Findlaw, 3E and many others span virtually every aspect of law practice and are used by legal professionals throughout the world. 

Our guest this week, Kriti Sharma, is chief product officer, legal…

Less than a week after announcing its acquisition of BigSquare, a provider of financial and business intelligence and analytics for law firms, legal technology company Litera today announced another — of Micron Systems Inc., a developer of talent management software for the legal and accounting professions.

If you’re counting, this is Litera’s…

Last January, the law firm Redgrave LLP, which specializes in e-discovery and information law, formed the company Redgrave Strategic Data Solutions LLC to provide “innovative services and solutions centered at the intersection of the law, technology, and science.”

The company launched with a leadership team of veteran e-discovery and data science professionals, helmed by…

Ever since we launched the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which debuted in February, I am consistently fascinated to see the products that get added. As closely as I follow legal tech, I always discover products that are new and interesting.

Here are the 10 latest additions (descriptions taken from product listings).