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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):…

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

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…



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…

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 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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…