Here are some of the other legal tech stories from the week:
Case Status raises $3.5 million. Case Status, a mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms, raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital funding round led by Meeting Street Capital, Panoramic Ventures, VentureSouth, CreativeCo, and others.
I had previously…
Marking its 14th acquisition since 2019 and its eighth in just the last 12 months, legal technology company Litera has entered into an agreement to acquire Prosperoware, a company that develops software for the legal industry for the adoption and governance of collaboration systems.
Haley Altman, global head of corporate development at Litera,…
We need your vote! Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, as well as…
With the goal of providing full end-to-end legal operations support to corporate clients worldwide, Integreon and UpLevel Ops have formed an alliance to offer what they are calling Legal Operations Support-as-a-Service.
The alliance combines the managed services offerings of alternative legal services provider (ALSP) Integreon with the outsourced strategic advisory services of corporate…
As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. “The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”
This year, my report…
In my LawNext podcast, I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice, from developing new technology to driving greater diversity.
These are among…
Twenty twenty-one has been a year of uncertainty for the legal profession, as we have wrestled with the question of returning or not returning. Whether it has been to the office, the courtroom, or legal conferences, we have been unsure whether to go back or not.
Perhaps that explains why my most-read post of the…
Fourteen years ago this week, a federal judge in Seattle dismissed the class action complaint filed by two lawyers seeking to shut down the lawyer-rating site Avvo, which had launched five months earlier.
While calling the rating of attorneys “ludicrous,” U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik nevertheless ruled that the opinions expressed…
The Delaware court system is recognized throughout the legal profession as a leading forum for the litigation of business and commercial disputes. But for out-of-state attorneys, Delaware presents unique procedural hurdles, including that all electronic case filings must be done by local counsel licensed in Delaware, and that any electronic notices of filings…
Aah legal tech. How far we’ve come. How far we haven’t.
Today I am introducing Legal Tech Look-Back, a recurring series of posts that will turn back the calendar on legal tech news.
What was the news in legal tech five or 10 or 15 years ago this week? That is what this series will…
Law360, the legal news service owned by LexisNexis, is today introducing audio versions of every story it publishes.
For every story published on Law360, readers will now see an icon they can click to listen to an audio version of the article, read by a relatively lifelike male or female “newscaster” voice.
Sixty percent of general counsel are concerned that their risk landscape is expanding or becoming more difficult to navigate in areas spanning compliance, regulatory enforcement, data privacy, information security, emerging data sources and ongoing impacts of the pandemic.
This is among the findings of a survey of 30 general counsel presented in a report released…
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