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…
Legal Tech Look-Back: A New Series Highlighting Moments from the Annals of Legal Technology
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…
Now You Can Listen to Legal News as Law360 Adds Audio Versions of All Stories
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.
60% of GC Concerned Over Mounting Risks Caused By New Data Sources and COVID Challenges, FTI/Relativity Survey Finds
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…
$4.3M in Grants to 36 Legal Services Programs Underscore Role of Tech in Driving Access to Justice
For all the money being poured into legal technology development these days, woefully little gets spent on technology designed to enhance access to justice for low-income Americans. That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically…
LawSites Blog Turns 19 Years Old
Last Friday was the 19th birthday of this blog, which I founded on Nov. 19, 2002, with this introductory post.
I had recently published the book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, a guide to the then still nascent but rapidly evolving legal web, and wanted…
Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group Acquires Website and SEO Company LawLytics
The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics, a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners.
The LawLytics platform is an all-in-one website publishing and SEO platform for small law firms. Its founder…
MyCase Acquires Accounting System Soluno, Announces Native Accounting and Desktop Sync – Exclusive LawNext Interview with CEO
At its first-ever customer conference today, the practice management company MyCase announced that it has acquired the cloud-based legal accounting company Soluno, and that it will leverage Soluno’s expertise to develop full-featured accounting natively within the MyCase platform.
The company also announced the launch of MyCase Drive, which syncs a lawyer’s documents between…
AI Contract Management Company Lexion Releases New Module for Email-First Contract Workflows
Last year, I wrote here about Lexion, an AI-powered contract management system for mid-market corporations that emerged out of the Allen Institute for AI, the AI research institute created by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.
At the time, the company had just raised $11 million in a Series A round, and discussed plans to…
LexBlog Creates ‘Open Legal Blog Archive,’ to Preserve Blogs for Search, Citation, Syndication and Posterity
In an initiative intended to provide better access to and visibility for the insights and commentary published on legal blogs, LexBlog, a company that provides professional blogs and turnkey digital publishing solutions for law firms and legal organizations, has launched the Open Legal Blog Archive.
The archive aims to be a centralized database…
Plot Thickens In Thomson Reuters’ Lawsuit Against ROSS, As It Subpoenas Docs from Fastcase, Morae
The plot thickens in the ongoing copyright lawsuit by Thomson Reuters against ROSS Intelligence, as lawyers for TR have now subpoenaed documents from two companies not previously mentioned in the case, Fastcase, the legal research and publishing company, and Morae Global Corporation, a company that provides legal and compliance solutions to legal departments and…
Integreon Names Former UnitedLex Exec to Lead Contracts, Compliance and Commercial Services
Integreon, the global managed services and alternative legal services provider, has appointed legal industry veteran Gabriel Buigas as executive vice president and head of its Contracts, Compliance, and Commercial (CCC) Services business unit.
Buigas, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has worked in the legal industry as an attorney and business executive for 25 years.…
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