There is no denying that some law firms view alternative legal services providers such as Factor as competitors, particularly for corporate legal work.
But over the past year, Factor has demonstrated that it can have highly productive partnerships with law firms, as it did in a unique partnership with Allen & Overy to…
I just wrote about Intapp’s filing of papers with the Securities & Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO, noting how rare IPOs are in legal tech, only to find out that LegalZoom also filed on Friday for an IPO.
LegalZoom had previously filed for an IPO in 2012 but then postponed the offering…
Palo Alto, Calif., based Intapp, a major provider of cloud-based business applications for larger law firms and financial services firms, filed papers Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock.
For the legal technology industry, where IPOs have been few and far between,…
In a post here last month, The Lawyers of Substack, I wrote about lawyers who are publishing newsletters on Substack, a platform that has drawn big-name writers for its model that makes it easy to publish and monetize newsletters.
One of the lawyers I wrote about is David Lat, who is well…
A feature launched this week in Westlaw Edge is designed to help legal professionals more easily identify law that is contrary o their opponents’ arguments.
Called Quick Check Contrary Authority Identification, the feature helps find cases that may be helpful in arguing against an opponent’s filing and prioritizes them in search results, according to an…
A panel tomorrow will feature a line-up of legal tech experts to survey what’s happening in the field now and what to expect in the years to come.
Presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, Legal Tech and Where It’s Going will address what legal technology is available now to help lawyers in their practices…
Thomson Reuters is getting into the game of AI-powered contract analysis with the launch today of HighQ Contract Analysis, a contract review tool that uses machine learning to find answers to specific legal questions.
Integrated with HighQ, the collaboration and workflow platform Thomson Reuters acquired in 2019, HighQ Contract Analysis is designed for attorneys…
COVID was not kind to law firm marketing and business development, with two-thirds of firms reporting that business development was more difficult in 2020, and the overwhelming majority of firms pivoting their marketing strategies, turning from live conferences and face-to-face meetings to social media, email alerts and Zoom.
These are among the findings of the…
Will remote depositions disappear as legal professionals emerge from the pandemic? Not according to a recent survey by the court reporting company Esquire Deposition Solutions, which found that 78% of attorneys plan to continue conducting up to half their depositions virtually in a post-pandemic world.
In anticipation of that new reality, Esquire has…
Nominations open today for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards, a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology.
Awards will be given in eight categories: access to justice, court, enterprise, individual, technology, law department, law firm, and startup.
Deadline for nominations is Aug. 31, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome.…
Intapp, a major provider of cloud-based business applications for larger law firms and financial services firms, said today it has signed an agreement to acquire Repstor, creator of Microsoft 365-based enterprise content management and team collaboration tools.
Founded in 2012 and based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Repstor’s cloud-based solutions are designed to help…
Coming, as it did, in the midst of the pandemic, the merger last August of nQueue, a provider of printing, scanning and cost-recovery solutions for law firms, and Zebraworks, a company started by ProLaw founder Bill Bice to help move law firms to the cloud, promised to deliver new products aimed at enabling…
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