When last we left off in the federal court battle in which legal research giant Thomson Reuters is suing now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence for copyright infringement, ROSS had filed a counterclaim alleging that TR is violating federal antitrust law by maintaining monopolistic and anticompetitive control over the legal research market.
Yesterday, TR…
In a move that symbolizes the bridge between traditional law practice and new forms of legal services delivery, Andrew Ballheimer, who retired last year as global managing partner at Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy, has joined the board of directors of the alternative legal services provider Factor.
The news caps a year…
Legalist, a San Francisco-based litigation finance company that uses technology to scour court dockets and determine the best cases in which to invest, is now expanding into bankruptcy, raising $50 million for a fund to provide debtor-in-possession financing to small businesses in bankruptcy.
DIP financing is used in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases to enable…
After a copyright lawsuit forced the company he cofounded to shut down last December, Andrew Arruda, the cofounder and former CEO of legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, has now taken the helm as CEO of a new software company, this time in the medical field.
Arruda announced the company, Automate Medical, in a…
It is a happy ending, after all, for Faster Suite and its customers, as it is back up and running as an integration with the practice management platform Clio.
As reported here last week, Clio booted the popular app last Monday over concerns that it could expose Clio customer data to a…
Calling it the most substantial update in five years to the Concordance e-discovery review platform, CloudNine today released a new version 10.24 containing a package of updates that includes a new viewer, integration with CloudNine Review, and improved production performance.
Concordance has a history as one of the earliest e-discovery review tools, developed…
For many law practices, getting paid is the bane of their existence. TimeSolv, a provider of cloud-based billing and timekeeping software for law firms, aims to fix that with the release today of Zero AR, a patent-pending feature that automates batch invoicing and electronic payments.
The feature enables firms to instantly process electronic payments…
The International Legal Technology Association today named five women, from locations ranging from Canada to Kenya, as its 2021 Influential Women in Legal Tech.
The list of influential women, released annually, recognizes five outstanding women leaders in the legal technology community, based on their mentorship history and overarching level of impact on legal…
Last year, LexisNexis introduced Context, a refinement of an analytics tool originally developed by Ravel Law that analyzes the language of a judge’s opinions to determine the cases and arguments the judge finds most persuasive in deciding specific types of issues. As I reported then, that original launch also included Context for expert…
In January 2020, Axiom Managed Services, one of two companies spun off in 2019 from alternative legal services provider Axiom, rebranded as Factor, a move the company characterized as a relaunch, and named a new CEO, Varun Mehta, a veteran of the legal tech industry who…
The annual Legalweek conference in New York is always the occasion for legal technology companies to roll out announcements of new products and features. This year’s conference, which kicked off yesterday in a virtual version redubbed Legalweek(year) and reformulated as a year-long series of events — is no different, although the announcements…
As the pandemic has made it more important than ever for law firms to accept electronic payments, Orion Law Management Systems is announcing today its launch of Orion ePay, a seamless and secure online payment system, powered by LawPay, that enables law firms to allow clients to pay legal fees online by credit,…
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