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One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic is how rapidly and effectively the legal industry is innovating in response to remote work mandates. And based on conversations that I have had with GCs of large corporations and big law partners, the dominant sentiment regarding changes to the workplace has…

Every year since 2011, the legal publisher Fastcase has presented its Fastcase 50 award, which honors 50 individuals who are judged to be the year’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”

Today, Fastcase named its honorees for 2020, and the list includes a diverse group of lawyers, legal technologists, law…

In March, Alma Asay joined Litera, after founding and then selling to Integreon the litigation management platform Allegory Law. Now, Asay and the product she created are together again, as Litera is announcing today that it has purchased Allegory Law.

For Litera, the acquisition adds litigation case management to its…

In a brief filed today in federal court in Delaware, legal research startup ROSS Intelligence fired back at Thomson Reuters’ claims that it stole copyrighted content from Westlaw in order to jumpstart development of its own product.

By way of recap, TR sued ROSS on May 6, alleging that it surreptitiously stole…

Two years ago, I signed off the podcast I’d done for 13 years to launch a new podcast, LawNext, where I planned to feature the innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.

Ninety-two episodes later, I’ve had the honor of speaking with many of the leading innovators in legal.…

Thomson Reuters is today introducing an artificial intelligence brief-checking tool designed to help judges understand and validate the briefs submitted in their courts.

But that begs the question: If your judge is using this tool to check the briefs of you and your opponents, then wouldn’t you want to use it first, before you…

The managed services company Factor, one of two companies that spun off last year from legal services company Axiom, said today that one of its original investors, the investment firm Carrick Capital Partners, will multiply its stake in the company to become its majority shareholder.

Although the amount of the investment has not been disclosed,…

A year after it acquired HighQ, the London-based enterprise collaboration and file-sharing platform for the legal industry, Thomson Reuters is today announcing an upgraded version of the platform, which it says is the most significant HighQ release to date, with more than 100 new features and enhancements.

Among the most notable features of…

It should have come as no surprise when California attorney Erin Levine recently announced her plan to go nationwide with her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. After all, the site has been seeing rapid growth and has earned Levine broad accolades, including the 2020 James I. Keane Memorial Award for…

In June, Documate founder Dorna Moini  and Northwestern Law professor Dan Linna issued a challenge to law students: Build an innovative legal technology application to solve a legal problem using the Documate document-automation platform and win $1,000.

Today, the winners of that Law for Everyone Challenge, selected by a panel of…

Two weeks ago, I wrote here about a poll of legal administrators on the impact of COVID-19 on law firms, summarizing the findings with the words of novelist Thomas Wolfe, “You can’t go home again.”

I noted then that those who conducted the poll planned to publish a white paper providing more details from…

More shots were fired today in the litigation battle over whether legal research startup ROSS Intelligence stole copyrighted content from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw in order to jumpstart development of its own product.

Thomson Reuters filed a brief in response to ROSS’s motion to dismiss its lawsuit, asserting that under the “notice pleading” standard of…