Two legal industry veterans are today launching a company that they believe will change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology — and thereby turbocharge the adoption and use of innovative technologies throughout law practice and operations.
The company, LexFusion, will serve as the go-to-market representative of a collective of…
The practice management platform Rocket Matter, whose launch in 2009 alongside Clio helped usher in a new generation of cloud practice management platforms, has been acquired by a private equity firm.
It will become part of a new company, ProfitSolv, that will focus on billing, payments and software for professional services firms.
The…
Though the debate of whether or not law firms should embrace legal technology continues, the pandemic has brought to light the advantages of document automation.
Since mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the way law firms operate. While some firms were forced to adapt on the fly as they spent weeks setting up…
ASG LegalTech, the company that owns cloud practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase, has acquired Headnote, the online payments platform that provides e-payments and accounts-receivable management for law firms.
At the same time, ASG LegalTech is announcing the first fruit of this acquisition — a fully integrated, all-in-one payment system…
The law practice technology company Clio this week announced the five finalists that will compete for the title of “Best New Integration” and a $100,000 grand prize in the 2020 Launch//Code developer contest.
This is the third year of the contest, which recognizes innovative…
Two months ago, LexisNexis announced its planned launch of a premium legal research service, Lexis+, which it said would take a bold approach to providing legal research, AI-driven analytics and practical guidance within a unified and fully integrated platform.
As I reported at the time, the company positioned the new service not…
As global compliance regulations have surged over the past decade, corporations in both the U.S. and U.K. say that responding to regulatory changes creates operational pressure for their businesses, increases their risk, and has a negative affect on their profitability and growth, according to a new survey out today.
One impact of these…
Last week may have been the first-ever virtual annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, but just like past years’ face-to-face ILTACONs, this year’s ILTA>ON was the occasion for a flood of major news announcements from legal technology companies.
And given my own perfect storm last week of spending three hours a…
It is fitting that Thomson Reuters’ annual survey report on the state of small U.S. law firms, which is being released today, opens with the French phrase, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” — the more things change, the more they stay the same.
This is the fourth time TR has produced its…
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…
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