Companies

Here are the episodes of my LawNext podcast that got the most listens during October. This reflects episode downloads only during October, not for all time. (By the way, in the all-time tally, the episode that long held first place, my September 2018 interview with Mark Britton, former Avvo CEO, has been bumped into second place by my April interview with legal futurist Richard Susskind.) 1. Rocket Lawyer Founder Charley Moore.

In September, the private equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC, through a newly formed company called ProfitSolv, made two notable acquisitions of legal technology companies: Rocket Matter, the cloud-based practice management company, and TimeSolv, a provider of cloud-based legal billing and timekeeping software.

In acquiring Rocket Matter, ProfitSolv also got the payment…

In a recent episode of my LawNext podcast, I interviewed the founder of SirionLabs, Ajay Agrawal, about how his company is aiming to disrupt the field of enterprise contract lifecycle management through the use of artificial intelligence technology.

Now, that technology will be available to customers of global managed services provider Integreon,…

Even as many law firms have stubbornly stuck with on-premises software to run their practices, the last few years have seen a decided shift towards the cloud. All indications are that the coronavirus crisis has dramatically accelerated that shift, and surveys, such as Clio’s recent Legal Trends Report, have borne that out.

Now,

A website launching today aims to be the most complete global directory of commercial legal technology, listing legaltech tools, consultants, jobs, events, awards, resources and more from throughout the world in a single, unified resource.

The site, Legaltech Hub, is the creation of the husband-and-wife team of Nicola Shaver and Chris Ford,…

In September, Rocket Lawyer became the first national company approved to participate in Utah’s regulatory sandbox, a pilot program for licensing new and alternative forms of legal providers and services. For Charley Moore, who founded Rocket Lawyer in 2008, it was yet another step in his quest to deliver high-value legal services at an affordable…

CASEpeer, a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys, is today launching an integration with the legal accounting software company Soluno that will provide its users access to a full suite of cost and trust accounting tools.

“Our goal was to have the integration between the two platforms be very seamless,” CASEpeer CEO

Sept. 30, 2020, was Josh Becker’s last day in legal tech, at least for the time being, as he pursues his campaign for election to the California state Senate in the district that encompasses Silicon Valley cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.

Most recently, Becker was chairman of the trailblazing legal…

LexisNexis says a new research tool it is launching today for searching, comparing and analyzing mergers and acquisitions is the most comprehensive and detailed database of publicly filed M&A deals available on the market.

Called Market Standards, it is part of Practical Guidance — the LexisNexis collection of practice-specific forms, clauses, checklists articles and…

In this exclusive interview recorded in advance of the Oct. 1, 2020, launch of LexFusion, we get a first look at the new company from guests Joe Borstein, a legal industry veteran and one of LexFusion’s two cofounders, and Basha Rubin, the cofounder and CEO of Priori Legal, the legal talent company…

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…