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State Net Legislative Tracker Marks 50th Anniversary with Platform Upgrades and New Analytics

State Net Legislative Tracker Marks 50th Anniversary with Platform Upgrades and New Analytics

By Bob Ambrogi
on December 18, 2019

The legislative tracking service State Net, which is owned by LexisNexis, is marking its 50th year in business by rolling out upgrades to its infrastructure and search and new analytics.

Founded 50 years ago in Sacramento, Calif., State Net was acquired by LexisNexis in 2010. Two years ago, LexisNexis put Daniel Lewis, vice…

Announcing the Winners of the 2020 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition

Announcing the Winners of the 2020 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition

By Bob Ambrogi
on December 9, 2019

The results are in — all 38,715 of them. Readers have been voting to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW conference, which is Feb. 26 to 29, 2020, in Chicago.  Voting ended Friday night and now we are…

Startup Alley Voting Ends Friday; Here Are the Standings So Far

Startup Alley Voting Ends Friday; Here Are the Standings So Far

By Bob Ambrogi
on December 4, 2019

Friday is the last day to cast your vote to select the 15 legal technology startups that will participate in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2020. The 15 companies will face off in a pitch competition on TECHSHOW’s opening night and be featured as exhibitors in a special portion of the conference’s exhibition hall.…

In Unique Partnership, Two Legal Research Companies to Co-Develop Products

In Unique Partnership, Two Legal Research Companies to Co-Develop Products

By Bob Ambrogi
on December 3, 2019

In The Godfather Part II, Michael Corleone famously said, “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”

That line came into my head when I was briefed last week on news being announced this morning of a unique partnership between two competing legal research companies, Fastcase and ROSS Intelligence, to share content and…

Ravel Cofounder Leaves LexisNexis, Joins Axiom Spin-Off Knowable

Ravel Cofounder Leaves LexisNexis, Joins Axiom Spin-Off Knowable

By Bob Ambrogi
on December 3, 2019

Nicholas (Nik) Reed was two months out of Stanford Law School when he and classmate Daniel Lewis cofounded the legal research company Ravel Law. Becoming its COO, he helped drive its growth.

When LexisNexis acquired Ravel in 2017, he became vice president of product strategy, playing a lead role in…

Legal Analytics Products Deliver Widely Divergent Results, Study Shows

Legal Analytics Products Deliver Widely Divergent Results, Study Shows

By Bob Ambrogi
on November 25, 2019

I have made no secret of the fact that I consider litigation analytics to be one of the most important technologies to have gained traction in recent years. Writing about analytics a year ago on Above the Law, I titled the post, This Tech Can Turn the Tables in Litigation. In my year-end summary…

Believe It or Not: This Blog Turns 17 Today

Believe It or Not: This Blog Turns 17 Today

By Bob Ambrogi
on November 19, 2019

It was a much-different world in 2002. A Republican occupied the White House. The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl, led by a quarterback named Tom Brady. At the box office, a Spider-Man movie was a big hit. And the news cycle was taken up with talk of whistleblowers.

But…

Vote Now: Help Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2020

Vote Now: Help Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2020

By Bob Ambrogi
on November 18, 2019

We need your vote! Help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2020. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a pitch competition on TECHSHOW’s opening night and to exhibit in a special portion of the conference’s exhibition hall.

In September, we…

LawNext Special Report: Avvo Founder Mark Britton at the Clio Cloud Conference

LawNext Special Report: Avvo Founder Mark Britton at the Clio Cloud Conference

By Bob Ambrogi
on November 4, 2019


In 2018, Mark Britton left Avvo, the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO until he sold it earlier that year to web behemoth Internet Brands. Soon after, he joined us here on LawNext…

Clio Announces 35 New Integration Partners, from AppearMe to ZorroSign

Clio Announces 35 New Integration Partners, from AppearMe to ZorroSign

By Bob Ambrogi
on October 22, 2019

Jack Newton, the cofounder and CEO of practice management company Clio, describes his vision for the company as becoming the operating system of law — a point he reiterated yesterday during his keynote that opened the Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego.

To that end, Clio has steadily been expanding the number of companies…

LawNext Episode 54: The AI Behind ROSS, with CTO Jimoh Ovbiagele and Head of Engineering Stergios Anastasiadis 

LawNext Episode 54: The AI Behind ROSS, with CTO Jimoh Ovbiagele and Head of Engineering Stergios Anastasiadis 

By Bob Ambrogi
on October 7, 2019

Back in LawNext Episode 48, I traveled to Toronto to record a live interview with the founders of the AI-driven legal research platform ROSS Intelligence, CEO Andrew Arruda and CTO Jimoh Ovbiagele, in which they discussed the company’s rise from startup in 2014 to a more mature and established company.…

New CEO at LegalZoom, As Longtime Leader John Suh Steps Aside

New CEO at LegalZoom, As Longtime Leader John Suh Steps Aside

By Bob Ambrogi
on October 4, 2019

There is a new CEO at online legal services provider LegalZoom. John Suh, who has been CEO since 2007 and on the company’s board since 2005, is moving to a position as senior advisor. Succeeding him is Daniel Wernikoff, who comes to LegalZoom after 15 years at Intuit, where he oversaw consumer and…

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