Wolters Kluwer today announced that Jonah Paransky has been named executive vice president and general manager of its ELM Solutions business, a part of its Governance, Risk & Compliance group. ELM Solutions provides enterprise legal management software to facilitate workflow and collaboration in law firms, corporate legal departments and insurance claims…
ScanSnap Cloud’s New App Adds Smartphone Scanning and OCR
Fujitsu yesterday announced new capabilities added to its ScanSnap Cloud feature for iX series ScanSnap scanners. Most notably, it introduced a new app for iOS and Android that includes the ability to scan using your phone’s camera and new OCR capabilities for making scanned PDFs searchable.
As I wrote here last year, ScanSnap…
Book Review: Making the Case for Metrics in Managing Small Law Firms
Ask a roomful of small-firm lawyers about KPIs, and I’d be willing to bet a good number of them would have no idea what you are talking about. Kitchen patrol in the infantry, maybe? Another group would know about KPIs, but consider them relevant only to large firms or other types of businesses. And then…
Techshow Recap: Not Your Granddaddy’s Legal Tech Conference
Clio CEO Jack Newton introduces the Techshow keynote with the CEOs of Avvo, Rocket Lawyer and LegalZoom.
After 31 years, ABA Techshow is the granddaddy of legal technology conferences. That can be both a blessing and a curse. Amid a surge of legal-tech-conference upstarts, the challenge for Techshow is not merely to…
Survey Finds Virtual Dead Heat in Lawyers’ Use of Westlaw, LexisNexis and Fastcase
Westlaw and LexisNexis are typically viewed as the dominant leaders among legal research services. But a recent survey found that Fastcase is in a virtual dead heat with Westlaw and LexisNexis among smaller-firm lawyers.
The just-released information comes from a survey conducted in 2016 by law practice management company Clio. The survey asked…
Podcast: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About ABA Techshow But Were Afraid to Ask
Well, maybe not everything. But in the latest episode of the podcast Law Technology Now, I speak with Adriana Linares, the chair of Techshow 2017, about what to expect at this year’s conference, which is next week, March 15-18, in Chicago.
Linares, a law practice consultant when she’s not organizing Techshow,…
AI Contract Review Platform LawGeex Raises $7M in Funding Round
Another day, another investment in a legal startup. Yesterday, I reported that cloud-based litigation management platform Allegory had raised over $500,000. Today brings news that LawGeex, a contract review platform based on artificial intelligence, closed a $7 million Series A funding round.
The round was led by a group of investors that…
News from #Legalweek17: Lexis Advance Now Integrates Lex Machina’s Analytics
Ever since LexisNexis acquired the legal analytics platform Lex Machina in November 2015, the plan has been to integrate Lex Machina across a range of LexisNexis products and, in particular, its Lexis Advance legal research platform. Today at the Legalweek conference in New York, LexisNexis officially launched the first stage of…
Breaking: LexisNexis to Discontinue Sales of Its Firm Manager Practice Management Platform
LexisNexis is discontinuing sales and suspending development of its Firm Manager practice management platform.
The company sent an email yesterday to consultants and others in its partner network notifying them of the news. The email said:
…Wanted to share a recent choice we’ve made to increase investment in a number of key BLSS
Lex Machina’s New Analytics Apps Explore Damages and Parties
Lex Machina released new apps yesterday targeted to provide legal analytics around two key litigation topics, damages and parties. The new apps, Damages Explorer and Parties Comparator, are designed to make it easier for users to explore and analyze data around these two topics.
Over the last year, Lex Machina has rolled out…
Blue Hill Gives More Details on ROSS Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Report
Following my post earlier this week about the benchmark report published by Blue Hill Research that assessed the ROSS Intelligence legal research platform, I had several questions about the report and many readers contacted me with questions of their own. The author of the report, David Houlihan, principal analyst at Blue…
By Popular Demand, I Am Changing The Headline On My Recent ROSS Post
I cannot remember the last time I changed a headline on a blog post or even whether I ever did. But by popular demand, I am changing the headline on my recent post about a study that compared the ROSS artificial intelligence platform against Westlaw and LexisNexis.
My headline said:
…ROSS Artificial Intelligence
Robert Ambrogi Blog