Conducting a search in eDiscovery Point.
At what was billed as an Innovation Summit in its Times Square headquarters yesterday, Thomson Reuters Legal briefed journalists, bloggers and analysts on two products it is unveiling at Legaltech New York next week and also offered tantalizing hints of a product it is developing using the…
A Ravel Law search conducted from within a Handshake portal.
Handshake Software yesterday announced that it now has an integration partnership with the legal research platform Ravel Law. That announcement comes a month after Handshake announced its integration with West km, the Thomson Reuters knowledge management…
Avvo is beginning to roll out a service that offers fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys.
The service, Avvo Legal Services, offers a variety of limited-scope legal services at a fixed fee. The services range from review of legal documents such as business contracts and…
A Florida law firm yesterday launched a website, LegalYou.com, that is in part a portal for self-represented litigants and in part a storefront for selling the law firm’s unbundled services. The site aims to both educate and assist people who are representing themselves while also providing them access to professional services on an…
What have been 2015’s most important developments in legal technology? For the past two years, I’ve posted my picks of the top developments in legal tech (2014, 2013). With another year under our belts, it’s time to look back at 2015.
What follows are my picks for the year’s most important legal technology…
Last week – three weeks after the acquisition of Lex Machina by LexisNexis – I had an opportunity to talk to Josh Becker, Lex Machina’s CEO, about the deal and about what had transpired in its aftermath.
My first question to him was why…
Last May, I reported the imminent demise of Westlaw. It wasn’t that the legal research service was going away. But as Thomson Reuters’ next-generation platform WestlawNext became the company’s primary focus, the company decided to phase out the older platform, which it by then referred to as Westlaw Classic.
In my post, I cited…
Following up on my posts earlier today (here and here) about the acquisition by LexisNexis of Silicon Valley legal analytics company Lex Machina, I had an opportunity to speak with Steven Errick, vice president and managing director of research services at LexisNexis, who gave me more details about the deal and plans…
[For an update, see: LexisNexis VP Steven Errick Discusses Lex Machina Acquisition.]
Following up on my earlier post today, Rumor Mill: Is LexisNexis About to Buy Lex Machina?, I have received confirmation from LexisNexis that the acquisition has taken place. Here’s the note I received from Ashley Jefferson, communications coordinator for LexisNexis:…
For updates to this post, see:
Now It’s Official: LexisNexis Acquires Lex Machina. LexisNexis VP Steven Errick Discusses Lex Machina Acquisition.Rumors are swirling that LexisNexis is about to announce its acquisition of Lex Machina, the legal analytics platform that emerged out…
Here are some stories of note this week from the world of legal technology and the legal web:
Platform aims to make legal services more affordable. A new cloud-based platform called PlanetXLaw aims to help lawyers deliver legal services more affordably to low and moderate income consumers. The platform is unique in that it collects…
Hot off the wire today: Thomson Reuters announced that its legal business has acquired Business Integrity, a company that provides document assembly and contract creation tools to law firms and corporations.
The company’s primary product is ContractExpress, an enterprise-level document automation platform used primarily at larger law firms and corporations.
Its…
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