Companies

When Thomson Reuters acquired the UK-based Practical Law Company three years ago, the legal industry generally reacted positively, although no one knew quite what would come out of the acquisition. Practical Law sells “know-how” for transactional and corporate lawyers, which means that it sells various resources that literally help…

Last month, this blog was the first to report the news that Avvo was beginning to roll out a service, called Avvo Legal Services, offering fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys. At that point, the service was being tested in five cities.…

Lex Machina CEO Josh Becker and GC Owen Byrd at Legaltech in New York last week.

Legal analytics company Lex Machina — which LexisNexis acquired in November — is introducing a new feature today that is designed to correct and improve upon the information PACER provides about attorneys…

I am very pleased to announce the launch of our new podcast, Law Technology Now, co-hosted with Monica Bay, longtime editor of Law Technology News now a fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and produced by the Legal Talk Network.

In each episode, Monica and I…

Before I head off to Legaltech New York, here are a couple items from last week’s legal technology news:

New from LexisNexis. LexisNexis released a few announcements in advance of Legaltech. In addition to its recent acquisition of Lex Machina, which it will be highlighting at Legaltech, it also announced:…

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…