https://www.lawnext.com/category/derek-bluford Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:57:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/former-legal-tech-founder-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison-for-fraud-forgery.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/former-legal-tech-founder-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison-for-fraud-forgery.html#respond Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:57:53 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=36145 Between 2016 and 2018, I wrote a series of posts about Derek Bluford, a one-time rising star on the legal tech start-up scene whose star fell after I reported in 2016 of his settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. Now, Bluford has been sentenced to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/former-legal-tech-founder-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison-for-fraud-forgery.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/10/former-legaltech-ceo-tried-to-bribe-new-haven-mayor.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/10/former-legaltech-ceo-tried-to-bribe-new-haven-mayor.html#respond Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:44:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=34494 Earlier this week, I provided an update on Derek Bluford, the indicted former founder of a legal technology company whose newly published book claims he was an FBI informant. Now there is more news about Bluford, as the publication New Haven Independent reports on a 2019 dinner Bluford had with Toni Harp, then the mayor […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/10/former-legaltech-ceo-tried-to-bribe-new-haven-mayor.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/10/indicted-founder-of-now-defunct-legal-tech-company-says-in-book-he-was-fbi-mole.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/10/indicted-founder-of-now-defunct-legal-tech-company-says-in-book-he-was-fbi-mole.html#respond Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:02:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=34476 Derek Bluford, who was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2018 after his legal technology company shut down amid allegations of fraud, forgery and impersonating a lawyer, has resurfaced with a new self-published book in which he says he became an FBI informant assisting in a political corruption investigation into the former mayor of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/10/indicted-founder-of-now-defunct-legal-tech-company-says-in-book-he-was-fbi-mole.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2018/01/former-legal-tech-entrepreneur-federally-indicted-wire-fraud-money-laundering.html https://www.lawnext.com/2018/01/former-legal-tech-entrepreneur-federally-indicted-wire-fraud-money-laundering.html#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:23:29 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=16937 https://www.lawnext.com/2018/01/former-legal-tech-entrepreneur-federally-indicted-wire-fraud-money-laundering.html/feed 1 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/04/quicklegals-counsel-responds-recent-reports-startups-lawtova-text-ticket.html https://www.lawnext.com/2017/04/quicklegals-counsel-responds-recent-reports-startups-lawtova-text-ticket.html#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:15:27 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=15063 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/04/quicklegals-counsel-responds-recent-reports-startups-lawtova-text-ticket.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/03/now-yet-another-startup-former-quicklegal-crew.html https://www.lawnext.com/2017/03/now-yet-another-startup-former-quicklegal-crew.html#comments Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:03:53 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=14954 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/03/now-yet-another-startup-former-quicklegal-crew.html/feed 2 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/03/legal-startup-appears-shut-question-management.html https://www.lawnext.com/2017/03/legal-startup-appears-shut-question-management.html#comments Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:38:09 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=14743 https://www.lawnext.com/2017/03/legal-startup-appears-shut-question-management.html/feed 5 https://www.lawnext.com/2016/06/former-gc-sues-quicklegal-unpaid-stock-wages.html https://www.lawnext.com/2016/06/former-gc-sues-quicklegal-unpaid-stock-wages.html#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2016 13:54:45 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=12850 https://www.lawnext.com/2016/06/former-gc-sues-quicklegal-unpaid-stock-wages.html/feed 1 https://www.lawnext.com/2016/06/case-startup-ceo-charged-fraud-gets-curiouser.html https://www.lawnext.com/2016/06/case-startup-ceo-charged-fraud-gets-curiouser.html#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:56:44 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=12821 https://www.lawnext.com/2016/06/case-startup-ceo-charged-fraud-gets-curiouser.html/feed 1 https://www.lawnext.com/2016/05/ceo-legal-startup-responds-yesterdays-post.html https://www.lawnext.com/2016/05/ceo-legal-startup-responds-yesterdays-post.html#comments Fri, 27 May 2016 17:36:28 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=12741 https://www.lawnext.com/2016/05/ceo-legal-startup-responds-yesterdays-post.html/feed 3 https://www.lawnext.com/2016/05/ceo-legal-startup-charged-fraud-forgery-impersonating-lawyer.html https://www.lawnext.com/2016/05/ceo-legal-startup-charged-fraud-forgery-impersonating-lawyer.html#comments Thu, 26 May 2016 15:00:49 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=12692 https://www.lawnext.com/2016/05/ceo-legal-startup-charged-fraud-forgery-impersonating-lawyer.html/feed 8