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The Oct. 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas left 58 people dead and more than 500 wounded. In the wake of that terrible tragedy, victims and their families have been left to deal with a host of very real legal issues, ranging from probate matters to insurance…

A reminder that the deadline is fast approaching for legal technology startups to apply for one of 15 spots in the second-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. Winners get a spot in a special Startup Alley in the TECHSHOW exhibition hall and participate in an opening night startup pitch competition judged by conference attendees.

Startups…

The legal research company Casetext has introduced a feature that monitors an attorney’s litigation dockets for briefs and memoranda from opposing counsel and then automatically delivers a report of case law that is relevant but not included in the document.

The feature uses Casetext’s legal research assistant CARA, an analytical tool…

The legal and business publishing company ALM today launched a new digital platform that unites its 18 U.S. legal brands — including The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel and The National Law Journal — under the common Law.com URL.

ALM says this follows from its launch last year of its global newsroom,…

RegReview enables the user to navigate to all forms, regulations and SEC guidance related to the filing.

In a post here in July, I provided a preview of RegReview, a new component of its Transactional Law Suite for Securities that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. planned to showcase at the annual convention of…

Clio’s App Directory

I wrote recently about major announcements made by Clio at its annual Clio Cloud Conference, including a major reengineering of its platform and a new direction for the company, from “law practice management” in the cloud to “law practice” in the cloud. Key to that new…

After 11 years as managing editor of Above the Law, the blog he founded and helped develop into a successful and influential legal publishing enterprise, David Lat is stepping down from his leadership role to spend more time writing, reporting, and parenting his new baby boy. Longtime Above the Law writer and editor Elie…

In a post here last January, How LexBlog Quietly Reinvented Itself This Year, I described how the 14-year-old LexBlog had gone through a fundamental reinvention of both its business model and its blogging platform over the past year. Now, it is taking a further step in that new direction by offering…

Recent weeks have brought a rash of news stories highlighting major technology blunders by lawyers that have resulted in severe consequences. Among them:…

Canadian lawyers can enable settings specific to their province.

Because Canadian lawyers are subject to strict and unique accounting, taxation and reporting requirements, cloud-based practice management systems designed for U.S. lawyers often are not good fits for them. For this reason, the majority of Canadian firms that have practice management software use…

Company details page in the Corpman software.

Jeroen Plink is a name familiar to many in the legal information and technology fields. The CEO of Practical Law US until its acquisition by Thomson Reuters, he now works as an advisor to and sits on the boards of a number of law-related companies,…

ROSS founders Pargles Dall’Oglio, Andrew Arruda and Jimoh Ovbiagele.

The artificial-intelligence-driven legal research service ROSS Intelligence today announced an $8.7 million Series A funding round, adding to its earlier $4.3 million seed round.

The two-year-old company will use the funding to accelerate its growth, expand its product lines, increase its capacity, and…