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As we move through 2025, one thing is clear. Midsize law firms are at a pivotal moment of transformation. These firms are facing rising client expectations, increasing operational costs, and a shifting talent landscape that is motivating firms to make bold moves to stay competitive, efficient, and client focused.  

At Actionstep,…

An overwhelming 87% of professionals in midsized law firms view investing in cutting-edge technology as critical for their firm’s future, with expectations for AI’s value growing significantly, according to the 2025 US Midsize Law Firm Priorities Report, released today by law practice management company Actionstep.

The report, which surveyed 264 U.S. law firm…

AffiniPay, the parent company of law practice management company MyCase, has sold off the legal accounting software Soluno to another law practice management company, Actionstep, in what the New Zealand-based Actionstep says is an important milestone for its expansion into the U.S. and Canadian markets.

MyCase acquired the cloud-based Soluno in…

Actionstep, a cloud-based law practice management platform, has acquired the Australian practice management company FilePro and its 4,000 law firm customers in Australia.

While both companies primarily serve mid-sized law firms, FilePro was developed as an on-premises product and has been exploring the development of a cloud product.

This deal will accelerate the…

A survey out today of lawyers, paralegals and administrative support professionals at midsized law firms finds that nearly three-quarters report feeling stress, burnout, or being overwhelmed in the past year, and that understaffing is a leading cause, with 92% saying their firms have been impacted by staffing or resources shortages.

Of the lawyers and paralegals…

Way back in 2020, I wrote about how the pandemic had escalated the importance of electronic payments as a feature of law practice management software. That trend has only escalated since then, with any number of practice management platforms launching not just integrated e-payments from third-party payment processors, but their own native e-payments.

Now,…

Whoa, what the f*&% just happened? This was a year few of us will ever forget. It brought untold hardships for many and unfamiliar challenges for all of us. To those who suffered losses of loved ones or illness, to those who lost their jobs or their homes, to any and all who suffered scars this year, I offer my heartfelt condolences. But in the world of legal technology and innovation, the phrase I heard often repeated this year was “silver lining.” It was a silver lining in the form of an accelerant. The challenge to modernizing the delivery of…

In the span of less than a month, the landscape of law practice management software has been dramatically reshaped, as September brought a spate of three major acquisitions by private equity firms of companies with technology related to the management of smaller law firms.

Now there is another private equity investment to report: Actionstep,…

As it has almost every year since 2011, the legal technology newsletter TechnoLawyer has published its picks for the top products of the year.

Winners are picked through “passive” voting, based on the number of reader click-throughs on articles published during the year about new products.

“When you and your fellow TechnoLawyer subscribers click…