https://www.lawnext.com/category/lawnext-products/lawpay Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:00:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/affinipay-parent-to-lawpay-mycase-and-others-rebrands-as-8am-to-signify-its-evolution-into-a-unified-professional-services-platform.html Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:00:50 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50833 AffiniPay, a company that develops technology for lawyers and accountants, today announced it has rebranded to “8am,” to better reflect its identity as it has evolved from its origins as a payments processor to a comprehensive suite of products for legal, accounting, and other professional services firms. The Austin-based company’s rebrand encompasses the parent company […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/07/affinipay-partners-with-canadian-company-caseway-to-bring-ai-court-form-automation-to-mycase.html Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:47:10 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50503 AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay and other law practice management products, has entered into a partnership with Canadian AI company Caseway that will bring automated court form filling capabilities to MyCase practice management software users. The partnership introduces a new product developed by the Vancouver-based Caseway — an AI-powered court form automation tool […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/aderant-renews-its-partnership-with-lawpay-to-provide-cloud-based-e-payments-through-expert-and-sierra.html Fri, 09 May 2025 12:59:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49840 Aderant, a global provider of legal business management software, said today that it has signed a multi-year renewal of its partnership with LawPay to provide its users with integrated access to LawPay’s electronic payments solution. The Aderant and LawPay integration fully automates and extends payment enablement options for customers of Aderant Expert and Aderant Sierra […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/affinipays-2025-legal-industry-report-portrays-a-profession-at-a-technological-crossroads.html Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:18:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49179 AffiniPay, the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, including LawPay and MyCase, today released its 2025 Legal Industry Report, based on a survey of over 2,800 legal professionals, primarily in solo and small firms, and it reveals a profession at a critical technological crossroads, with generative AI, financial […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/affinipay-parent-to-lawpay-mycase-and-others-announces-inaugural-conference-for-legal-and-accounting-professionals.html Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:08:27 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48992 This article may include affiliate links, and LawSites may earn a commission on purchases made using such links, but our reporting is independent and never influenced by advertisers or partners. Learn about our Editorial Integrity Policy. AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, MyCase, and other platforms, today announced that it will hold its first-ever conference […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/in-austin-for-cliocon-competitor-affinipay-put-on-a-guerilla-marketing-sideshow.html Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:58:53 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47899 Clio’s choice of Austin, Texas, for its Clio Cloud Conference this year was a foray into enemy territory, and the enemy responded strategically with guerilla tactics of its own. Austin, as it happens, is the home base of AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay, CASEPeer and Docketwise, all of which are competitors to Clio. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/mycase-announces-new-ai-accounting-and-immigration-features-plus-update-on-smart-spend.html Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:30:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47824 This article may include affiliate links, and LawSites may earn a commission on purchases made using such links, but our reporting is independent and never influenced by advertisers or partners. Learn about our Editorial Integrity Policy.   The law practice management platform MyCase rolled out three product updates today that include MyCaseIQ, an AI conversational […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-3-of-4-future-development-and-market-opportunities.html Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:42:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47606 In the first two posts in this series, I have talked about the consolidation of ownership that has occurred in recent years for law practice management technology. Whereas this market was once characterized by a variety of competing companies, virtually all of the major products are now owned by one of six ownership groups. Part […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-2-of-4-a-scorecard-of-who-owns-what.html Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:35:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47550 “You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” yelled the hawkers of olden days at major league baseball stadiums. In the modern days of law practice management, that may still be true. As I wrote yesterday in part one of this four-part series, the law practice management market has undergone dramatic consolidation, from what was […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-1-of-4-a-market-dominated-by-just-six-ownership-groups.html Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:52:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47547 Sixteen years ago marked the beginning of a sea change in law practice management technology for solo and small law firms. On March 1, 2008, a virtually unknown company out of Canada called Themis Solutions launched the first cloud-based software product for managing a law practice, called Clio. Coincidentally, just a week earlier, another company, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/first-of-its-kind-credit-card-software-combo-from-lawpay-and-mycase-lets-law-firms-track-expenses-directly-to-matters-and-invoicing.html Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:00:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45903 This article may include affiliate links, and LawSites may earn a commission on purchases made using such links, but our reporting is independent and never influenced by advertisers or partners. Learn about our Editorial Integrity Policy. A common pain point for law firms is failing to track and invoice all reimbursable client expenses, resulting in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/mycase-unveils-its-first-gen-ai-tools-as-parent-affinipay-lays-out-plan-to-embed-ai-across-all-its-products.html Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:00:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45610 This article may include affiliate links, and LawSites may earn a commission on purchases made using such links, but our reporting is independent and never influenced by advertisers or partners. Learn about our Editorial Integrity Policy. AffiniPay, the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, including […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/top-15-lawnext-podcast-episodes-of-2023-and-of-all-time.html Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:17:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45446 Call me lucky. Every week, I get to sit down at the mic for my LawNext podcast and have a conversation with the leading “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” For me, each and every one of these conversations is fun and fascinating. But I am equally fascinated to add up the numbers […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/on-lawnext-affinipay-ceo-dru-armstrong-on-the-intersection-of-fintech-legal-tech-and-ai.html Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:04:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45338 Dru Armstrong was named CEO of AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, in July 2021. Less than a year later, AffiniPay shook up the legal tech landscape by acquiring MyCase, one of the leading law practice management platforms, in a deal that also included four other practice management products: CASEPeer for personal injury firms, Docketwise for immigration practices, Soluno for billing and accounting (which it recently sold), and Woodpecker for document automation. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/11/mycase-releases-public-api-for-easier-integration-with-third-party-software-adds-lawpay-reconciliation.html Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:00:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45239 The law practice management company MyCase this week introduced a public API for easier integration with third-party software, as well as two new payments features that more tightly integrate LawPay within the MyCase platform. By releasing a public API (application programming interface), MyCase is making it easier for customers to integrate the platform with other […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/09/in-a-law-practice-management-deal-mycase-sells-off-accounting-software-soluno-to-actionstep.html Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:00:58 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=44599 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 2021, saying at the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/05/the-post-pandemic-state-of-legal-practice-with-nicole-black-of-mycase.html Tue, 09 May 2023 18:02:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43556 Over the past year, the sibling legal technology companies MyCase and LawPay have published a series of reports on law practice, including benchmark reports based on anonymized data from the two companies’ customers, as well as an in-depth 2022 year-end legal industry report, based on a survey of over 2,300 legal professionals. Together, they provide […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/04/passive-timekeeping-can-earn-a-lawyer-an-extra-22k-a-year-mycase-data-analysis-shows.html Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:00:17 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43373 Let’s face it, hourly billing is cursed in so many ways. But for the lawyers who bill by the hour, perhaps the greatest curse is simply have to keep track of their time. That is why several companies in recent years have developed passive timekeeping tools for lawyers — tools that keep track of a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/03/legalweek-news-roundup-part-2-casepeer-evisort-everlaw-hanzo-lawpay-lexcheck-linksquares-legalease-logikcull-milestones-mycase.html Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:50:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43211 This week marked the annual Legalweek show in New York, one of the world’s largest and most prominent legal technology conferences. Although COVID kept me from attending, it is not keeping me from covering the news coming out of the show. Previously, I posted part one of my roundup of Legalweek news, featuring news from Reveal-Brainspace, Casepoint, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/02/lawpay-introduces-pro-tier-to-bridge-features-gap-between-payments-and-practice-management.html Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=42942 With ABA TECHSHOW beginning Wednesday, you can expect several companies to introduce new products and features this week. First up is the online payments company LawPay, which today is announcing a new product tier, LawPay Pro, that enhances the standard LawPay electronic payments platform with the addition of legal billing features. The additional features, such […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/01/casepeer-practice-management-software-for-pi-firms-now-integrates-with-lawpay-for-e-payments.html Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:00:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=42349 CASEpeer, a practice management platform designed for personal injury law firms, now integrates with the online payments platform LawPay, it said today. The integration enables PI firms to accept credit card and ACH payments electronically, which can help a firm increase collections and streamline financial operations. CASEpeer is owned by Affinipay, the parent company of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/12/top-15-lawnext-podcast-episodes-of-2022-and-of-all-time.html Wed, 28 Dec 2022 14:17:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=42233 Since starting my LawNext podcast in 2018, I have had the great fortune of sitting down almost every week for conversations with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” While I enjoy each and every conversation, the numbers of listens reveal something about which topics and guests you, the listeners, found most […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/12/new-lawpay-mycase-survey-provides-insights-into-the-tech-that-matters-for-smaller-law-firms.html Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:04:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=42171 A legal industry report released today by the sibling legal technology companies LawPay and MyCase provides unique insights into the technology tools that matter most to smaller law firms in the post-pandemic era. While the report finds that law firms have largely recovered from pandemic-related declines in revenues, it concludes that, with regard to technology, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/12/how-it-works-a-demonstration-of-lawpay-online-payments-developed-specifically-for-law-firms.html Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=42118 In the latest episode of our video series How It Works, we learn about LawPay, the electronic payments solution developed specifically to help law firms streamline billings and collections by providing a simple, secure way for legal clients to pay their bills online. LawPay’s easy-to-use technology was built around lawyers’ specific needs, providing a simple […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/11/affinipay-parent-of-lawpay-and-mycase-names-two-women-to-executive-posts-as-gc-and-cmo.html Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:24:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=41955 AffiniPay, the parent company of payments platform LawPay and practice management platform MyCase, today named Catherine Dawson, a lawyer with 20 years of experience in data privacy, cybersecurity and mergers and acquisitions, as its general counsel. The news comes a week after AffiniPay named another woman to its executive suite, marketing and software executive Ana […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/11/immigration-software-docketwise-adds-native-e-signature-functionality.html Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:31:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=41863 Docketwise, a case management platform for immigration lawyers, has now added built-in e-signature functionality. Docketwise says it is now the only legal immigration software platform that has e-signature technology natively within its platform, as opposed to integrating with a third-party signature technology. More about Docketwise on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. The company said that […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/06/steven-silberbach-former-global-sales-head-at-clio-joins-lawpay-as-chief-sales-officer.html Thu, 16 Jun 2022 20:41:31 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=40870 With its acquisition last week of MyCase, LawPay and its parent company AffiniPay also acquired a new chief sales officer, Steven Silberbach, who formerly led global sales at Clio, and who is a veteran sales leader with significant experience in building revenue, value, and client impact. Silberbach joined MyCase full-time on March 1, after having […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/06/questions-about-the-lawpay-mycase-deal-join-me-friday-for-webinar-with-the-ceos.html Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:30:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=40843 The news last week that AffiniPay, parent company of LawPay, had acquired MyCase, has generated significant interest and raised a number of questions. For anyone who wants to learn more about the deal — and have a chance to pose their questions directly to the companies’ CEOs — I will be moderating a webinar this […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/06/ceos-of-clio-paradigm-and-profitsolv-react-to-news-of-lawpays-acquisition-of-mycase.html Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:57:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=40825 With the acquisition last week by payments company AffiniPay, parent of LawPay, of practice management company MyCase, one intriguing aspect of the deal was that, until then, LawPay had been the legal tech equivalent of Switzerland, partnering with virtually every practice management platform, but always neutral as to which should win the competition for the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/06/on-lawnext-as-lawpay-acquires-mycase-our-exclusive-podcast-interview-with-the-two-ceos.html Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:30:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=40800  Earlier today, I reported the breaking news that is likely to have a profound impact on the law practice management market: AffiniPay, the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay, has acquired the law practice management company MyCase, along with several other practice management products that MyCase acquired over the past year.   […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/06/in-major-deal-lawpay-acquires-mycase-read-full-details-and-listen-to-exclusive-podcast-interview-with-the-two-companies-ceos.html Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:03:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=40778 In a deal that is sure to shake-up the already hyperactive market for law practice management software, AffiniPay, the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay, has acquired the law practice management company MyCase. Not only are LawPay and MyCase among the most widely used products in their respective sectors of e-payments and practice […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/09/lawpays-new-clientcredit-option-allows-clients-to-buy-now-pay-later.html Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:18:05 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37775 Recent headlines in the financial press are replete with stories about the new boom in buy now, pay later financing for retail purchases, with many retailers, including Walmart, the nation’s largest, now offering these point-of-sale loans. Now, the electronic payments company LawPay is bringing buy now, pay later financing to the legal industry. It will soon […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/08/lawpay-looks-to-expand-beyond-payments-while-staying-true-to-core-mission-new-ceo-says-in-interview.html Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:26:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37372 Last month, AffiniPay, parent of the popular legal payments platform LawPay, named Dru Armstrong as its new CEO. With degrees in both law and business from the University of Chicago, Armstrong was previously CEO of Grace Hill, a company that provides software for owners and operators of real estate properties. Prior to joining Grace Hill […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/01/orion-practice-management-adds-integrated-e-payments-powered-by-lawpay.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/01/orion-practice-management-adds-integrated-e-payments-powered-by-lawpay.html#respond Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:03:47 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=35378 As the pandemic has made it more important than ever for law firms to accept electronic payments, Orion Law Management Systems is announcing today its launch of Orion ePay, a seamless and secure online payment system, powered by LawPay, that enables law firms to allow clients to pay legal fees online by credit, debit or […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/01/orion-practice-management-adds-integrated-e-payments-powered-by-lawpay.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2019/06/payment-processor-lawpay-gets-new-ceo-as-founder-steps-aside.html https://www.lawnext.com/2019/06/payment-processor-lawpay-gets-new-ceo-as-founder-steps-aside.html#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:07:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=29856 AffiniPay, the Austin, Texas, payment processing company that operates LawPay, which is among the most popular online payment tools for legal professionals, is announcing today that it has named a new chief executive officer. As of June 1, founder and CEO Amy Porter moved into a new role as executive chairman of AffiniPay’s board of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2019/06/payment-processor-lawpay-gets-new-ceo-as-founder-steps-aside.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2015/08/cosmolex-adds-integrated-credit-card-processing-via-lawpay.html https://www.lawnext.com/2015/08/cosmolex-adds-integrated-credit-card-processing-via-lawpay.html#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:57:24 +0000 http://www.lawnext.com/?p=11217 https://www.lawnext.com/2015/08/cosmolex-adds-integrated-credit-card-processing-via-lawpay.html/feed 1