Kicking off his company’s Clio Cloud Conference in New Orleans this morning, cofounder and CEO Jack Newton announced that Clio has acquired Lexicata, the cloud-based client-intake and client relationship management platform. This month marks Clio’s 10th anniversary since its launch and its first acquisition.
Clio and Lexicata have been long-time integration partner…
Last year, I wrote about a partnership between legal publisher Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. and IP docketing company Alt Legal which enabled Alt Legal customers to have one-click access to WK Trademark Navigator from within their docketing workflows and WK customers to have one-click access to their dockets in Alt Legal.
Today, the two companies…
Rocket Matter is today announcing the latest round of updates to its cloud practice management platform, and they include the first of a planned series of practice-specific modules, this one for insurance defense, as well as enhancements to batch billing said to speed the process by 80 percent and improvements to the platform’s overall engineering…
There is major acquisition news today involving practice management technology. Software Technology LLC, developer of Tabs3 Software, a leading desktop law practice management program, has acquired CosmoLex, one of the leading cloud-based practice management platforms.
With the acquisition, Tabs3 is now able to provide solo and small firms with complete suites of billing,…
In a recent post here, I wrote about LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects, and its integration with the practice management platform Clio. With the Clio Cloud Conference coming up this week, LAWCLERK has introduced a new feature that allows firms to rehire favored freelancers.…
What if a lawyer could know how a judge is likely to rule in a case or how heavy is a judge’s workload? Rick Merrill was a litigator at a large law firm who became frustrated over his inability to get meaningful information about the judges before whom he appeared. So last…
What is the impact of technology innovation on law practice? An Oct. 22 program at New York University School of Law will examine this question, and it will do so with a notable twist — the majority of the panelists are NYU Law graduates who left law practice to found or join legal technology…
I last wrote about MyCase in April, after I was given a briefing at ABA Techshow on updates and enhancements to the cloud-based practice management platform. Since then, MyCase has continued to add new features and capabilities.
In a recent call to brief me on these changes, Nicole Black, legal technology evangelist at…
The international legal research platform vLex today introduced the beta version of Vincent, an AI-powered legal research assistant that analyzes legal documents you upload and finds relevant research results.
Vincent is in the same vein as CARA from Casetext, Clerk from Judicata, and EVA from ROSS Intelligence in that you upload a brief, legal document…
In just two weeks, the sixth Clio Cloud Conference kicks off in New Orleans. I have attended all five of the prior Clio conferences and, as I wrote last year, I have uniformly praised each one. This year’s conference has a great line-up of keynote speakers and presenters, including Bryan Stevenson, founder…
When last I checked in with the practice management platform PracticePanther last March, it had just taken a “large” private equity investment. At the time, CEO David Bitton told me that the company had seen exponential growth over the prior year, doubling its customers. Since March, the company has rolled out a number…
iManage, the company whose document and email management platform is used by 70 percent or more of the large firm market, said today that it has acquired Elegrity, a San Francisco provider of risk and compliance management software for law firms and businesses whose primary products are designed to help firms reduce risk…
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