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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…

A study released this week pitted two legal research platforms against each other, Casetext CARA and Lexis Advance from LexisNexis, and concluded that attorneys using Casetext CARA finished their research significantly more quickly and found more relevant cases than those who used Lexis Advance.

The study, The Real Impact of Using Artificial Intelligence…

Kira Systems, a Toronto-based developer of machine-learning software for contract review and analysis, today announced a $50 million Series A minority investment from Insight Venture Partners in New York City.

This is the first outside investment taken by the company, which was founded in 2011 by Noah Waisberg, a former corporate lawyer at…

Last week, I was at ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I sat down with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. All this week, I’ve been posting a four-part roundup of what I learned in those meetings. I started Monday with

Scott Mozarsky, former president of Bloomberg Law, has been named regional managing director, North America, for Vannin Capital,  a company that provides financing and expert support to corporations and law firms involved in high-value commercial disputes.

Mozarsky will have overall responsibility for the North American business of the company, which was founded in 2010.…

Last week, I attended ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I sat down with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. I’m posting a four-part roundup of those companies. I started Monday with Part 1 and yesterday with Part 2. Here…

Last week, I attended ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I met with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. Yesterday, I posted the first of a four-part roundup of those companies. Here is part 2. More tomorrow.

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Every year…