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In January, Fastcase acquired Docket Alarm, a company that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case-prediction analytics. (See my coverage here.) In its first update since the acquisition, Fastcase is today announcing that Docket Alarm has now expanded its coverage of state dockets to 11 states,…

Winners have been announced for Round One of the Global Legal Hackathon. They will now go on to Round Two, which takes place on March 11. The final round and announcement of global winners takes place April 21 in New York.

Organizers of the event also released final numbers on participation:…

The legal profession’s move to the cloud has been a slow transition, in large part due to fears about control and security. In no sector has this been more true than among the world’s largest law firms.

It is therefore notable that Hogan Lovells, which The National Law Journal ranked in 2017…

The cloud-based practice management platform Clio this week introduced an Outlook 365 add-in that makes it easier to associate emails in Outlook with matters in Clio.

The add-in enables four functions:…

I wrote yesterday about the launch of Attorney IO, a new brief-analysis product in the vein of CARA from Casetext, Clerk from Judicata, and EVA from ROSS Intelligence. Turns out there is yet another.

India-based legal tech startup Casemine launched the brief-analysis product CaseIQ 1.5 years ago for India…

The Australia-based company Legaler, which markets a secure online videochat platform for lawyers, announced today that it will create a cryptocurrency for the legal industry that will be used for transactions between lawyers and clients and by lawyers to purchase features and services within the Legaler ecosystem.

In addition, Legaler said it…

Disagreement over recent changes to a program designed to provide public access to federal court documents has developed into a feud of sorts between two advocates for free and open access to government information – and implicated in it is a cast of characters that includes the man who created the original version of Facebook,…

What matters most to clients in choosing a lawyer?

Most practicing lawyers will have an opinion about that, but even better than an opinion is hard-and-fast data. And that is what is provided in the 2017 Legal Trends Report, compiled by practice management company Clio.

As part of its report, released last…

In this interview recorded at Legalweek, I speak with Jonah Paransky, executive vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, which offers technology for enterprise management of legal matters and legal spend.

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On Monday, I blogged about the launch by ROSS Intelligence, the AI-based legal research platform, of EVA, a free product that analyzes briefs and performs various functions, including determining whether the cases they cite are still good law.

After hearing about EVA, the folks at Casetext — who have their own brief analyzer,

The e-discovery technology company Logikcull has raised $25 million in Series B funding, its CEO and founder Andy Wilson announced this morning in a LinkedIn post.

New Enterprise Associates, a global venture capital firm specializing in technology and healthcare, led the round, with participation from previous investors OpenView Venture Partners and

Tali – the voice-driven time-entry application – now integrates with the Rocket Matter practice management platform, the two companies announced.

Tali enables lawyers to record their time using voice commands via the Amazon Echo or any Alexa-enabled device. With this integration, Rocket Matter subscribers will be able to use Tali to…