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It was big news earlier this month when practice management company Clio announced that it had acquired Lexicata, the first cloud-based CRM and client-intake platform for lawyers. It was the first acquisition by 10-year-old Clio, which says it will continue to operate Lexicata but will also develop its technology into a new, more…

Excuse this commercial interruption, but I wanted to acknowledge and extend a huge thank you to MyCase, the practice management company, for becoming the first sponsor of my recently launched podcast LawNext.

Starting LawNext was somewhat of an experiment for me. As I explained in a recent post, I had been podcasting…

Last week was a perfect storm of breaking news in the world of cloud-based practice management software. It was a week that saw the acquisition by Tabs3 Software of CosmoLex, the appointment by PracticePanther of a new CEO, and the acquisition by Clio of CRM platform Lexicata, all bookended by Clio’s 10th anniversary…

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…