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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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In June, I wrote about a new legal industry award intended to honor innovation in legal practice and legal technology, The Changing Lawyer Awards, for which I was to be one of the judges. Now, the results are in.

The sponsor of the awards, Litera Microsystems and its online publication The Changing Lawyer, announced…

The Australian legal technology company Legaler has raised $1.5 million to be used to help build a proprietary blockchain aimed at bridging the global gap in access to justice.

Legaler’s blockchain will provide the infrastructure and developer tools for legal services providers to build their own secure and scalable decentralized applications, the company says.…

Law students at BYU Law School’s year-old LawX Legal Design Lab and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law’s newly launched Innovation for Justice program will join forces this year to explore ways to reduce evictions in their home states of Utah and Arizona and beyond.

Both the LawX and…