There is a saying that once is luck, twice is coincidence, and three times is a pattern. If so, then we now officially have a pattern of legal technology companies rebranding, as it has happened three times in the last three weeks.
The latest to rebrand is AbacusNext, a provider of software for legal and…
A survey out today of lawyers, paralegals and administrative support professionals at midsized law firms finds that nearly three-quarters report feeling stress, burnout, or being overwhelmed in the past year, and that understaffing is a leading cause, with 92% saying their firms have been impacted by staffing or resources shortages.
Of the lawyers and paralegals…
At its LEX Summit user conference this week, the law practice management company Filevine made two major product announcements, and its CEO outlined a broad vision for incorporating AI throughout the company’s products.
The first of the two product announcements is a feature that uses artificial intelligence to translate client documents and then…
Bessemer Venture Partners, a VC firm that has already made substantial investments in legal technology companies such as Clio, DISCO and Anaqua, has acquired a majority stake in Litify, a law practice management platform founded in 2016 by a team of people who came out of Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiffs’ law…
Last week, Documate, the no-code document automation platform, rebranded as Gavel, a move designed to better reflect the company’s mission to become the platform of choice for legal professionals and legal organizations wanting to “productize” the delivery of legal services by packaging services as online legal products.
Gavel founder and CEO Dorna Moini joins LawNext…
The ballots are closed and the votes are counted: Your votes have determined the 15 legal tech startups that will get to participate as finalists in the seventh-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023, taking place March 1-4 in Chicago.
The 15 finalists will face off in an opening night pitch competition that will is…
Time by Ping, a company whose product is designed to help lawyers capture time automatically, this week announced that it has rebranded the company as Laurel as it expands beyond the legal industry into serving customers in all fields of professional services, including accounting and consulting.
The company, which last year raised $36.5 million…
The contract lifecycle management company Ironclad has tapped into the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 to introduce AI Assist, a beta feature that instantly redlines contracts based on a company’s playbook of approved clauses and language.
The redlines, made using GPT-3’s generative artificial intelligence, appear as tracked changes in Microsoft Word, where a user…
When this podcast launched in July 2018, the very first guest on the very first episode was Nicole Bradick, who six months earlier had launched the legal technology design and development company Theory and Principle.
Now, as her company marks its fifth anniversary, Bradick returns to LawNext with news that the company is branching…
Docket Alarm, which is owned by Fastcase, is one of several products on the market that allow legal professionals to search and browse dockets of federal and state courts. But, when using any of these services, as you browse docket entries, there is no quick way to know what a litigation filing is…
Documate, a company whose no-code automation platform is used by law firms and legal organizations to automate the creation of legal documents, is rebranding under a new name, Gavel, to better reflect its continuing expansion into serving as the platform on which law firms, legal organizations, and legal tech startups can build online…
The law practice management company Clio is expanding into Australia, where it will offer both of its signature products, Clio Manage and Clio Grow, and open an office and a data center to support customers there and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
“As we think about our mission to transform the legal experience for all,…
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