Earlier this week, I reported here that the litigation analytics company Gavelytics, which shut down operations in June, has been acquired by a relative newcomer to the legal analytics space, Pre/Dicta, which launched its product in July after two years of development.
Yesterday, I met via Zoom with the CEOs of the two…
What do you get when you combine one of the leading intranet portals for larger law firms with the expertise of a consulting firm that has been building and implementing intranets for decades?
The answer, according to an announcement today, is a pre-designed, state-of-the-art intranet portal that can be deployed in just weeks, either as…
Last June, the seven-year-old litigation analytics company Gavelytics shut down, seemingly overnight, with founder and CEO Rick Merrill announcing the news by an email on June 29 that he “recently made the difficult decision to close Gavelytics effective June 30,” as I reported at the time.
Now, Gavelytics is rising from the ashes, in a…
CASEpeer, a practice management platform designed for personal injury law firms, now integrates with the online payments platform LawPay, it said today.
The integration enables PI firms to accept credit card and ACH payments electronically, which can help a firm increase collections and streamline financial operations.
CASEpeer is owned by Affinipay, the…
The London-based company Apperio, which provides legal spend analytics and matter tracking software, said today it has raised a $7 million growth round of venture capital funding. It will use the funding to further develop its product for corporate counsel, meet growing demand from law firms for new functionality, and accelerate its expansion to…
‘Twas the night before New Year’s Eve, when all through the legaltech world
Not a creature was stirring, not even in-house.
The laptops were stored in their backpacks with care,
Certain no investors would anytime soon be there.
This blogger was nestled all snug at my desk,
Envisioning how Legaltech Week…
[Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mark Stodder, President of Xcential Legislative Technologies. As I reported here in November, the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has sued Xcential for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and other causes of action. This is Stodder’s perspective on the…
On Nov. 7, 2022, at the NetDocuments Inspire 2022 conference for its customers and partners, I had the privilege of moderating a fireside chat with four legal innovation leaders. Our topic was the trends driving their organizations and legal teams and how they are addressing current challenges in order to tee up their organizations for…
LAWCLERK, an online marketplace where attorneys and law firms can hire freelance lawyers and virtual associates, is expanding its hiring options today with the launch of its Hourly Associate program, designed to allow law firms to hire freelancers on a more-flexible hourly basis rather than by a discrete project or longer-term subscription.
“Our…
Since starting my LawNext podcast in 2018, I have had the great fortune of sitting down almost every week for conversations with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” While I enjoy each and every conversation, the numbers of listens reveal something about which topics and guests you, the listeners,…
A legal industry report released today by the sibling legal technology companies LawPay and MyCase provides unique insights into the technology tools that matter most to smaller law firms in the post-pandemic era.
While the report finds that law firms have largely recovered from pandemic-related declines in revenues, it concludes that, with regard…
Citing rapid growth over the past year, LexCheck, a company whose platform provides AI-powered contract review and negotiation, has raised $17 million in Series A funding, on top of $8 million in seed funding it had previously raised.
The funding was led by the global venture capital firm Mayfield Fund. The…
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