Last week brought a flurry of legal technology news, thanks to the first in-person Legalweek conference in two years. In this first of two posts, I will round up the week’s notable announcements. I’ll publish the second half tomorrow.
SurePoint Launches SureTime, Law Firm Time Management SolutionThe cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies announced the…
BlackBoiler, a company whose AI-based technology automates the review and mark-up of inbound contracts right in Microsoft Word’s Track Changes, is today launching a redesigned platform with an enhanced user interface and a new tool that helps companies automate the creation of contract playbooks.
The new platform can be used as a standalone product…
A company that says it has developed a “revolutionary” SaaS tool to automate the remote collection and analysis of mobile data from smartphones and short-message chat applications has completed its seed funding round of over $1 million.
The company, ModeOne, was founded by its CEO, Matthew Rasmussen, a litigation support and technology professional…
When legal research company Fastcase announced its acquisition of Judicata, the innovative California legal research platform, in 2020, it held out the promise of building on Judicata’s innovations through integrations with Docket Alarm, another Fastcase-owned product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case-prediction analytics.
In a…
Last year, I wrote here about the launch of Map Engine, an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data.
Although it launched with just one map template, of U.S. states and territories, and later added Europe, it…
Time By Ping, a company whose product is designed to help lawyers break free from timekeeping and get back hours in their day, has raised $36.5 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $55 million.
Just ahead of today’s announcement, I sat down with Ryan Alshak, cofounder…
Lawmatics, a company whose product provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, is now adding timekeeping and billing tools, with the goal of offering law firms a comprehensive platform with everything they need to manage their administrative sides.
The company also is adding new electronic payment capabilities through a…
Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Josiah Chaves to be vice president of cloud products, a position in which he will be responsible for driving the company’s cloud-first strategy.
A seven-year veteran at Aderant, Chaves was most recently senior director of Expert Sierra, where he was responsible…
A Hungarian law firm is partnering with a Los Angeles legal tech company and an anonymous legal industry influencer to create an international database of pro bono attorneys willing to represent Ukrainian refugees in need of immigration or asylum aid, and they are looking for more attorneys to sign up.
As of Saturday, they had…
A product launched this week claims to be the fastest search and review platform in legal for matters involving large document collections — discovery, investigations and compliance — and the first to seamlessly combine keyword and algorithmic search.
The chief data scientist who helped develop it said it is “an order of magnitude faster than…
Two of the companies whose products are among the most widely used in the legal profession, iManage and Microsoft, are today announcing a global strategic development partnership aimed at innovation, development of new solutions, and delivery of better business outcomes for customers.
The agreement announced today expands on the “better…
Paradigm, the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — today adds a fifth, as it acquires TrustBooks, the cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms.
With this acquisition, Paradigm adds legal accounting to a product line-up that already includes three separate…
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