Marking its third acquisition in the last year and its fourth since 2019, Onit, the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired Bodhala, a New York company whose SaaS platform provides in-house legal departments with AI-powered legal spend analytics, benchmarking and market intelligence.
Onit says…
I wrote last March about Clearbrief, a first-of-its-kind product designed to strengthen your legal writing, and that was backed by some big-name early investors, including Mark Britton, the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner, legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary; and Bill Neukom, longtime Microsoft general counsel.
Now, Clearbrief…
It has been quite a journey for the document management company iManage. Cofounded in 1995 by Neil Araujo and Rafiq Mohammadi, it was acquired in 2003 by Interwoven for $171 million. In 2009, Autonomy acquired Interwoven for $775 million, and then in 2011 Hewlett Packard purchased Autonomy for $11.1 billion, getting iManage…
The billable hour has been unfairly painted as the villain of law firm pricing, when in fact opacity is the issue
Guest Post By Nicholas d’Adhemar, Founder and CEO, Apperio
A while back I had a contractor out to my home to quote some remodeling work. The job seemed straightforward, and the contractor gave…
Centerbase, a Dallas-based company providing legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms , has received a growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners, a growth equity firm that invests exclusively in fast-growing, bootstrapped software companies.
In an interview with LawSites, John Forbes, founder and CEO, declined to say the amount of the…
Last month, AffiniPay, parent of the popular legal payments platform LawPay, named Dru Armstrong as its new CEO. With degrees in both law and business from the University of Chicago, Armstrong was previously CEO of Grace Hill, a company that provides software for owners and operators of real estate properties.
Prior…
The market research and advisory firm Aragon Research has named the contract management company Evisort as one of three emerging “hot vendors” in workflow and content automation.
In the newly published research report, Hot Vendors in Workflow and Content Automation, 2021, Aragon’s analysts reviewed key…
Barely a week after acquiring AI pioneer Kira Systems, and building on its acquisition earlier this year of Foundation Software, the legal technology company Litera is today announcing another acquisition, of U.K. company Concep, a provider of B2B relationship marketing technology for law firms, corporations, and professional and financial services.
Concep…
Update: Litera has issued a statement confirming its withdrawal from attending the Las Vegas event. Details here.
Last Friday, I reported that a major exhibitor, iManage, facing mounting fears around the surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus, had decided to pull its staff from attending ILTACON, while continuing to support the conference…
An international working group of academics, vendors, lawyers and other legal professionals is today releasing the legal industry’s first comprehensive guide to best practices and workflows for creating effective legal documents in Microsoft Word.
Document Competency: What Every Legal Professional Should Know for Effective & Efficient Drafting in Word, is intended to establish for…
A week away from the first hybrid version of ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association, and with mounting fears around the surge in the Delta variant of the virus, a major vendor, iManage, has informed its customers that it will not send staff to the conference in Las Vegas.
“We let…
Kira Systems, a 10-year-old Toronto company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in contract analysis, is to be acquired by the global legal technology company Litera, its 12th acquisition over the span of two years.
Kira’s CEO, Noah Waisberg, a former corporate lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York,…
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