Last week, Filevine, the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Founded in 2014 with an original focus on litigation and personal injury law, the company has been steadily expanding its platform into other areas of law practice — including larger firms, insurance defense, corporate legal,…
In Possible First, Smokeball’s Document Automation Now Adapts for Gender-Neutral Pronouns
Earlier this month, in a sign of the increasing legal acceptance of gender-neutral markers, the U.S. Department of State allowed U.S. citizens to select X as their gender marker on their passports.
Yet, while it is common for legal document automation software to detect the male or female gender of the subject of the…
Wolters Kluwer Enhances IPO Vital Signs with New Interactive Tables and Graphics
The sharper-eyed among you may have notice that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. released product news on each of the last two Mondays — on April 11 announcing its partnership with Courtroom Insight to add profiles and reviews to the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, and on April 18 announcing its relaunch…
Practice Management Company Paradigm Acquires Immigration Case Management Software LollyLaw
The law practice management company Paradigm has acquired LollyLaw, a cloud-based, all-in-one practice management platform designed for immigration law firms.
The acquisition adds immigration software to Paradigm’s portfolio of law practice products that already includes the practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase; the payments platform Headnote; and the legal…
LawNext Podcast: Pro Bono Net Cofounder Mark O’Brien on Technology As A ‘Force Multiplier’ For Meeting Legal Needs
For 23 years, Pro Bono Net has been working to harness the potential of technology to connect pro bono attorneys to those most in need of their services and to provide legal tools to help individuals advocate for themselves. In 2021 alone, the non-profit helped more than…
Wolters Kluwer Relaunches Manual IP within Kluwer IP Law with New Design and Workflow Features
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today relaunched Manual IP, a key compliance source within Kluwer IP Law that explains the procedures and laws involved in filing intellectual property applications in 238 jurisdictions, with what it describes as a more user-centric and innovative design.
Manual IP is a nearly 100-year-old publication, originally…
Case Management Company Filevine Raises $108M Series D to Fuel Expansion
Filevine, a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams.
The funding was led…
Justice Tech Company Paladin Partners with Ukraine’s Legal Development Network to Launch European Pro Bono Portal to Assist with War Relief
A U.S. justice tech company and a Ukrainian legal aid organization have joined forces to launch a first-of-its-kind European pro bono portal to assist with relief efforts for Ukrainians affected by the war.
The portal is being launched today by the Legal Development Network, a group of Ukrainian community-based organizations that promotes…
Guest Post: How Ukraine-Based Legal Tech Startup Lawrina is Adapting During the War
[The following guest post is written by Inna Ptitsyna, head of communications at Lawrina and ambassador at the Legal Hackers international community.]
Lawrina started in 2020 with a small team in Ukraine and two people working abroad who had a big idea — to change the experience of law. To build a living…
Evisort Gets A New CMO: Michaela Dempsey, A SaaS Veteran Who Comes from Workday
Evisort, a provider of artificial intelligence products for contract management and analysis, has named Michaela Dempsey, who has worked more than 20 years as a marketing executive for SaaS technology companies, as chief marketing officer.
Dempsey joins Evisort from Workday, where she led marketing for its spend management…
BriefCatch Rolls Out New Version of Its Legal Editing Tool, Now Compatible with Macs
The last time I wrote about BriefCatch, it was in 2018, when I put it and two other legal editing programs to the test of editing four opinions authored by Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, pronounced by Slate a terrible writer.
Looks like I’ll have to go back to the…
Wolters Kluwer’s Almanac of the Federal Judiciary Now Includes Access to Judges’ Profiles and Reviews from Courtroom Insight
The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary is a publication that provides biographic profiles and financial disclosure information for every federal judge, including those sitting on the Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, Districts Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and Specialized Courts.
Now, the Almanac’s publisher, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., is partnering with the company
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