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The Clio Cloud Conference is always the occasion for the law practice management company to announce new and enhanced products, and today’s kick-off of this year’s event was no different, with CEO Jack Newton unveiling what he described to me as the most important product release since Clio’s debut 13 years ago.…

Law Street Media, the legal news service owned by Fastcase, is adding coverage of mergers, acquisitions and financings, using data and documents provided by Matterhorn Transactions, a company that provides comprehensive databases, analyses, and reports of publicly filed transactional information.

This adds transactional news to Law Street Media’s existing litigation-focused coverage of technology,…

On the latest installment of How It Works: MyCase, a complete law practice management solution that helps firms run efficiently from anywhere, provide an exceptional client experience, and easily track firm performance so that they can reach their business goals.

Cathleen Swallow, senior director of product management at MyCase, joins me to provide…

For tax lawyers and accountants, a major pain point is the time they spend drawing complex entity and relationship diagrams — diagrams that map the major players involved in a client’s tax scenario and the relationships among them.

Until now, the state of the art for creating these diagrams has been Microsoft PowerPoint, according to…

A new integration between two litigation-focused legal technology products connects more than 500 million federal and state litigation dockets and documents with a database of expert witness and judicial profiles, with the aim of helping lawyers better evaluate expert witnesses.

The integration is between Docket Alarm, a Fastcase-owned product that mines federal and…

In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest.

To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.

The data…

Paradigm — the parent company to practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase and payments platform Headnote — is being acquired by Francisco Partners, a major investment firm that specializes in investments in technology businesses.

A Reuters report valued the deal at $400 million, citing “people familiar with…

Upload 10,000 contracts today and nearly instantly visualize critical contract data and key metrics.

That is what contract management company Evisort says its customers can now do with the launch today of its new Intelligent Dashboarding.

Intelligent Dashboarding is the first self-populating dashboard that instantly visualizes contract data and summarizes key metrics without manual…

Multiple pieces of news today from PacerPro, a company that enables law firms to automate the workflow around distributing and capturing federal court filings.

The company, which until now specialized in helping law firms manage federal court PACER filings, said it is expanding into coverage of state court dockets, starting with California and New…

When Rocket Matter launched in 2008 as one of the first cloud-based law practice management platforms, it was targeted at solo and small firms. While those firms remain an important segment of its customer base, it has, over the intervening years, seen greater adoption by larger firms as they have moved to the…

FileTrail, a company that provides information governance and records management software for law firms and highly regulated industries, has named Harold Westervelt, a veteran business and sales executive, to the newly created position of chief executive officer.

The 21-year-old company said that Darrell Mervau, cofounder and president, selected Westervelt for the position…

At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis.

The new NetDocuments Highlights embeds LexisNexis case analysis and intelligence technology directly into the NetDocuments platform, automatically scanning and…