Twenty-four finalists in eight categories were announced this morning by organizers of the inaugural American Legal Technology Awards, a new round of awards that will honor companies and individuals who are making a difference in law through technology innovation.
As I reported here in June, this is the first year of these…
If you have ever used Microsoft Visio to create a workflow diagram, you can appreciate the simplicity that a visual tool can bring to an otherwise cumbersome process. A new version being released today by Onit of Apptitude, its no-code workflow and business process automation platform, takes that idea and extends it beyond…
The recognitions keep stacking up for Emeryville, Calif., attorney Erin Levine and her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. Earlier this year, the American Bar Association awarded her its James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering, and just a few months before that, the practice management company Clio named her recipient…
The legal technology company WordRake, whose software helps legal professionals hone their writing, has entered into a collaboration with the Access to Justice Technology Fellows, a program that trains law students to work with technology to enhance the delivery of legal services, through which each fellow will receive a one-year license to use…
HaystackID, a company that provides e-discovery and forensic services and technology to corporations and law firms, and NightOwl Global, a company that provides enterprise data services for corporate legal departments, said today that they are combining as part of a merger facilitated by majority investor Quad-C Management Inc., a middle-market private equity firm.…
The Australia-based legal technology company InfoTrack, which also operates in the United States, has acquired a majority interest in LawToolBox, a Denver, Colo., company founded in 1998 that provides legal calendaring and deadline management software.
Although declining to disclose terms of the deal, the husband-and-wife owners of LawToolBox, CEO Jack Grow and…
On Wednesday, I interviewed Kristen Sonday, cofounder and COO of Paladin, a platform that helps legal teams run more efficient pro bono platforms while increasing access to justice, for my Law Insights program on Litera TV.
Among the topics we touched on:…
Earlier this year, legal research company Casetext launched Compose, a first-of-its-kind technology product that helps you create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally take.
As I reported at the time, the company touted the product as “poised to disrupt the $437 billion…
For law firms, it is becoming increasingly common to develop technology products of their own. Firms view them as additional services they can provide to their clients and additional streams of revenue they can bring into the firm.
But not every firm has the resources or staff to turn its tech idea into a prototype…
I will be part of an international media panel tomorrow that will discuss how legal tech startups can get exposure for their companies.
Sponsored by the European Legal Tech Association, the free 90-minute panel starts at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.
Other speakers are:…
A survey of private equity firms in the U.S. and U.K. finds that a softening market for M&As and fundraising, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is causing them to scrutinize their external legal spend more carefully than ever before.
But even as this occurs, many of these firms still lack legal spend management technology and…
Ever since its 2008 launch by the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the Cadwalader Cabinet has been recognized as an innovative and practical research and intelligence platform for news and analysis of U.S. financial regulation.
Now, a content partnership between Cadwalader and legal research company Fastcase promises to make the platform…
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