The practice management company Clio is announcing today that it is committing $1 million to a disaster relief fund to help the legal community successfully navigate the challenges and hurdles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We want to ensure lawyers are set up to succeed as well as ensuring their their clients can…
To help solo and small-firm lawyers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australia-based company Legaler is offering its secure online video chat platform free to firms of 10 lawyers or fewer.
Legaler’s platform allows lawyers to schedule, host and archive secure video meetings with multiple participants and screen sharing.
While Legaler’s starter package is already…
Even amid a global pandemic, companies are not exempt from compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which applies to any company that stores or processes personal information about EU citizens, including U.S. companies.
Aiming to make GDPR compliance easier for companies, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson…
Four years ago, I reviewed the proofreading software PerfectIt, an add-in for Microsoft Word, writing that using it was “like having a virtual, eagle-eyed proofreader on your staff.”
Last June, PerfectIt released a major update, PerfectIt 4, that promised faster checking, a new user interface to streamline review and correction of errors, and…
A lead investor in the $62 million funding round announced this week by Everlaw says he believes the company is on a path to go public, possibly within the next five years.
Jesse Wedler, a partner in CapitalG, the independent growth fund of Google parent Alphabet Inc., and now a member…
Case Status, a Birmingham, Ala.-based client relationship management and marketing platform for law firms, is announcing today that it has received Series Seed II investment funding of $1.5 million from Atlanta-based venture investment firm BIP Capital.
The company says that the funds will be used to support its continued growth, including the hiring…
In writing a year ago about the e-discovery company Everlaw, I noted that it had attracted the interest of some big-name Silicon Valley venture capital firms, having raised nearly $35 million over three years, including being the first legal technology company to receive an investment from Andreessen Horowitz, a firm known for backing…
ABA Techshow kicked off last week with the Startup Alley Pitch Competition, in which 15 companies pitched their companies in three-minute presentations in front of an audience of Techshow attendees.
At the conclusion of all the pitches, the audience got to vote for their favorites. Here were the top three winners:…
Recent years have brought a surge of outside investment in legal technology and other “new law” companies. But a survey out today finds that women-founded new law companies received less than 1 percent of that investment over the last 10 years.
Dana Denis-Smith, CEO of Obelisk Support in London, conducted the survey on…
A special guest post by legal affairs writer and editor Molly McDonough, former editor and publisher of the ABA’s flagship magazine, the ABA Journal.
The last thing I expected to hear at the 2020 Women of Legal Tech Summit was this: I don’t feel like I deserve to be here.
A version…
In a major update of its practice management platform, Rocket Matter is launching a number of new features today, several of which are targeted at the growing number of mid-sized firms that use the platform.
Among the new features announced today is what Rocket Matter CEO Larry Port says is the most robust integration…
In what Casetext cofounder and CEO Jake Heller calls a breakthrough that will have a profound impact on the practice of law, the legal research company is today launching Compose, a first-of-its-kind product that helps you create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally…
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