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Often called the app store of law, Reynen Court has fast become one of the most talked-about companies in legal technology. Its mission is to make it easy for law firms and legal departments to adopt and manage modern cloud-based software applications without having to trust firm or client content to the rapidly growing universe…

Yesterday, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round — one of the largest ever for a legal technology company.

Shortly after making the announcement during an event in Clio’s Burnaby, B.C., headquarters, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jack Newton, Clio’s cofounder and CEO, for…

Axiom, one of the world’s largest alternative legal services providers, said today that it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Permira by which a company backed by Permira funds will take a significant investment in Axiom.

Axiom’s management team, led by CEO Elena Donio, will continue to lead the company,…

Cloud law practice management company Clio is today announcing a $250 million Series D funding — one of the largest investments ever for a legal technology company and the largest ever for a Canadian company.

Clio is also announcing that Mark Britton, who founded Avvo in 2006 and sold it last year to…

Home now from ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. It is five frenetic days of seminars, exhibitors and networking by legal technologists and vendors from all over the world. Here are some of my somewhat-random thoughts about the event.

Let’s start with what many were thinking: Orlando in August?…

So much legal technology news, I can barely keep up with it all, thanks in part to the fact that Sunday is the start of ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Here are some of the week’s headlines.

Litera acquires Doxly. Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired…

Finalists have been named for The Changing Lawyer Awards, paving the way for the announcement of the winners during ILTACON 2019, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association later this month.

This is the second year of the award, which recognizes individuals, firms and companies in the legal industry for their role…

The Utah State Bar, which currently offers its members free access to legal research through an affinity deal with the research company Casemaker, will switch to Fastcase as of Sept. 1, Fastcase announced today.

That brings to 33 the number of state bar associations that offer their members free access to legal…

Here’s a roundup of recent news from the world of legal technology.

Search nonprofits’ tax records. The nonprofit news organization ProPublica has launched a new feature allowing free, full-text search of nearly 3 million tax filings sent by nonprofits to the IRS since 2011. The new feature is an enhancement to ProPublica’s Nonprofit…

CosmoLex, the cloud-based practice management application, is today introducing an integration with the cloud document-management platform NetDocuments. The integration will allow its customers to access and interact with client emails and documents stored in NetDocuments from directly within their client matters.

This integration adds NetDocuments to the options available within CosmoLex to integrate…

Within the last 10 days, two major legal research companies have launched brief-analysis tools. On July 12, Thomson Reuters unveiled its Quick Check, a feature that will be available starting July 24 to all subscribers to Westlaw Edge, as I reported in this post.

Then last week, Bloomberg Law previewed its forthcoming brief analyzer, which it…

It was 20 years ago that two Covington & Burling associates, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal, made the audacious move of quitting their jobs and launching the legal research company Fastcase. Their goal was to democratize the law through affordable pricing and smarter technology. Two decades later, that once-scrappy company is now a major…