LawNext Episode 35: Felicity Conrad, Cofounder and CEO of Paladin

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Felicity Conrad is on a mission to help expand pro bono legal services. The legal technology company she cofounded, Paladin, helps corporations, law firms, law schools and legal service organizations streamline their pro bono programs, with the greater goal of helping them serve more clients in need and help close the gap in access…

AI-Powered Spend-Management Platform Brightflag Raises $8.5M Series A Funding

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Brightflag, an e-billing and spend-management platform for corporate legal departments that uses artificial intelligence to review outside counsel invoices, has raised $8.5 million in a Series A funding round, bringing the company’s total raise to $11 million.

The round was led by Sands Capital Ventures, Arlington, Va., with participation from existing investors Frontline Ventures…

LawNext Episode 33: AJ Shankar, Founder and CEO of Everlaw

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Everlaw is an e-discovery company that has attracted the interest of some big-name Silicon Valley venture capital firms, raising nearly $35 million in the last three years. It was the first legal technology company to receive an investment from Andreessen Horowitz, a firm known…

Global Legal Research Company vLex Acquires UK Service Justis Publishing

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The global legal research company vLex will announce today that it has acquired Justis Publishing Ltd., a 33-year-old UK-based online legal publisher with clients in more than 40 countries including the UK, Ireland, the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.

Justis, headquartered in London, will become part of vLex. Justis Managing…