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…
Here Are the Top Three Winners of the Startup Alley Pitch Competition at ABA TECHSHOW
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:…
Investments Lag In Women-Founded Legal Tech Companies, Survey Finds
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…
Women of Legal Tech Find Strength in Numbers When Battling Imposter Syndrome
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…
Rocket Matter Adds NetDocs Integration, User Permissioning, Kanban Boards, and More
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…
Notable New Casetext Product Drafts Your Litigation Briefs For You
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…
Legal Management Software Company Rippe & Kingston Rebrands As SurePoint Technologies
Rippe & Kingston Systems, a Cincinnati-based company that has provided legal and financial management software to law firms since 1982, has changed its name to SurePoint Technologies.
The change is part of a rebranding initiative to better align the company’s name with its commitment to delivering cutting-edge enterprise solutions that help law firms unlock…
Merger Creates What Is Said to Be Largest Business Intelligence Company in Legal
The merger this week of two major technology companies has resulted in what is now the single-largest provider of business intelligence technology to law firms, the companies’ principals say.
Iridium Technology and Data Fusion Technologies (DFTech), both of which provide business intelligence (BI) technology to many of the largest law firms in the…
AbacusLaw Now Integrates with HotDocs for Document Assembly
Lawyers who have the AbacusLaw practice management software can now use their client, calendar and matter information to automatically create documents in the latest version of the HotDocs Advance document-generation software.
AbacusNext, the company that owns both AbacusLaw and HotDocs, said it has launched an integration between the two products that…
Where Are They Now? Tracking Down the Startups from the First ABA Techshow Pitch Contest in 2017
In just over a week, on the opening night of ABA Techshow in Chicago, 15 legal technology startups will take the stage in a pitch competition, where each will make its case for why the audience of Techshow attendees should vote for it as the most innovative.
This will be the fourth annual Startup…
Knowable Says Its New Platform Turns Your Contracts Into Actionable Data
Large companies have a problem: Keeping tabs on their hundreds or even thousands of contracts and knowing what is in them.
The legal technology company Knowable believes it has a solution to that problem: Technology that translates contract language into structured data to give companies a broad understanding of what contracts they have, what…
Bloomberg Law Launches Brief Analyzer, Tool that Uses AI to Review Briefs
As I wrote last year at Above the Law, for legal research, brief analysis is the new vogue. After legal research company Casetext introduced the first brief analysis tool in 2016, CARA, other companies followed suit with an array of brief analysis products own, including Clerk from Judicata, Vincent from vLex, EVA from ROSS Intelligence, and
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