Scott Mozarsky, former president of Bloomberg Law, has been named regional managing director, North America, for Vannin Capital, a company that provides financing and expert support to corporations and law firms involved in high-value commercial disputes.
Mozarsky will have overall responsibility for the North American business of the company, which was founded in 2010.…
Last week, I attended ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I sat down with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. I’m posting a four-part roundup of those companies. I started Monday with Part 1 and yesterday with Part 2. Here…
Last week, I attended ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I met with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. Yesterday, I posted the first of a four-part roundup of those companies. Here is part 2. More tomorrow.
Every year…
In June, I wrote about a new legal industry award intended to honor innovation in legal practice and legal technology, The Changing Lawyer Awards, for which I was to be one of the judges. Now, the results are in.
The sponsor of the awards, Litera Microsystems and its online publication The Changing Lawyer, announced…
The Australian legal technology company Legaler has raised $1.5 million to be used to help build a proprietary blockchain aimed at bridging the global gap in access to justice.
Legaler’s blockchain will provide the infrastructure and developer tools for legal services providers to build their own secure and scalable decentralized applications, the company says.…
Law students at BYU Law School’s year-old LawX Legal Design Lab and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law’s newly launched Innovation for Justice program will join forces this year to explore ways to reduce evictions in their home states of Utah and Arizona and beyond.
Both the LawX and…
LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects, is announcing today its new integration with the practice management platform Clio.
With the integration, firms that post projects to the LAWCLERK marketplace will be able to synchronize them to the pertinent matter in Clio. Synchronization…
The practice management platform Clio yesterday rolled out a feature called Clio Launcher that opens documents for editing on your desktop computer with one click and then saves them back to the appropriate folder in Clio.
It works on both Windows and Mac computers (but not Chromebooks) and for any type of file, including…
Here is a round-up of recent investment and deal news involving legal technology companies:
Everlaw raises $25 million. Everlaw, a Berkeley, Calif., based e-discovery and litigation platform, has closed a a $25 million Series B funding round, with new investor Menlo Ventures leading the round and continued participation from Andreessen Horowitz. In 2016, the company raised…
When the legal research service Casetext was first launched in 2013, its founders wanted to democratize access to the law by providing free access to legal research enhanced through crowdsourced annotations. As the company grew and took on venture capital, it increasingly targeted its sales and marketing to the large-firm market and implemented…
The document-management company NetDocuments today named a new CEO, Josh Baxter, who has been president and COO since joining the company last year.
Matt Duncan, who had been CEO since 2014, is stepping into the role of executive chairman, where he will continue to help drive the company’s strategic objectives while also taking…
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