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HaystackID, a company that provides e-discovery and forensic services and technology to corporations and law firms, and NightOwl Global, a company that provides enterprise data services for corporate legal departments, said today that they are combining as part of a merger facilitated by majority investor Quad-C Management Inc., a middle-market private equity firm.…

The Australia-based legal technology company InfoTrack, which also operates in the United States, has acquired a majority interest in LawToolBox, a Denver, Colo., company founded in 1998 that provides legal calendaring and deadline management software.

Although declining to disclose terms of the deal, the husband-and-wife owners of LawToolBox, CEO Jack Grow and…

On Wednesday, I interviewed Kristen Sonday, cofounder and COO of Paladin, a platform that helps legal teams run more efficient pro bono platforms while increasing access to justice, for my Law Insights program on Litera TV.

Among the topics we touched on:…

Earlier this year, legal research company Casetext launched Compose, a first-of-its-kind technology product that helps you create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

As I reported at the time, the company touted the product as “poised to disrupt the $437 billion…

For law firms, it is becoming increasingly common to develop technology products of their own. Firms view them as additional services they can provide to their clients and additional streams of revenue they can bring into the firm.

But not every firm has the resources or staff to turn its tech idea into a prototype…

I will be part of an international media panel tomorrow that will discuss how legal tech startups can get exposure for their companies.

Sponsored by the European Legal Tech Association, the free 90-minute panel starts at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.

Other speakers are:…

A survey of private equity firms in the U.S. and U.K. finds that a softening market for M&As and fundraising, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is causing them to scrutinize their external legal spend more carefully than ever before.

But even as this occurs, many of these firms still lack legal spend management technology and…

Ever since its 2008 launch by the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the Cadwalader Cabinet has been recognized as an innovative and practical research and intelligence platform for news and analysis of U.S. financial regulation.

Now, a content partnership between Cadwalader and legal research company Fastcase promises to make the platform…

Two legal technology companies said this week that they are offering free access to their products to attorneys involved in civil rights matters.

Legal research company Casetext is offering free access to its Compose brief automation for Title VII motions through the remainder of the summer.

The company was inspired to do this, it…

Last month, I wrote about the launch by SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, of the Return-to-Work Toolset, a tool to help U.S. businesses safely transition their employees back to work as COVID-19 stay-at-home orders expire.

Now, SixFifty is releasing another tool in a similar vein, only…

The U.K. legal technology company Apperio, whose platform provides corporate legal departments with greater transparency into their legal spend through automated tracking, management and analysis, says it is “vigorously” expanding its sales operation into the United States.

The company says it is targeting sales to legal departments within corporations that have legal spend of…

As I reported Wednesday, Clio was out this week with its latest research on the impact of COVID-19 on law firms and clients. Tomorrow on our weekly Legaltech Week journalists roundtable, Clio CEO Jack Newton will be our guest to discuss the research with the panel.

The program is Friday, June 19, at…