One of the hottest sectors of the legal tech market these days is contract lifecycle management, or CLM. But Evan Wong believes that, for many inhouse legal teams, CLM is not necessarily the best route for them to streamline workflows. Rather, he believes workflow automation is often the better way for legal teams…
ZERØ Raises $12M Series A to Expand the Market for Its Productivity Automation Suite
ZERØ, a company whose AI-driven products automate time capture and email filing for lawyers and other professional services, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round aimed at enabling it to accelerate market expansion and enter new verticals.
The round was led by Streamlined Ventures with participation from 468 Capital, AltaIR Capital,…
In Poll, Legal Administrators Say Pandemic Changes Are Permanent
“You can’t go home again,” novelist Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, and a recent poll of legal administrators suggests that is undeniably true for law firms in the era of COVID-19.
Of the legal administrators who responded to the poll, 91% believe the changes in working practices brought about by the pandemic, including more remote working,…
How DLA Piper Moved Over 3,000 Staff to Working from Home in 36 Hours
I have to confess that I have been surprised by the ease with which many large law firms transitioned to working from home. In various contexts over the past few months, I have spoken with law firm leaders who described transitions that were fairly seamless and that were pulled off within a relatively short time…
Roundup of Company and Product News from ILTACON, Part 2: iManage, Relativity, BigHand, CaseFleet
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…
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