The Ethics of Working from Outside Your State: PA Bars Adopt ABA Rule

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The pandemic has sent lawyers packing — to makeshift offices in their bedrooms, basements and attics. But what happens when a lawyer’s home office is located outside the state in which the lawyer is licensed to practice? Is it ethical for a lawyer who is licensed in one state to practice from a home office…

ILTA Names Five ‘Influential Women in Legal Tech’ for 2021

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The International Legal Technology Association today named five women, from locations ranging from Canada to Kenya, as its 2021 Influential Women in Legal Tech.

The list of influential women, released annually, recognizes five outstanding women leaders in the legal technology community, based on their mentorship history and overarching level of impact on legal…

LawNext: Evisort CEO Jerry Ting on the Future of CLM and Contracts Tech

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Contract lifecycle management has become one of the hottest sectors of legal tech in recent years, and within that sector, Evisort, founded in 2016, has become one of the hottest companies, experiencing four-times revenue growth in 2020 and having just…

Thriving in a Post-2020 Workplace: How Lawyers Can Leverage Lessons Learned

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The past year has forever shifted how attorneys and firms work. But with unprecedented challenges came new lessons and opportunities.

Featured this week in the LawSites Resource Center is a whitepaper by NetDocuments that addresses the unique challenges that now face the legal industry and how professionals can meet them.

Topics addressed in the whitepaper…

ILTA Will Hold Live Conference in August

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There has been much speculation within the legal industry about when live conferences will return. Now we know.

The International Legal Technology Association said today its annual ILTACON conference in August will be a hybrid event, with both in-person programming and live-streamed educational content and sessions.

The in-person conference will take place in Las…

Evisort, AI Contract Management Platform, Raises $35M Series B

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Evisort, an AI-powered contract management platform, today announced a Series B funding round of $35 million, bringing its total funding to $55 million.

The funding round follows a year of four-times revenue growth, the company says.

The round was led by global growth equity investor General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors Amity Ventures,…

Pandemic Hit Solos Most Severely, But Tech Users Fared Better, Clio Study Finds

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Solos struggled more significantly than larger law firms in adapting to remote work throughout the pandemic, suffering greater shortfalls in new cases and firm revenue.

But solos who harnessed modern legal technologies fared significantly better during 2020 than those who did not — bringing in $50,000 more in revenue on average — and solos who…

Announcing the 15 Winners of the 2021 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition

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The results are in. Readers have been voting to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2021, which will be held virtually March 8-12, 2021. These 15 will face off in a virtual pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, with the conference's attendees voting to pick the top winner. The first-place winner gets a package of marketing and advertising prizes. In November, we issued a call for entries. From all the entries we received, a panel of judges narrowed the applications…