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In this exclusive interview recorded in advance of the Oct. 1, 2020, launch of LexFusion, we get a first look at the new company from guests Joe Borstein, a legal industry veteran and one of LexFusion’s two cofounders, and Basha Rubin, the cofounder and CEO of Priori Legal, the legal talent company…

Two legal professionals, a law firm and a legal technology company were named yesterday as winners of the third annual The Changing Lawyer Awards, presented by the legal technology company Litera to recognize those in the legal industry who drive change through new technology, service models or behavior.

Winners were selected in four…

We are back tomorrow, Oct. 2, for our regular Friday Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, where we discuss and dissect the top news stories of the last week in legal tech and innovation.

Join us Friday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m. ET. It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required. Register once and…

Two legal industry veterans are today launching a company that they believe will change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology — and thereby turbocharge the adoption and use of innovative technologies throughout law practice and operations.

The company, LexFusion, will serve as the go-to-market representative of a collective of…

In news that will be a surprise to no one, Legalweek New York, one of the largest and most-anticipated annual legal technology and legal industry conferences, will go virtual this year.

But unlike other major legal conferences that have gone virtual, it will not present the entire conference on the same days as had…

LAWCLERK, an online marketplace where solos and small firms can hire freelance lawyers to assist them with specific projects, is today introducing a feature that allows hiring lawyers and freelancers to instantly meet for voice and video calls.

The option is available directly from within open projects on the LAWCLERK platform,  where users will…

The practice management platform Rocket Matter, whose launch in 2009 alongside Clio helped usher in a new generation of cloud practice management platforms, has been acquired by a private equity firm.

It will become part of a new company, ProfitSolv, that will focus on billing, payments and software for professional services firms.

The…

Though the debate of whether or not law firms should embrace legal technology continues, the pandemic has brought to light the advantages of document automation. 

Since mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the way law firms operate. While some firms were forced to adapt on the fly as they spent weeks setting up…

If you have not yet checked out LawSitesResources.com, it is a frequently changing collection of white papers, e-books and other resources, all available at no cost. The page currently lists 20 different resources, covering topics that range from CCPA compliance to data privacy to the law firm of tomorrow.

This week’s featured resource is…

Two docketing technology companies will be battling each other in federal court, as New York based CourtAlert.com has filed a lawsuit against California based American LegalNet alleging theft of trade secrets.

In a complaint filed Sept. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, CourtAlert.com alleges that…

In July, I reported here on a survey of private equity firms in the U.S. and U.K. that found that a softening market for M&As and fundraising, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, was causing them to scrutinize their external legal spend more carefully than ever before.

Now, the sponsor of that survey,  the spend…

For legal professionals who use the cloud-based document management system NetDocuments, workspaces form the hub of their legal matters, where all members of a team can access, organize and collaborate on documents, messages and folders related to a matter.

But workspaces can also pose a potential speed bump when getting started on a new…