Thomson Reuters yesterday introduced Westlaw Today, a premium legal news service driven by its Reuters news division and available only to subscribers of Westlaw and Westlaw Edge for an additional cost.
But TR introduced the service quietly, without the press releases and marketing campaigns typical of a new TR product, and TR officials remained…
As the coronavirus crisis closed off physical access to courthouses across the country, many federal and state courts pivoted to conducting their business remotely, including conducting hearings and even trials via videoconferencing and teleconferencing.
But a report out today by a legal organization that opposes abuse of surveillance technology raises a number of concerns…
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…
For more than three decades, an annual pilgrimage to Chicago in late winter or early spring has been de rigueur for aficionados of legal technology to attend the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW, one of the oldest and most-venerable conferences focused on technology in law practice.
But there will be no trips to TECHSHOW this…
Our Legaltech Week roundtable of legal tech journalists is back today at 3 p.m. Eastern time, where we hash out the week’s top stories in legal technology (and beyond).
It is free to attend the Zoom webinar, but you must preregister. We’d love you to join and share your thoughts and questions as well.
This…
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:…
Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from our recently launched LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry.
This week’s featured resource:
Future-Proofing Corporate Data Privacy: Budgeting and Solutions to Address.
Description:
FTI Consulting surveyed…
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…
Ed Sohn, a veteran managed services executive who last year joined EY Law when it acquired Pangea3 from Thomson Reuters, has now joined Factor, the managed services company that spun off last year from legal services company Axiom, where he will serve as its head of solutions.
After starting out as…
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…
Yesterday kicked off the 2020 annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries, which runs all this week through Friday. It is the AALL’s first virtual conference, and it comes at a time when legal information professionals, like so many in the legal profession, face challenges and uncertainty on multiple fronts.
Recent years have…
Among the lessons for law firms that came out of the recession of 2008 was that diversity and inclusion initiatives suffer during an economic downturn, says Bryan Parker, chief executive officer of alternative legal services provider Legal Innovators.
It took a decade before the numbers of Black and LatinX attorneys at large law…
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