“I would rather cut off my right arm than make this decision,” said an emotional Joy Heath Rush, chief executive officer of the International Legal Technology Association, as she announced that the organization is implementing reductions in staff.
Rush said that ILTA is laying off eight of its 41 employees and furloughing another five.…
Bodhala, a company founded by two Harvard Law School graduates that seeks to disrupt legal spend management through the use of data analytics, has raised $10 million in a Series A financing round led by the growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners.
“With Bodhala, we created an AI-driven platform for the $500 billion legal services…
Editor’s note: When courthouses in Jefferson Parish, La., shut down on March 15 due to the COVID-19 emergency, it presented a unique challenge for drug court probationers who are required to regularly check in on their status and well-being.
A call for help on Twitter, posted by Gabriel Teninbaum, director of Suffolk Law…
As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced legal professionals to work remotely, many are scrambling to find the best tools and technology to help them manage their legal matters and continue to closely collaborate with their colleagues. While many law firms already use Microsoft Office 365, fewer are as familiar with its core collaboration tool,
On Friday, March 27, David C. Dobson, the chief executive officer of Epiq Global, convened a company-wide all-hands meeting. There would be pay cuts across the board, he told staff. But by making the pay cuts, he explained, the company would avoid layoffs.
Then, three days later, on Monday, March 30, the layoffs began.…
I received an email from a machine-learning company called MonkeyLearn inviting me to try its free AI-powered word cloud creator.
This tool is different from others, the email said, because its advanced relevance algorithms are able to detect words that usually go together, helping you gain better insights than with other tools on…
ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association and the world’s largest annual legal tech conference, will take place in August as scheduled, ILTA’s CEO told me this week, “but it might not look like what you’d expect.”
On Wednesday, I interviewed Joy Heath Rush, ILTA’s CEO, for my
The contract management company Knowable is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with the release of two new products designed to help companies understand their crisis-related contractual obligations and entitlements, one of which it is offering free through year-end.
One of these new products, Portfolio Visibility, is a streamlined version of Knowable’s contract management…
It feels like eons, but it was just four weeks ago that I wrote in my column at Above the Law that coronavirus could be a tipping point for tech competence in law. In the weeks since, the legal landscape has been reshaped, with countless legal professionals now working from home. For many, that…
Tomorrow is week two of my live-streaming Law Insights program on Litera TV. My guest will be Joy Heath Rush, chief executive officer of the International Legal Technology Association, the world’s largest organization of those who work in or have an interest in legal technology.
Watch our conversation live tomorrow (April 15) at 10:30…
As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many attorneys and their staffs to work from home for the first time, the Pennsylvania Bar Association has issued an ethics opinion intended to provide guidance now and into the future on working from home and other remote locations.
The opinion, by the bar’s Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility…
For most of us as we’ve hunkered down in recent weeks, Zoom has become our default application for video conferencing. But while Zoom is fine for generic business meetings and virtual cocktail parties, it is not designed for the specific needs — or specific security concerns — of legal professionals.
For lawyers, there is a…
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