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Seal Software, the company that helped spawn the increasingly competitive field of enterprise contract review and analytics, has now expanded into the pre-execution, negotiation side of the contracts lifecycle with the launch of Seal Now, a contract analytics product specifically designed to review draft contracts prepared by a third party on its own templates.…

The International Legal Technology Association has released an executive summary of its annual technology survey of law firms that underscores firms’ continuing adoption of cloud-based technologies while finding that only about 20% of firms are currently using or testing artificial intelligence and machine learning.

ILTA will release the full 2019 technology survey later…

Alt Legal, the cloud-based, intellectual-property docketing software company, has acquired MarkTend, a trademark docketing and monitoring software, for an undisclosed price.

As a result of the acquisition, MarkTend will shut down its docketing software business and its customers will be transitioned to Alt Legal.

Alt Legal will continue to operate MarkTend’s trademark monitoring…

Attention legal technology startups: Here is your chance to compete to be featured as a presenter and exhibitor in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, taking place in Chicago Feb. 26-29, 2020.

Today, we are officially announcing the call for entries for Startup Alley, offering startups…

Well, it’s happened again.

A major law firm has exposed secret information because it did not properly redact a court filing.

It is the oldest screw-up in the technology book, yet it happens with surprising frequency and by lawyers who you might think should know better.

It happened earlier this year to defense lawyers…

Technical difficulties have delayed the release of this week’s episode of my own LawNext podcast, but meanwhile I am a guest on the most-recent episodes of two other podcasts. Thanks to both for including me.

Legal Rebels Podcast: Exploring New Frontiers in Research for the Legal Industry. On the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels…

I am thrilled to announce a new awards competition for legal blogs — not because the world needs another contest, but because this one aims to do something different, to celebrate excellence in blog writing and spotlight the authors who make legal blogging so vital and essential.

The entry period is now open for the…

Electronic filing of court documents is one of those technologies that can be both a blessing and a curse. While e-filing eliminates the headaches of paper filing and saves time overall, there is no standardization of the process across different courts, requiring different logins, different filing formats, and different steps to take in completing the…

Legalist, a San Francisco-based litigation finance company started by two Harvard University dropouts and advised by retired 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner, has just raised $100 million, which it will use to fund plaintiffs in 100-200 commercial cases over the next two years.

Legalist scrapes federal and state court records…

A conference that has consistently been one of the best for legal professionals interested in learning how to better manage their practices and use technology is the Clio Cloud Conference. The seventh-annual staging of this conference is in a month, and I have a discount code to offer readers that gets you $200 off…

Of the challenges a company faces in the wake of a cyber incident, one of the most critical is identifying the individuals affected by the breach and developing a notification list. A Cyber Incident Response (CIR) Service launched today by global legal services provider Integreon is intended to help law…

The digital ink is barely dry on my post yesterday recapping a record year in legal tech investments, and today there is news of another — in fact a further investment in a company already on my list for an investment earlier this year.

San Francisco-based Ironclad, a digital contracting platform for legal…