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This year’s ABA TECHSHOW will again feature the Startup Alley — the fourth year of what has become a signature TECHSHOW event. Fifteen legal tech startups will be selected to exhibit in a special Startup Alley within the exhibit hall, as well as to face off in an opening-night pitch competition judged by conference…

An immigration law firm using an AI-based expert system to automate both routine and complex tasks and a law school lab designed to prepare students for innovative practice are the 2019 winners of the College of Law Practice Management’s InnovAction Awards.

The COLPM presents the awards each year “to those unsung heroes and rising…

Nine startups — ranging from a case management platform for pro se litigants to an application designed to automate the estate-settlement process — have been selected to participate in the fourth year of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator program.

LexisNexis launched the accelerator program in 2017 to give startups a leg-up in…

Students in the first-year legal writing program at Suffolk University Law School this year will get free licenses to WordRake, a legal editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook designed for lawyers and other legal professionals.

Suffolk is the first law school to provide its students with WordRake. Some 360 incoming…

Yesterday, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round — one of the largest ever for a legal technology company.

Shortly after making the announcement during an event in Clio’s Burnaby, B.C., headquarters, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jack Newton, Clio’s cofounder and CEO, for…

Axiom, one of the world’s largest alternative legal services providers, said today that it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Permira by which a company backed by Permira funds will take a significant investment in Axiom.

Axiom’s management team, led by CEO Elena Donio, will continue to lead the company,…

Cloud law practice management company Clio is today announcing a $250 million Series D funding — one of the largest investments ever for a legal technology company and the largest ever for a Canadian company.

Clio is also announcing that Mark Britton, who founded Avvo in 2006 and sold it last year to…

After three years as editor and publisher of the ABA Journal and 18 years as a member of the editorial staff, Molly McDonough is leaving the magazine after the next issue is put to bed on Oct. 4.

Her decision to leave comes after several years of ABA-imposed budget cuts at the magazine…

When Toni Morrison died last month, Alli Gerkman posted this Morrison quote on her Facebook page: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

If Alli believed language to be the measure of a life, then hers was a life exceptionally well…

Two sets of legal technology awards were announced during the recent ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association — ILTA’s own Distinguished Peer Awards and The Changing Lawyer Awards sponsored by Litera Microsystems.

Distinguished Peer Awards

ILTA’s Distinguished Peer Awards recognize those who have delivered great business value and transformational…

The Utah Supreme Court voted unanimously yesterday to approve the recommendations of a work group that called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.”

In an email, Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas, who cochaired the Utah Work…

Update 8/29/19: Utah Supreme Court Votes to Approve Pilot Allowing Non-Traditional Legal Services.

Faced with an ever-widening gap in access to legal services, a Utah task force has called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.”

Appointed…