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Case Status, a client communications management and marketing platform for law firms that earlier this month raised $1.5 million in seed funding, is today announcing that it has hired Keith Lee, founder of the LawyerSmack online legal community, as chief marketing officer, tasked with directing the company’s continued growth and expansion across the…

As countless face-to-face legal conferences have been cancelled or postponed, the legal practice management company Rocket Matter has unveiled plans to hold a two-day virtual conference, with all proceeds going to charities to help people impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Rocket Matter says the conference, which is dubbed Rocket Aid, will include online…

The news just keeps coming from document-automation company Litera in recent days. After last week’s announcements of its acquisition of Best Authority and roll-out of a free version of its deal-management platform, it is today announcing a notable hire.

Alma Asay, the founder and CEO of the cloud-based litigation management platform…

PacerPro, a company that provides automated distribution of federal court filings, said today that it is offering three months of free access to its service, as a way of helping legal professionals transition to remote work.

PacerPro’s service automatically sends notices of new filings, together with their associate PDFs, to everyone on a litigation…

Fueled by interest in its new brief-automation product, the legal research company Casetext said today that it has raised $8.2 million in new funding in a round led by “one of the top revenue-generating law firms in the country.” It did not disclose the name of the firm.

Casetext cofounder and CEO Jake Heller…

As working from home becomes the new normal for legal professionals, a new daily podcast highlights their stories.

Called In Seclusion, the podcast is hosted by Greg Lambert, chief knowledge services officer at Jackson Walker and better know to many as a blogger at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog and cohost…

As many businesses across the United States struggle to deal with the employment issues arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, today released a free automated tool to help them develop essential policies on working from home, sick leave, and other critical…

As the COVID-19 pandemic has stymied standard ways of closing deals and signing documents, Litera said today it is offering six months of no-cost access to a lite version of its deal-management platform Litera Transact.

In a message sent to Litera customers today, CEO Avaneesh Marwaha said that he is hearing from law…

On Monday, March 23, the practice management company Clio announced that it was committing $1 million to a disaster relief fund to help the legal community successfully navigate the challenges and hurdles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We want to ensure lawyers are set up to succeed as well as ensuring…

The practice management company Clio is announcing today that it is committing $1 million to a disaster relief fund to help the legal community successfully navigate the challenges and hurdles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We want to ensure lawyers are set up to succeed as well as ensuring their their clients can…

The coronavirus pandemic has forced organizers of legal conferences to cancel a multitude of events. Today, a free webinar will explore options for moving these events online, through online conferences, webcasting and virtual summits.

It is being presented by Events.Legal. I will be a panelist, along with:…

To help legal professionals who are having to work from home or make other adjustments during the coronavirus crisis, I have created a page where I will track offers of free products and services from legal technology companies and others.

I have started it here: Coronavirus Resources.

If you have something to add, email…