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Four months after receiving a $200 million strategic investment, Onit, a Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for large corporations and legal departments, is putting that money to good use — acquiring SimpleLegal, a six-year-old Silicon Valley company that provides legal spend, matter and vendor management software to the mid-sized corporate legal market.…

I have only read the press release, not seen it in action, but this sounds interesting: Neota Logic, developer of an AI automation platform, and LawGeex, an AI contract review platform, have partnered to automate a step in contract negotiations.

As described in the release, the integration works when a counterparty insists on…

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory says its Cheetah legal research platform will be back online on Thursday, May 9, at 10 a.m. EDT. However, some content updates may be delayed and certain features will not be immediately available, the company says.

As I reported here and here, Wolters Kluwer was forced Monday to…

As I reported here yesterday, Wolters Kluwer was forced to take a number of its platforms and applications offline after discovering malware in its systems.

Since then, the company has been able to restore services to a number of applications and platforms, a spokesperson told me. However, while it is making progress, several services…

Legal and business publisher Wolters Kluwer says it has discovered malware in a number of its platforms and applications and has taken them offline in order to reduce the malware’s impact.

It has found no evidence that customer data was compromised or that the malware has spread through its systems to any customers, it says.…

Tali, a product that allows lawyers to track their time through voice commands using Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, is shutting down, effective June 30.

The company notified customers by email of the news this morning. Customers will have until the end of June to download any data that have stored with Tali.

Monthly…

Three years after acquiring document technology company Litera and then investing $100 million into creating the portfolio company Litera Microsystems, the investment firm K1 Investment Management has sold the company to Hg Capital Trust Plc.

During its ownership, K1 says, Litera tripled its revenue to become one of the world’s leading providers…

The Illinois State Bar Association today formally launched Illinois Lawyer Now, a first-of-its-kind bar portal that aggregates content from members’ legal blogs together with original ISBA content.

“By aggregating ISBA and members’ legal blogs from around the state, it is hoped that Illinois Lawyer Now will become the preeminent site for recent Illinois-specific legal…

[Editor’s note: Recently, i had a conversation with Josh Becker, chairman of Lex Machina and head of legal analytics at LexisNexis, about the fast-growing area of litigation analytics. Becker made the case that not all analytics products on the market are created equal. Of course, he is biased in favor of his…

Last November, the document management company NetDocuments announced that it had acquired Closing Room, a deal-management application developed by the Am Law 200 financial services law firm Chapman and Cutler.

Today, NetDocuments unveiled the fruit of that acquisition, SetBuilder, a new application within the NetDocuments infrastructure that allows legal professionals to…

The American Bankruptcy Institute and legal research company Fastcase today said that they are partnering to make ABI’s catalog of bankruptcy publications available on Fastcase.

Fastcase subscribers will be able to purchase access to 33 ABI titles and then have access to them through their accounts on the Fastcase platform.

Among the…

If you have a LexBlog blog and use Clio to manage your practice, today is your lucky day.

The two companies today announced an integration that creates an automatic connection between the contact form on a LexBlog site and the tasks and contacts features within Clio Manage.

(Clio Manage is what Clio…