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Mike Whelan Jr., founder of the Lawyer Forward conference and an attorney who practiced law in Rockport, Texas, has joined the legal research company Casetext as managing editor, where he will be responsible for shaping and executing the company’s communications strategy, including podcasting, blogging and social outreach.

Much of his work,…

It is possible that no one was more influential in shaping the universe of online access to legal information than Tom Bruce. Way back in 1992 — a year before the launch of the World Wide Web and when only scraps of legal information could be found on the Internet — Tom and colleague Peter…

Legal research company Fastcase said today that new partnerships with JurisPro and Courtroom Insight, two companies that provide expert-witness profiles and data, will allow it to provide access to over 100,000 expert witness profiles from within the Fastcase 7 platform.

Fastcase first announced a partnership with Courtroom Insight last June, saying…

Brightflag, an e-billing and spend-management platform for corporate legal departments that uses artificial intelligence to review outside counsel invoices, has raised $8.5 million in a Series A funding round, bringing the company’s total raise to $11 million.

The round was led by Sands Capital Ventures, Arlington, Va., with participation from existing investors Frontline Ventures…

Sometimes news converges in fortuitous ways. Yesterday, I interviewed Felicity Conrad, cofounder and CEO of the pro bono technology startup Paladin, for next week’s LawNext podcast. This morning, I posted this week’s episode, featuring a discussion on alternative law firm models among a panel that included Sameena Kluck, until recently strategic…

In major news indicative of the direction of the legal services industry globally, EY — the entity that encompasses Ernst & Young companies worldwide — has entered into an agreement with Thomson Reuters to acquire Pangea3, the legal managed services business.

This follows EY’s acquisition last August of Riverview Law, a UK-based alternative legal services…

A survey of 700 lawyers in U.S. and European law firms, legal departments and business-services firms finds that organizations that already leverage technology are better prepared to keep pace with an evolving legal market than those that are just beginning to use technology or that are not doing so at all.

In addition, firms that…

Intapp, a company that provides cloud enterprise software to legal, financial and other professional services firms, said today that it has acquired gwabbit, an enterprise relationship management and data quality management platform popular among larger law firms.

Intapp said the acquisition will expand its capabilities in marketing and business development with AI-based relationship intelligence…

One of the most popular recent enhancements to Google’s Gmail has been the feature called Smart Compose, first introduced in May 2018 and given several enhancements since. Powered by machine learning, Smart Compose offers suggestions as you type for completing sentences. Google says the feature has saved people from typing “over 1 billion characters…

The global legal research company vLex will announce today that it has acquired Justis Publishing Ltd., a 33-year-old UK-based online legal publisher with clients in more than 40 countries including the UK, Ireland, the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.

Justis, headquartered in London, will become part of vLex. Justis Managing…

A free, three-day virtual summit designed to help legal tech startups accelerate growth kicks off Monday, April 1, with tomorrow, March 29, the last day to register.

The summit will kick off the launch of LegalTech Growth, a new website devoted to providing marketing advice to early-stage legal tech companies on how to break…

In a December column at Above the Law, I wrote about the growing market of legal technology tools devoted to litigation analytics, describing it as tech that can turn the tables in litigation. Now today comes a new entrant to that market, Trellis Research, a judicial analytics platform that claims to have the…