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…
It is quite literally the next chapter for the cloud-based bankruptcy platform NextChapter, as legal research company Fastcase today announces that it has acquired the Columbus, Ohio, company.
Launched in 2015 by Janine Sickmeyer, a former bankruptcy paralegal, NextChapter is a cloud platform for bankruptcy attorneys to prepare, manage and electronically…
For the first time last year, annual investment in legal technology companies reached $1 billion. This year, legal tech investments have already surpassed that, totaling at least $1.2 billion to date — a record for annual investment in legal technology, and with three months still to go before year end.
I surveyed investments in…
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…
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