A Chicago-based, “technology-enabled” national bankruptcy firm that has been under fire for alleged hard-sell tactics and unauthorized practice of law yesterday named a professor of business law and ethics as an independent monitor to oversee its business practices.
UpRight Law, a firm formed in 2013 by the founders of TotalAttorneys, Ed Scanlan and…
The practice management platform Clio yesterday rolled out a feature called Clio Launcher that opens documents for editing on your desktop computer with one click and then saves them back to the appropriate folder in Clio.
It works on both Windows and Mac computers (but not Chromebooks) and for any type of file, including…
Frustration is the story of many a legal technology startup. A lawyer frustrated with the shortcomings of existing products sets out to design a better one. That is the story behind LEA, a new case-management platform designed specifically for criminal lawyers.
Its developer, Kevin Hogle, an Irvine, Calif., lawyer, told me he was unable…
An international group of law firms and legal technology companies are joining forces as the first cohort to help launch a public, permissioned, blockchain-based, smart-contract management system, the Agreements Network.
The network is intended to serve as a decentralized platform for law firms to productize contracts as scalable “active” (or…
The cloud-based e-discovery company DISCO today announced that Kristin Zmrhal-Murray has joined the company as vice president of customer success.
Zmrhal-Murray has been part of Google’s in-house discovery team since 2011, most recently as senior legal operations manager, where she developed and oversaw its discovery project management and operations team.
Previously at Google,…
Next month, I will be meeting with a group of state bar officials to discuss what steps they can take to promote legal services innovation and access to justice. In preparation for that, I have been trying to outline the barriers to innovation in law. I figure that the first step to overcoming these barriers…
Microsoft is conducting a survey to understand how and where the legal industry accesses and consumes information about legal operations, legal innovation, and the business of law.
It plans to use the results to identify key content types and delivery channels, gain insight into who is listening to and participating in thought leadership in the…
Here is a round-up of recent investment and deal news involving legal technology companies:
Everlaw raises $25 million. Everlaw, a Berkeley, Calif., based e-discovery and litigation platform, has closed a a $25 million Series B funding round, with new investor Menlo Ventures leading the round and continued participation from Andreessen Horowitz. In 2016, the company raised…
When the legal research service Casetext was first launched in 2013, its founders wanted to democratize access to the law by providing free access to legal research enhanced through crowdsourced annotations. As the company grew and took on venture capital, it increasingly targeted its sales and marketing to the large-firm market and implemented…
I’ve just returned from a much-t00-brief visit to the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries in Baltimore. Although the conference started Saturday, family obligations kept me away until Monday. Then yesterday, flight cancellations along the east coast had me scrambling for a route home, forcing me to leave much…
The document-management company NetDocuments today named a new CEO, Josh Baxter, who has been president and COO since joining the company last year.
Matt Duncan, who had been CEO since 2014, is stepping into the role of executive chairman, where he will continue to help drive the company’s strategic objectives while also taking…
Legal professionals can now calculate and manage court deadlines from within Microsoft Teams, Microsoft’s workplace collaboration software, with the release this week by court deadline calculator LawToolBox of its Deadline App for Microsoft Teams.
This new app for Teams builds on the functionality of the company’s app LawToolBox365 Office for Legal, which is an…
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