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Rocket Matter is today announcing the latest round of updates to its cloud practice management platform, and they include the first of a planned series of practice-specific modules, this one for insurance defense, as well as enhancements to batch billing said to speed the process by 80 percent and improvements to the platform’s overall engineering…

Adobe today announced a number of enhancements to its Adobe Document Cloud intended to enhance collaboration around PDF documents, maximize mobility, and improve the overall PDF workflow and experience. It is also making a number of enhancements to Acrobat Reader and to its Adobe Scan and Adobe Sign mobile apps.

The new…

The International Legal Technology Association today announced that Joy Heath Rush will become its CEO effective Oct. 20.

A longtime ILTA board member and past-president of the organization, Rush currently leads sales operations at Litera Microsystems, a global provider of content management software.  She was formerly at the law firm Sidley Austin, where…

There is major acquisition news today involving practice management technology. Software Technology LLC, developer of Tabs3 Software, a leading desktop law practice management program, has acquired CosmoLex, one of the leading cloud-based practice management platforms.

With the acquisition, Tabs3 is now able to provide solo and small firms with complete suites of billing,…

In a recent post here, I wrote about LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects, and its integration with the practice management platform Clio. With the Clio Cloud Conference coming up this week, LAWCLERK has introduced a new feature that allows firms to rehire favored freelancers.…

With the Clio Cloud Conference coming up next week, several of the companies that will be exhibiting there are preparing announcements of new features and product enhancements. I’ll cover a few of those in advance of the conference and more once it kicks off.

One company making several announcements is Tali, the voice-driven…

What is the impact of technology innovation on law practice? An Oct. 22 program at New York University School of Law will examine this question, and it will do so with a notable twist — the majority of the panelists are NYU Law graduates who left law practice to found or join legal technology…

I last wrote about MyCase in April, after I was given a briefing at ABA Techshow on updates and enhancements to the cloud-based practice management platform. Since then, MyCase has continued to add new features and capabilities.

In a recent call to brief me on these changes, Nicole Black, legal technology evangelist at…

Two pages for two products — both introduced the same day (here and here) — two strikingly similar motifs.

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The international legal research platform vLex today introduced the beta version of Vincent, an AI-powered legal research assistant that analyzes legal documents you upload and finds relevant research results.

Vincent is in the same vein as CARA from Casetext, Clerk from Judicata, and EVA from ROSS Intelligence in that you upload a brief, legal document…

Fast on the heels of the Sept. 10 announcement that Atrium — the combination law firm and legal technology company — had raised $65 million, today comes news that enterprise legal services provider UnitedLex has received a majority investment from CVC Capital Partners.

Although the amount of the investment was not disclosed, the company…

Speculation about potential law firm mergers and acquisitions makes for good sport, not to mention serious business. Today, ALM Intelligence released a tool that gives speculators some hard-and-fast data and the ability to model what a potential merger would look like.

Available to subscribers to ALM Intelligence’s Legal Compass platform for data research…