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Sixteen years ago marked the beginning of a sea change in law practice management technology for solo and small law firms. On March 1, 2008, a virtually unknown company out of Canada called Themis Solutions launched the first cloud-based software product for managing a law practice, called Clio. Coincidentally, just a week earlier,…

Live today on the weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, we’ll get a briefing on the major upgrade to Vincent AI, the vLex AI assistant, from Robin Chesterman, global head of product, and Ed Walters, chief strategy officer, following yesterday’s announcement of major enhancements to the legal workflow assistant. 

Of course, the panel will…

Multiple lawyers who are using the payments app Venmo in their law practices are exposing client information to the public — and they may not even know it.

These accounts expose client names and sometimes other details, such as payment amounts, the nature of the representation, or even the client’s financial straits.

Model Rule…

For some lawyers, tracking time is so tedious and onerous that they leave their law firms for jobs where hourly billing is not required, such as working inhouse at a corporation. Even apart from the tedium, time tracking is often incomplete and inaccurate, failing to record all billable hours and resulting in time leakage that can…

Assembly Software recently announced the launch of NeosAI, a set of generative AI-powered features integrated directly into the Neos case management platform, with the goal of transforming how legal professionals operate and streamlining their daily tasks.

By automating a wide range of tasks, including document summarization, document generation, data extraction, OCR, and dynamic…

On Sept. 19, The Resolution Center celebrates its 30th anniversary. Long formerly known as the North Shore Community Mediation Center, it is an organization that provides conflict resolution and training services to a broad swath of communities north of Boston.

I am on The Resolution Center’s board of directors, and I am writing this…

The chief executive officer of law practice management company CARET left that role on her accord and remains a member of the company’s board of directors, the company says.

Earlier this week, Law.com reported that Keri Gohman, the former Bain Capital Ventures partner who had been CARET’s CEO since 2022, was laid…

As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product.

But today the judge overseeing the…

Spellbook, the company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review in 2022, today launched what it says is the first AI agent for law, capable of planning and executing complex, multi-step workflows.

Called Spellbook Associate, the agent can plan, execute and check its work, and adapt to accomplish…

The document automation company Gavel has launched pre-built workflows — sets of automated forms for document generation that are tailored to specific practice areas and jurisdictions, and that are free for any lawyer to test without a Gavel subscription.

The new feature is launching today with three workflows for California lawyers for for divorce,…

Two veterans of legal media have partnered to launch a communications firm to represent to represent legal and business clients in marketing, media relations, crisis management and more.

Called LIMELIGHT, the new firm has been launched by Kenneth Gary and Erin Harrison, both former legal journalists who worked at ALM and…

Today on the weekly Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable, we’ll be discussing the just-concluded ILTACON, as well as some of the stories and announcements that came out of it.

The show is live at 3 p.m. E.T. If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up…