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While the last few years have brought an abundance of new and innovative legal tech products to market, the fact of the matter is that not every new product will succeed. Inevitably, for whatever reason, some products fail. But one thing for certain is that while some products shut down with a whimper, others go…

If you missed it last Friday, here is Legaltech Week for April 5, 2024.

Among our topics: Banning “nonlawyer,” updates from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, lawyer chastised for Microsoft Word screw-up, and more.

You can always catch all prior episodes as a podcast or on YouTube.

In addition to regular panelists Niki Black, Caroline…

Litera today released a new product that uses generative artificial intelligence to create a database of corporate deal terms from a law firm’s own documents, in order to give legal teams easy access to al relevant data points from prior transactions, whether for negotiating a deal or pitching a potential client.

The product, Foundation…

Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal, a project management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the legal market.

The acquisition builds on the company’s launch last year of Bloomberg Law Contract Solutions, an AI-powered solution for…

I realized today that my LawNext podcast recently hit a milestone — its 25oth episode. In fact, with the latest episode posted this week, we are up to 254 episodes.

All 254 are shown in the image above or on this live-with-links episode gallery.

When I started LawNext in 2018, I was no…

With the goal of making legal scholarship freely available outside of “proprietary and predatory frameworks,” Yale Law School has launched Law Archive, a free and open archive for publishing legal scholarship.

Developed by Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library and the Center for…

It is only Wednesday, but already this week has brought news of four notable investment deals in legal tech.

Luminance, a UK-based company that uses artificial intelligence to automate the generation, negotiation and analysis of contracts, and whose product is also used for e-discovery, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding…

As a cloud-based CRM and marketing platform for law firms, Lawmatics has always featured a standard dashboard where users can get an at-a-glance overview of their activity and metrics. But now, the company has introduced custom dashboards, enabling firms to create their own unique dashboards showing the precise data they wish to track. 

Matt…

A new tool from the litigation analytics company Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, allows attorneys to view visual maps of a party’s litigation history in order to help illuminate the party’s relationships and litigation trends that might not otherwise be obvious but that could be a factor in crafting a litigation strategy…

A remote-controlled race car that redlines documents? A slingshot for launching litigation? A “Yes, But …” button for testing out your legal theories?

These are just some of the products available through the new online store LawLawLand, launched by the contract management company SpotDraft.

While oriented towards inhouse legal teams, the products could…

In Los Angeles, the legal services organization Bet Tzedek has long run regular in-person legal clinics designed to help self-represented individuals better understand and navigate the sometimes complex process of conservatorship, by which a court appoints a person to manage the personal and financial affairs of someone who cannot make decisions for themself because…

I am speaking tomorrow on a CLE webinar on the state of legal technology, but the last day to register is today at 3 p.m. ET.

In a program presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, I am joining Damian Turco, MBA president and former chair of the MBA’s Law Practice Management Section, to discuss…