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Last month, I reported here that The LegalTech Fund (TLTF), the first venture capital firm devoted exclusively to law and legal technology, had announced plans for its first TLTF Summit in December — a three-day event for investors, startups and legal innovation thought leaders — together with the debut TLTF Startup Challenge,…

Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. It is called Westlaw Precision and, as the name suggests, its focus is on delivering research results that are more precise than ever before, and delivering them with greater speed than ever before.…

Legal professionals face greater pressure than ever before, driven by the “VUCA” environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, but firms that are well-equipped for the future are those that are optimizing their people, processes and technology through a path of continuous improvement.

So says the 2022 edition of The Wolters Kluwer Future Ready…

Bridget M. McCormack, who, as chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, has been a leading voice on modernizing the court and justice systems to expand access to justice, is retiring from the court at the end of this year and in February will become president and chief executive officer of the American Arbitration Association-International…

As legal technology has grown in popularity and prominence in recent years, great attention is being paid to investment activity. Which is the latest company to raise funds? How much was the raise. Who were the investors behind it?

But the true history of investments in legal technology extends back some four decades and encompasses…

A new partnership between Free Law Project, a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, and vLex, the international legal research platform, will enable Free Law Project to complete its goal of collecting every precedential court decision from the federal courts and state appellate courts and making them available to…

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is today unveiling an enhanced version of its Legisway product for managing corporate legal departments that is tailored for the U.S. market.

While Legisway is already widely used by legal departments in Europe, this version, built on the same platform, is designed to meet the needs of small…

In a post here in April, I wrote about the imminent launch of Virtual Law Clinic, a product designed to make it easier for law firms and legal organizations to manage their pro bono matters, enabling them to assign matters to lawyers, monitor case statuses, document outcomes, and provide training materials and forms.…

JusticeText, a three-year-old startup that makes it easier for public defenders in criminal cases to review body cam and other video footage, has raised a seed round of $2.2 million, it said today.

Investors in the round include Bloomberg Beta, True Ventures, Tubbs Ventures, Higher Ground Labs, Parameter Ventures, Incite.org, Google Black Founders Fund,…

Today at 3 E.T., join us live for our post-mortem analysis of ILTACON, the just-concluded annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. The panelists will share their impressions and takeaways. Time allowing, we’ll also discuss the week’s other top stories in legal tech and innovation.

Joining as a guest panelist today is Cassandre…

Back in April, I wrote about the kick-off of the third-annual round of nominations for the American Legal Technology Awards — one notable for the fact that it will be the first time the awards will be presented in-person since its inception. 

The purpose of the awards is to honor those making a difference…

It has been a notable year for the practice management company MyCase, one in which it made four notable acquisitions of other practice management products, and then itself was acquired by AffiniPay, the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay.

Today, we are seeing the fruits of two of those acquisitions,…