For all the advances made in the science of legal search, we are – as Pablo Arredondo, cofounder and chief innovation officer of Casetext likes to say – stuck in the keyword prison.
Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to…
Imagine this scenario: You have just weeks to file an appellate brief. The record in the case is enormous. The trial lasted five weeks, generating more than 40 reporter record volumes of testimony and trial exhibits and another seven clerk record volumes containing pleadings, motions and other filings.
Out of that voluminous record, you need…
I spent last week at ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association. With nearly 3,000 attendees, it was the third largest ILTACON ever – a particularly significant stat given that we have yet to fully emerge from three years in the grips of the global pandemic.
ILTACON is an opportunity for legal…
Relativity, the global e-discovery and compliance technology company, said today that it has acquired Heretik, an AI contract review company whose product was built on the Relativity platform and whose staff is half composed of former Relativity employees.
Moving forward, Heretik’s end-to-end contract review product will be known as Relativity Contracts. It…
MerusCase, a law practice management software tailored for workers’ compensation, employment and labor, and insurance defense firms, today introduced MerusPay, an e-payments feature built natively in the MerusCase platform.
MerusCase says this native online payments capability enables users to now compliantly process payments without the need for additional third-party applications.
Read more about…
At ILTACON today, BigHand, a company that provides operational and financial products for law firms, said that it has acquired Digitory Legal, whose platform provides cost analytics designed to help law firms and in-house legal departments better price their services and manage their costs.
Digitory says its analytics “unlocks information below the surface of the…
Today kicks off the first full day of ILTACON22, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Already, the day has brought a slew of news announcements from legal technology companies.
Here is a roundup of news announced this morning.
DISCO Joins the LexFusion Go-to-Market Collective As Its E-Discovery ProviderThe e-discovery company…
Last November, the document management company NetDocuments acquired Afterpattern, a no-code toolkit that law firms and legal teams can use to build apps and automate legal documents and workflows, promising at the time that it would be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform.
Today, that promise comes to fruition, as NetDocuments releases…
I have written twice before about Map Engine, an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data — first when it launched in 2021 and again earlier this year when it expanded its selection of maps to cover…
Last January, the law firm Redgrave LLP, which specializes in e-discovery and information law, formed the company Redgrave Strategic Data Solutions LLC to provide “innovative services and solutions centered at the intersection of the law, technology, and science.”
The company launched with a leadership team of veteran e-discovery and data science professionals, helmed by…
First came Lexis+, which LexisNexis launched in the U.S. two years ago as its next-generation premium legal research platform. Then, last May, came Lexis+ UK, the version tailored to the UK market. Now comes Lexis+ Canada, as the company today launches its product there.
When I first wrote about the U.S. version…
Just over a year ago, the e-discovery company CS DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
But on Friday, the company’s stock (LAW) took a tumble, dropping by more than 50% to close at $13.43, after the company announced its…
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