Two years ago, the legal and business news company ALM launched Law.com Radar, a service of the legal news site Law.com that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, rather than by human editors. It later added transactional news to the…
LegalTech Hub acquires LegalTech Jobs, Adding Job Listings to Its Directory
In all my years of covering legal tech, a question I’ve never had to confront is how to — or even whether to — cover my competitors. But now that I have launched a business of my own, the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, that is the awkward question I faced as Nicola…
LexisNexis Acquires CLM Company Parley Pro As Part of Broader Enhancement of Its CounselLink ELM Platform
It is a busy day for contract lifecycle management technology. First came the news that enterprise CLM company SirionLabs has raised $85 million in a Series D funding round, and now LexisNexis Legal & Professional says it has acquired the CLM platform Parley Pro as part of a broader set of enhancements…
How It Works: LollyLaw, Cloud-Based Case Management Software for Immigration Law Firms
On this episode of the video series How It Works: LollyLaw, a cloud-based, all-in-one case management platform for immigration law firms.
LollyLaw, which was recently acquired by law practice management company Paradigm, is designed to allow immigration lawyers to effortlessly manage all major functions of their practice through a single, intuitive platform.
LollyLaw helps…
Today at 3 ET: Our Legal Tech Journalists’ Roundtable is Back to Unpack the Week’s Top Stories
Today at 3 E.T., the Legaltech Week panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers is back to unpack the week’s top stories in tech and innovation.
Attendance is free, but, if you have not already done so, you need to register, which you can do here. Register once and you are signed up for all…
With the Mission of Turning Contracts into Data, TermScout Raises $5M in Seed Funding
Last year, I wrote about the launch of TermScout, a unique legal technology startup devoted to reviewing, rating and comparing contracts. Well, not only has the company’s scope grown since then, so has its budget, as it today announces a raise of $5 million in seed funding and the launch of a new…
Pro Bono Management Platform Paladin Raises $8M in Series A Funding to Fuel International Expansion
Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, has raised $8 million in Series A funding, which it plans to use to further develop its product and expand its market internationally.
Bringing Paladin’s total financing to over $12 million, this…
With New Drive Feature, MyCase Users Can Now Sync Documents between Desktop and Cloud
The law practice management company MyCase today introduced MyCase Drive, a feature that provides users with the ability to synchronize folders and documents between their desktop computers and the cloud-based MyCase platform.
Also today, MyCase unveiled a redesigned logo and website, with the goal of making its branding better reflect the product’s all-in-one…
In Westlaw-ROSS Litigation, Judge Allows ROSS’s Antitrust Case to Move Forward, But Tosses ‘Sham Litigation’ Claim
Last year, in the continuing federal court litigation between now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence and long-established legal research giant Thomson Reuters, ROSS upped the ante when it filed a counterclaim asserting that TR is violating federal antitrust law by maintaining monopolistic and anticompetitive control over the legal research market.
Today, in a…
In Possible First, Smokeball’s Document Automation Now Adapts for Gender-Neutral Pronouns
Earlier this month, in a sign of the increasing legal acceptance of gender-neutral markers, the U.S. Department of State allowed U.S. citizens to select X as their gender marker on their passports.
Yet, while it is common for legal document automation software to detect the male or female gender of the subject of the…
Nominations Open for Third Annual American Legal Technology Awards, to be Presented at October Gala
When the originators of the American Legal Technology Awards first came up with the idea early in 2020, their plan was to cap off the competition with a grand formal gala celebrating legal technology. Unfortunately, COVID came along and put the kibosh on the gala, but the awards went ahead virtually, announcing the first…
Wolters Kluwer Enhances IPO Vital Signs with New Interactive Tables and Graphics
The sharper-eyed among you may have notice that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. released product news on each of the last two Mondays — on April 11 announcing its partnership with Courtroom Insight to add profiles and reviews to the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, and on April 18 announcing its relaunch…
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