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Earlier this month, the practice management company Filevine announced that, as part of a new document assembly feature, it had developed a proprietary document format, “.vine,” that it said would replace Microsoft Word and Google Docs in the legal industry. (See, Say What? Filevine Introduces Proprietary Document Format to ‘Become the New Standard in…

AffiniPay, the parent company of payments platform LawPay and practice management platform MyCase, today named Catherine Dawson, a lawyer with 20 years of experience in data privacy, cybersecurity and mergers and acquisitions, as its general counsel. The news comes a week after AffiniPay named another woman to its executive suite, marketing…



Last week, the cloud-based content management company NetDocuments was in Denver for its annual three-day Inspire 2022 conference for customers and partners. As it happens, I was there also, where I sat down for an exclusive live interview with the company’s two top executives, Josh…

What with COVID, the economy and the day-to-challenges of practicing law and managing a firm, it’s been a tough three years. Yet despite it all, smaller law firms have a bullish outlook on their future prospects — and with good reason.

So says the 2022 State of U.S. Small Law Firms survey conducted by…

What were the top stories this week in legal tech? Find out when our live Legaltech Week roundtable reconvenes today at 3 p.m. ET, to discuss the latest developments in legal tech and legal innovation.

Among the stories we’re planning to take up:…

Our live Legaltech Week roundtable is back today at 3 p.m. ET, , where our panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and legal innovation.

Among the stories we’re planning to take up:…

I have said it before and I will say it again: So much of legal ethics is simply common sense. If a lawyer wants to avoid ethical trouble, think before you act.

That would seem to be the case with copying your clients on emails to your opposing counsel. There are various reasons why that…

At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, I sat down for a series of in-person LawNext interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, I speak with Jonathan Watson, Clio’s chief technology officer.

With over 20 years of leadership experience in large-scale SaaS and live gaming solutions, Watson’s unique approach…

In news that had me checking my calendar to see if it is April 1, the practice management company Filevine says that, as part of a new Document Assembly feature, it has developed a proprietary document format, “.vine,” that it believes will replace Microsoft Word and Google Docs in the legal industry.

“We believe…

Docketwise, a case management platform for immigration lawyers, has now added built-in e-signature functionality.

Docketwise says it is now the only legal immigration software platform that has e-signature technology natively within its platform, as opposed to integrating with a third-party signature technology.

More about Docketwise on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

The company…

With its release today of a new line of automated business documents for small- and medium-sized businesses, SixFifty is making three notable changes to what has been its business model to date.

For one, it is expanding into corporate and commercial documents after previously focusing its automation technology on privacy, employment and pro bono…

Recently, I posted here an exclusive analysis of legal tech funding from 1984 to 2020, a video timeline showing the evolving bar chart of investments in legal tech over nearly four decades.

Now I am able to exclusively present another analysis of legal tech deals — this time of exits in the forms of…