A new legal software product unveiled today, MatterAlert, is a web-based, matter-centric docketing, tickler and calendar application designed to help law firms manage all matter-related dates, deadlines and other information in a single platform.
The product provides a matter dashboard to view all matter information in one place and matter templates to automate the…
Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022.
The program is…
The legal technology company Clio has named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.
Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.…
The Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City later this month has been moved to March due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant.
Originally scheduled for Jan. 31-Feb. 3, the conference is now scheduled for March 8-11, still at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Mark Fried, CFO…
Friday is the final deadline for legal technology startups to apply for a spot in the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually.
This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to showcase your startup before an audience of legal…
With the goal of providing full end-to-end legal operations support to corporate clients worldwide, Integreon and UpLevel Ops have formed an alliance to offer what they are calling Legal Operations Support-as-a-Service.
The alliance combines the managed services offerings of alternative legal services provider (ALSP) Integreon with the outsourced strategic advisory services of corporate…
I had the great privilege to be a guest on the year-end edition of Talk Justice, the podcast produced by the Legal Services Corporation and hosted by Jason Tashea, a member of LSC’s Emerging Leaders Council.
Also on the episode were Zachariah DeMeola, director of legal education and the legal profession…
The new year begins with news of a new chief executive at Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms. Effective today, Chris Cartrett is succeeding Deane Price as the company’s CEO.
The move had been planned since July 2021, when the company announced that Price would…
Last year, I introduced something new for this blog: The LawSites Resource Center. It is a library of free downloadable content that includes white papers, webinars, product guides, case studies, industry analysis and more, all provided by experts and vendors within the legal industry.
So which of those resources were of most interest to readers?…
With the Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City in just a month, I began to hear rumors from multiple sources this week that it was being postponed due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant.
To find out if that was true, I reached out to
As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. “The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”
This year, my report…
In my LawNext podcast, I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice, from developing new technology to driving greater diversity.
These are among…
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