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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…

Way back in 2020, I wrote about how the pandemic had escalated the importance of electronic payments as a feature of law practice management software. That trend has only escalated since then, with any number of practice management platforms launching not just integrated e-payments from third-party payment processors, but their own native e-payments.

Now,…

Eight months ago, we launched the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, aiming to develop it into the most trusted source available for information and resources on legal technology products. Now, we are taking the next step forward with the launch of version 2.0 of the directory that brings new features and functionality.

As I

An integration announced today makes the court-calendaring software LawToolBox available within the MyCase law practice management platform, enabling lawyers who use MyCase to automatically calculate key court dates and deadlines and add them to their MyCase calendars.

The integration will enable MyCase users to automatically calculate deadlines and add them to their MyCase…

Today on our live Legaltech Week roundtable at 3 p.m. ET, we are joined by guest panelist David Horrigan, discovery counsel and legal education director at Relativity, for an advance look at RelativityFest, which convenes next week in Chicago.

David Horrigan

Our panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers will…