For 23 years, Pro Bono Net has been working to harness the potential of technology to connect pro bono attorneys to those most in need of their services and to provide legal tools to help individuals advocate for themselves. In 2021 alone, the non-profit helped more than…
Wolters Kluwer Relaunches Manual IP within Kluwer IP Law with New Design and Workflow Features
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today relaunched Manual IP, a key compliance source within Kluwer IP Law that explains the procedures and laws involved in filing intellectual property applications in 238 jurisdictions, with what it describes as a more user-centric and innovative design.
Manual IP is a nearly 100-year-old publication, originally…
Case Management Company Filevine Raises $108M Series D to Fuel Expansion
Filevine, a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams.
The funding was led…
Justice Tech Company Paladin Partners with Ukraine’s Legal Development Network to Launch European Pro Bono Portal to Assist with War Relief
A U.S. justice tech company and a Ukrainian legal aid organization have joined forces to launch a first-of-its-kind European pro bono portal to assist with relief efforts for Ukrainians affected by the war.
The portal is being launched today by the Legal Development Network, a group of Ukrainian community-based organizations that promotes…
Guest Post: How Ukraine-Based Legal Tech Startup Lawrina is Adapting During the War
[The following guest post is written by Inna Ptitsyna, head of communications at Lawrina and ambassador at the Legal Hackers international community.]
Lawrina started in 2020 with a small team in Ukraine and two people working abroad who had a big idea — to change the experience of law. To build a living…
BriefCatch Rolls Out New Version of Its Legal Editing Tool, Now Compatible with Macs
The last time I wrote about BriefCatch, it was in 2018, when I put it and two other legal editing programs to the test of editing four opinions authored by Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, pronounced by Slate a terrible writer.
Looks like I’ll have to go back to the…
Wolters Kluwer’s Almanac of the Federal Judiciary Now Includes Access to Judges’ Profiles and Reviews from Courtroom Insight
The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary is a publication that provides biographic profiles and financial disclosure information for every federal judge, including those sitting on the Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, Districts Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and Specialized Courts.
Now, the Almanac’s publisher, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., is partnering with the company
Practice Management Company Centerbase Acquires Legal Website and Marketing Platform Legalfit
Centerbase, a Dallas-based company providing cloud legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, has has acquired Legalfit, a Kansas City company that provides web marketing and content management technology tailored specifically for small and mid-sized law firms.
Centerbase says the acquisition enables it to expand its practice management product — which already offers…
Virtual Law Clinic, Soon to Launch, Provides Platform for Law Firms and Legal Organizations to Manage their Pro Bono Matters
A soon-to-launch product will make it easier for law firms and legal organizations to manage their pro bono matters, providing an administrative platform for assigning matters to lawyers, monitoring case statuses, documenting outcomes, and providing training materials and forms.
Called Virtual Law Clinic, it is the second product to come out of Theory and Principle,…
This Week’s Latest Additions to the LawNext Legal Technology Directory
The product listings continue to grow in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which we launched in February. Periodically here, I am featuring the latest products to have been added to the directory. Here are this week’s 10 most recent additions:…
DocuSign Introduces ‘CLM Essentials,’ Streamlined Contract Management for Smaller-Sized Businesses
At its Momentum customer conference today, DocuSign introduced CLM Essentials, a contract lifecycle management product built specifically for small and medium-sized organizations to centralize and automate the creation, negotiation and storage of their contracts.
DocuSign said the product is designed to “democratize CLM” by reducing the…
Huge News from LinkSquares, As the Contract Management Company Raises $100M Series C
Major financing news today, as LinkSquares, the Boston-based company that provides an AI-powered contract management and analysis platform, said it has raised $100 million in Series C financing, less than a year after raising a $40 million Series B round, and bringing its total raise to $161.5 million at a current valuation of $800…
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