The American Bar Association’s Center for Innovation has launched a website, Justice System Metrics, that catalogues the key metrics and performance indicators that can be used to evaluate progress and innovation in the justice sector, and that also provides real-world examples of how these metrics are being used to understand and drive progress in…
PracticePanther Will Buy You Out from Up to Seven Months of Your Current Practice Management Contract
The law practice management platform PracticePanther is today beginning a limited-time “SwitchScription” offer by which it will buy out law firms from up to seven months of their current practice management contracts if they switch to PracticePanther.
“At PracticePanther, we believe that every law firm should be able to choose the solution that best…
New Termi Chatbot May Just Be the Missing Link in Driving Tech Adoption at Law Firms
Lawyers have a disparate array of technology tools and systems at their disposal – for email, documents, billing, invoicing, CRM, and much more.
The problem, however, is exactly that – that they are disparate. If a client emails the lawyer in Outlook asking for a copy of its invoice, the lawyer has to stop and…
New Beta Feature of Law.com Radar Uses Algorithm to Detect Trends and Surges in Litigation News
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…
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