What do law firms stand to gain from encouraging collaboration? Why do attorneys often resist this change? And how can teams develop the right strategy to communicate across practice areas and with clients?
This week’s free featured resource in the LawSites Resources center is a downloadable guide to attorney collaboration. Among the topics…
In a move that symbolizes the bridge between traditional law practice and new forms of legal services delivery, Andrew Ballheimer, who retired last year as global managing partner at Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy, has joined the board of directors of the alternative legal services provider Factor.
The news caps a year…
California, home to roughly 13% of all U.S. lawyers, has become the 39th state to adopt the ethical duty of technology competence.
Effective this week (March 22), the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct provide that a lawyer’s duty of competence encompasses “the duty to keep abreast of the changes in the law and law practice,…
Last year, the legal research company Casetext launched Compose, a first-of-its-kind product that uses artificial intelligence to help create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally take.
Interest in Compose was so great that it somewhat overshadowed Casetext’s release of a product that formed a…
If I were to tell you that Mark Britton, the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner, legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary; and Bill Neukom, longtime Microsoft general counsel, were all seed investors in a new legal technology product designed to strengthen your legal writing, would I…
Legalist, a San Francisco-based litigation finance company that uses technology to scour court dockets and determine the best cases in which to invest, is now expanding into bankruptcy, raising $50 million for a fund to provide debtor-in-possession financing to small businesses in bankruptcy.
DIP financing is used in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases to enable…
After a copyright lawsuit forced the company he cofounded to shut down last December, Andrew Arruda, the cofounder and former CEO of legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, has now taken the helm as CEO of a new software company, this time in the medical field.
Arruda announced the company, Automate Medical, in a…
Relativity, the Chicago-based company that is widely acknowledged to be the market leader for e-discovery software, yesterday announced a definitive agreement for a strategic growth investment from Silver Lake, one of the world’s largest private equity technology investors.
Although the parties did not disclose the amount of the investment,
It is a happy ending, after all, for Faster Suite and its customers, as it is back up and running as an integration with the practice management platform Clio.
As reported here last week, Clio booted the popular app last Monday over concerns that it could expose Clio customer data to a…
A new partnership between Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. and Courtroom Insight will provide easier access to labor arbitrators’ awards and biographies.
From within Courtroom Insight, users are now able to access WK’s database of labor arbitration content, which includes arbitrators’ awards and relevant biographical information.
WK’s Labor Arbitration Awards collection…
An international group of seven legal industry leaders and experts, led by U.K. blogger and consultant Richard Tromans, have formed a think tank to propel change in the legal business model, with a particular focus on how legal services are billed and delivered in the corporate and commercial law sector.
Called Changing Legal,…
That it was Friday the 13th was not lost on me.
There I sat, one year ago today, on Friday the 13th, on a packed flight from Salt Lake City to Boston, almost no one wearing masks, feeling superstitiously anxious as I returned home from BYU Law School, where I’d traveled two days earlier to…
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