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With companies facing a Nov. 1 deadline to comply with China’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, is today launching a product to help organizations automate the paperwork they need to comply with the law, generating the necessary documents in both English…

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The legal analytics platform Lex Machina has introduced a “fetch” functionality that allows users to request and retrieve specific documents from state court dockets.

The functionality is designed to enable users to dig into the details of analytics research they perform on Lex Machina, obtaining specific motions, orders or other documents that can provide…

I wrote last March about Clearbrief, a first-of-its-kind product designed to strengthen your legal writing, and that was backed by some big-name early investors, including 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.

Now, Clearbrief…

The billable hour has been unfairly painted as the villain of law firm pricing, when in fact opacity is the issue

Guest Post By Nicholas d’Adhemar, Founder and CEO, Apperio

A while back I had a contractor out to my home to quote some remodeling work. The job seemed straightforward, and the contractor gave…

Centerbase, a Dallas-based company providing legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms , has received a growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners, a growth equity firm that invests exclusively in fast-growing, bootstrapped software companies.

In an interview with LawSites, John Forbes, founder and CEO, declined to say the amount of the…

This week’s featured resource from LawSites Resources: A Lawyer’s Guide to Online Marketing.

Marketing your law firm is a different beast today than it was 20, 10, or even five years ago. Whereas previously firms were jostling for prime Yellow Pages placement (“AAAA Divorce Attorneys,” anyone?), the Internet has revolutionized how clients find…

The market research and advisory firm Aragon Research has named the contract management company Evisort as one of three emerging “hot vendors” in workflow and content automation.

In the newly published research report, Hot Vendors in Workflow and Content Automation, 2021,  Aragon’s analysts reviewed key…

After I reported earlier today that Litera had withdrawn its employees from attending ILTACON next week, the company issued the following statement.

“After assessing the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in the US, it is with regret that we have decided that our team will not be attending ILTACON 2021 in Las Vegas. We apologize…

Update: Litera has issued a statement confirming its withdrawal from attending the Las Vegas event. Details here.

Last Friday, I reported that a major exhibitor, iManage, facing mounting fears around the surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus,  had decided to pull its staff from attending ILTACON, while continuing to support the conference…

It is fitting that Las Vegas is a major mecca of gambling, given that, next week, several hundred people will take a gamble on their safety to attend the physical portion of the first-ever hybrid ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. While I’d planned to be among them, I have decided…

An international working group of academics, vendors, lawyers and other legal professionals is today releasing the legal industry’s first comprehensive guide to best practices and workflows for creating effective legal documents in Microsoft Word.

Document Competency: What Every Legal Professional Should Know for Effective & Efficient Drafting in Word, is intended to establish for…