This marks the 20th year in business for Nextpoint, and it is shaping up to be a momentous one for the Chicago-based e-discovery and case preparation company. Having been bootstrapped since its founding, Nextpoint recently closed its first round of outside financing. Having never made an acquisition,…

Integreon, the global managed services and alternative legal services provider, has appointed legal industry veteran Gabriel Buigas as executive vice president and head of its Contracts, Compliance, and Commercial (CCC) Services business unit.

Buigas, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has worked in the legal industry as an attorney and business executive for 25 years.…

The Clio Cloud Conference is always the occasion for the law practice management company to announce new and enhanced products, and today’s kick-off of this year’s event was no different, with CEO Jack Newton unveiling what he described to me as the most important product release since Clio’s debut 13 years ago.…

Law Street Media, the legal news service owned by Fastcase, is adding coverage of mergers, acquisitions and financings, using data and documents provided by Matterhorn Transactions, a company that provides comprehensive databases, analyses, and reports of publicly filed transactional information.

This adds transactional news to Law Street Media’s existing litigation-focused coverage of technology,…

Despite its name, Judicial Brief Analysis, an enhancement introduced today to the Lexis+ legal research platform from LexisNexis, is targeted at lawyers, enabling them to analyze up to six briefs at a time and receive a report comparing all case law, arguments, citations and quotes.

The product’s name is meant to suggest that it…

Some lawyers will tell you that there is no greater nuisance in their daily work than recording their billable time. For those lawyers, salvation has arrived, and its name is Apollo.

Apollo is a new AI-driven software product being released today by ZERO, a company whose flagship product automatically captures billable time spent on emails…

The deadline is Monday, Oct. 25, to submit nominations for The Changing Lawyer Awards 2021, sponsored by Litera, which will be presented to winners Nov. 10 as part of the fourth Changing Lawyer Virtual Summit.

The awards recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in both embracing and…

On the latest installment of How It Works: MyCase, a complete law practice management solution that helps firms run efficiently from anywhere, provide an exceptional client experience, and easily track firm performance so that they can reach their business goals.

Cathleen Swallow, senior director of product management at MyCase, joins me to provide…

For tax lawyers and accountants, a major pain point is the time they spend drawing complex entity and relationship diagrams — diagrams that map the major players involved in a client’s tax scenario and the relationships among them.

Until now, the state of the art for creating these diagrams has been Microsoft PowerPoint, according to…

A new integration between two litigation-focused legal technology products connects more than 500 million federal and state litigation dockets and documents with a database of expert witness and judicial profiles, with the aim of helping lawyers better evaluate expert witnesses.

The integration is between Docket Alarm, a Fastcase-owned product that mines federal and…

In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest.

To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.

The data…

By Naseeha Machingal, LegalEase Solutions

A recent LegalTech News article quoted several in-house counsel who expressed deep dissatisfaction with the sales approach taken by some legal tech vendors. They even went as far as calling it “aggressive” and “demeaning.”

This year has been the biggest year for legal tech funding, with $4.16 billion…