Dean Sonderegger is departing as head of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. (LRUS), a position he has held since May 2019, to become SVP and general manager of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Canada and Research & Learning U.S.

WK has yet to name a successor to the position, the formal title…

Since its formal launch in June 2020, Lexicon has taken a unique approach to providing a solution to lawyers’ practice management needs.

Not only is it a full-featured, practice management software platform, but it also offers an array of the essential services a law firm needs — services that tightly integrate with the…

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Case Status raises $3.5 million. Case Status, a mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms, raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital funding round led by Meeting Street Capital, Panoramic Ventures, VentureSouth, CreativeCo, and others.

I had previously…

With thousands of legal tech products on the market competing for the attention and dollars of legal professionals, how can consumers make smarter buying decisions?

That is the focus of a webinar I will moderate tomorrow, Making Smarter Legal Tech Decisions in 2022, that will feature both legal tech vendors and consumers, together with…

It was barely more than a year ago that Ironclad raised a $100 million Series D round at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, and now the San Francisco-based company has raised a $150 million Series E at a $3.2 billion valuation.

That brings total investment in the company, whose product is a…

Marking its 14th acquisition since 2019 and its eighth in just the last 12 months, legal technology company Litera has entered into an agreement to acquire Prosperoware, a company that develops software for the legal industry for the adoption and governance of collaboration systems.

Haley Altman, global head of corporate development at Litera,…

The international legal research service vLex said today it has partnered with some of the world’s leading news publishers to launch a new Global News product on its platform. 

“Global News is a significant expansion of vLex’s expert legal commentary and news content, making it a vital tool for any lawyer, law librarian, investigative researcher,…

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 million since its founding in 2013.

Although the company has not publicly announced the funding, it filed a notification with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 7, 2022, documenting the…

We need your vote! Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, as well as…

What’s ahead for legal tech and innovation for 2022? On today’s Legaltech Week live roundtable, our esteemed panel of bloggers and journalists will offer their predictions.

Last week, we discussed the top stories of 2021. We planned to also share predictions, but ran out of time. That means this week’s show is entirely devoted to…

The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate, enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says.

This makes Elevate the first non-lawyer-owned law company, LPO, or ALSP in the United States to operate with…

Last week, legal technology company Clio named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.

Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.

Before joining…