The Delaware court system is recognized throughout the legal profession as a leading forum for the litigation of business and commercial disputes. But for out-of-state attorneys, Delaware presents unique procedural hurdles, including that all electronic case filings must be done by local counsel licensed in Delaware, and that any electronic notices of filings…
Exclusive: Legal CRM Company Lawmatics Raises $10M, Aiming to Change How Lawyers Drive Business
Lawmatics, a company whose platform provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, has closed a $10 million Series A financing round, it is announcing today.
The financing follows the San Diego-based company’s raise of a $2.5 million seed round in October 2020.
Matt Spiegel, cofounder and CEO,…
Legal Tech Look-Back: A New Series Highlighting Moments from the Annals of Legal Technology
Aah legal tech. How far we’ve come. How far we haven’t.
Today I am introducing Legal Tech Look-Back, a recurring series of posts that will turn back the calendar on legal tech news.
What was the news in legal tech five or 10 or 15 years ago this week? That is what this series will…
On LawNext: How Courts Met the Pandemic Challenge, with Qudsiya Naqui of The Pew Charitable Trusts
When COVID-19 first swept across the United States in March 2020, it forced courts across the country to shut down, bringing trials and other legal proceedings to a screeching halt. A new study by The Pew Charitable Trusts examined how courts responded in the…
Ontario Court Lays Down the Law on Technology Competence and Video Proceedings
An Ontario judge has laid down the law on technology competence, ruling in no uncertain terms that every lawyer has a duty to keep pace with changing technology, and that a lawyer’s discomfort with new technologies — in this case, video depositions — is no excuse for reverting to pre-pandemic methods.
“With the current pace…
Ironclad Introduces Features to Provide Corporate Legal with Greater Visibility into In-Flight Contracts
For many in corporate legal, the principal tool for managing in-flight contracts — those in the process of negotiation — is Outlook, and the back-and-forth of emails and redlines serves as the primary notification of what needs to be done next.
Today, during its State of Digital Contracting event, the contract management company Ironclad…
Now You Can Listen to Legal News as Law360 Adds Audio Versions of All Stories
Law360, the legal news service owned by LexisNexis, is today introducing audio versions of every story it publishes.
For every story published on Law360, readers will now see an icon they can click to listen to an audio version of the article, read by a relatively lifelike male or female “newscaster” voice.
Study of Corporate Legal Spend in Legal ‘Megamatters’ Finds Little Use of ALSPs
A newly published report on spending by corporate legal departments in “megamatters” — any matter having a total spend of at least $1 million — indicates that corporate legal departments are making only minimal use of alternative legal services providers (ALSPs) to reduce costs, even though these megamatters are often the very types of matters…
On LawNext: DISCO CEO Kiwi Camara on His Company’s Public Offering and the State of Legal Tech
In July, the e-discovery company DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange. That made it the third legal tech company this year to go public, after no U.S. legal tech company had gone public since 2002.
On this…
Call for Entries: ABA TECHSHOW 2022 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition, Live in Chicago March 2
Attention legal technology startups: Applications are now open for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually.
Today officially kicks off the call for entries for Startup Alley, in which 15 startups will be selected…
Personal Injury Law Firm Claims to be First to Set Up Office in the Metaverse
Even if you had never before heard of the metaverse, you could no longer ignore it after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in October that his company was changing its name to Meta, revealing his vision for the future of online interaction.
Ever since, as The Verge writer Casey Newton said, “The metaverse…
Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done
The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently.
But this accelerated adoption of technology disproportionately benefited those who had legal representation, sometimes making the legal system more difficult to navigate for those who…