Last month, we announced the launch of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which we hope will become the most trusted source of legal tech products in the market.

We have been grateful for the response, both from users and vendors. In order for product listings to be as complete as possible, we are…

Potentially one of the biggest legal tech stories to come out of the Legalweek show in New York last week was the release by LexisNexis Legal & Professional of a new API Developer Portal. The self-service portal enables law firms to access some 99% of LexisNexis content – both raw content and metadata…

Last week brought a flurry of legal technology news, thanks to the first in-person Legalweek conference in two years. Yesterday, in the first of two posts, I began a round up the week’s notable announcements. Here is the rest of my round-up.

Reveal, a global provider…

Given that this happened two weeks ago, I am a bit tardy in reporting the results of the Startup Alley pitch competition, which was the opening night event at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago March 2. I blame it on two solid weeks of travel and a deluge of catching up after returning home.

The…

Last week brought a flurry of legal technology news, thanks to the first in-person Legalweek conference in two years. In this first of two posts, I will round up the week’s notable announcements. I’ll publish the second half tomorrow.

The cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies announced the…

Epiq, a global company that provides technology-enabled services to the legal industry and corporations, has acquired Fireman & Company, a leading legal industry management consulting firm, it announced today.

The acquisition enables Epiq to deliver broader knowledge management and data management expertise and provides Epiq with an expanded suite of strategic legal advisory…

BlackBoiler, a company whose AI-based technology automates the review and mark-up of inbound contracts right in Microsoft Word’s Track Changes, is today launching a redesigned platform with an enhanced user interface and a new tool that helps companies automate the creation of contract playbooks. 

The new platform can be used as a standalone product…

Zero to sixty. Two weeks, two back-to-back live conferences, after not having been to one for two years.

I already wrote about the first of the two, ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago, the timing of which made it a karmic bookend to a long strange trip. For many in attendance there, TECHSHOW 2020 had…

A company that says it has developed a “revolutionary” SaaS tool to automate the remote collection and analysis of mobile data from smartphones and short-message chat applications has completed its seed funding round of over $1 million.

The company, ModeOne, was founded by its CEO, Matthew Rasmussen, a litigation support and technology professional…

When legal research company Fastcase announced its acquisition of Judicata, the innovative California legal research platform, in 2020, it held out the promise of building on Judicata’s innovations through integrations with Docket Alarm, another Fastcase-owned product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case-prediction analytics. 

In a…

It was as if we were all stepping back into the real world after stepping out two years ago and falling through some portal into a dystopian parallel universe.

On Feb. 29, 2020, ABA TECHSHOW 2020 wrapped its four-day run, and those of us who had attended headed home, exhausted and exhilarated after another successful…

Last year, I wrote here about the launch of Map Engine, an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data.

Although it launched with just one map template, of U.S. states and territories, and later added Europe, it…