A new panelist is joining us today as a regular on our weekly Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable, where a panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
The new panelist is Jean O’Grady, publisher of the blog Dewey B Strategic, where she writes about “risk, value, strategy,…
Multiple pieces of news today from PacerPro, a company that enables law firms to automate the workflow around distributing and capturing federal court filings.
The company, which until now specialized in helping law firms manage federal court PACER filings, said it is expanding into coverage of state court dockets, starting with California and New…
This week, the College of Law Practice Management named Digitory Legal winner of its 2021 Innovation Award for a unique partnership with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to drive diversity, equity and inclusion among its outside counsel by applying analytics to billing data to get a deeper understanding of the type and…
When Rocket Matter launched in 2008 as one of the first cloud-based law practice management platforms, it was targeted at solo and small firms. While those firms remain an important segment of its customer base, it has, over the intervening years, seen greater adoption by larger firms as they have moved to the…
Are scanners a technology whose days are numbered? As our use of paper recedes, will scanners, like fax machines before them, eventually become obsolete?
I pondered that question as I considered the new Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1300, which is being released to the market today. Perhaps the day will come when legal professionals will no longer…
FileTrail, a company that provides information governance and records management software for law firms and highly regulated industries, has named Harold Westervelt, a veteran business and sales executive, to the newly created position of chief executive officer.
The 21-year-old company said that Darrell Mervau, cofounder and president, selected Westervelt for the position…
Today at the NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., Integreon, the global managed services and alternative legal services company, will be announcing that it has expanded its Cyber Incident Response (CIR) capabilities to include Cyber Incident Notification Services.
These notification services will include delivery and fulfillment of required communications,…
At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis.
The new NetDocuments Highlights embeds LexisNexis case analysis and intelligence technology directly into the NetDocuments platform, automatically scanning and…
The legal technology company Litera has unveiled a new podcast series, Legaltech Matters, and I had the honor of hosting the first episode — an interview with CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on what’s driving Litera’s acquisition strategy and where it’s going.
The new biweekly podcast series is dedicated to creating conversations about technology,…
Our regular Friday Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable will feature a guest today: Jim McGinnis, CEO of practice management company MyCase.
McGinnis will take questions from our panel of legal tech journalists, including about news yesterday of an integration between MyCase and the virtual receptionist service Smith.ai, and also about the inaugural…
The law practice management company Smokeball has secured a $30 million investment from private investors and employee shareholders in order to double down on growth, it said today.
The company said it will use the funds to fast-track the expansion of its team of more than 200 employees and the development of its proprietary…
MyCase, the cloud-based practice management platform, and Smith.ai, a virtual receptionist service for law firms and other businesses, have created an integration by which MyCase customers will be able to outsource call answering while viewing and tracking call logs directly within MyCase.
To take advantage of the integration, MyCase customers will need a…
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