If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”

Fastcase today announced its 11th annual Fastcase 50 honorees, which adds up to…

Subscribers to Lexis+. the premium legal research platform that LexisNexis launched last year, will now have access to breaking legal news headlines across 76 practice areas with the introduction today of the Legal News Hub.

The Legal News Hub provides subscribers with access to headlines and summaries of current news stories from the…

Thomson Reuters’ legal know-how product Practical Law gets a dynamic set of new features today with the release of the Practical Law Dynamic Tool Set, a collection of five distinct tools that allow users to search and interactive with the product’s static content in more dynamic ways.

The Practical Law product provides a way…

Update: Tabs3 CEO Dan Berlin Will Remain With Company After Acquisition, He Says. 

Earlier this week, I reported on the unannounced acquisitions by MyCase of two legal technology companies, CASEpeer and Woodpecker. Now there is another stealth deal to report, this time involving the acquisition of Tabs3 Software, which is one…

Editor’s note: The first cohort just graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law’s innovative Tech Edge J.D. program, which combines legal, business, and technology education with hands-on skills development and individualized mentorship, all while leveraging the school’s Silicon Valley location. In this guest post, Laura Lee Norris, director of the program,…

The Friday Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable is back today at 3 p.m. E.T., when a panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.

Having been off last week, we’ll have two weeks to catch up on. Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you can…

The past year has laid bare, in shockingly explicit detail, the racial inequities of the justice system. Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law students to spend nine months working to end…

News today of further consolidation in the e-discovery market, as Seattle-based Lighthouse, a provider of technology-enabled e-discovery, compliance and information governance services, announced that it will acquire H5, a company that offers technology assisted review and analytics products that work within the Relativity and RelativityOne e-discovery platforms.

Lighthouse said that this acquisition marks…

The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public.

On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer, a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys.

Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker, which provides legal document automation software for solo and…

The international investment banking company BNY Mellon has won a global award for innovation in contracting as a result of its work with the AI-powered contract lifecycle management company Evisort.

Global Custodian magazine named BNY Mellon recipient of its Innovation Award for Client Contracting for the bank’s work with Evisort to support…

Four months after its acquisition by a private equity firm, the law practice management and accounting software company AbacusNext has combined with Zola Suite, a SaaS legal practice management software provider, to create what they are calling “the strongest portfolio of legal software solutions on the market.”

The combined companies now offer a…

Earlier this week, I reported that Alma Asay, the former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, has joined the law firm Crowell & Moring as senior director of practice innovation and client value. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to catch up with Asay and learn more about why she made the move…