A report out yesterday provides further evidence of a trend I have written about several times in recent years — the increasingly instrumental role law librarians play in innovation and technology adoption.

The 2021 AALL State of the Profession Report, the second such report published by the American Association of Law  Libraries, compiles…

Litify, a law firm practice-management technology built on top of the Salesforce.com platform, has acquired another Salesforce-based legal platform, LegalStratus, which provides e-billing and matter management for corporate legal departments and government agencies.

“With their combined resources and expertise, Litify and LegalStratus will give corporate legal departments, government agencies and insurance providers unparalleled…

New findings show that law firms that piloted the Mansfield Rule have grown the racial and ethnic diversity of their leadership by more than 30 times the rate of other firms. These firms have also exceeded the norm in the rates at which racially diverse lawyers progressed into partnership and at which women lawyers…

Positioning itself as offering a simpler and more affordable AI-driven contract management system for mid-market corporate enterprises, startup Lexion has raised $11 million in an oversubscribed Series A round. When combined with its seed round of $4.2 million, total funding for the company is now $15.2 million.

The Seattle-based company says its product is…

In today’s episode of How It Works, we learn about LAWCLERK, where attorneys go to hire freelance lawyers and virtual associates. LAWCLERK’s mission is to make general practitioners and law firms more profitable by outsourcing projects to more than 3,600 freelance lawyers with all levels of experience and expertise.

To introduce LAWCLERK and demonstrate…

E-discovery company Casepoint is today introducing enhancements to CaseAssist, its AI-based active review technology, and to its analytics and classification tools, that it says give users more insight and control over the review process, including enhanced visualization capabilities and configuration templates.

One of the first companies to offer a cloud-based, end-to-end e-discovery platform when…

Legal professionals agree that the pandemic accelerated the critical role of technology in the future success of their law firms and legal departments, but only a third believe their organizations are well prepared for addressing technology’s increasing importance.

This is a key finding of the 2021 Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report, the…

Just a year after its founding the legal tech startup Anü has shut down, having struggled to find customers and develop the right business model.

As I wrote about Anü in a post last November, it set out to solve the problem of startup founders unable to find the right lawyer, particularly founders…

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.

We were off last week, so we have two weeks to catch up on. Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you…

I reported here last week on a statement issued by a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court recommending that law firms and other legal employers permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception.

Maintaining flexibility in individual working arrangements serves the dual purposes of enhancing lawyer well-being while also advancing…

Two years ago, I wrote a column calling for the duty of technology — which applies to lawyers in 39 states — to be extended to judges. While that has not happened in the United States, it has now happened in Canada.

Yesterday, the Canadian Judicial Council published a new and modernized…

As we emerge from the pandemic, it is clear that the workplace of 2021 and beyond is going to be drastically different than the workplace of yesteryear.

To help businesses address this new era of workplace legal challenges, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, is releasing