California, home to roughly 13% of all U.S. lawyers, has become the 39th state to adopt the ethical duty of technology competence.

Effective this week (March 22), the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct provide that a lawyer’s duty of competence encompasses “the duty to keep abreast of the changes in the law and law practice,…

Last year, the legal research company Casetext launched Compose, a first-of-its-kind product that uses artificial intelligence to help create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

Interest in Compose was so great that it somewhat overshadowed Casetext’s release of a product that formed a…

If I were to tell you that Mark Britton, the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner, legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary; and Bill Neukom, longtime Microsoft general counsel, were all seed investors in a new legal technology product designed to strengthen your legal writing, would I…

Gordon Smith has just been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. Two years after becoming dean in 2016, he told an audience of law school advisors, “I want BYU to be known as, if not the most innovative law school in the…

Legalist, a San Francisco-based litigation finance company that uses technology to scour court dockets and determine the best cases in which to invest, is now expanding into bankruptcy, raising $50 million for a fund to provide debtor-in-possession financing to small businesses in bankruptcy.

DIP financing is used in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases to enable…

After a copyright lawsuit forced the company he cofounded to shut down last December, Andrew Arruda, the cofounder and former CEO of legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, has now taken the helm as CEO of a new software company, this time in the medical field.

Arruda announced the company, Automate Medical, in a…

Relativity, the Chicago-based company that is widely acknowledged to be the market leader for e-discovery software, yesterday announced a definitive agreement for a strategic growth investment from Silver Lake, one of the world’s largest private equity technology investors.

Although the parties did not disclose the amount of the investment,

It is a happy ending, after all, for Faster Suite and its customers, as it is back up and running as an integration with the practice management platform Clio.

As reported here last week, Clio booted the popular app last Monday over concerns that it could expose Clio customer data to a…

No sector of the legal technology market is hotter right now than contract lifecycle management. And while that sector is crowded with companies that are relative newcomers, one of the companies making the biggest waves is 30 years old.

Over the past year, Agiloft, the no-code CLM company, raised $45 million in growth equity…

A new partnership between Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. and Courtroom Insight will provide easier access to labor arbitrators’ awards and biographies.

From within Courtroom Insight, users are now able to  access WK’s database of labor arbitration content, which includes arbitrators’ awards and relevant biographical information.

WK’s Labor Arbitration Awards collection…

An international group of seven legal industry leaders and experts, led by U.K. blogger and consultant Richard Tromans, have formed a think tank to propel change in the legal business model, with a particular focus on how legal services are billed and delivered in the corporate and commercial law sector.

Called Changing Legal,…

That it was Friday the 13th was not lost on me.

There I sat, one year ago today, on Friday the 13th, on a packed flight from Salt Lake City to Boston, almost no one wearing masks, feeling superstitiously anxious as I returned home from BYU Law School, where I’d traveled two days earlier to…