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…

The International Legal Technology Association’s announcement that its ILTACON conference in August will be a hybrid event, with both an in-person conference in Las Vegas and live-streamed programming, makes it the first major U.S. legal technology conference to resume in-person meetings since the outbreak of the pandemic a year ago.

But many questions…

The latest Legal Trends Report, published by cloud-based legal technology company Clio, aims to refine a vision for this “better normal,” providing data and analysis that shows the legal industry’s “product-market-fit problem,” where the majority of those needing legal help don’t get it, and how law firms can fill the gap.

In particular, this…

Calling it the most substantial update in five years to the Concordance e-discovery review platform, CloudNine today released a new version 10.24 containing a package of updates that includes  a new viewer, integration with CloudNine Review, and improved production performance.

Concordance has a history as one of the earliest e-discovery review tools, developed…

The past six months have brought a flurry of investments and acquisitions involving law practice management software. Now there is another acquisition to report.

AbacusNext, one of the leading providers of legal, accounting and compliance software for legal professionals, has been acquired by Thomas H. Lee Partners, a private equity firm that invests in…

The Clio Cloud Conference will remain a virtual event for 2021, Clio said today.

Clio’s annual conference, which has become one of the most popular annual events in the U.S. focused on law practice and legal technology, will be held as a virtual event on Oct. 26-29, 2021, the company said.

The 2020 conference,…

The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility today issued a formal ethics opinion providing guidance on virtual law practices.

The opinion (Formal Opinion 498) makes clear that the Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit lawyers to conduct their practices virtually, but it urges caution, competence and diligence with regard to…

A distinguishing feature of the practice management platform Clio is its ecosystem of more than 200 third-party applications that integrate to provide added functionality.

But on Monday, Clio terminated a popular app, Faster Suite, over concerns that it could expose Clio customer data to a privacy or security breach.

Then, early this morning,…

Say you are reading an article online about contract lifecycle management and want to know what companies offer products for that. A new extension for the Chrome browser puts the answer a click away.

With the new Legalpioneer Chrome extension installed, highlight a word or phrase on any web page to search and explore…

Yesterday, I moderated the fifth-annual Startup Alley pitch competition, presented as the opening event of ABA TECHSHOW. Fifteen startups presented their pitches to an audience of virtual TECHSHOW attendees, who then voted for their favorites.

Each startup presented a prerecorded 2.5 minute video pitch. Plus, each was allowed 30 seconds for a live introduction. While…

You’ve just been named global chief innovation officer for one of the world’s largest law firms. Where and how do you start? That is one of the questions we put to Amol Bargaje, whom Mayer Brown named to that position on Feb. 9, 2021.

Coming into this newly created role, Bargaje has…

For many law practices, getting paid is the bane of their existence. TimeSolv, a provider of cloud-based billing and timekeeping software for law firms, aims to fix that with the release today of Zero AR, a patent-pending feature that automates batch invoicing and electronic payments.

The feature enables firms to instantly process electronic payments…