The legal technology company Clio this morning announced a Series E investment of $110 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve so-called unicorn status and one of only a small number of legal tech companies overall to achieve that status.

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The online dispute resolution service FairClaims is taking on established commercial arbitration services such as JAMS and the American Arbitration Association with a new offering that it says will resolve disputes far faster and at a fraction of the cost.

FairClaims’ new FastTrack Arbitration service is designed for business disputes of…

In case you missed it, here is the video of yesterday’s Legaltech Week journalist’s roundtable.

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Reynen Court, the so-called app store for legal technology, yesterday announced a new full-service offering aimed at making it easier and more economical for mid-sized law firms and corporate legal departments to test and deploy innovative cloud-based applications.

The new offering provides provides firms and legal departments turn-key access to what the company describes…

In today’s episode of How It Works: Storybuilder by Everlaw, a free, secure narrative building and trial preparation platform.

Product Lead Kevin Kraft presents an introduction of the product and a walkthrough of how it works.

How It Works is a sponsored video series that lets you see how legal technology…

A common service that law firms perform is to compile multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other legal data. But an equally common problem is presenting that data in a way that is visually informative and compelling.

A new product called Map Engine aims to solve that problem by making it easy and economical…

The online legal services provider Rocket Lawyer has raised $223 million in growth capital financing to help it meet what it says has been a strong and accelerating demand for its digital legal documents and advice.

The financing was led by Vista Credit Partners a strategic credit investor and financing…

The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, today announced that it has expanded its coverage of state courts in California to include Orange County Superior Court, its seventh California county.

Lex Machina now provides analytics for over 1.5 million California superior court cases and has total state court coverage of…

For at least 25 years, companies have attempted to succeed in the business of online dispute resolution, mostly without success. Could that be about to change?

Twenty-five years ago, I published an article, Cyberspace Becomes Forum for Resolving Disputes, about the promise and potential of online dispute resolution. I revisited the topic…

LexFusion, the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of seven legal technology companies, has now added another three members to the roster of companies it represents.

LexFusion aims to change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology by serving as the go-to-market representative of companies that…

Possibly the hottest market in legal tech today is contract lifecycle management, and one of the most talked-about companies in that market is Ironclad, a six-year-old startup that recently raised a $100 million Series D – at a reported valuation of $1 billion – and that just made its first acquisition, of the clickwrap…

Between 2016 and 2018, I wrote a series of posts about Derek Bluford, a one-time rising star on the legal tech start-up scene whose star fell after I reported in 2016 of his settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients.

Now, Bluford has been…