LexLab, the legal innovation hub at UC Hastings Law School, recently wrapped up the fourth cohort of its legal tech accelerator program with a demo day at which the seven startup participants got to pitch their products to potential investors.
But this demo day, in fact this entire cohort, was noticeably different than…
Coming, as it did, in the midst of the pandemic, the merger last August of nQueue, a provider of printing, scanning and cost-recovery solutions for law firms, and Zebraworks, a company started by ProLaw founder Bill Bice to help move law firms to the cloud, promised to deliver new products aimed at enabling…
The Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA) and legal tech startup Theorem LTS have partnered to develop and launch ALITA’s new online membership portal.
Theorem’s platform will provide ALITA members with access to a legal tech marketplace with a suite of ready-to-use legal technology tools, shared vendor intelligence, and click-to-launch technology test…
Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper, known for early investments in companies such as Twitter, Skype and DocuSign, has invested $1 million in seed capital in Jur, a blockchain-based dispute resolution platform founded in Switzerland.
Draper described Jur’s dispute resolution platform as “the future of decentralized justice” and its recently issued cryptocurrency, the…
Eight students in the LawX legal design lab at BYU Law have developed an online resource, called Goodbye Record, that is designed to address flaws in the process for expunging criminal records in Utah and potentially other states as well.
I’ve written a number of times about LawX, a lab program
In today’s episode of How It Works, we look at Ironclad, the contract lifecycle management platform used by innovative companies such as L’Oréal, Staples and Mastercard to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence.
To introduce the product and demonstrate how…
The cloud-based e-discovery and litigation platform Everlaw today kicks off Illuminate 2021, its first industry conference, and as it does, it is reporting a year of record growth.
Over the past year, the company saw 67% compound annual run rate growth (CAGR) over the prior three years, and a 140% increase in U.K.…
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.
In special episode of…
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.
This week’s top stories:…
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…
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