In July, I reported here on a survey of private equity firms in the U.S. and U.K. that found that a softening market for M&As and fundraising, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, was causing them to scrutinize their external legal spend more carefully than ever before.
Now, the sponsor of that survey, the spend…
For legal professionals who use the cloud-based document management system NetDocuments, workspaces form the hub of their legal matters, where all members of a team can access, organize and collaborate on documents, messages and folders related to a matter.
But workspaces can also pose a potential speed bump when getting started on a new…
ASG LegalTech, the company that owns cloud practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase, has acquired Headnote, the online payments platform that provides e-payments and accounts-receivable management for law firms.
At the same time, ASG LegalTech is announcing the first fruit of this acquisition — a fully integrated, all-in-one payment system…
Nominations are open for The Changing Lawyer Awards 2020, four categories of awards that recognize individuals, firms and companies in the legal industry for their roles in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models or behavior.
The awards will be presented on Oct. 1 during The Changing Lawyer LIVE!, a virtual…
A first-of-its-kind nonprofit launching today seeks to broaden public access to Canadian primary law and other forms of legal data in order to advance access to justice, advance legal innovation, and help balance the sometimes competing concerns of open courts and personal privacy.
Called the Legal Innovation Data Institute, the organization is modeled on…
The Lawyer+Mom+Owner Virtual Summit is a first-of-its kind program devoted to “parenthood, practice and profit in the pandemic.”
Taking place Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, the conference aims to provide practical advice on protecting your firm and your clients and operating virtually during the pandemic.
It will also look at how mom-owned firms are…
The law practice technology company Clio this week announced the five finalists that will compete for the title of “Best New Integration” and a $100,000 grand prize in the 2020 Launch//Code developer contest.
This is the third year of the contest, which recognizes innovative…
We were off last week, but the Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable returns tomorrow to discuss and dissect the top news stories of the last two weeks.
Join us tomorrow, Sept. 18, at 3 p.m. ET. It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required. Register once and you’re registered for every subsequent week.…
Last February, 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.
At the time, as I wrote in this February blog post, cofounder and CEO Jake Heller…
The former founder and CEO of litigation platform Allegory Law, Alma Asay is now an evangelist at Litera, where she serves as a legal technology expert and advisor to Litera clients, helping them to bring innovative ways of thinking and practice to life.
As a legal tech founder, I learned that there were…
SoloSuit, the Utah-based legal startup that helps consumers respond to debt collection lawsuits, and that originally emerged from LawX, the legal design lab at BYU Law School, is going national.
George Simons, who helped develop SoloSuit as a BYU Law student and is now the company’s owner and CEO, announced the…
One area of legal practice that may forever be changed by the coronavirus crisis is depositions, as attorneys who long resisted conducting depositions remotely have been forced to adapt. As more depositions go virtual, more technologies emerge to facilitate remote testimony.
The latest company to enter this space is Prevail Legal, which on Aug.…
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