Last year, LexisNexis introduced Context, a refinement of an analytics tool originally developed by Ravel Law that analyzes the language of a judge’s opinions to determine the cases and arguments the judge finds most persuasive in deciding specific types of issues. As I reported then, that original launch also included Context for expert…

The past year has forever shifted how attorneys and firms work. But with unprecedented challenges came new lessons and opportunities.

Featured this week in the LawSites Resource Center is a whitepaper by NetDocuments that addresses the unique challenges that now face the legal industry and how professionals can meet them.

Topics addressed in the whitepaper…

Atlanta-based Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Jairam Padmanabhan to the newly created position of chief product officer.

In this new role, Padmanabhan’s primary objective will be to accelerate the company’s worldwide innovation across its entire product suite.

Padmanabhan is a veteran product management leader with…

There has been much speculation within the legal industry about when live conferences will return. Now we know.

The International Legal Technology Association said today its annual ILTACON conference in August will be a hybrid event, with both in-person programming and live-streamed educational content and sessions.

The in-person conference will take place in Las…

Evisort, an AI-powered contract management platform, today announced a Series B funding round of $35 million, bringing its total funding to $55 million.

The funding round follows a year of four-times revenue growth, the company says.

The round was led by global growth equity investor General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors Amity Ventures,…

Solos struggled more significantly than larger law firms in adapting to remote work throughout the pandemic, suffering greater shortfalls in new cases and firm revenue.

But solos who harnessed modern legal technologies fared significantly better during 2020 than those who did not — bringing in $50,000 more in revenue on average — and solos who…

In January 2020, Axiom Managed Services, one of two companies spun off in 2019 from alternative legal services provider Axiom, rebranded as Factor, a move the company characterized as a relaunch, and named a new CEO, Varun Mehta, a veteran of the legal tech industry who…



If you missed Legaltech Week on Friday, here are the audio and video. Thanks to my futile attempt to connect from a remote location in Florida, I come across as a drunk Cylon (thanks Dennis Kennedy) and Molly McDonough steps in to moderate.…

After a one-week hiatus, the Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable returns today, live at 3 p.m. Eastern time. We’ll hash out the top legal tech stories of the last couple weeks. Anything notable happen?

We’re on every Friday at 3 p.m. E.T. Hope you’ll join us. It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required.…

The companies X1 and Relativity today announced that the X1 Enterprise Platform, which allows remote searching of data on the end-user’s machine, now integrates with RelativityOne Collect, an application for collecting data from various sources and custodians.

The companies say the integration will simplify and streamline the remote collection of electronically…

Have you ever wanted to found a tech company but needed the right idea? A California company called LaunchFactory has the ideas and is looking for founders to take them on – including in the legal tech space.

The company takes a decidedly unique path…

The results are in. Readers have been voting to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2021, which will be held virtually March 8-12, 2021. These 15 will face off in a virtual pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, with the conference's attendees voting to pick the top winner. The first-place winner gets a package of marketing and advertising prizes. In November, we issued a call for entries. From all the entries we received, a panel of judges narrowed the applications…