A day-long summit on Nov. 10 will explore key trends and emerging technologies in immigration law and practice.

The 2020 AILA Technology and Innovation Summit, presented by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, promises to bring together thought leaders, technology influencers and immigration law practitioners to provide insight into the current state of practice,…

The practice management company Clio recently released its annual Legal Trends Report, based on analysis of data from tens of thousands of legal professionals and surveys of legal professionals and legal consumers, and it showed that the coronavirus crisis has resulted in a decided…

In September, the private equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC, through a newly formed company called ProfitSolv, made two notable acquisitions of legal technology companies: Rocket Matter, the cloud-based practice management company, and TimeSolv, a provider of cloud-based legal billing and timekeeping software.

In acquiring Rocket Matter, ProfitSolv also got the payment…

In recent years, legal research companies have increasingly put an emphasis on providing access to practical content — content such as forms, checklists and practice notes that focuses less on the law in a given area and more on how to get things done. Thomson Reuters has Practical Law, for example, and LexisNexis has Practical…

Gavelytics, a company that launched in 2017 to provide insights on judges through data analytics, has introduced a major expansion of its product, adding analytics on law firms, lawyers and litigants, expanding coverage to 10 states with 20 targeted by December, and adding a searchable database of some six-million litigation briefs.

This new version,…

Priori Legal, a marketplace for in-house legal teams to find and hire outside counsel, is today announcing that it has raised $6.3 million in a Series A financing.

In an exclusive interview on my LawNext podcast, I am joined by the founders of Priori, Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt, to discuss…

In a recent episode of my LawNext podcast, I interviewed the founder of SirionLabs, Ajay Agrawal, about how his company is aiming to disrupt the field of enterprise contract lifecycle management through the use of artificial intelligence technology.

Now, that technology will be available to customers of global managed services provider Integreon,…

Even as many law firms have stubbornly stuck with on-premises software to run their practices, the last few years have seen a decided shift towards the cloud. All indications are that the coronavirus crisis has dramatically accelerated that shift, and surveys, such as Clio’s recent Legal Trends Report, have borne that out.

Now,

EDDCloud, a Los Angeles e-discovery software and services company, is announcing today the change of its corporate name to PLUSnxt, a rebranding intended to reflect the company’s recent technology innovation and rapid growth.

It also announced that it is now a RelativityOne partner and is actively marketing Relativity’s e-discovery cloud technology to its…

The trademark docketing software company Alt Legal kicked off its first conference, Alt Legal Connect, today, with a keynote by founder and CEO Nehal Madhani in which he announced new features for the product and a new partnership to better support international trademark docketing.

During his keynote, Madhani announced the company’s integration with…

Nicole N. Morris is a professor in practice at Emory University School of Law and director of the TI:GER program (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results), an innovative partnership between Emory and Georgia Institute of Technology that brings together graduate students in law, business, science and engineering to work on ways to take innovative ideas from…

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