HaystackID, a company that provides e-discovery and forensic services and technology to corporations and law firms, and NightOwl Global, a company that provides enterprise data services for corporate legal departments, said today that they are combining as part of a merger facilitated by majority investor Quad-C Management Inc., a middle-market private equity firm.…
Australia-based InfoTrack Acquires Majority Stake in Court Calendaring Company LawToolBox Inc.
The Australia-based legal technology company InfoTrack, which also operates in the United States, has acquired a majority interest in LawToolBox, a Denver, Colo., company founded in 1998 that provides legal calendaring and deadline management software.
Although declining to disclose terms of the deal, the husband-and-wife owners of LawToolBox, CEO Jack Grow and…
ICYMI: My Litera TV Interview with Paladin Cofounder Kristen Sonday
On Wednesday, I interviewed Kristen Sonday, cofounder and COO of Paladin, a platform that helps legal teams run more efficient pro bono platforms while increasing access to justice, for my Law Insights program on Litera TV.
Among the topics we touched on:…
LMA, the Last Holdout to Move to A Virtual Conference, Bites the Bullet
It was, as far as I can tell, the last holdout among major legal organizations that was still planning an in-person annual conference.
But now the Legal Marketing Association, the organization that represents legal marketing and business development professionals, has bit the bullet and cancelled its live conference and shifted to virtual.
The…
New for the Friday Journalists’ Roundtable: Register Once and Attend Every Week
Our Legaltech Week Friday roundtable of legaltech journalists is back again this week, and now it is easier to attend.
I’ve revised the registration page so that when you sign up to attend, you will be registered for each successive week’s roundtable. You’ll also receive an attendance reminder a day before an an hour…
Featured Resource: E-Book On Ensuring Your Accounting House Is In Order
Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from our recently launched LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry.
This week’s featured resource:
Complimentary e-book: Getting Your House in Order: Driving Efficiency in Law Firm Accounting.…
In Win for Litera, Major European Bank Adopts Litera Transact To Manage Deals
A year ago, the document technology company Litera made a major move into the area of deal-management technology with the acquisitions of two of the leading platforms within a month of each other, first acquiring Workshare Transact in July and then Doxly in August, out of which it created a single product,…
Casetext Study Says Its ‘Compose’ Technology Cuts Brief-Writing Time By 76%
Earlier this year, legal research company Casetext launched Compose, a first-of-its-kind technology product that helps you create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally take.
As I reported at the time, the company touted the product as “poised to disrupt the $437 billion…
In Poll, Legal Administrators Say Pandemic Changes Are Permanent
“You can’t go home again,” novelist Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, and a recent poll of legal administrators suggests that is undeniably true for law firms in the era of COVID-19.
Of the legal administrators who responded to the poll, 91% believe the changes in working practices brought about by the pandemic, including more remote working,…
New ABA Report on the Profession Profiles Nation’s ‘Legal Deserts’ with Few or No Lawyers
Even though the United States has more than 1.3 million lawyers, large swaths of the country have few or no lawyers. In fact, of the country’s 3,100 counties, 54 have not a single lawyer, and another 182 have just one or two lawyers.
This portrait of the nation’s “legal deserts” is part of the
Confronting Issues of Race and Gender: Two Law Firm Executives’ Stories
I sat in last week on a powerful panel discussion, “Talking Successfully About Race, Politics & Gender at Work,” in which two law firm executives shared how they and their staffs talk about difficult issues of race and gender.
The two women also shared their own personal stories of vulnerability and empowerment, one of coming…
Mass. Online Bar Exam Results Will Be ‘Portable’ To Other States
Aspiring lawyers who take the online Massachusetts bar exam in October will be able to use the results to seek admission in at least seven other jurisdictions.
The Board of Bar Examiners, the entity that oversees the bar exam, said today that it has entered into reciprocity agreements with seven jurisdictions for portability of scores…