Twenty-four finalists in eight categories were announced this morning by organizers of the inaugural American Legal Technology Awards, a new round of awards that will honor companies and individuals who are making a difference in law through technology innovation.

As I reported here in June, this is the first year of these…

When I invited Robert Taylor, vice president and senior corporate counsel for legal ideation and transformation at Liberty Mutual Insurance, to be my guest earlier this week on Litera.TV, I knew him to be a widely recognized innovator in legal department operations, as was recognized last year when the Association of Corporate Counsel…

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The legal research company ROSS Intelligence today introduced an extension for the Chrome web browser that lets you highlight text anywhere online and search for related legal authority.

From any web page, email or embedded PDF, highlight the text you want to research, right click, and select the option “find similar language.”

That…

If you have ever used Microsoft Visio to create a workflow diagram, you can appreciate the simplicity that a visual tool can bring to an otherwise cumbersome process. A new version being released today by Onit of Apptitude, its no-code workflow and business process automation platform, takes that idea and extends it beyond…

One day after the American Bar Association concluded its first-ever virtual annual meeting, the organization’s deputy executive director and general counsel James Dimos has died from a heart attack.

Dimos joined the ABA in 2015 as deputy executive director, in which role he was second in charge of ABA staff, and took on the…

The recognitions keep stacking up for Emeryville, Calif., attorney Erin Levine and her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. Earlier this year, the American Bar Association awarded her its James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering, and just a few months before that, the practice management company Clio named her recipient…

For my Law Insights program tomorrow on Litera TV, I have lined up what should be a great episode for any lawyer or legal professional — but particularly for younger professionals who are still charting their careers.

My guest will be Robert Taylor, vice president and senior corporate counsel for legal ideation and transformation…

The legal technology company WordRake, whose software helps legal professionals hone their writing, has entered into a collaboration with the Access to Justice Technology Fellows, a program that trains law students to work with technology to enhance the delivery of legal services, through which each fellow will receive a one-year license to use…

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.…

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…

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:…