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.…
George Socha, cofounder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), the framework that has guided e-discovery since 2005, and who The American Lawyer named an “E-Discovery Trailblazer” in 2013, has joined the global e-discovery company Reveal as senior vice president of brand awareness.
A litigator earlier in his career, Socha became an e-discovery…
A year ago at its annual Relativity Fest user conference, the e-discovery company Relativity announced that this year’s Relativity Fest would feature the introduction of a next-generation user interface for its cloud discovery platform RelativityOne.
Although this year’s Relativity Fest has been converted from a live conference to a free virtual event,…
Two months ago, LexisNexis announced its planned launch of a premium legal research service, Lexis+, which it said would take a bold approach to providing legal research, AI-driven analytics and practical guidance within a unified and fully integrated platform.
As I reported at the time, the company positioned the new service not…
All this week, the inaugural American Legal Technology Awards has been announcing the winners in eight categories, all designed to honor companies and individuals who are making a difference in law through technology innovation.
Yesterday, for my Law Insights program on Litera.TV, I interviewed two of the organizers of the awards: Tom Martin, founder of
Pair an accomplished civil litigator looking to rethink depositions with a successful technology entrepreneur who just sold his startup to a larger company, add in $3.5 million in seed funding, and you have a recipe for potentially disrupting how lawyers litigate big cases.
That is the formula underlying Steno, a court reporting agency that…
Nicola Shaver, managing director, innovation and knowledge, at the law firm Paul Hastings, was recently named 2020 Innovative Leader of the Year in the International Legal Technology Association’s Distinguished Peer Awards. Not only that, but the law firm where she oversees innovation initiatives was named Innovator of the Year.
While a major…
The practice management platform MyCase has been sold to a private equity firm, it was announced this morning.
The previous owner of MyCase, AppFolio, a California-based provider of cloud-based business technology, said it had entered into a definitive agreement to sell 100% of the equity interest in MyCase, a wholly owned subsidiary.…
As global compliance regulations have surged over the past decade, corporations in both the U.S. and U.K. say that responding to regulatory changes creates operational pressure for their businesses, increases their risk, and has a negative affect on their profitability and growth, according to a new survey out today.
One impact of these…
After three years of quiet growth and development of its cloud-based legal entity management software, the Calgary, Canada, company Athennian is today announcing an $8 million CAD Series A investment, on top of a previously unannounced $2 million CAD seed financing round last year, for total funding of $10 million CAD.
Athennian provides software…
Last week may have been the first-ever virtual annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, but just like past years’ face-to-face ILTACONs, this year’s ILTA>ON was the occasion for a flood of major news announcements from legal technology companies.
And given my own perfect storm last week of spending three hours a…
“I’m not a big fan of dabbling in things,” Avaneesh Marwaha, the chief executive officer of legal technology company Litera, told me during an interview last week. “If we enter into an area, we want to become the market leader.”
That statement pretty well sums up the company’s news of the past two…
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