Lawmatics, a cloud-based client intake and marketing automation platform for law firms, said today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding.

The company, based in San Diego, Calif., was founded in 2017 by Matt Spiegel, the original founder in 2009 of law practice management platform MyCase.

The funding was led by Eniac…

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Way back in 2018, I reported here on the plan by Australia-based company Legaler to create a blockchain-based legal charity to allow social justice legal cases to be supported through crowdfunding and matched with lawyers willing to handle them.

Today that project, Legaler Aid, is officially launching, promising to connect litigants in…

Earlier this month, the law firm K&L Gates, one of the world’s largest firms, was honored as Law Firm of the Year in this year’s The Changing Lawyer Awards presented by the legal technology company Litera. The award is presented to the law firm that has most successfully reimagined the way it serves…

The Austin, Tex., based discovery company DISCO said today that it has raised a $60 million equity financing, at a valuation for the company of $785 million, and bringing total investment in the company to $195 million.

The investment makes the company the market leader in cloud-based discovery technology, it…

BlackBoiler, a company whose AI-based technology automatically marks up draft contract language, said today that it has secured $3.2 million in funding from a group of strategic investors that includes agreement cloud company DocuSign and a lead investor whose identity was not disclosed.

Daniel Broderick, cofounder and CEO of the Arlington, Va.,…

During his keynote address opening his company’s Clio Cloud Conference today, cofounder and CEO Jack Newton announced a number of new products and features tied to its core law practice management products Clio Manage and Clio Grow.

Google My Business integration. Clio now integrates with Google My Business, a service that enables clients who…

During the Clio Cloud Conference today, practice management company Clio today 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 shows that the coronavirus crisis has resulted in a decided shift in legal practice,…

A website launching today aims to be the most complete global directory of commercial legal technology, listing legaltech tools, consultants, jobs, events, awards, resources and more from throughout the world in a single, unified resource.

The site, Legaltech Hub, is the creation of the husband-and-wife team of Nicola Shaver and Chris Ford,…

In September, Rocket Lawyer became the first national company approved to participate in Utah’s regulatory sandbox, a pilot program for licensing new and alternative forms of legal providers and services. For Charley Moore, who founded Rocket Lawyer in 2008, it was yet another step in his quest to deliver high-value legal services at an affordable…

Since joining the global law firm Goodwin Procter as chief operating officer in 2014, Michael R. Caplan has racked up multiple awards for reshaping the firm’s business operations and establishing a new model of working with clients that offers them both legal advice and business-consulting services.

Caplan’s recognitions include having been named 2019

The law doesn’t win cases, facts do.

Those words of wisdom come from Jared Correia, founder and CEO of Red Cave Law Firm Consulting, not to mention a friend and north-of-Boston neighbor of mine.

Jared has written a 24-page guide to performing research into public and private records and using that information to complete…