Among the lessons for law firms that came out of the recession of 2008 was that diversity and inclusion initiatives suffer during an economic downturn, says Bryan Parker, chief executive officer of alternative legal services provider Legal Innovators.

It took a decade before the numbers of Black and LatinX attorneys at large law…



Here’s one that gets a bit meta. Back in November 2017, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi spoke at BYU Law School about a lawyer’s ethical duty to be technologically competent. The talk prompted the school to explore ways it could help students improve their technological abilities.…

Earlier today, I reported on the motion to dismiss filed by ROSS Intelligence in a lawsuit filed against it by Thomson Reuters. Now, a TR spokesperson has issued a statement in response to the motion.

Here is the statement:

“Nowhere does ROSS deny that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw. It did…

After legal research goliath Thomson Reuters sued legal research startup ROSS Intelligence on May 6, alleging that it stole content from Westlaw, ROSS responded with a vow to fight the lawsuit, denying it did anything wrong and portraying the lawsuit as an anticompetitive tactic by TR to squelch an up-and-coming competitor.

UPDATE:

Big Four professional services firm Deloitte said today it has launched a Legal Business Services practice in the U.S., which it says is a “comprehensive suite of legal management consulting and technologically-enabled legal managed services for corporate legal departments designed to accelerate the transformation of the business of law.”…

We are back again today at 3 p.m. Eastern time with our roundtable of legaltech journalists discussing their takes on the week’s top news stories.

It is free to attend the Zoom webinar, but you must preregister. You’ll be able to ask questions of the panelists and share your own thoughts on the week’s…

Two legal technology companies said this week that they are offering free access to their products to attorneys involved in civil rights matters.

Legal research company Casetext is offering free access to its Compose brief automation for Title VII motions through the remainder of the summer.

The company was inspired to do this, it…

LexisNexis is today announcing the launch of a premium legal research service, Lexis+, that it says takes a bold approach to providing legal research, AI-driven analytics and practical guidance within a unified and fully integrated platform.

The company is positioning this new service not as a successor to its current research platform, Lexis…

David McVeigh, the former executive vice president for global business sales at industry research and advisory firm Gartner, has been named chief executive officer of Axiom, an alternative legal services provider that specializes in high-caliber, on-demand legal talent.

McVeigh succeeds Elena Donio, who had been CEO since 2016, taking over in that…

Joining me last week for my Law Insights show on Litera TV was Dennis Kennedy, legal tech and innovation advisor, adjunct law professor, infotech lawyer, professional speaker, author, and podcaster.

We covered a lot of ground over the course of our 30-minute conversation. If you’re interested, below is the full recording.

For this…

A third state could soon join the two that require technology training as part of a lawyer’s obligation to undergo continuing legal education.

Two states currently require mandatory tech CLE. In 2016, Florida became the first state to do so, when it adopted a rule requiring lawyers to complete three hours of CLE every three…

In April I reported on the release by the Global Legal Tech Report of its report on Australia, the first in a planned series of regional reports on legal tech worldwide, which will culminate in a global report in November.

Now, the GLTR has released reports covering Asia and New Zealand. When considered…