At BYU Law in Provo, Utah, a first-of-its-kind technology platform is enabling legal researchers to explore the meanings of legal words and phrases by examining the contexts in which they historically were used. The Law and Corpus Linguistics platform enables users to examine large collections of…
The document technology company Litera has acquired Bestpractix, a three-year-old, Israel-based company whose platform for contract review, negotiation and drafting uses natural language processing and machine learning to provide contract-drafting recommendations based on both a firm’s own previously negotiated agreements and on publicly available agreements.
Founded in 2017 by CEO Omer Hayun,…
The 2020 Clio Cloud Conference is being moved to a venue apropos of its name — the cloud.
The practice management company Clio, which has staged the law practice and technology conference annually since 2013, has pulled the plug on the physical conference that had been scheduled for Oct. 15-16 in San Diego.…
The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is joined this week by Rohan Pavuluri, cofounder and CEO of bankruptcy platform Upsolve, to discuss his recent article arguing that rules prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law — rules that…
Haley Altman, who joined the document technology company Litera in August 2019 when it acquired the transactions management company she founded, Doxly, has today been named Litera’s global director of business development and strategy.
In this new role, the company said, Altman will focus on expanding customer development opportunities and helping to define and…
Our weekly journalists’ roundtable is back again tomorrow, at an earlier hour this time. Join us as our panel of legaltech journalists discuss the top stories of the week.
We’re convening at an earlier hour this time: Friday, June 12, 11 a.m. ET.
It is free but registration is required.
Panelists this…
Mark Cohen is a true thought leader in the legal world. An accomplished litigator at both the U.S. Department of Justice and in private practice, he turned his attention to the business of law nearly 20 years ago, founding one of the first legal process outsourcing companies and then cofounding innovative law company Clearspire.
He…
A new partnership announced today between the American Bar Association and practice management company Clio gives Clio customers free ABA memberships and ABA members discounts on Clio’s annual plans.
Under the agreement, any Clio customer with an annual subscription can get free one-year membership in the ABA. The offer extends to anyone who…
The Washington Supreme Court has voted 7-2 to end the state’s pioneering Limited License Legal Technicians program, a first-of-its-kind program that the court created in 2012 in an effort to help address the unmet legal needs of residents who could not afford a lawyer.
Washington’s LLLT program was the first in the United…
The International Legal Technology Association had seemed to be on the fence about whether to retain a physical aspect of its annual ILTACON conference in August, but now it has decisively come down on the side of a virtual-only conference.
The ILTACON website now says that the conference will be entirely virtual, describing it…
A new round of awards will be given out later this summer to honor companies and individuals who are making a difference in law through technology innovation.
Called the American Legal Technology Awards, the organizers say their goal is to honor exceptional achievement in a variety of categories.
The deadline for nominations is June…
At the close of a week in which issues of racism and racial injustice have consumed the nation and the world, we abandon our usual news round-up for an in-depth conversation about diversity in law. Joining us to share his insights and perceptions is Bryan Parker, cofounder and CEO of Legal Innovators, a startup…
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