In news that will be a surprise to no one, Legalweek New York, one of the largest and most-anticipated annual legal technology and legal industry conferences, will go virtual this year.

But unlike other major legal conferences that have gone virtual, it will not present the entire conference on the same days as had…

LAWCLERK, an online marketplace where solos and small firms can hire freelance lawyers to assist them with specific projects, is today introducing a feature that allows hiring lawyers and freelancers to instantly meet for voice and video calls.

The option is available directly from within open projects on the LAWCLERK platform,  where users will…

In this exclusive LawNext interview recorded in advance of the announcement of ASG LegalTech’s acquisition of electronic payments company Headnote, I speak with the two companies’ CEOs: Soumya Nettimi of ASG LegalTech and Sarah Schaaf of Headnote, on the reasons for the deal and the significance for customers.

(I also posted this earlier this week…

The practice management platform Rocket Matter, whose launch in 2009 alongside Clio helped usher in a new generation of cloud practice management platforms, has been acquired by a private equity firm.

It will become part of a new company, ProfitSolv, that will focus on billing, payments and software for professional services firms.

The…

Though the debate of whether or not law firms should embrace legal technology continues, the pandemic has brought to light the advantages of document automation. 

Since mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the way law firms operate. While some firms were forced to adapt on the fly as they spent weeks setting up…

If you have not yet checked out LawSitesResources.com, it is a frequently changing collection of white papers, e-books and other resources, all available at no cost. The page currently lists 20 different resources, covering topics that range from CCPA compliance to data privacy to the law firm of tomorrow.

This week’s featured resource is…

Our Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable is on again this Friday, as it is most Friday, to discuss and dissect the top news stories of the last two weeks.

However, we will start an hour earlier this week, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Join us Friday, Sept. 15, at 2 p.m. ET. It’s on Zoom and…

Two docketing technology companies will be battling each other in federal court, as New York based CourtAlert.com has filed a lawsuit against California based American LegalNet alleging theft of trade secrets.

In a complaint filed Sept. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, CourtAlert.com alleges that…

In July, I reported here on a survey of private equity firms in the U.S. and U.K. that found that a softening market for M&As and fundraising, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, was causing them to scrutinize their external legal spend more carefully than ever before.

Now, the sponsor of that survey,  the spend…

For legal professionals who use the cloud-based document management system NetDocuments, workspaces form the hub of their legal matters, where all members of a team can access, organize and collaborate on documents, messages and folders related to a matter.

But workspaces can also pose a potential speed bump when getting started on a new…

ASG LegalTech, the company that owns cloud practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase, has acquired Headnote, the online payments platform that provides e-payments and accounts-receivable management for law firms.

At the same time, ASG LegalTech is announcing the first fruit of this acquisition — a fully integrated, all-in-one payment system…

Nominations are open for The Changing Lawyer Awards 2020, four categories of awards that recognize individuals, firms and companies in the legal industry for their roles in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models or behavior.

The awards will be presented on Oct. 1 during The Changing Lawyer LIVE!, a virtual…