The two-page order last week from the Arizona Supreme Court reads as pedestrian as any routine court order, but its impact is sure to be game changing for the practice of law and access to justice.

The court’s order, issued Aug. 27, eliminates the ban on nonlawyers having economic interests in law firms…

In 2006, inspired by the success of business process outsourcing company Office Tiger, which RR Donnelley acquired that year for $250 million, Ajay Agrawal and Daniel Reed founded UnitedLex, one of the earliest legal process outsourcing companies. Within months, it was providing legal services to clients such as HP, IBM and Microsoft. Within four years,…

One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic is how rapidly and effectively the legal industry is innovating in response to remote work mandates. And based on conversations that I have had with GCs of large corporations and big law partners, the dominant sentiment regarding changes to the workplace has…

The Aug. 13 Utah Supreme Court decision intersected with the work of Reginald Heber Smith in a way I am certain he never expected.

In 1919, Smith published Justice and the Poor. In it, he wrote, “Without equal access to the law, the system not only robs the poor of their only protection,…

Every year since 2011, the legal publisher Fastcase has presented its Fastcase 50 award, which honors 50 individuals who are judged to be the year’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”

Today, Fastcase named its honorees for 2020, and the list includes a diverse group of lawyers, legal technologists, law…

All this week is a major event for the legal technology community — ILTA>ON, the first virtual annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association.

And all this week at Litera.TV, we will be delivering live coverage of the conference, co-hosted by Caroline Hill, editor-in-chief of Legal IT Insider, and me, and…

Kimberly Y. Bennett describes herself as an innovator, entrepreneur, legal industry disruptor, and business coach who happens to be a lawyer. Nowhere are all those facets more evident than in the way she has structured her law practice, K Bennett Law, where she focuses on brand protection…

In March, Alma Asay joined Litera, after founding and then selling to Integreon the litigation management platform Allegory Law. Now, Asay and the product she created are together again, as Litera is announcing today that it has purchased Allegory Law.

For Litera, the acquisition adds litigation case management to its…

In a brief filed today in federal court in Delaware, legal research startup ROSS Intelligence fired back at Thomson Reuters’ claims that it stole copyrighted content from Westlaw in order to jumpstart development of its own product.

By way of recap, TR sued ROSS on May 6, alleging that it surreptitiously stole…

As it has almost every year since 2011, the legal technology newsletter TechnoLawyer has published its picks for the top products of the year.

Winners are picked through “passive” voting, based on the number of reader click-throughs on articles published during the year about new products.

“When you and your fellow TechnoLawyer subscribers click…

Two years ago, I signed off the podcast I’d done for 13 years to launch a new podcast, LawNext, where I planned to feature the innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.

Ninety-two episodes later, I’ve had the honor of speaking with many of the leading innovators in legal.…

Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from the LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry.

This week’s featured resource:

White Paper: Artificial Intelligence 101: Introducing AI into Contract Management.

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Artificial intelligence (AI)…