In the span of less than a month, the landscape of law practice management software has been dramatically reshaped, as September brought a spate of three major acquisitions by private equity firms of companies with technology related to the management of smaller law firms.
Now there is another private equity investment to report: Actionstep,…
After much speculation about the future of Legalweek – one of the world’s largest and most-anticipated legal technology and legal business conferences – the conference’s organizers announced on Oct. 1 that it will be virtual in 2021.
ALM Media, which produces Legalweek, said the conference will be rebranded as Legalweek(year) and will be extended…
Sept. 30, 2020, was Josh Becker’s last day in legal tech, at least for the time being, as he pursues his campaign for election to the California state Senate in the district that encompasses Silicon Valley cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.
Most recently, Becker was chairman of the trailblazing legal…
LexisNexis says a new research tool it is launching today for searching, comparing and analyzing mergers and acquisitions is the most comprehensive and detailed database of publicly filed M&A deals available on the market.
Called Market Standards, it is part of Practical Guidance — the LexisNexis collection of practice-specific forms, clauses, checklists articles and…
In this exclusive interview recorded in advance of the Oct. 1, 2020, launch of LexFusion, we get a first look at the new company from guests Joe Borstein, a legal industry veteran and one of LexFusion’s two cofounders, and Basha Rubin, the cofounder and CEO of Priori Legal, the legal talent company…
Two legal professionals, a law firm and a legal technology company were named yesterday as winners of the third annual The Changing Lawyer Awards, presented by the legal technology company Litera to recognize those in the legal industry who drive change through new technology, service models or behavior.
Winners were selected in four…
We are back tomorrow, Oct. 2, for our regular Friday Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, where we discuss and dissect the top news stories of the last week in legal tech and innovation.
Join us Friday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m. ET. It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required. Register once and…
Two legal industry veterans are today launching a company that they believe will change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology — and thereby turbocharge the adoption and use of innovative technologies throughout law practice and operations.
The company, LexFusion, will serve as the go-to-market representative of a collective of…
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…
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