As global compliance regulations have surged over the past decade, corporations in both the U.S. and U.K. say that responding to regulatory changes creates operational pressure for their businesses, increases their risk, and has a negative affect on their profitability and growth, according to a new survey out today.

One impact of these…

After three years of quiet growth and development of its cloud-based legal entity management software, the Calgary, Canada, company Athennian is today announcing an $8 million CAD Series A investment, on top of a previously unannounced $2 million CAD seed financing round last year, for total funding of $10 million CAD.

Athennian provides software…

Last week may have been the first-ever virtual annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, but just like past years’ face-to-face ILTACONs, this year’s ILTA>ON was the occasion for a flood of major news announcements from legal technology companies.

And given my own perfect storm last week of spending three hours a…

“I’m not a big fan of dabbling in things,” Avaneesh Marwaha, the chief executive officer of legal technology company Litera, told me during an interview last week. “If we enter into an area, we want to become the market leader.”

That statement pretty well sums up the company’s news of the past two…

After a one-week hiatus, the Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable returns to discuss and dissect the top news stories of the last two weeks.

Join us tomorrow, Sept. 4, at 3 p.m. ET. It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required.

Episodes are also available afterwards as a podcast and on YouTube.

The panel changes…

In a move that could dramatically reshape the legal research market going forward, legal research and publishing company Fastcase has acquired the technology and employees of the California legal research platform Judicata, promising to take its unique technology to all 50 states.

One of the most innovative legal research platforms in the U.S.,…

Suffolk University Law School’s Legal Innovation and Technology (LIT) Lab today released a free tool that helps tenants exercise their rights under the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)’s recent eviction moratorium order.

The tool allows tenants anywhere in the country to find out…

Each week, we highlight a resource 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:

Revenue focuser checklist: The Key to a Profitable Law Firm in any Economy.

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It is fitting that Thomson Reuters’ annual survey report on the state of small U.S. law firms, which is being released today, opens with the French phrase, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” — the more things change, the more they stay the same.

This is the fourth time TR has produced its…

Launching today is a company formed to provide cybersecurity, e-discovery, managed review and information governance services to commercial and government organizations, and leading it is the lawyer who formerly served as director of information governance at the White House.

Called Empire Technologies Risk Management Group, the company says its lawyers and technologists have more…

Last week brought ILTA>ON, the first virtual annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. In prior years, the live ILTACON has traditionally been one of the largest, if not the largest, legal technology conferences in the world. So how was the virtual version?

In a nutshell, I thought ILTA succeeded in creating through…

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…