Four years ago, I reviewed the proofreading software PerfectIt, an add-in for Microsoft Word, writing that using it was “like having a virtual, eagle-eyed proofreader on your staff.”

Last June, PerfectIt released a major update, PerfectIt 4, that promised faster checking, a new user interface to streamline review and correction of errors, and…

A lead investor in the $62 million funding round announced this week by Everlaw says he believes the company is on a path to go public, possibly within the next five years.

Jesse Wedler, a partner in CapitalG, the independent growth fund of Google parent Alphabet Inc., and now a member…

The legal technology company Exigent is today unveiling a major update to its contract management software that introduces Scarlett, an artificial intelligence tool for automatic extraction of contract data and enhanced contextual search.

The company says that its new CMS automates the sometimes costly and time-consuming extraction and input of contract data. It…

Case Status, a Birmingham, Ala.-based client relationship management and marketing platform for law firms, is announcing today that it has received Series Seed II investment funding of $1.5 million from Atlanta-based venture investment firm BIP Capital.

The company says that the funds will be used to support its continued growth, including the hiring…

In writing a year ago about the e-discovery company Everlaw, I noted that it had attracted the interest of some big-name Silicon Valley venture capital firms, having raised nearly $35 million over three years, including being the first legal technology company to receive an investment from Andreessen Horowitz, a firm known for backing…

Two legal tech companies today postponed conferences they had scheduled for this month, due to concerns over the spread of coronavirus.

The trademark technology company Alt Legal cancelled Alt Legal Connect 2020, a trademark law conference which was scheduled for March 22-24 in Brooklyn, N.Y. It was to have been Alt Legal’s first…

At ABA TECHSHOW 2020, Vicki Huff Eckert, U.S. and global new ventures and innovation leader at PwC, was the featured speaker at the Rebels Riot Luncheon, an event honoring the Legal Technology Resource Center’s 2020 Women of Legal Tech and the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels.

Shortly after the luncheon, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat…

As reported here Wednesday, the Florida Supreme Court has asked The Florida Bar to undertake a study of the rules governing the practice of law in order to determine whether revisions are needed to improve the delivery of legal services within that state.

This comes as a growing number of states — including Arizona,…

The document technology company Litera is telling customers it is prepared to continue full operations, even as it takes steps to reduce risk associated with the outbreak of coronavirus.

In a statement posted to its website and being distributed to customers, the company outlined the steps it is taking to address the outbreak…

On Monday, this blog broke the news that Epiq Global, the international e-discovery and managed services company, had taken its systems offline globally after becoming the target of a ransomware attack.

Now, new details are emerging about exactly what happened to force Epiq to shut down its systems.

The information security and technology news…

Citing concerns about coronavirus, Stanford University has cancelled this year’s CodeX FutureLaw Conference, which had been scheduled for April 9 and would have been the conference’s eighth year, as well as the 15th anniversary of CodeX.

In an email this morning, Roland Vogl, executive director of CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics,…

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The Florida Supreme Court has asked The Florida Bar to undertake a study of the rules governing the practice of law in order to determine whether revisions are needed to improve the delivery of legal services within that state.

In…