Litera’s business continuity series dives into the unprecedented challenges we are all facing and looks at how technology can help provide what law firms need to continue serving their clients, even while their teams are working remotely, unable to travel or meet face-to-face with clients, and otherwise disrupted from their regular routines. You can find…

“I would rather cut off my right arm than make this decision,” said an emotional Joy Heath Rush, chief executive officer of the International Legal Technology Association, as she announced that the organization is implementing reductions in staff.

Rush said that ILTA is laying off eight of its 41 employees and furloughing another five.…

Bodhala, a company founded by two Harvard Law School graduates that seeks to disrupt legal spend management through the use of data analytics, has raised $10 million in a Series A financing round led by the growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners.

“With Bodhala, we created an AI-driven platform for the $500 billion legal services…

Editor’s note: When courthouses in Jefferson Parish, La., shut down on March 15 due to the COVID-19 emergency, it presented a unique challenge for drug court probationers who are required to regularly check in on their status and well-being.

A call for help on Twitter, posted by Gabriel Teninbaum, director of Suffolk Law…

My weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV continues tomorrow with this week’s guest Jordan Furlong, legal analyst and futurist and author of The Law21 Blog.

A former journalist, Furlong has for the last decade established himself as a leading analyst of the global legal market and forecaster of its future development.…

I am thrilled to announce that, over at LexBlog, we’ve launched a blog dedicated to helping legal professionals start, build and maintain a successful blog.

Over the coming months, Blogging At LexBlog will feature a series of posts — primarily written by me — in which we will share insights and advice about…

As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced legal professionals to work remotely, many are scrambling to find the best tools and technology to help them manage their legal matters and continue to closely collaborate with their colleagues. While many law firms already use Microsoft Office 365, fewer are as familiar with its core collaboration tool, 

On Friday, March 27, David C. Dobson, the chief executive officer of Epiq Global, convened a company-wide all-hands meeting. There would be pay cuts across the board, he told staff. But by making the pay cuts, he explained, the company would avoid layoffs.

Then, three days later, on Monday, March 30, the layoffs began.…

I received an email from a machine-learning company called MonkeyLearn inviting me to try its free AI-powered word cloud creator.

This tool is different from others, the email said, because its advanced relevance algorithms are able to detect words that usually go together, helping you gain better insights than with other tools on…

This week’s top story is the release of the first ethics opinion to outline and address the issues raised by working from home due to the coronavirus crisis. We’re joined by an author of that opinion, Pennsylvania lawyer Daniel Siegel, to discuss its key points. Also this week: the first major virtual legal conference…

ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association and the world’s largest annual legal tech conference, will take place in August as scheduled, ILTA’s CEO told me this week, “but it might not look like what you’d expect.”

On Wednesday, I interviewed Joy Heath Rush, ILTA’s CEO, for my

The contract management company Knowable is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with the release of two new products designed to help companies understand their crisis-related contractual obligations and entitlements, one of which it is offering free through year-end.

One of these new products, Portfolio Visibility, is a streamlined version of Knowable’s contract management…