Rocket Matter Acquires Payments Company LexCharge, Will Integrate with Practice Management Platform

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The practice management company Rocket Matter is announcing today that it has acquired LexCharge LLC, a payment processing company that specializes in handling payments for legal professionals.

The LexCharge payment technology will now be integrated within the Rocket Matter platform, to create a consolidated, streamlined experience for law firms for time capture, billing,…

MaxVal Releases Major Update to its IP Management Platform with New Analytics and Reporting #Legalweek20

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With Legalweek starting tomorrow, MaxVal, a Silicon Valley-based intellectual property software company, is today announcing the release of a major update of its IP management system.

Symphony 3.6 is “an innovative leap forward” for the product, the company says, providing new analytics, intelligence, reporting, and automation features.

The new release introduces the…

UpCounsel to Shut Down; Was Marketplace for Freelance Lawyers

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Lawyer marketplace UpCounsel is shutting down.

The San Francisco based company, which has raised a total of $26 million, including a $12 million Series B in April 2018, notified customers by email this morning that it will shut down permanently on March 4.

The company served corporations by providing freelance lawyers for anything from a…

Ransomware Attacks Hit Three Law Firms in Last 24 Hours

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Five U.S. law firms — three in the last 24 hours — have been among the companies and organizations targeted by a new round of ransomware attacks. In two of the cases, a portion of the firms’ stolen data has already been posted online, including client information.

This according to Brett Callow, a threat…

Reynen Court Formally Launches Its ‘App Store of Law’

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Reynen Court, the Amsterdam-based company that has often been described as the app store of law, and which launched in beta last August, announced today that it is now commercially available.

This comes after news yesterday that the international law firm Orrick has become an investor in Reynen Court, joining global firms Clifford Chance…

ZERØ, the AI-Powered Mobile Email App, Introduces A ‘Lite’ Version for Smaller Firms

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Managing email is among the most frustrating problems lawyers face. ZERØ, launched in 2018, is a mobile app that uses artificial intelligence to target lawyers’ email woes, automatically capturing billable time spent on email, automatically filing emails to the proper folders in a firm’s document management system, and guarding against inadvertently sending sensitive emails to…