One day after the American Bar Association concluded its first-ever virtual annual meeting, the organization’s deputy executive director and general counsel James Dimos has died from a heart attack.

Dimos joined the ABA in 2015 as deputy executive director, in which role he was second in charge of ABA staff, and took on the…

The recognitions keep stacking up for Emeryville, Calif., attorney Erin Levine and her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. Earlier this year, the American Bar Association awarded her its James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering, and just a few months before that, the practice management company Clio named her recipient…

For my Law Insights program tomorrow on Litera TV, I have lined up what should be a great episode for any lawyer or legal professional — but particularly for younger professionals who are still charting their careers.

My guest will be Robert Taylor, vice president and senior corporate counsel for legal ideation and transformation…

The legal technology company WordRake, whose software helps legal professionals hone their writing, has entered into a collaboration with the Access to Justice Technology Fellows, a program that trains law students to work with technology to enhance the delivery of legal services, through which each fellow will receive a one-year license to use…

HaystackID, a company that provides e-discovery and forensic services and technology to corporations and law firms, and NightOwl Global, a company that provides enterprise data services for corporate legal departments, said today that they are combining as part of a merger facilitated by majority investor Quad-C Management Inc., a middle-market private equity firm.…

The Australia-based legal technology company InfoTrack, which also operates in the United States, has acquired a majority interest in LawToolBox, a Denver, Colo., company founded in 1998 that provides legal calendaring and deadline management software.

Although declining to disclose terms of the deal, the husband-and-wife owners of LawToolBox, CEO Jack Grow and…

On Wednesday, I interviewed Kristen Sonday, cofounder and COO of Paladin, a platform that helps legal teams run more efficient pro bono platforms while increasing access to justice, for my Law Insights program on Litera TV.

Among the topics we touched on:…

It was, as far as I can tell, the last holdout among major legal organizations that was still planning an in-person annual conference.

But now the Legal Marketing Association, the organization that represents legal marketing and business development professionals, has bit the bullet and cancelled its live conference and shifted to virtual.

The…

Our Legaltech Week Friday roundtable of legaltech journalists is back again this week, and now it is easier to attend.

I’ve revised the registration page so that when you sign up to attend, you will be registered for each successive week’s roundtable. You’ll also receive an attendance reminder a day before an an hour…

Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from our recently launched 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:

Complimentary e-book: Getting Your House in Order: Driving Efficiency in Law Firm Accounting.…

A year ago, the document technology company Litera made a major move into the area of deal-management technology with the acquisitions of two of the leading platforms within a month of each other, first acquiring Workshare Transact in July and then Doxly in August, out of which it created a single product,…

Earlier this year, legal research company Casetext launched Compose, a first-of-its-kind technology product that helps you create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

As I reported at the time, the company touted the product as “poised to disrupt the $437 billion…