Two weeks away from its seventh annual Clio Cloud Conference, the cloud-based practice management company Clio today announced the five legal technology finalists that will compete at the conference for a $100,000 Launch//Code grand prize.
Introduced at Clio’s conference last year, the Launch//Code prize is awarded to…
The international legal research service vLex has partnered with the legal blogging company LexBlog to add more than 400,000 law-related blog posts to its collection of legal-research materials, which currently spans some 100 jurisdictions, including the United States.
As a result of this partnership, legal researchers using vLex will now have direct access…
Two months ago here, I reported that Mary Mack, the executive director of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), the leading membership and certification organization for e-discovery professionals, and Kaylee Walstad, who Mack brought on in 2018 as vice president of client engagement, would leave the organization at the end of October.
Today, BARBRI, the…
Back in LawNext Episode 48, I traveled to Toronto to record a live interview with the founders of the AI-driven legal research platform ROSS Intelligence, CEO Andrew Arruda and CTO Jimoh Ovbiagele, in which they discussed the company’s rise from startup in 2014 to a more mature and established company.…
There is a new CEO at online legal services provider LegalZoom. John Suh, who has been CEO since 2007 and on the company’s board since 2005, is moving to a position as senior advisor. Succeeding him is Daniel Wernikoff, who comes to LegalZoom after 15 years at Intuit, where he oversaw consumer and…
Oregon has taken two major steps towards enhancing access to justice in the state, as the Oregon State Bar’s Board of Governors has voted to approve a recommendation to create a paraprofessional licensing program in the state and another to enable individuals to become licensed lawyers without attending law school, by completing a four-year tutelage…
Seal Software, the company that helped spawn the increasingly competitive field of enterprise contract review and analytics, has now expanded into the pre-execution, negotiation side of the contracts lifecycle with the launch of Seal Now, a contract analytics product specifically designed to review draft contracts prepared by a third party on its own templates.…
The International Legal Technology Association has released an executive summary of its annual technology survey of law firms that underscores firms’ continuing adoption of cloud-based technologies while finding that only about 20% of firms are currently using or testing artificial intelligence and machine learning.
ILTA will release the full 2019 technology survey later…
Alt Legal, the cloud-based, intellectual-property docketing software company, has acquired MarkTend, a trademark docketing and monitoring software, for an undisclosed price.
As a result of the acquisition, MarkTend will shut down its docketing software business and its customers will be transitioned to Alt Legal.
Alt Legal will continue to operate MarkTend’s trademark monitoring…
Attention legal technology startups: Here is your chance to compete to be featured as a presenter and exhibitor in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, taking place in Chicago Feb. 26-29, 2020.
Today, we are officially announcing the call for entries for Startup Alley, offering startups…
Well, it’s happened again.
A major law firm has exposed secret information because it did not properly redact a court filing.
It is the oldest screw-up in the technology book, yet it happens with surprising frequency and by lawyers who you might think should know better.
It happened earlier this year to defense lawyers…
Technical difficulties have delayed the release of this week’s episode of my own LawNext podcast, but meanwhile I am a guest on the most-recent episodes of two other podcasts. Thanks to both for including me.
Legal Rebels Podcast: Exploring New Frontiers in Research for the Legal Industry. On the ABA Journal’s Legal Rebels…
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