In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the global legal services provider Integreon said today that it has taken steps to enhance the ability of its employees working from home or other remote environments to provide their services securely, including a partnership with SecureReview, a company that provides a secure infrastructure for remote workers.…

To help solo and small-firm lawyers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australia-based company Legaler is offering its secure online video chat platform free to firms of 10 lawyers or fewer.

Legaler’s platform allows lawyers to schedule, host and archive secure video meetings with multiple participants and screen sharing.

While Legaler’s starter package is already…

Even amid a global pandemic, companies are not exempt from compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which applies to any company that stores or processes personal information about EU citizens, including U.S. companies.

Aiming to make GDPR compliance easier for companies, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson…

As law firms send their staffs to work from home and courts take their proceedings online, coronavirus has caused competence in technology to rise to a new level of urgency for the legal profession.

What are the implications of this for lawyers and firms? What will it mean for firms that lag in technology adoption?…

On Thursday, March 12, facing the escalating threat of the coronavirus pandemic, Brigham Young University Law School made the decision to close down live classes, send students home, and teach the remainder of the semester online.

As it happened, I was at the law school that day, where he was scheduled to interview the school’s…

The legal publishing and blogging company LexBlog has launched Coronavirus Legal Daily, a resource that pulls together blog posts from throughout the world that address the legal issues surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.

The resource is updated regularly with blog posts from the LexBlog network, covering legislative and regulatory developments, legal issues relating to the…

LexisNexis responded to the coronavirus pandemic this morning with two free resources designed to keep legal and business professionals better informed about the legal issues surrounding COVID-19 — one a dedicated page on Law360 with legal news updates, and the other a coronavirus resource kit for lawyers.

Law360, which is a subscription news service owned…

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…