Two sets of legal technology awards were announced during the recent ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association — ILTA’s own Distinguished Peer Awards and The Changing Lawyer Awards sponsored by Litera Microsystems.
Distinguished Peer AwardsILTA’s Distinguished Peer Awards recognize those who have delivered great business value and transformational…
The Utah Supreme Court voted unanimously yesterday to approve the recommendations of a work group that called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.”
In an email, Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas, who cochaired the Utah Work…
Update 8/29/19: Utah Supreme Court Votes to Approve Pilot Allowing Non-Traditional Legal Services.
Faced with an ever-widening gap in access to legal services, a Utah task force has called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.”
Appointed…
It’s our 50th episode of LawNext, so we could think of no more appropriate topic than the state of podcasting in the legal industry. And we could think of no two guests better suited to the topic than Adam Camras, CEO of the Legal Talk Network, and Laurence Colletti, its executive producer.
Camras is…
A new app called Opinion Minion uses your mobile phone’s camera to read case citations and then deliver you the opinion from Google Scholar.
The app, which describes itself as “your legal helper,” uses text-recognition software to read the case citation and then search for it on Google Scholar. As of this writing, it…
Home now from ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. It is five frenetic days of seminars, exhibitors and networking by legal technologists and vendors from all over the world. Here are some of my somewhat-random thoughts about the event.
Let’s start with what many were thinking: Orlando in August?…
Tomorrow I am moderating a webinar in which attendees will get an exclusive first look at a new product for solo and small firms being introduced by the PWC New Ventures group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC).
The free webinar, How Successful Small Law Firms Get Ahead of the Game, is being sponsored by…
Which firms are best prepared to keep pace with changes in the legal market? That was the question explored in a recent survey of U.S. and European law firms, the 2019…
I wrote here last week about the rollout by CloudNine of new versions and enhancements for its suite of e-discovery products. Now at ILTACON, the company is announcing a partnership with the legal technology company Oasis Discovery to offer access to its products through a managed private cloud.
Law firms will…
Being announced today at ILTACON is a client-facing app and cloud platform designed to provide law firm clients with intuitive access to legal documents, automated legal forms and agreements, secure messaging, and digital billing and payment.
Called ConnectIVITY, the app is being developed by Connective Counsel, a startup technology company that spun off in 2018…
If there is one category of legal technology products where it is difficult to separate the hype from the reality, it is artificial intelligence. Seemingly every new product to come on the market claims to use AI in some way, shape or form.
Given that, the new Legal AI Efficacy Report, being announced tomorrow…
As I wrote here earlier, Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired Doxly, a four-year-old company founded by a former biglaw partner to manage the legal transactions process. I have just had a phone call with the CEOs of the two companies and can provide more details.
First, to sum up the news. the document technology…
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