Major news this week regarding the use of legal technology to enhance access to justice. The Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent nonprofit with over $6 billion in assets, announced that it is launching an initiative to focus on the use of technology to modernize the civil legal justice system, meet unmet legal needs, and…

I’ve noted in a number of posts here Lex Machina’s continuing expansion of its legal analytics into new practice areas, particularly since its acquisition by LexisNexis in 2015.

Today Lex Machina is announcing a new module that adds ERISA litigation cases. The module encompasses nearly 83,000 cases filed in federal district court…

I am thrilled to be heading to Moscow this week to speak at Skolkovo LegalTech, said to be the largest conference in Russia that is focused on legal technology and the transformations taking place in legal practice.

I will be participating in a plenary session on the digital practice of law with a panel…

In a move that signals a new strategy for Needles, a company that provides case-management software for plaintiff-focused law firms, its owners have named a new leader to take charge of the brand and oversee the launch of its cloud version.

TrialWorks LLC, the holding company that owns both Needles and the case-management software TrialWorks, is…

A company that earlier this year launched a platform to provide law firms with enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology is today announcing its expansion of that technology to service corporate legal departments.

When it launched its platform last June, Workstorm initially focused on providing its technology to law firms. For firms, the platform enables secure communications and…

The recently launched Caselaw Access Project is the capstone to a massive undertaking executed over three years to digitize all U.S. case law, some 6.4 million cases dating back to 1658. Leading the project was Adam Ziegler, director of the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, which partnered with Ravel Law to digitize the school’s entire…

The Global Legal Hackathon held earlier this year was the largest coordinated legal hackathon ever, drawing 5,000 participants from six continents, 40 cities and 22 countries. Now, organizers have announced plans for a return of the event in 2019.

The 2019 Global Legal Hackathon (#GLH2019) will begin the weekend of Feb. 22-24 in dozens…

If you want to know how technology can be used to increase access to justice, you need look no farther than the Legal Services Corporation’s Technology Initiative Grants program. Since 2000, when Congress first appropriated special funds for the TIG program, it has been the most significant and consistent source of funds aimed at…

One conference I regretted missing last year was ctrl ALT del, the inaugural conference of the Association of Legal Technologists. Judging by what I read about it both during the conference and afterwards, those who were there considered it a success — not an easy feat for a first-time conference.

Now, ALT has announced…

Fastcase today is announcing a partnership with legal publisher James Publishing to add its entire collection of some 90 legal treatises, books and practice guides to the Fastcase library, where they can be searched along with other legal materials and accessed in digital form.

The James publications are available to all Fastcase subscribers,…

At its ndElevate partner and customer conference taking place this week in Park City, Utah, NetDocuments today announced that it has acquired Closing Room, a deal-management application developed by the Am Law 200 financial services law firm Chapman and Cutler.

The application is designed to streamline transactional closings by enabling deal teams to…

Farrah Pepper, chief legal innovation counsel for Marsh & McLennan Companies, has been named the winner of the fourth annual Monica Bay STEM Leadership Award, given in honor of my friend and former colleague Monica Bay, the longtime editor-in-chief of the the former ALM publication Law Technology News.

Pepper, a lawyer and self-described tech evangelist,…