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Here Are the Top Three Winners of the Startup Alley Pitch Competition at ABA TECHSHOW

Here Are the Top Three Winners of the Startup Alley Pitch Competition at ABA TECHSHOW

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 4, 2020

ABA Techshow kicked off last week with the Startup Alley Pitch Competition, in which 15 companies pitched their companies in three-minute presentations in front of an audience of Techshow attendees.

At the conclusion of all the pitches, the audience got to vote for their favorites. Here were the top three winners:…

Atrium, $75M Company that Vowed to ‘Revolutionize’ Law, Shuts Down

Atrium, $75M Company that Vowed to ‘Revolutionize’ Law, Shuts Down

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 3, 2020

On Jan. 12, this blog broke the news that Atrium, the company that said it would “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of a law firm and a technology company, was letting go most of its legal staff and would pivot towards “building a professional services network dedicated to founders.”

Today, founder…

Investments Lag In Women-Founded Legal Tech Companies, Survey Finds

Investments Lag In Women-Founded Legal Tech Companies, Survey Finds

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 3, 2020

Recent years have brought a surge of outside investment in legal technology and other “new law” companies. But a survey out today finds that women-founded new law companies received less than 1 percent of that investment over the last 10 years.

Dana Denis-Smith, CEO of Obelisk Support in London, conducted the survey on…

Epiq Global Down As Company Investigates Unauthorized Activity on Systems

Epiq Global Down As Company Investigates Unauthorized Activity on Systems

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 2, 2020

Epiq Global, an international e-discovery and managed services company, has taken its systems offline globally after detecting unauthorized activity.

Epiq made the move on Saturday as part of its data security response plan and has brought on a third-party forensics firm to conduct an investigation.

A company spokesperson provided the following statement:…

Women of Legal Tech Find Strength in Numbers When Battling Imposter Syndrome

Women of Legal Tech Find Strength in Numbers When Battling Imposter Syndrome

By Molly McDonough
on March 2, 2020

A special guest post by legal affairs writer and editor Molly McDonough, former editor and publisher of the ABA’s flagship magazine, the ABA Journal.

The last thing I expected to hear at the 2020 Women of Legal Tech Summit was this: I don’t feel like I deserve to be here.

A version…

Rocket Matter Adds NetDocs Integration, User Permissioning, Kanban Boards, and More

Rocket Matter Adds NetDocs Integration, User Permissioning, Kanban Boards, and More

By Bob Ambrogi
on February 26, 2020

In a major update of its practice management platform, Rocket Matter is launching a number of new features today, several of which are targeted at the growing number of mid-sized firms that use the platform.

Among the new features announced today is what Rocket Matter CEO Larry Port says is the most robust integration…

Two New Services Launch to Deliver Legal and Litigation News

Two New Services Launch to Deliver Legal and Litigation News

By Bob Ambrogi
on February 25, 2020

Launching today is a new service that will deliver free legal and litigation news derived largely from court dockets, just a month after a similar service launched.

Coming out today is Legal Radar, slated from legal and business news company ALM, the publisher of Law.com, The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and other legal publications.

The…

LawNext Episode 64: Building a Legal Department from Scratch, with Help from Tech

LawNext Episode 64: Building a Legal Department from Scratch, with Help from Tech

By Bob Ambrogi
on February 25, 2020

When Jerry Levine became general counsel of IPsoft in December 2015, the artificial intelligence company had been in business since 1998, but it had never had an inhouse lawyer. That meant Levine had the daunting task of creating a legal department from…

Notable New Casetext Product Drafts Your Litigation Briefs For You

Notable New Casetext Product Drafts Your Litigation Briefs For You

By Bob Ambrogi
on February 25, 2020

In what Casetext cofounder and CEO Jake Heller calls a breakthrough that will have a profound impact on the practice of law, the legal research company is today launching Compose, a first-of-its-kind product that helps you create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally…

Legal Management Software Company Rippe & Kingston Rebrands As SurePoint Technologies

Legal Management Software Company Rippe & Kingston Rebrands As SurePoint Technologies

By Bob Ambrogi
on February 21, 2020

Rippe & Kingston Systems, a Cincinnati-based company that has provided legal and financial management software to law firms since 1982, has changed its name to SurePoint Technologies.

The change is part of a rebranding initiative to better align the company’s name with its commitment to delivering cutting-edge enterprise solutions that help law firms unlock…

Merger Creates What Is Said to Be Largest Business Intelligence Company in Legal

Merger Creates What Is Said to Be Largest Business Intelligence Company in Legal

By Bob Ambrogi
on February 21, 2020

The merger this week of two major technology companies has resulted in what is now the single-largest provider of business intelligence technology to law firms, the companies’ principals say.

Iridium Technology and Data Fusion Technologies (DFTech), both of which provide business intelligence (BI) technology to many of the largest law firms in the…

AbacusLaw Now Integrates with HotDocs for Document Assembly

AbacusLaw Now Integrates with HotDocs for Document Assembly

By Bob Ambrogi
on February 20, 2020

Lawyers who have the AbacusLaw practice management software can now use their client, calendar and matter information to automatically create documents in the latest version of the HotDocs Advance document-generation software.

AbacusNext, the company that owns both AbacusLaw and HotDocs, said it has launched an integration between the two products that…

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Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists' roundtable, Legaltech Week.

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