Three years after acquiring document technology company Litera and then investing $100 million into creating the portfolio company Litera Microsystems, the investment firm K1 Investment Management has sold the company to Hg Capital Trust Plc.
During its ownership, K1 says, Litera tripled its revenue to become one of the world’s leading providers…
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you have probably noticed that I have closely followed the evolution of the duty of technology competence for lawyers, frequently writing about it and even devoting a page to tracking states’ adoption of the duty.
The duty is derived from the American Bar Association’s Model…
A tremor rolled through the legal industry recently when Thomson Reuters announced that it had sold its managed services business, Pangea3, to global Big Four professional services firm Ernst & Young, a sign of Ernst & Young’s increasing expansion into legal services.
On the latest episode of LawNext, I speak with…
The Illinois State Bar Association today formally launched Illinois Lawyer Now, a first-of-its-kind bar portal that aggregates content from members’ legal blogs together with original ISBA content.
“By aggregating ISBA and members’ legal blogs from around the state, it is hoped that Illinois Lawyer Now will become the preeminent site for recent Illinois-specific legal…
[Editor’s note: Recently, i had a conversation with Josh Becker, chairman of Lex Machina and head of legal analytics at LexisNexis, about the fast-growing area of litigation analytics. Becker made the case that not all analytics products on the market are created equal. Of course, he is biased in favor of his…
Last November, the document management company NetDocuments announced that it had acquired Closing Room, a deal-management application developed by the Am Law 200 financial services law firm Chapman and Cutler.
Today, NetDocuments unveiled the fruit of that acquisition, SetBuilder, a new application within the NetDocuments infrastructure that allows legal professionals to…
The American Bankruptcy Institute and legal research company Fastcase today said that they are partnering to make ABI’s catalog of bankruptcy publications available on Fastcase.
Fastcase subscribers will be able to purchase access to 33 ABI titles and then have access to them through their accounts on the Fastcase platform.
Among the…
“Our mission is to make discovery instant and accessible for everyone,” says Andy Wilson, cofounder and CEO of the e-discovery technology company Logikcull. “We believe that quick and affordable access to discovery ‒ the search for truth ‒ is a fundamental right to every citizen of Earth.”
Wilson and CTO Sheng…
If you have a LexBlog blog and use Clio to manage your practice, today is your lucky day.
The two companies today announced an integration that creates an automatic connection between the contact form on a LexBlog site and the tasks and contacts features within Clio Manage.
(Clio Manage is what Clio…
As it happens this week, I am involved in two separate webinars, but which have overlapping themes.
The first, on Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern time, is, The Great Debate: Are Lawyers Luddites or is Technology to Blame? In this panel, I join Joe Patrice, editor at Above the Law, and Jon Tobin, founder of…
Richard Zorza once wrote that, after his death, he would continue to blog from hell. I would not be surprised if Richard, who died April 13 at the age of 69, is still blogging somewhere, but I am quite certain it isn’t hell.
On my short list of must-read blogs, Richard’s Access to Justice…
Earlier this week, I posted my LawNext interview with Augie Rakow, cofounder and managing partner of alternative law firm Atrium. Now comes news that Rakow is leaving the firm.
Atrium today posted the announcement, saying that Rakow is stepping down as managing partner. No explanation was given for his departure.
“Building Atrium…
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