When Thoma Bravo took a majority stake in Casepoint in January 2025 and merged it with the government-software company OPEXUS, it set the e-discovery pioneer on a broader course — deeper into the government market and squarely into FOIA and case management. Now…
Steno Names Its Current COO Prabhdeep Singh as New CEO to Lead Next Phase of Growth
Two years ago, Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, named Prabhdeep Singh as its chief operating officer to help accelerate the company’s growth.
Apparently, he did a good job, because today the company announced his appointment as chief executive officer, succeeding cofounder Greg Hong, who will continue…
8am, Parent to LawPay, MyCase and Others, Has A New CEO
8am, the parent company of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and other law practice technology products, has a new CEO: Jeff Hughes, a member of 8am’s board since 2024 and recently its executive chairman.
Hughes succeeds Dru Armstrong, who joined the company formerly known as AffiniPay as CEO in 2021. The news was announced…
Targeting European Leadership in Patent AI, DeepIP Acquires PatentMaker
AI patent drafting platform DeepIP has acquired PatentMaker, a patent workflow tool built by and for European IP practitioners, in a move the companies say positions them as the leading AI platform for patent drafting and prosecution in Europe.
The deal brings together two complementary operations. DeepIP, founded in 2024 by François-Xavier Leduc and Edouard…
Clio Promotes Ronnie Gurion to President and COO
Clio said today it has promoted Ronnie Gurion to president and chief operating officer, expanding the role he has served as an executive who has been with the company since joining as COO in 2021.
The company said that Gurion played a pivotal role in what has been the most consequential growth phase…
Casepoint Names GovTech Veteran Paul Colangelo CEO, As Thoma Bravo–Backed Company Pushes Deeper Into Government
Casepoint has named Paul Colangelo, a longtime government- and enterprise-software executive, as its chief executive officer, the company announced this morning.
He will oversee the company’s continuing integration following its January 2025 acquisition by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo and merger with OPEXUS, as well as the growth of its e-discovery, legal hold,…
‘Less Hype, More Application’ Is the Promise of This June 17 Legal AI Conference, Live In L.A. Or Virtual
A few months ago, I wrote about the new partnership between Masters AI Legal, the newly launched division of The Masters Conference, and Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, to produce a global conference series devoted to making legal professionals “genuinely fluent in…
Can a Legal AI Platform Be Powerful, Fun and Free All at the Same Time? Lavern Surely Thinks So.
Somebody once told Antti Innanen that he had built a veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat. He thought it was a fun criticism, but he also thought it missed the point.
That burger is Lavern, an open-source “multi-agent legal system” that Innanen, a Finnish lawyer and law firm founder with…
Consulting Firm Harbor Acquires CE Global Partners, Expanding Its HR and Payroll Advisory Capabilities
Harbor, a global professional and technology services firm focused on the legal industry, has acquired CE Global Partners, a specialist in HR transformation, payroll transformation, and people-process change, it announced today.
The acquisition expands Harbor’s Human Capital Management (HCM) Advisory line, which the company launched just last month, on May 5. Harbor said…
Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-Powered CRM Platform for Law Firms, Is Now Available within Microsoft 365
Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-powered CRM platform for law firms, is now available across Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company said today.
Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Foundation 365 was formerly known as Peppermint Client Engagement. The product came to Litera through its acquistion last year of Peppermint Technology,…
Context Is Everything: CEO Neil Araujo on iManage’s AI Strategy
Neil Araujo, the CEO and cofounder of iManage, was last on this podcast almost exactly two years ago. In the dog years of the legal industry’s AI age, that feels like a long time ago. Our conversation then was about law firms still feeling their way around generative AI. But now, as…
Universal Migrator Launches New Website Built for Migration Experts
Universal Migrator has launched a brand-new website designed to make legal data migrations easier to research, explain, plan, and execute.
The new site gives migration consultants, IT professionals, legal technology advisors, and law firm leaders a clearer way to understand what Universal Migrator can do across hundreds of migration scenarios. Instead of forcing migration experts…
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