ProfitSolv, the parent company to a group of practice management and payments products for legal, accounting and professional services firms, said today that it has secured a significant strategic investment co-led by private equity firms FTV Capital and Lightyear Capital.

The company said that the investment will be used to…

A month before the American Association of Law Libraries is set to convene in Portland, Ore., for its annual conference, its executive director, Vani Ungapen, announced today that she will leave at the end of August to purse a new professional opportunity.

Ungapen has been the AALL’s executive director since October 2018.…

Free Law Project’s CourtListener has launched RECAP Search Alerts, a new feature that allows users to monitor federal court filings for specific keywords, people, or topics, and receive alerts when there is a match. The service, which went live this week, represents what the organization calls “Google Alerts for federal courts, but much better.”…

I wrote yesterday about the Puerto Rico Supreme Court’s adoption of the duty of technology competence, done as part of its promulgation of new rules of professional conduct to replace a code of ethics that had governed lawyers’ professional conduct in Puerto Rico since 1970.

While Puerto Rico modeled its new Rules of Professional…

Ever since 2012, when the American Bar Association first adopted a duty of technology competence for lawyers as part of its Model Rules of Professional Conduct, its approach has been the template for state adoption of the duty. That approach was to incorporate the duty in a comment (Comment 8) to Model Rule 1.1, which…

When Chris Cartrett was named CEO of legal technology company Aderant in 2022, he did so with the mission of aggressively advancing a cloud-first strategy throughout the company’s suite of business and financial software for law firms. Given that Aderant is a nearly…

The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexis Legal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis’ gen AI technology, primary law content, and Shepard’s Citations within the Harvey platform and jointly develop advanced legal workflows.

As a result of the partnership, Harvey’s customers working within its platform will be…

A comprehensive survey of Washington State Bar Association members reveals a cautious approach to artificial intelligence adoption among legal professionals, with significant gaps in technology knowledge and cybersecurity practices creating potential vulnerabilities across the state’s legal landscape.

The WSBA Technology Survey, conducted from September to October 2024 and published in April 2025, found…

Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform is used by law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal services organizations to match lawyers with pro bono opportunities and manage pro bono engagement, is today launching a pro bono platform designed specifically for law schools and law students.

Developed in collaboration with some 30 law…

Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, today announced the beta launch of its AI Intake Specialist, an AI-powered intake feature that the company says will transform how plaintiffs’ law firms capture and qualify potential clients. 

This news follows Eve’s release in April of its AI Reasoning Mode that it says can perform…

Just four months ago in an article here, I caught up with founder and CEO Ryan Alshak for an update on Laurel, the company that provides automated time capture and analytics for law firms and other professional services firms. I first met Alshak in 2017, when his then startup won the

Limelight, a communications and marketing agency serving law firms, legal technology companies, and other professional services and B2B companies, has hired Amy Hanan as its chief growth officer, where she will be responsible for leading the agency’s digital and growth marketing services practice.

Hanan was most recently chief marketing officer at LRN Corporation,…