Two years ago, James Sandman, president of the Legal Services Corporation, urged that one way to accelerate technology adoption in the legal industry would be to assess and rank law firms based on their use of technology. Last year, Daniel W. Linna Jr., then director of L LegalRND: The Center for Legal Services…

Exactly one year ago today, the headline on this blog read, Just Days Before Its Annual Conference, ILTA Reshuffles Its Management. One year before that, again just ahead of its annual conference, its longtime executive director Randi Mayes announced her retirement. Well, here we go again.

Legal IT Insider reported this morning that Dan…

LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects, is announcing today its new integration with the practice management platform Clio.

With the integration, firms that post projects to the LAWCLERK marketplace will be able to synchronize them to the pertinent matter in Clio. Synchronization…

The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, has been steadily expanding its coverage into new practice areas, and today has added insurance litigation.

The new module provides analytics for more than 92,200 cases pending in federal court since 2009 that involve disputes between an insurer and a policyholder, a beneficiary,…

Utah is on track to become the second state to license non-lawyers to practice law in limited circumstances, similar to the limited license legal technician (LLLT) program pioneered by Washington state.

The Utah Supreme Court has approved a new class of legal professional called the licensed paralegal practitioner. New rules governing LPPs take…

Last week in my column at Above the Law, I rounded up a passel of new legal podcasts. Having just launched the new LawNext podcast myself, it seemed I was suddenly seeing all sorts of new legal podcasts.

As might be expected, no sooner did I publish that column than I started hearing…

Earlier this week, as I reported here, the online legal services company LegalZoom announced a $500 million secondary investment, the largest investment ever in a legal technology company. It comes as the company continues to expand both its services and its geographic reach. With a valuation of $2 billion and a customer base of 4 million, what will this investment mean for LegalZoom now and into the future?

Two companies that specialize in secure, mobile enterprise collaboration and file sharing for the legal industry are now one, as London-based HighQ today announced its acquisition of Legal Anywhere, a company based in Portland, Ore.

HighQ, founded in 2001, markets three core products: HighQ Collaborate, a cloud-based platform for team collaboration; HIghQ Publisher,…

The legal services company LegalZoom today announced a $500 million secondary investment led by Francisco Partners and GPI Capital, with Franklin Templeton Investments and Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers also participating.

Existing investors will retain meaningful stakes in the company, the announcement said. Global private equity firm Permira will remain the largest shareholder. Bryant…

A Chicago-based, “technology-enabled” national bankruptcy firm that has been under fire for alleged hard-sell tactics and unauthorized practice of law yesterday named a professor of business law and ethics as an independent monitor to oversee its business practices.

UpRight Law, a firm formed in 2013 by the founders of TotalAttorneys, Ed Scanlan and…

The practice management platform Clio yesterday rolled out a feature called Clio Launcher that opens documents for editing on your desktop computer with one click and then saves them back to the appropriate folder in Clio.

It works on both Windows and Mac computers (but not Chromebooks) and for any type of file, including…

Frustration is the story of many a legal technology startup. A lawyer frustrated with the shortcomings of existing products sets out to design a better one. That is the story behind LEA, a new case-management platform designed specifically for criminal lawyers.

Its developer, Kevin Hogle, an Irvine, Calif., lawyer, told me he was unable…