For years, the conventional wisdom was that big Silicon Valley and New York investors had no interest in legal technology. Well, the conventional wisdom is no longer true.

In just the last two months, major investment firms have put nearly $200 million into legal technology. More than half, some $100 million, went to one company.…

Budgeting legal matters is the bane of many a law firm. Whether creating a budget for an hourly matter or setting a price for a fixed-fee representation, firms fear setting prices too low or too high.

A new cloud-based product from Thomson Reuters Elite, 3E Matter Pricing, provides a suite of tools intended…

I reported here Wednesday that two-year-old legal technology startup Doxly, a secure portal for managing corporate transactions, had named Christopher Clapp, an executive who has led three companies through exits, as executive chairman. This morning, I had the opportunity to speak by phone with Clapp and Haley Altman, Doxly’s cofounder and CEO.

Both say…

A new legal industry award is intended to honor innovation in legal practice and legal technology, and nominations are now open.

Sponsored by Litera Microsystems and its online publication The Changing Lawyer, The Changing Lawyer Awards will honor individuals, law firms and companies for their willingness to embrace change through new technology,…

Ever since LexisNexis acquired the legal research startup Ravel last June, its plan has been to integrate Ravel’s caselaw visualization technology and data analytics into Lexis Advance. Earlier this year, I published a preview of the integration of the visualization technology. Today, LexisNexis is formally launching that integration and beginning to…

A partnership announced yesterday will enhance the Fastcase legal research service through the addition of data and reviews on expert witnesses, litigation consultants, mediators and arbitrators from Courtroom Insight.

Content from Courtroom Insight has already been added to Fastcase’s AI Sandbox, a private digital environment where law firms can use artificial…

Legal technology startup Doxly, a secure portal for managing corporate transactions, is today announcing that Christopher Clapp, a veteran executive who has led three companies through exits, has been named executive chairman of the Indianapolis-based company.

Most recently, Clapp was president and CEO of Bluelock LLC, a company that provides cloud-based “disaster…

The website G2 Crowd, which collects user reviews to evaluate business-to-business software, recently released its first grid ranking of the best legal practice management software, and it places only one company, Clio, into the upper-right “Leaders” quadrant — the quadrant that represents the highest rankings in both customer satisfaction and market presence.…

The practice-management platform Clio recently notified long-term customers who had been grandfathered on an older pricing plan that they will now have to switch to Clio’s current pricing plan.

The grandfathering came about in February 2015, when Clio adopted a three-tiered monthly subscription plan in place of its prior single-price plan. (See: Practice-Management…

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments Aug. 17 in Atlanta on the dispute between Fastcase and Casemaker over the latter’s claims of copyright in Georgia administrative regulations.

Fastcase sued Casemaker in federal court in Atlanta in 2016 after Casemaker served it a written notice demanding that it…

What would law practice be today without this technology? It is the standard for filing pleadings and motions in court. It is the standard for exchanging contracts and virtually all other legal documents. It is the standard for producing documents in e-discovery. It is the format around which lawyers build paperless practices. It is how…

Firm Central, the Thomson Reuters cloud-based practice management platform, recently rolled out a new reporting module, replacing its former reporting feature with more robust features and a wider array of user options.

In addition, Firm Central has introduced a number of improvements in recent months to its time and billing functions and across various…