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…
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…
An international group of law firms and legal technology companies are joining forces as the first cohort to help launch a public, permissioned, blockchain-based, smart-contract management system, the Agreements Network.
The network is intended to serve as a decentralized platform for law firms to productize contracts as scalable “active” (or…
The cloud-based e-discovery company DISCO today announced that Kristin Zmrhal-Murray has joined the company as vice president of customer success.
Zmrhal-Murray has been part of Google’s in-house discovery team since 2011, most recently as senior legal operations manager, where she developed and oversaw its discovery project management and operations team.
Previously at Google,…
Next month, I will be meeting with a group of state bar officials to discuss what steps they can take to promote legal services innovation and access to justice. In preparation for that, I have been trying to outline the barriers to innovation in law. I figure that the first step to overcoming these barriers…
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