[Update 3/15/17: As of this morning, LawTova’s two sites are back online, after being offline for at least a week. This development doesn’t invalidate the questions I raise below about LawTova’s connections to QuickLegal, another startup that shut down amid fraud allegations concerning its owner. If anything, this makes those questions all the more important.]…

The parties to a putative class action lawsuit claiming that the federal courts’ PACER system routinely overcharges for document downloads have asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for more time to engage in settlement discussions, agreeing that discussions so far have been productive.

A scheduling order had required that the parties complete…

Two organizations have teamed up to launch a website to help veterans appeal denials of Veterans Affairs benefits. Through the site, veterans can either appeal their cases on their own or request a free attorney to help with the appeal.

The site, at vetsprobono.org, was launched this week by The Veterans Consortium…

Well, maybe not everything. But in the latest episode of the podcast Law Technology Now, I speak with Adriana Linares, the chair of Techshow 2017, about what to expect at this year’s conference, which is next week, March 15-18, in Chicago.

Linares, a law practice consultant when she’s not organizing Techshow,…

Add Tennessee to the list of states that have adopted the duty of technology competence, bringing the total to 27 states. And keep an eye on our neighbors to the north — Canada may be on its way to adopting a parallel duty. (See the full tally of states here.)

In Tennessee, the…

Armies of robot lawyers are on their way to steal our jobs. We’ve heard that from no less a source than The New York Times. But the truth is far more nuanced, as Joanna Goodman relates in her new book, Robots in Law: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Legal Services.

Goodman, a London-based…

Another day, another investment in a legal startup. Yesterday, I reported that cloud-based litigation management platform Allegory had raised over $500,000. Today brings news that LawGeex, a contract review platform based on artificial intelligence, closed a $7 million Series A funding round.

The round was led by a group of investors that…

Catching up on a few items of interest …

In the UK, an online court will be operating by September and broadly deployed to a wide range of civil court proceedings by May 2020, Legal Futures reports. “There will be no big bang,” Sir Ernest Ryder, a Lord Justice of Appeal and the Senior…

Several prominent veterans of legal technology are among the leaders in a $500,000-plus round of funding in Allegory, the cloud-based litigation-management startup founded last year by Alma Asay, a former Gibson Dunn litigator.

The lead investor is Bob Rowe, formerly executive vice president at Huron Legal, which was acquired by Consilio…

The working world has changed significantly since enactment of two of the country’s seminal labor laws, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, and other labor laws may be showing their age. So are labor laws due for an overhaul? If so, are they about to get one…

Hot off the presses is the latest issue of Law Practice magazine, which is the annual Techshow issue. I wrote this month’s cover story, A Golden Age of Legal Tech Start-Ups, which highlights some themes about start-ups that will be familiar to regular readers of this blog, but which also highlights…

The California investment firm Clearlake Capital Group yesterday announced that it has acquired NetDocuments, the cloud-based document and email management company that specializes in serving law firms and corporate legal departments.

Clearlake is purchasing the stock of NetDocuments’ previous investor, Frontier Capital, for undisclosed terms. The acquisition is being done in partnership…