Earlier this month, I told you about a new legal startup that has many ties to another legal startup that shut down amid fraud allegations. Now, some of the same people have launched another startup and it is already drawing interest from Silicon Valley investors.

To recap: In a series of posts here…

Any job is made easier by having the right tools. That’s the idea behind Contract Tools, a Microsoft Word for Windows add-in designed to provide attorneys with the right tools to analyze, navigate, search, proofread and edit contracts. While it can be used with any length document, its real value is most apparent…

A series of short posts rounding up product announcements from last week’s ABA Techshow. 

Worldox, the document and email management platform, announced an add-in for Office 365, enabling Worldox customers with Office 365 subscriptions to access Worldox documents from any browser and to save new Office 365 documents directly into Worldox even when…

A series of short posts rounding up product announcements from last week’s ABA Techshow. 

CASEpeer, a cloud-based case management platform for personal injury attorneys, introduced new CASEpush functionality for intra-firm collaboration.

The new CASEpush feature allows law firms to send and receive cases between CASEpeer accounts with all of the CASEpeer data.…

A series of short posts rounding up product announcements from last week’s ABA Techshow. 

Zola Suite announced an integration with RPost to provide secure and certified email communications from within the Zola practice management platform. The integration provides tracking of email opens, certified proof of delivery, email encryption, and e-signatures.

“With…

A series of short posts rounding up product announcements from last week’s ABA Techshow. 

Page Vault, a company whose software accurately captures and archives web pages, announced the launch of Page Vault On Demand, an online request service that enables legal professionals to outsource web content collection on a one-shot…

A series of short posts rounding up product announcements from last week’s ABA Techshow. 

Ruby Receptionists, the virtual receptionist service, and Rocket Matter, the practice management platform, announced their integration during last week’s ABA Techshow. This is Ruby’s third integration with a legal platform — it also integrates with practice management…

A series of short posts rounding up product announcements from last week’s ABA Techshow. 

The practice management platform Smokeball released AutoTime, a feature that the company says will revolutionize how small law firms record their time and that will allow them to gain a better understanding of their profitability on a per-matter…

A series of short posts rounding up product announcements from last week’s ABA Techshow. 

Practice management platform Clio announced integrations with five additional third-party applications, bringing its total number of third-party integrations to more than 50. The latest integrations are with:…

Jake Heller, founder and CEO, and Laura Safdie, chief operating officer and general counsel.

The legal research service Casetext is announcing today that it has closed on a $12 million Series B funding round. Excluding e-discovery companies, it is one of the largest investments in a legal technology startup ever. The only two…

At ABA Techshow last week, MyCase, the cloud-based practice management platform, previewed the new version of its app, which it will be releasing for both iOS and Android devices. (Click any image above for a larger view or see an animated view below.)

MyCase would not provide a date certain for release…

Clio CEO Jack Newton introduces the Techshow keynote with the CEOs of Avvo, Rocket Lawyer and LegalZoom.

After 31 years, ABA Techshow is the granddaddy of legal technology conferences. That can be both a blessing and a curse. Amid a surge of legal-tech-conference upstarts, the challenge for Techshow is not merely to…