On July 18, 2023, the top legal officers of three Boston-area technology companies came together for a live panel discussion about the city’s unique contributions to the legal tech landscape, which I moderated The panelists graciously agreed to allow LawNext to record the conversation, and this episode is that recording. The three panelists…

The cloud-based e-discovery company Nextpoint has received a growth capital investment from RF Investment Partners, a company that provides structured growth capital.

The amount of the investment was not disclosed.

Nextpoint and RF say that the investment will be used to accelerate Nextpoint’s growth through movement into new markets, operational advancements, and product…

When a company says its product is designed to overcome writer’s block and combat hallucinations, it might sound as if it was custom made for gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

In fact, however, it is a new generative AI assistant being released today by e-discovery company Everlaw to help lawyers quickly summarize complex documents…

Launched in 1993 and acquired by LexisNexis in 2004, Interaction is one of the most established client relationship management (CRM) products in the legal market. An on-premises product designed for large law firms, InterAction is used by three-quarters of the Am Law 100 and three-quarters of the largest firms globally, according to LexisNexis.…

Consider this scenario: You are an immigration lawyer representing a hospital seeking to bring a talented surgeon to the United States under an O-1 nonimmigrant visa — a visa for individuals with extraordinary abilities in the sciences, arts and other fields. You have collected a series of letters of support attesting to the doctor’s abilities…

Since 2011, Fastcase has released an annual list of the Fastcase 50, honoring 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” Fortunately, even though Fastcase merged earlier this year with vLex, that tradition continues, as Fastcase has now announced the 2023 honorees. 

I say “fortunately” because, as I…

Recently, Derek Miller, a veteran legal technology executive who, as president and CEO of inData Corporation for nearly three decades, oversaw Trial Director, one of the most widely used trial-presentation software products ever, joined Lit Software, the developer of a suite of litigation apps for iPad and Mac, as chief growth officer, to help…

Live today at 3 E.T. is the weekly Legaltech Week, the program where a panel of journalists and bloggers discusses the top news in legal tech and legal innovation.

Among the stories on the agenda for today:…

Tangibly, a cloud-based trade secrets management platform, has completed an oversubscribed $6.5 million seed round, which it plans to use to further develop its recently launched Patent X-Ray, a tool powered by large language model artificial intelligence to help companies identify possibly undocumented trade secrets from their own patents.

The round was led…

In a first for a state bar, The Florida Bar is providing its entire membership of more than 111,000 lawyers with access to legal trust accounting software – a move designed to both help lawyers better comply with trust accounting rules and help protect members of the public from trust accounting errors.

The initiative…

Since launching to the legal market in 2021, the matter management platform Dashboard Legal has built a loyal following among law firm associates, who find it a superior alternative to updating and circulating checklists in Microsoft Word or Excel, says founder and CEO Mat Rotenberg.

But the company kept hearing from law firm…

In what is clearly a major milestone for Milestones, a legal tech company whose product provides law firm clients with automatic updates on their cases, it has closed a $2.1 million seed round and is rebranding as Hona to reflect the broader scope of its product’s capabilities.

Leading the seed round in the…