Over the course of 2022, the principals of LexFusion conferred with 435 law departments and 250 law firms. Why? Simply put, because that is what the company does. It is a go-to-market company that defines its purpose as “to grease the gears of commerce and rapidly increase the adoption of legal innovation.” On…

XIRA, a platform for solo attorneys to get clients and manage their law practices, is introducing a variety of upgrades to its platform as well as changes to its pricing that includes elimination of booking fees for new clients and new subscription fees for its practice management platform.

I first wrote about XIRA in…

Earlier this week, I reported here that the litigation analytics company Gavelytics, which shut down operations in June, has been acquired by a relative newcomer to the legal analytics space, Pre/Dicta, which launched its product in July after two years of development.

Yesterday, I met via Zoom with the CEOs of the two…

What do you get when you combine one of the leading intranet portals for larger law firms with the expertise of a consulting firm that has been building and implementing intranets for decades?

The answer, according to an announcement today, is a pre-designed, state-of-the-art intranet portal that can be deployed in just weeks, either as…

Last June, the seven-year-old litigation analytics company Gavelytics shut down, seemingly overnight, with founder and CEO Rick Merrill announcing the news by an email on June 29 that he “recently made the difficult decision to close Gavelytics effective June 30,” as I reported at the time. 

Now, Gavelytics is rising from the ashes, in a…

CASEpeer, a practice management platform designed for personal injury law firms, now integrates with the online payments platform LawPay, it said today.

The integration enables PI firms to accept credit card and ACH payments electronically, which can help a firm increase collections and streamline financial operations.

CASEpeer is owned by Affinipay, the…

The London-based company Apperio, which provides legal spend analytics and matter tracking software, said today it has raised a $7 million growth round of venture capital funding. It will use the funding to further develop its product for corporate counsel, meet growing demand from law firms for new functionality, and accelerate its expansion to…

Since the December release of Open AI’s GPT-3.5 model, and the related ChatGPT, speculation has been rampant about how this next generation of artificial intelligence might upend the legal profession. But as others have been speculating, two legal scholars and scientists, Daniel Martin Katz and

We are extending the deadline to submit applications for a spot in the 2023 Startup Alley competition at ABA TECHSHOW. The deadline, which was set for today, is now Jan. 13, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.

Several potential applicants requested more time due to the proximity to the holidays.

To apply, you must complete this…

Practical Law The Journal, long a quarterly magazine published in print by the Practical Law division of Thomson Reuters, has moved online as of today, where it will now be published monthly as part of Reuters legal news.

At its new web location within the website of Reuters, the news and media division of…

‘Twas the night before New Year’s Eve, when all through the legaltech world
Not a creature was stirring, not even in-house.
The laptops were stored in their backpacks with care,
Certain no investors would anytime soon be there.

This blogger was nestled all snug at my desk,
Envisioning how Legaltech Week…

[Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mark Stodder, President of Xcential Legislative Technologies. As I reported here in November, the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has sued Xcential for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and other causes of action. This is Stodder’s perspective on the…