Trellis, a company that provides legal analytics and research for state trial court records, has expanded its coverage into another five states, bringing its total coverage to 21 states.

Trellis has now added coverage for courts in Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. In each of those states but Michigan, its coverage spans all counties. Michigan covers…

The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, has again expanded its coverage, this time adding a Chapter 11 bankruptcy module that provides legal analytics for over 115,000 Chapter 11 proceedings.

The module includes the entire docket in any bankruptcy proceeding filed after 2009 in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court under Chapter…

At a time when law firms are struggling to retain talent and wrestling to balance hybrid workplaces, the Texas-based corporate law firm Vela Wood did something unique: It sent its employees and their families to Portugal for a month. Why did it do it? How did it do it? What did…

As reported here yesterday, the legal editing software WordRake released a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a new Simplicity editing mode for simplifying complex language.

With this release, WordRake now has two editing modes: Brevity and Simplicity. You might consider the Brevity…

Last January, Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, acquired American LegalNet (ALN), the docketing technology and rules-based calendaring company. 

When it did, Aderant already had a leading rules-based calendaring product of its own, CompuLaw, which it acquired in 2011, and which originally was introduced to…

See also followup: I Put WordRake’s New Version 4.0 to the Test Against the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association.

The legal editing software WordRake is today releasing a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a…

While recent years have brought a number of products to market for analyzing judges and their rulings, little is available for analyzing private arbitrators, and particularly arbitrators in labor and employment matters.

A new tool introduced today takes a major step towards remedying that. Called Labor Arbitrator and Awards Analyzer, it is part of the…

Hanzo, a company whose products help enterprise legal, governance and compliance teams manage collaboration and web-based data, has introduced a new version of its legal hold product, formerly Hanzo Hold, that comes with a new name, Hanzo Illuminate, and new features for more quickly and easily capturing dynamic and interactive web data and identifying…

Our usual Friday panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers will be joined this week by a special guest panelist: Joshua Lenon, who is marking his 10th anniversary as lawyer in residence at the law practice management company Clio.

We will chat a bit with Joshua and then have him join us as…

The folks at Helm360 have been putting their knowledge as a full-service IT company to another use of late, developing products that build on their experience implementing technology solutions for  legal and professional services firms. 

I wrote about one of these products in May, Termi, an AI-enabled chatbot that aims to solve the problems…

Reynen Court, the so-called app store for legal technology, has promoted two of its key executives to new roles. Christian Lang, formerly head of strategy, is now president and chief operating officer. Lodewijk Bonebakker, formerly head of operations and security, is now chief compliance and security officer. 

Both will continue to report…

A Stanford Law School study published today of regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona finds that they are “spurring substantial innovation,” that they are critical to serving lower-income populations, and that they do not pose any substantial risk of consumer harm.

“The evidence gathered in this report shows that rule reforms can spur significant innovation,…