In his day job, Jonathan Pyle is the contract performance officer at Philadelphia Legal Assistance, where he is responsible for compliance, reporting, and implementing new uses of technology to analyze, streamline, and expand service delivery. But in the legal tech world, Pyle is better known as the developer of

At its Momentum customer conference today, DocuSign introduced CLM Essentials, a contract lifecycle management product built specifically for small and medium-sized organizations to centralize and automate the creation, negotiation and storage of their contracts.

DocuSign said the product is designed to “democratize CLM” by reducing the…

Major financing news today, as LinkSquares, the Boston-based company that provides an AI-powered contract management and analysis platform, said it has raised $100 million in Series C financing, less than a year after raising a $40 million Series B round, and bringing its total raise to $161.5 million at a current valuation of $800…

Atul Dubey has been named senior vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., effective April 1, where he will oversee a range of information and expert products for legal and business compliance professionals.

Dubey steps into the position previously held by Dean Sonderegger, who moved March 1…

Catching up on recent legal tech news, there are four notable deals to report.

Athennian Raises $33M

First up is Athennian, the Canadian company that offers a cloud-based entity management platform. It announced this week that it has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Centana Growth…

In the early days of legal blogging, April 1 was a day to be wary of. For a time, it was an annual tradition for legal bloggers to attempt to out-prank each other and their readers, publishing serious-seeming posts that were thinly veiled April Fools’ jokes.

By way of illustration, here is a post…

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, many Ukrainians who are currently in the United States have two options for extending their stays: apply for either Temporary Protected Status or asylum. For either, however, the applications they must complete are complicated to fill out and available only in English.

To help Ukrainians living in…

She has been called the patron saint of solo and small law firms. For two decades, Carolyn Elefant has helped solo and small firm lawyers start and build their law practices. You know her as the creator of MyShingle.com, the longest-running blog on solo and small law firm practice, and she just released the…

Although the majority of U.S. in-house lawyers prefer not to return full-time to their offices, nearly half have done so, in part because their organizations have failed to effectively adopt new technologies that would facilitate hybrid work arrangements.

This is among the findings of a new survey of in-house lawyers commissioned by the contract management…

AltaClaro, a company that has developed a unique experiential training platform for lawyers, has raised a $2.5 million seed preferred financing round to further develop its product and expand its market share.

The financing round was led by Bryce Catalyst, a legal tech fund whose founding partner Cary Burch is the former…

The venture capital market is enjoying its biggest moment since the dot-com days of the late  1990s. Globally, VC deal-making shattered records in 2021. 

But certain pockets of the market are driving the current VC ecosystem, and not every aspect of the global startup scene is increasing at the same pace. 

Today at 1 p.m.…

LexCheck, a company whose platform provides AI-powered contract negotiation, has raised an additional $5 million of funding, on top of $3 million in seed funding it raised in May 2020. 

The New York-based company said the funding would be used to further drive its growth, following a year in which it opened…