The last time I wrote about BriefCatch, it was in 2018, when I put it and two other legal editing programs to the test of editing four opinions authored by Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, pronounced by Slate a terrible writer.

Looks like I’ll have to go back to the…

The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary is a publication that provides biographic profiles and financial disclosure information for every federal judge, including those sitting on the Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, Districts Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and Specialized Courts.

Now, the Almanac’s publisher, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., is partnering with the company

Centerbase, a Dallas-based company providing cloud legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, has has acquired Legalfit, a Kansas City company that provides web marketing and content management technology tailored specifically for small and mid-sized law firms.

Centerbase says the acquisition enables it to expand its practice management product — which already offers…

A soon-to-launch product will make it easier for law firms and legal organizations to manage their pro bono matters, providing an administrative platform for assigning matters to lawyers, monitoring case statuses, documenting outcomes, and providing training materials and forms.

Called Virtual Law Clinic, it is the second product to come out of Theory and Principle,…

The product listings continue to grow in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which we launched in February. Periodically here, I am featuring the latest products to have been added to the directory. Here are this week’s 10 most recent additions:…

LEAP Legal Software, an international provider of cloud-based practice management software for smaller law firms, has acquired WealthCounsel, a leading provider of software, training and support for estate planning lawyers, and its related company ElderCounsel.

Founded in 1997, Utah-based WealthCounsel provides software and templates for drafting estate planning and business documents. It…

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.

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…