Last year, I wrote here about the launch of Map Engine, an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data.

Although it launched with just one map template, of U.S. states and territories, and later added Europe, it…

ZERØ, a company whose AI-driven products automate time capture and email filing for lawyers and other professional services, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round aimed at enabling it to accelerate market expansion and enter new verticals.

The round was led by Streamlined Ventures with participation from 468 Capital, AltaIR Capital,…

Time By Ping, a company whose product is designed to help lawyers break free from timekeeping and get back hours in their day, has raised $36.5 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $55 million.

Just ahead of today’s announcement, I sat down with Ryan Alshak, cofounder…

Lawmatics, a company whose product provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, is now adding timekeeping and billing tools, with the goal of offering law firms a comprehensive platform with everything they need to manage their administrative sides.

The company also is adding new electronic payment capabilities through a…

Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Josiah Chaves to be vice president of cloud products, a position in which he will be responsible for driving the company’s cloud-first strategy.

A seven-year veteran at Aderant, Chaves was most recently senior director of Expert Sierra, where he was responsible…

A Hungarian law firm is partnering with a Los Angeles legal tech company and an anonymous legal industry influencer to create an international database of pro bono attorneys willing to represent Ukrainian refugees in need of immigration or asylum aid, and they are looking for more attorneys to sign up.

As of Saturday, they had…

I am looking to hire a versatile editorial assistant on a part-time basis to help with a variety of projects here at LawSites and LawNext.

The ideal person would be a self-starter who is comfortable handling various editorial and production tasks. These may include some combination of:

A product launched this week claims to be the fastest search and review platform in legal for matters involving large document collections — discovery, investigations and compliance — and the first to seamlessly combine keyword and algorithmic search.

The chief data scientist who helped develop it said it is “an order of magnitude faster than…

Is there a better way to train lawyers to draft and negotiate contracts? Laura Frederick thinks so. This former Tesla and BigLaw commercial contracts attorney is the founder of How to Contract, a learning platform that trains lawyers and professionals how to draft and negotiate contracts in the real world. She is also…

Multifaceted is barely word enough to describe Jason Tashea. Lawyer, startup founder, legal affairs writer, law professor, consultant and podcaster, he is now taking on another role: creator of speculative fiction about the criminal justice system.

Over the past decade, Tashea says, the topics he has covered in his non-fiction writing about criminal justice…

Last week, I announced the launch of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which we hope will become the most trusted source of legal tech products in the market. 

If you are curious to learn more about it, I will be joining Ari Kaplan’s Virtual Lunch today, Feb. 23, at noon Eastern time,…

It is not my practice to endorse a book without having read it. But I am doing so today because I know the book, I know the author, and you can save money if you buy it today.

The book is the just-released third edition of Solo by Choice, by Carolyn Elefant, creator of…