A new tool from the litigation analytics company Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, allows attorneys to view visual maps of a party’s litigation history in order to help illuminate the party’s relationships and litigation trends that might not otherwise be obvious but that could be a factor in crafting a litigation strategy…
This New Catalog for Corporate Legal Teams (Or Any Legal Professional) Brings the Comical to Contracts
A remote-controlled race car that redlines documents? A slingshot for launching litigation? A “Yes, But …” button for testing out your legal theories?
These are just some of the products available through the new online store LawLawLand, launched by the contract management company SpotDraft.
While oriented towards inhouse legal teams, the products could…
In Los Angeles, Bet Tzedek’s New Online Legal Clinic Helps Pro Se People with Conservatorships
In Los Angeles, the legal services organization Bet Tzedek has long run regular in-person legal clinics designed to help self-represented individuals better understand and navigate the sometimes complex process of conservatorship, by which a court appoints a person to manage the personal and financial affairs of someone who cannot make decisions for themself because…
Last Day to Register: CLE Webinar Tomorrow on the State of Legal Tech in Law Practice
I am speaking tomorrow on a CLE webinar on the state of legal technology, but the last day to register is today at 3 p.m. ET.
In a program presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, I am joining Damian Turco, MBA president and former chair of the MBA’s Law Practice Management Section, to discuss…
Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas
Yesterday, I reported here on a lawsuit filed March 20 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her.
As it turns out, just a week before she filed her lawsuit, her…
Lawsuit By Former Legal Tech Exec Says She is Owed Over $1M In Stock and Was Sexually Harassed
In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise…
On LawNext: The Inside Story of the Caselaw Access Project, with Three of the People Who Made It Happen
March 1 marked the culmination of an ambitious and audacious project to digitize and provide free and open access to all official court decisions ever published in the United States. Called the Caselaw Access Project, it came about, starting in 2015, through an unusual partnership between Harvard Law School and a Silicon Valley-based legal…
Getting a Tech LLM: Is It Worth It?
As technology continues to transform our economy and culture, businesses need a new breed of lawyers who understand the legal and commercial aspects of technology. There is a specific need for lawyers skilled in bringing new products and new companies to market.
Cornell Tech’s Master of Laws (LLM) in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship is…
Here Are Some of the Stories We’ll Discuss on Legaltech Week Live Today at 3; Join Us!
Join us live today at 3 p.m. E.T. for the weekly Legaltech Week roundtable panel, where we discuss — irreverently at times — the tops stories in legal tech and innovation.
If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for all future sessions. You…
ILTA Honors Five Influential Women of Legal Tech
A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influential Women in Legal Tech.
The list recognizes outstanding women leaders in the global legal technology community based on their mentorship history and level of…
Legal Tech Startup Ai.law Can Now Draft the Complaint for Your Lawsuit
Ai.law, a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit.
While Ai.law already had modules for litigation tasks such as answering a lawsuit, responding to discovery, and pulling summaries from medical records, this new module allows a…
Fast Company’s List of World’s 606 Most Innovative Companies Includes Four from Legal Tech
Fast Company is out with its annual ranking of the world’s most innovative companies, and of the 606 companies that made the list, just four are from legal tech.
“The 606 organizations that we honor as Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024 have met our high bar for demonstrating innovation and the impact…