Hate to ruin your Thanksgiving, but if you have not yet entered to compete for a spot in the third-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, this is your last chance — the deadline is Friday, Nov. 23.
The competition offers startups a shot at being one of 15 companies that will be selected to
After 16 years, I guess I’m finally eligible to get my blogger learner’s permit.
It was 16 years ago this week, on Nov. 19, 2002, that I launched this blog. The original purpose was to “post news and reviews of Web sites of interest to the legal profession.”
Since then, I’ve expanded to cover
I spent part of last week in Moscow, where I spoke at the Skolkovo LegalTech conference. I discovered that Russia has a vibrant emerging market of legal tech startups, several of them incubated within the Skolkovo Innovation Center, the massive, government-funded tech incubator where the conference was held.
But I also found that adoption of
When Alvin Tedjamulia cofounded NetDocuments in 1998 as the first cloud-based platform for document and email management, few lawyers had any concept of what it meant to work in the cloud. Today, NetDocuments has grown to become one of the leading DMS systems in legal, counting some of the world’s leading law firms and
Companies that provide services for accessing federal court dockets were caught off guard last week when a number of federal courts began sending notices to attorneys urging them to exercise caution when using such services. Some vendors said that the caution did not apply to them, while others said they were taking steps to address
At launch in 2013, Firm Central was a solid user friendly, cloud-based matter management software. Fast forward through five years of gathering customer feedback and making product improvements, to present day, where the robust end-to-end software consists of customizable matter management, sophisticated time & billing, legal rules-based calendaring, enhanced reporting, and most recently, built-in
Major news this week regarding the use of legal technology to enhance access to justice. The Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent nonprofit with over $6 billion in assets, announced that it is launching an initiative to focus on the use of technology to modernize the civil legal justice system, meet unmet legal needs, and
I’ve noted in a number of posts here Lex Machina’s continuing expansion of its legal analytics into new practice areas, particularly since its acquisition by LexisNexis in 2015.
Today Lex Machina is announcing a new module that adds ERISA litigation cases. The module encompasses nearly 83,000 cases filed in federal district court pending since 2009,
I am thrilled to be heading to Moscow this week to speak at Skolkovo LegalTech, said to be the largest conference in Russia that is focused on legal technology and the transformations taking place in legal practice.
I will be participating in a plenary session on the digital practice of law with a panel
In a move that signals a new strategy for Needles, a company that provides case-management software for plaintiff-focused law firms, its owners have named a new leader to take charge of the brand and oversee the launch of its cloud version.
TrialWorks LLC, the holding company that owns both Needles and the case-management software TrialWorks
A company that earlier this year launched a platform to provide law firms with enterprise-grade workplace collaboration technology is today announcing its expansion of that technology to service corporate legal departments.
When it launched its platform last June, Workstorm initially focused on providing its technology to law firms. For firms, the platform enables secure communications
