Our regular Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable is today at 3 p.m. ET. Join us as our panelist of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
We were off last week, so we have two weeks to catch up on. Here are some of the stories we’re planning to discuss:
The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August.
On March 17, 2021, the court entered orders approving two ABS entities:
In e-discovery and investigations, time is often of the essence. While artificial intelligence can reduce the overall time of a project, it can also present a speed bump at the start, in part because of the need to train the AI algorithm, and in part because the legal team may lack the AI-related knowledge or
Are you a startup founder wondering what type of business entity to create? Or maybe you have a question about the best structure to raise seed capital.
The answers to these and many other questions can be found in a digital hub launched yesterday by the Emerging Companies Practice of the Palo Alto-based law firm
This week, David Lat, who founded the blog Above the Law in 2006, and who earlier, in 2004, started the anonymous blog Underneath Their Robes, and who left blogging two years ago to take a job as a legal recruiter, is returning to writing as a full-time livelihood.
But this time, Lat will not
Not surprisingly, the pandemic drove greater use of electronic payments across all industries, with the volume of electronic payments up 11.2 % in the first quarter of 2021 over the prior year.
Law firms were no exception to this trend, as they realized that the old way of collecting payments via paper checks was impacting
Rian Gauvreau, who in 2008 cofounded practice management company Clio with Jack Newton, has left the company, where he most recently held the position of chief people officer.
He continues to serve on the company’s board of directors.
A company spokesperson said that Gauvreau decided to step down from his position at the
Nominations open today for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards, a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology.
Awards will be given in eight categories: access to justice, court, enterprise, individual, technology, law department, law firm, and startup.
Deadline for nominations is Aug. 31, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome. Finalists
Intapp, a major provider of cloud-based business applications for larger law firms and financial services firms, said today it has signed an agreement to acquire Repstor, creator of Microsoft 365-based enterprise content management and team collaboration tools.
Founded in 2012 and based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Repstor’s cloud-based solutions are designed to help
LexLab, the legal innovation hub at UC Hastings Law School, recently wrapped up the fourth cohort of its legal tech accelerator program with a demo day at which the seven startup participants got to pitch their products to potential investors.
But this demo day, in fact this entire cohort, was noticeably different than prior
Coming, as it did, in the midst of the pandemic, the merger last August of nQueue, a provider of printing, scanning and cost-recovery solutions for law firms, and Zebraworks, a company started by ProLaw founder Bill Bice to help move law firms to the cloud, promised to deliver new products aimed at enabling legal professionals
