Litera’s business continuity series, which began last week, dives into the unprecedented challenges we are all facing and looks at how technology can help provide what law firms need to continue serving their clients, even while their teams are working remotely, unable to travel or meet face-to-face with clients, and otherwise disrupted from their regular routines.…
Keith Lee, LawyerSmack Founder, Joins Case Status as Chief Marketing Officer
Case Status, a client communications management and marketing platform for law firms that earlier this month raised $1.5 million in seed funding, is today announcing that it has hired Keith Lee, founder of the LawyerSmack online legal community, as chief marketing officer, tasked with directing the company’s continued growth and expansion across the…
LawNext Episode 68: Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on Growth During A Crisis
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic scrambled any sense of business as usual last week, the document-automation company Litera seemed to stay a step ahead, becoming one of the first major legal technology companies to take steps to continue operations, quickly pivoting to develop a lite version of its deal-management platform to offer for free, and…
Rocket Matter to Stage ‘Rocket Aid,’ A Charitable Virtual Conference for Lawyers
As countless face-to-face legal conferences have been cancelled or postponed, the legal practice management company Rocket Matter has unveiled plans to hold a two-day virtual conference, with all proceeds going to charities to help people impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
Rocket Matter says the conference, which is dubbed Rocket Aid, will include online…
Notable Hire: Allegory Founder Alma Asay Joins Litera
The news just keeps coming from document-automation company Litera in recent days. After last week’s announcements of its acquisition of Best Authority and roll-out of a free version of its deal-management platform, it is today announcing a notable hire.
Alma Asay, the founder and CEO of the cloud-based litigation management platform…
LawToolBox Offer Combines Free Access and Onboarding to Help Firms Manage Matters in Microsoft Teams
As legal technology companies step up to the plate and offer free products and services to help the legal community get through this time of crisis, LawToolBox is extending an offer that can help get firms up and running on effectively managing all their matters through Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Teams.
LawToolBox is…
In Response to COVID-19 Crisis, PacerPro Offers Three Months Free Access
PacerPro, a company that provides automated distribution of federal court filings, said today that it is offering three months of free access to its service, as a way of helping legal professionals transition to remote work.
PacerPro’s service automatically sends notices of new filings, together with their associate PDFs, to everyone on a litigation…
Litera Acquires Best Authority, Industry-Leading Table-of-Authorities Tool
The document technology company Litera has acquired Best Authority, which is possibly the leading standalone product among legal professionals for generating tables of authorities in legal briefs.
Best Authority, developed by Levit & James Inc., is in use at over 90% of Am Law 100 law firms has over 1,000 customers in total.…
Top Law Firm Invests $8.2M in Legal Research Company Casetext
Fueled by interest in its new brief-automation product, the legal research company Casetext said today that it has raised $8.2 million in new funding in a round led by “one of the top revenue-generating law firms in the country.” It did not disclose the name of the firm.
Casetext cofounder and CEO Jake Heller…
New Daily Podcast Features Legal Professionals ‘In Seclusion’
As working from home becomes the new normal for legal professionals, a new daily podcast highlights their stories.
Called In Seclusion, the podcast is hosted by Greg Lambert, chief knowledge services officer at Jackson Walker and better know to many as a blogger at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog and cohost…
Free Legal Tool Helps Businesses Create Key COVID-19 Employment Policies
As many businesses across the United States struggle to deal with the employment issues arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, today released a free automated tool to help them develop essential policies on working from home, sick leave, and other critical…
Litera Offers Free Six-Month Access to Lite Version of Litera Transact
As the COVID-19 pandemic has stymied standard ways of closing deals and signing documents, Litera said today it is offering six months of no-cost access to a lite version of its deal-management platform Litera Transact.
In a message sent to Litera customers today, CEO Avaneesh Marwaha said that he is hearing from law…