On Wednesday, I interviewed Kristen Sonday, cofounder and COO of Paladin, a platform that helps legal teams run more efficient pro bono platforms while increasing access to justice, for my Law Insights program on Litera TV.
Among the topics we touched on:…
It was, as far as I can tell, the last holdout among major legal organizations that was still planning an in-person annual conference.
But now the Legal Marketing Association, the organization that represents legal marketing and business development professionals, has bit the bullet and cancelled its live conference and shifted to virtual.
The…
Our Legaltech Week Friday roundtable of legaltech journalists is back again this week, and now it is easier to attend.
I’ve revised the registration page so that when you sign up to attend, you will be registered for each successive week’s roundtable. You’ll also receive an attendance reminder a day before an an hour…
Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from our recently launched LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry.
This week’s featured resource:
Complimentary e-book: Getting Your House in Order: Driving Efficiency in Law Firm Accounting.…
A year ago, the document technology company Litera made a major move into the area of deal-management technology with the acquisitions of two of the leading platforms within a month of each other, first acquiring Workshare Transact in July and then Doxly in August, out of which it created a single product,…
Earlier this year, legal research company Casetext launched Compose, a first-of-its-kind technology product that helps you create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally take.
As I reported at the time, the company touted the product as “poised to disrupt the $437 billion…
“You can’t go home again,” novelist Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, and a recent poll of legal administrators suggests that is undeniably true for law firms in the era of COVID-19.
Of the legal administrators who responded to the poll, 91% believe the changes in working practices brought about by the pandemic, including more remote working,…
Even though the United States has more than 1.3 million lawyers, large swaths of the country have few or no lawyers. In fact, of the country’s 3,100 counties, 54 have not a single lawyer, and another 182 have just one or two lawyers.
This portrait of the nation’s “legal deserts” is part of the
I sat in last week on a powerful panel discussion, “Talking Successfully About Race, Politics & Gender at Work,” in which two law firm executives shared how they and their staffs talk about difficult issues of race and gender.
The two women also shared their own personal stories of vulnerability and empowerment, one of coming…
Aspiring lawyers who take the online Massachusetts bar exam in October will be able to use the results to seek admission in at least seven other jurisdictions.
The Board of Bar Examiners, the entity that oversees the bar exam, said today that it has entered into reciprocity agreements with seven jurisdictions for portability of scores…
If you missed our weekly Legaltech Week panel of journalists yesterday as we tackled another week of legal news, fear not. We have recordings — either the audio podcast above or the full video below.
Among the top stories we discuss this week: fun…
Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from our recently launched LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry.
This week’s featured resource:
Whitepaper: Preparing for the LIBOR Phase Out: Contract Remediation Starts with Contract Intelligence.…
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