Articles Posted in October, 2020

In recent years, legal research companies have increasingly put an emphasis on providing access to practical content — content such as forms, checklists and practice notes that focuses less on the law in a given area and more on how to get things done. Thomson Reuters has Practical Law, for example, and LexisNexis has Practical…

Gavelytics, a company that launched in 2017 to provide insights on judges through data analytics, has introduced a major expansion of its product, adding analytics on law firms, lawyers and litigants, expanding coverage to 10 states with 20 targeted by December, and adding a searchable database of some six-million litigation briefs.

This new version,…

Priori Legal, a marketplace for in-house legal teams to find and hire outside counsel, is today announcing that it has raised $6.3 million in a Series A financing.

In an exclusive interview on my LawNext podcast, I am joined by the founders of Priori, Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt, to discuss…

In a recent episode of my LawNext podcast, I interviewed the founder of SirionLabs, Ajay Agrawal, about how his company is aiming to disrupt the field of enterprise contract lifecycle management through the use of artificial intelligence technology.

Now, that technology will be available to customers of global managed services provider Integreon,…

Even as many law firms have stubbornly stuck with on-premises software to run their practices, the last few years have seen a decided shift towards the cloud. All indications are that the coronavirus crisis has dramatically accelerated that shift, and surveys, such as Clio’s recent Legal Trends Report, have borne that out.

Now,

EDDCloud, a Los Angeles e-discovery software and services company, is announcing today the change of its corporate name to PLUSnxt, a rebranding intended to reflect the company’s recent technology innovation and rapid growth.

It also announced that it is now a RelativityOne partner and is actively marketing Relativity’s e-discovery cloud technology to its…

The trademark docketing software company Alt Legal kicked off its first conference, Alt Legal Connect, today, with a keynote by founder and CEO Nehal Madhani in which he announced new features for the product and a new partnership to better support international trademark docketing.

During his keynote, Madhani announced the company’s integration with…

Nicole N. Morris is a professor in practice at Emory University School of Law and director of the TI:GER program (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results), an innovative partnership between Emory and Georgia Institute of Technology that brings together graduate students in law, business, science and engineering to work on ways to take innovative ideas from…

We are back today at 3 p.m. ET for our weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, where we discuss and dissect the top news stories of the last week.

It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required. Register once and you’re registered for every subsequent week.

All prior episodes are also available, both as 

Earlier this week, I provided an update on Derek Bluford, the indicted former founder of a legal technology company whose newly published book claims he was an FBI informant.

Now there is more news about Bluford, as the publication New Haven Independent reports on a 2019 dinner Bluford had with Toni Harp, then…

The legal research company Casetext is today introducing an add-in for Microsoft Word that enables legal professionals to use its Compose automated brief-drafting technology directly within documents on their desktops.

The add-in includes all the motions and features available in the online Compose application, including click-to-add arguments and Parallel Search, an AI-driven concept-search…

Derek Bluford, who was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2018 after his legal technology company shut down amid allegations of fraud, forgery and impersonating a lawyer, has resurfaced with a new self-published book in which he says he became an FBI informant assisting in a political corruption investigation into the former mayor of…