In the history of the United States, there are many dark chapters. One remembered at this time of year is the witch hysteria that overtook Salem, Mass., in 1692 and 1693, leading to the convictions and hangings of 19 accused witches – 14 women and five men.
As it turns out, one of the women…
Well, I was going to write about this on Monday, as I’d been briefed under an embargo that was to lift then, but Jean O’Grady let the cat — or should I say cheetah — out of the bag in a post at her blog, Dewey B Strategic.
The news is that Wolters…
ECFX Notice, a company that automates the processing of electronic court filing notices, has added support for courts in five additional states: state courts in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Wisconsin, and a specialty court in Illinois.
The company’s technology automatically downloads the documents in a court notice, distributes the notices and documents to the…
In an initiative intended to provide better access to and visibility for the insights and commentary published on legal blogs, LexBlog, a company that provides professional blogs and turnkey digital publishing solutions for law firms and legal organizations, has launched the Open Legal Blog Archive.
The archive aims to be a centralized database…
The plot thickens in the ongoing copyright lawsuit by Thomson Reuters against ROSS Intelligence, as lawyers for TR have now subpoenaed documents from two companies not previously mentioned in the case, Fastcase, the legal research and publishing company, and Morae Global Corporation, a company that provides legal and compliance solutions to legal departments and…
Trellis Research, an AI-powered state court research and analytics platform, has raised $14.1 million in a Series A round that it will use to expand its coverage into additional states and its customer base into additional industries.
Launched in 2018 as a judicial analytics platform for California state…
This marks the 20th year in business for Nextpoint, and it is shaping up to be a momentous one for the Chicago-based e-discovery and case preparation company. Having been bootstrapped since its founding, Nextpoint recently closed its first round of outside financing. Having never made an acquisition,…
Integreon, the global managed services and alternative legal services provider, has appointed legal industry veteran Gabriel Buigas as executive vice president and head of its Contracts, Compliance, and Commercial (CCC) Services business unit.
Buigas, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has worked in the legal industry as an attorney and business executive for 25 years.…
The Clio Cloud Conference is always the occasion for the law practice management company to announce new and enhanced products, and today’s kick-off of this year’s event was no different, with CEO Jack Newton unveiling what he described to me as the most important product release since Clio’s debut 13 years ago.…
Law Street Media, the legal news service owned by Fastcase, is adding coverage of mergers, acquisitions and financings, using data and documents provided by Matterhorn Transactions, a company that provides comprehensive databases, analyses, and reports of publicly filed transactional information.
This adds transactional news to Law Street Media’s existing litigation-focused coverage of technology,…
Despite its name, Judicial Brief Analysis, an enhancement introduced today to the Lexis+ legal research platform from LexisNexis, is targeted at lawyers, enabling them to analyze up to six briefs at a time and receive a report comparing all case law, arguments, citations and quotes.
The product’s name is meant to suggest that it…
Some lawyers will tell you that there is no greater nuisance in their daily work than recording their billable time. For those lawyers, salvation has arrived, and its name is Apollo.
Apollo is a new AI-driven software product being released today by ZERO, a company whose flagship product automatically captures billable time spent on emails…
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