Articles Posted in November, 2021

For all the money being poured into legal technology development these days, woefully little gets spent on technology designed to enhance access to justice for low-income Americans. That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically…

Last Friday was the 19th birthday of this blog, which I founded on Nov. 19, 2002, with this introductory post.

I had recently published the book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, a guide to the then still nascent but rapidly evolving legal web, and wanted…

Earlier this month, e-discovery company Everlaw became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion.…

Today at 3 E.T., join our regular Friday Legaltech Week roundtable, as we discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.

Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you can do here. Register once and you are signed up for all future sessions.

Our lineup changes from week to week, but our…

The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics, a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners. 

The LawLytics platform is an all-in-one website publishing and SEO platform for small law firms. Its founder…

Smith.ai, a virtual receptionist service, today introduced business intelligence tools that enable law firms and other businesses to visualize metadata showing who is calling them, when they call, and what actions were taken with each call.

Users of Smith.ai’s receptionist service will now have access, at no additional cost, to a call dashboard that…

After a two-week hiatus, our Friday Legaltech Week roundtable is back today at 3 p.m. E.T. to discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

The roundtable starts at 3 p.m. ET. Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you can do here. Register…

The legal technology company Litera today announced the winners of The Changing Lawyer awards for 2021, which recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models, or behavior across five different categories.

The awards were announced during The Changing Lawyer…

At its first-ever customer conference today, the practice management company MyCase announced that it has acquired the cloud-based legal accounting company Soluno, and that it will leverage Soluno’s expertise to develop full-featured accounting natively within the MyCase platform.

The company also announced the launch of MyCase Drive, which syncs a lawyer’s documents between…

As text messaging increasingly becomes a preferred form of communication for many, the cloud practice management platform PracticePanther today said it has added built-in, two-way text messaging as a feature available to all customers at no additional cost.

Lawyers can provide the text number to clients for them to ask questions or upload documents…

In the latest installment of How It Works, we learn about Evisort, a leading provider of contract management and AI solutions for legal, procurement, sales, finance, and IT teams.

Joining me to tell us about it is Riley Hawkins, senior director of product. After providing an introduction to Evisort, Hawkins demonstrates how to:…

The legal technology company Clio today announced the expansion of its leadership team, naming four people to C-suite positions as chief operating officer, chief people officer, chief technology officer and chief marketing officer.

“These additions to Clio’s leadership will extend our capabilities on all fronts, including our products, people, operations, in what’s becoming an exciting…