At ILTACON today, BigHand, a company that provides operational and financial products for law firms, said that it has acquired Digitory Legal, whose platform provides cost analytics designed to help law firms and in-house legal departments better price their services and manage their costs.
Digitory says its analytics “unlocks information below the surface of the…
In a move to become the leading provider of business intelligence, financial and operational analytics for larger law firms, BigHand has acquired Iridium Technology, creating a combined organization with more than 3,600 customers worldwide — including some 81% of the Am Law 200 — and more than 350 employees.
With BigHand already a…
Last week may have been the first-ever virtual annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, but just like past years’ face-to-face ILTACONs, this year’s ILTA>ON was the occasion for a flood of major news announcements from legal technology companies.
And given my own perfect storm last week of spending three hours a…
Two weeks ago, I wrote here about a poll of legal administrators on the impact of COVID-19 on law firms, summarizing the findings with the words of novelist Thomas Wolfe, “You can’t go home again.”
I noted then that those who conducted the poll planned to publish a white paper providing more details from…
“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,…
I have to confess that I have been surprised by the ease with which many large law firms transitioned to working from home. In various contexts over the past few months, I have spoken with law firm leaders who described transitions that were fairly seamless and that were pulled off within a relatively short time…
When Am Law 200 law firm Baker Donelson decided to implement the legal workflow application BigHand Now, it planned to roll it out gradually in stages, starting with its headquarters in Nashville.
Then came the coronavirus crisis.
As it became clear to the firm that the pandemic would require its attorneys and staff…
BigHand, a company that started with a focus on digital dictation and voice productivity and has expanded to a range of products for the legal sector, has acquired PayneGroup, a company that develops productivity software and provides training and consulting services for the legal industry.
Donna Payne, a legal technology veteran who…
Last week, I attended ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I met with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. Yesterday, I posted the first of a four-part roundup of those companies. Here is part 2. More tomorrow.
Every year…
This is one in a series of brief posts rounding up what I saw and heard at LegalTech New York.
Last year I reviewed the digital dictation system BigHand. As I noted then, the company describes its product as “voice productivity and workflow” software. It provides not…
Last week brought news that BigHand Inc., a provider of voice productivity and workflow software, had acquired Esquire Innovations Inc., a maker of legal document automation and productivity tools used to create, format and compare documents and remove and manage document metadata. For me, that news…
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