As the global pandemic has forced lawyers and clients into working from home, many law firms have realized that standard ways of closing deals and signing documents are no longer viable.
That point was driven home recently when Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, said that its U.S. real estate practice would now use
SirionLabs, developer of AI-powered enterprise contract lifecycle management technology, said yesterday it has raised $44 million in a Series C round, bringing its total capital raised to date to $66 million.
Yesterday, I reported on three other contract review and management companies that had financing rounds totalling $26 million, so this brings to $92
Last week, we tried an experiment — a live video panel of leading legaltech journalists coming together for an open, roundtable discussion of the week in review.
The experiment worked well in that we had a fairly robust discussion of the week’s top legaltech stories in front of a live webinar audience.
It would have
For my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV, tomorrow I will interview Judy Perry Martinez, the president of the American Bar Association.
Our conversation will be streamed live tomorrow, May 14, at 9:30 a.m. CDT / 3:30 p.m. BST at Litera TV.
A lawyer who has made public service a part
We may all be working from home, but that doesn’t mean investment money isn’t flowing into legaltech — and particularly into legaltech for commercial contracts. This week, three companies, all providers of technology for contract review or management, announced financing rounds, raising a total of $26 million among them.
The largest of
Today I am pleased to introduce something new for this blog: The LawSites Resource Center.
The Resource Center is a library of free downloadable content that will include white papers, webinars, product guides, case studies, industry analysis and more, all provided by experts and vendors within the legal industry.
(The Resources link in the
It seems that Zoom has become the go-to video conferencing platform for all sorts of uses, and that extends to conducting online depositions and mediations. But why use generic video conferencing software for depositions when there is a product specifically designed for that purpose?
Recently, I was given a demonstration of vTestify, a cloud-based
As some states begin to loosen stay-at-home restrictions and allow certain businesses to reopen, and other states prepare to do so, employers face a difficult balancing act between reopening their workplaces and ensuring the safety of their employees and customers.
In the early days of the pandemic, I wrote about the launch of a tool
Virtually overnight, COVID-19 changed the landscape for law firms and how they serve clients. While some firms were caught unprepared – struggling to adapt to a remote work environment and lacking the technologies and procedures to ensure seamless client service and team performance – other firms made the pivot quickly. What gave these successful
Starting today is a free, week-long virtual bankruptcy summit designed for attorneys who would like to transition their practices into bankruptcy law as well as for current practitioners who want to take a deeper dive into specific types of cases.
Called Bankruptcy Week, the five-day program is presented by NextChapter, the cloud-based bankruptcy
