Aiming to help law firms capture more client leads and streamline client intake, the law practice management company Smokeball is introducing Smokeball Intake, an intake workflow system integrated within its platform that is intended to provide potential clients with the kind of digital experience they expect from a modern law firm.
The new feature…
In a major win for the law practice management platform CosmoLex, it has entered into an agreement with the 36,000-member Canadian Bar Association to be the CBA’s exclusive preferred practice management software for members.
In a country known for having strict regulatory requirements for legal accounting, the CBA said that CosmoLex “checks all the…
With the legal industry consumed with interest in generative AI and legal tech companies scrambling to incorporate the technology into their products, it was a sure bet that, sooner rather than later, Casetext would come out with a product of its own.
After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural…
Building on its acquisition last year of the contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform Parley Pro, LexisNexis is today announcing the integration of Parley Pro’s CLM capabilities to its cloud-based CounselLink enterprise legal management solution for corporate legal departments.
CounselLink is also today introducing work intake features designed to facilitate the submission and management…
With ABA TECHSHOW beginning Wednesday, you can expect several companies to introduce new products and features this week. First up is the online payments company LawPay, which today is announcing a new product tier, LawPay Pro, that enhances the standard LawPay electronic payments platform with the addition of legal billing features.
The additional…
For many law firms, live chat is a critical link in converting prospective clients to actual clients. While few firms have the capacity to manage live chat themselves, there are a number of companies that provide this service for law firms.
Of course, that begs the question, How do you choose? What should a law…
With revenues last year of some $5.5 billion, the Dutch company Wolters Kluwer is a major global publishing and technology company for professionals in law, health, accounting and compliance. But something that always seemed askew to me about its corporate organization was that its two principal legal product groups, Enterprise Legal Management Solutions (ELM)…
The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.
As I reported here in November, Akin Gump sued…
Kathryn Tewson was a little-known paralegal when, on Jan. 24, she was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. That day, she published a scathing series of tweets recounting her investigation of DoNotPay, the company that describes itself as “the world’s…
There is a saying that once is luck, twice is coincidence, and three times is a pattern. If so, then we now officially have a pattern of legal technology companies rebranding, as it has happened three times in the last three weeks.
The latest to rebrand is AbacusNext, a provider of software for legal and…
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Yesterday, Allen & Overy, one of the world’s largest law firms, announced that it had integrated the legal artificial intelligence product Harvey into its global practice, where it will by used by more than 3,500 lawyers across 43 offices operating in multiple languages.
I wrote about Harvey in November, when the…
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