Atul Dubey has been named senior vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., effective April 1, where he will oversee a range of information and expert products for legal and business compliance professionals.
Dubey steps into the position previously held by Dean Sonderegger, who moved March 1…
Catching up on recent legal tech news, there are four notable deals to report.
Athennian Raises $33MFirst up is Athennian, the Canadian company that offers a cloud-based entity management platform. It announced this week that it has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Centana Growth…
In the early days of legal blogging, April 1 was a day to be wary of. For a time, it was an annual tradition for legal bloggers to attempt to out-prank each other and their readers, publishing serious-seeming posts that were thinly veiled April Fools’ jokes.
By way of illustration, here is a post…
As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, many Ukrainians who are currently in the United States have two options for extending their stays: apply for either Temporary Protected Status or asylum. For either, however, the applications they must complete are complicated to fill out and available only in English.
To help Ukrainians living in…
She has been called the patron saint of solo and small law firms. For two decades, Carolyn Elefant has helped solo and small firm lawyers start and build their law practices. You know her as the creator of MyShingle.com, the longest-running blog on solo and small law firm practice, and she just released the…
Although the majority of U.S. in-house lawyers prefer not to return full-time to their offices, nearly half have done so, in part because their organizations have failed to effectively adopt new technologies that would facilitate hybrid work arrangements.
This is among the findings of a new survey of in-house lawyers commissioned by the contract management…
AltaClaro, a company that has developed a unique experiential training platform for lawyers, has raised a $2.5 million seed preferred financing round to further develop its product and expand its market share.
The financing round was led by Bryce Catalyst, a legal tech fund whose founding partner Cary Burch is the former…
The venture capital market is enjoying its biggest moment since the dot-com days of the late 1990s. Globally, VC deal-making shattered records in 2021.
But certain pockets of the market are driving the current VC ecosystem, and not every aspect of the global startup scene is increasing at the same pace.
Today at 1 p.m.…
LexCheck, a company whose platform provides AI-powered contract negotiation, has raised an additional $5 million of funding, on top of $3 million in seed funding it raised in May 2020.
The New York-based company said the funding would be used to further drive its growth, following a year in which it opened…
It has been a year since I have reported on a state adopting the duty of technology competence for lawyers, but now there is another: Hawaiʻi, bringing the total number of states that have adopted the duty to 40.
Effective Jan. 1, 2022, the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct were amended to revise…
As head of managed services and analytics at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, Jeffrey Solomon oversees a database that tracks over $150 billion in legal spend data. Legal departments are able to use…
Christophe Frèrebeau has a vision of where he wants his company’s artificial intelligence contract review technology to be in 10 years: “Our dream would be to be able to answer a question about a legal document, and answer it like a lawyer would.”
Frèrebeau is the cofounder and CEO of Della, a two-year-old…
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