Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

There are 49 that I found, and together they offer an overview of how a legal tech startup evolves into a mature company. While its focus has changed over the years, one characteristic has not: From the very start, Casetext was an innovator, always pushing the envelope for what a legal tech product and company should look like.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Stories are increasingly common of lawyers who leave law practice to start legal technology companies, but few achieve the level of success as an entrepreneur of Matt Spiegel. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase , one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And, to be sure, remote-work tech tools are loaded with treats that keep our businesses humming while we work from home. But danger lurks behind certain technology, or the way lawyers and staff might use it. What are some scary things WFH has revealed about lawyers’ tech habits? Be safe out there!

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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LawSites

JULY 28, 2022

Through her lawyer, Shanahan likewise denied the affair, telling the Daily Mail , “Make no mistake, any suggestion that Nicole had an affair with Elon Musk is not only an outright lie but also defamatory.” ” As it happens, Shanahan is the former founder of a legal tech company.

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LawSites

JULY 6, 2021

is a cloud-based case management platform for plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers. Woodpecker, based in Boston and founded in 2017, provides AI-enabled legal document automation software. CASEpeer, founded in 2015 and based in Newport Beach, Calif., Cofounder Darren Fancher was previously CEO.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Matt Spiegel , cofounder and CEO, said Lawmatics aims to change the way lawyers drive business. “Today’s consumer expects a seamless user experience with instant gratification, and the same applies for legal services. For more on investor The Legal Tech Fund, listen to my LawNext interview with cofounder Zach Posner.).

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Artificial Lawyer

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Fuse legal tech / fintech incubator, which is part of A&O Shearman (AOS), is calling for applications to join its latest cohort the ninth since it launched in 2017 in both its London an

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LawSites

JANUARY 29, 2025

To this day, one of my most popular and viral posts ever involved the 2017 launch of LegalBoard, a keyboard designed for lawyers by lawyer Brian Potts, who is now a partner at Husch Blackwell. Hits to that post went through the roof, far exceeding any post Id ever before published. Now, Potts is back, […]

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Xakia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Six years ago, it felt like both a punch to the gut and a direct challenge: “Your product is interesting, but we’ll see if you’re still around in a few years,” commented several attendees as they strolled by Xakia’s little booth at the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting. Lawyers sure are a tough bunch to impress.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Our new software helps lawyers organize their inboxes, track documents and deadlines, and collaborate with colleagues. Lawyers are running matters with email, which is wholly inadequate to meet the complex demands of current workflow.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. We then will move into the institutional space: large trust companies, legal tech (WealthCounsel, Clio, etc.),

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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2021

Asay was a lawyer for more than six years at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher before launching Allegory in 2012 as one of the first cloud-based litigation management platforms. When Allegory was purchased by Integreon Discovery Solutions in 2017, Asay became its chief innovation officer.

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Legal Talk Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This year’s conference featured five tracks to choose from (Legal Technology, Business of Law, Industry Workshops, Clio University, and Clio University Workshops). Along with its standard trappings of data and metrics, this year’s report focused on the client experience while seeking a lawyer for help. It’s happening!

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influential Women in Legal Tech. In 2012, Alma founded her own legal technology company.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Nearly six in 10 lawyers in small firms — which the survey defines as those of 29 lawyers or fewer — say they expect growth over the next 12 months in revenues per lawyer, billable hours, and profits per lawyer. Given this optimism, it should not be surprising that small firm lawyers consider themselves successful.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

But legal tech news announced today suggests otherwise. In an integration between two law practice products, Lawmatics , the legal CRM product founded by Matt Spiegel in 2017, now integrates with MyCase , the law practice management platform that Spiegel originally founded in 2009 and left in 2015.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Our new software helps lawyers organize their inboxes, track documents and deadlines, and collaborate with colleagues. Lawyers are running matters with email, which is wholly inadequate to meet the complex demands of current workflow.

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LawSites

JUNE 29, 2022

The hardest stories I have to report are the ones about legal tech startups that are forced to shut down. Merrill told me at the time of his 2017 launch. Today brings news that Gavelytics , a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow. In 2018, the company raised $3.2 in funding.

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Colin S. Levy

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2023 Caravel Law was Excellence Awardee for LexisNexis Canada Award for Best Use of Technology In a Law Firm, and this year Monica was nominated for Canadian Lawyer most influential lawyer in the changemaker category. Please tell me a bit about your role as Director of Legal Innovation and how you shepherd innovation projects.

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LawSites

JUNE 24, 2022

Schwadron is bothered by lawyers’ billboards proclaiming the huge amounts they got for their clients, knowing that, on average, PI clients receive well less than half the total settlement, with the rest going to legal fees and expenses, medical costs, case costs, and financing costs. A code of conduct for lawyers.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Small Law Firms report from the Thomson Reuters Institute, the survey shows — at long last — some progress among firms of 29 or fewer lawyers. This year, the percentage of time small firm lawyers spend practicing law went up from 56% (where it had stayed for two years) to 61%. This year, that number rose to 72%.

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Ron Friedmann

JUNE 29, 2020

I last blogged about the Law Firms in Transition survey in 2017, here ] Views of GFC-Induced Trends are Stable Question: “Which of the following legal market trends do you think are temporary and which will be permanent? See also the next chart, showing that under 20% of 250+ lawyer firms have a an innovation officer or director.

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LawSites

MARCH 29, 2022

AltaClaro , a company that has developed a unique experiential training platform for lawyers, has raised a $2.5 The financing round was led by Bryce Catalyst , a legal tech fund whose founding partner Cary Burch is the former chief innovation officer of Thomson Reuters. CEO Abdi Shayesteh.

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LawSites

JANUARY 21, 2022

Here are some of the other legal tech stories from the week: Case Status raises $3.5 The company was cofounded in 2017 by lawyer Lauren Sturdivant , who later returned to law practice but remains chairman of the board, and Andy Seavers , who was its CTO before becoming CEO after Sturdivant’s departure.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It began by acquiring Bill4Time in 2017, followed by PracticePanther in 2018, MerusCase in 2019, and Headnote in 2020. In February 2019, ASG merged the two companies to create a unified legal technology business under the name ASG LegalTech, naming as CEO Nettimi, who had taken over as PracticePanther CEO the prior October.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Since the very first Startup Alley in 2017, the legal tech pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW. Your company has never before exhibited at a national legal technology conference. 14-17, 2024.

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LawNext podcast

JUNE 29, 2020

and Kristina Jones founded Court Buddy , a service that matches consumers with vetted lawyers at affordable prices. Achieving success as a legal tech startup is notable in itself, but James and Kristina Jones also were among the few Black founders in an industry with a striking diversity problem. of founders were Black and 3.1%

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2021

Using VR to Train Lawyers. My trip into VR court came courtesy of a new company, JUST , which has developed a VR-powered training program to help lawyers and law students learn courtroom presentation skills. Smith , a Boise, Idaho, personal injury lawyer. The company was founded by William L. Multi-Player Coming Soon.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lawyers tend to use traditional legal analytics products at the front end of a litigation, to help their clients determine whether it is worth investing in going forward with the case, he said. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.” They’re descriptive rather than explanatory. In 2015, they secured $4.3

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 1, 2023

There were two notable moves in the legal tech world announced today, both to newly created positions, as the law f irm Crowell & Moring announced that it has named Alma Asay as its first chief innovation and value officer, and Relativity said that it has named Laurie Usewicz as its first chief partner officer.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The news comes two months after Reynen Court launched an online stock offering to bring on individual lawyers and “legal technology enthusiasts” as investors in the company, on top of some $20 million in venture financing the company had already raised, including a $4.3 Seeking to Simplify Tech Adoption.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Matt Spiegel , cofounder and CEO, said Lawmatics aims to change the way lawyers drive business. “Today’s consumer expects a seamless user experience with instant gratification, and the same applies for legal services. For more on investor The Legal Tech Fund, listen to my LawNext interview with cofounder Zach Posner.).

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Legal Tech Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

LegalOn’s product combines sophisticated AI with detailed legal guidance content , so lawyers can work quickly and stay in control. I’m confident we can help innovative legal teams solve the contract review problem, freeing them to focus on important, strategic work.”

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 12, 2023

For nearly 30 years, from 1989 to 2017, Miller was with inData Corporation, most of those years as its president and CEO. Derek Miller When e-discovery company Ipro acquired inData in 2017, Miller moved there, taking on the role of vice president of product solutions until he left the company in 2021.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In September 2017, venerable Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy launched Fuse , setting aside a portion of its London office for a collaborative innovation space to develop and test new legal technologies, and it named lawyer Shruti Ajitsaria to head the project. It’s a win-win, she says.

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