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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

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It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “30 Under 30.” LexisNexis Firm Manager. Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years.

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Paradigm, Parent to Three Practice Management Platforms, Acquired By Francisco Partners

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Paradigm — the parent company to practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time and MerusCase and payments platform Headnote — is being acquired by Francisco Partners , a major investment firm that specializes in investments in technology businesses. Hot Market for Practice Management.

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Former PCLaw CEO Olivia Mockel Named President and COO of Practice Management Company ZenCase

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The cloud-based law practice management company ZenCase has named Olivia Mockel , a lawyer and legal technology executive, as its president and chief operating officer. “I am driven to help legal professionals become more efficient through innovative legal technology,” Mockel said in a statement announcing her hire.

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On LawNext Podcast: Lawmatics Founder Matt Spiegel On Automating CRM for Law Firms

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He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase , one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies. In 2012, he sold MyCase to AppFolio , and then left the company in 2015 to start a software company that helped organizations manage trade shows and events.

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Lawmatics Becomes First CRM Product to Integrate with the MyCase Practice Management Platform

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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. But legal tech news announced today suggests otherwise.

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The Week of Jan. 29 Brings Three Legal Tech Conferences, Spanning BigLaw, SmallLaw and A2J

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Long called Legaltech New York, it was renamed Legalweek in 2017 , and is one of the largest, longest-running and most-anticipated conferences focused on legal technology and the business of law, last year drawing over 6,000 attendees and featuring more than 300 speakers. Legalweek, Jan. 1 Legalweek is the OG of legal tech conferences.

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Thomson Reuters Is Shutting Down Its Firm Central Law Practice Management Software

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Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. The Small Law Practice Management market’s very fragmented with many companies funded by private equity competing in this space.