LawSites

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A legal industry report released today by the sibling legal technology companies LawPay and MyCase provides unique insights into the technology tools that matter most to smaller law firms in the post-pandemic era. Other types of cloud software used by firms: Calendar management software, 44%.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2021

based Intapp , a major provider of cloud-based business applications for larger law firms and financial services firms, filed papers Friday with the U.S. In 2019, KLDiscovery became a public company. ” Its 1,600 customers include 96 of the top 100 law firms and seven of the top eight accounting firms, it says.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai The new product is being built on the NextChapter case management platform, adapted from the NextChapter bankruptcy platform that Fastcase acquired in 2019.

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LawSites

MAY 13, 2021

Ninety-two percent of law firms worldwide say they were completely or somewhat prepared for full-scale remote work at the pandemic’s onset, a survey released this morning finds. Even so, most firms plan to increase their budgets for technology and process software and adopt more cloud-based technologies, the survey reports.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Paradigm , the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePanther , Bill4Time , MerusCase and Headnote — today announced the expansion of its leadership team with the hiring of two executives, one who will oversee product management and the other marketing.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

For 2019, I replaced the year-end list with a decade-end list. If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems?

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LawSites

APRIL 18, 2023

In fact, during 2022’s “Great Resignation,” a third of lawyers who quit their jobs did so to start their own solo practices, according to Legal Trends for Solo Law Firms , a report published today by law practice management company Clio. The bad: Solos struggle to bring in clients to their firms.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report. The challenge for every law firm is to meet the expectations of clients and employees while balancing business objectives in a fluctuating economy.

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Legal Talk Network

OCTOBER 13, 2022

So much had changed since the last in-person conference in San Diego during 2019. In addition to learning better ways to use the Clio Practice Management Platform, particpants had access to a variety of educational sessions designed to make legal practice more profitable, efficient, and enjoyable.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2023

Also last year, the Utah State Bar honored Sudbury with its 2022 Distinguished Service Award and, in 2019, Utah Business Magazine named her its 2019 Woman of the Year. In 2019, she led the successful effort that resulted in the unanimous passage of Utah’s Clean Slate law, which made Utah only the second U.S.

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LawSites

APRIL 9, 2024

Timing is everything, it is said, and so it was either ironic or fateful that Maptician — developed as a hoteling platform to help law firms and businesses manage office space — launched in 2019, just before the pandemic and a period in which offices once bustling with people turned into downtown ghost towns.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

After retiring from FMC in 2014, he went on to work with Valorem Law, one of the earliest law firms to focus on making alternative fee arrangements the norm. Valorem became the progenitor of ElevateNext, the law firm affiliate of the global law company Elevate.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

Solving a Broad Problem: Allocating Lawyers to Matters and Managing Capacity At most large law firms, partners can choose associates to staff their matters. Practice managers struggle to assess availability and capacity. Bill Henderson’s 2019 post reviewing Randall Kiser ’s book. Platform or Consolidation.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Case Status , a mobile client portal and messaging platform with a primary focus on consumer law firms, has raised $5 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding to over $11 million. . million in seed funding in 2020 and $750,000 in funding in 2019. Last January, the company raised $3.5 ”

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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 ZenCase is a platform that allows law firms with advanced workflows to move to the cloud to increase productivity and efficiency.”

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Bessemer Venture Partners , a VC firm that has already made substantial investments in legal technology companies such as Clio, DISCO and Anaqua, has acquired a majority stake in Litify , a law practice management platform founded in 2016 by a team of people who came out of Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiffs’ law firm in the United States.

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LawSites

APRIL 20, 2022

The law practice management company Paradigm has acquired LollyLaw , a cloud-based, all-in-one practice management platform designed for immigration law firms. That was followed by the acquisitions of PracticePanther in 2018, MerusCase in 2019, Headnote in 2020, and TrustBooks this year.

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LawSites

JUNE 22, 2021

Litify , a law firm practice-management technology built on top of the Salesforce.com platform, has acquired another Salesforce-based legal platform, LegalStratus , which provides e-billing and matter management for corporate legal departments and government agencies. Brooklyn, N.Y.-based

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Paradigm , the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePanther , Bill4Time , MerusCase and Headnote — today adds a fifth, as it acquires TrustBooks , the cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms.

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LawSites

JULY 29, 2021

Other investors included Jack Newton , cofounder and CEO of law practice management company Clio ; Lightbank ; Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures ; Gaingels , a network of LGBT investors; Lisa Stone , WestRiver Group managing director and former founder and CEO of BlogHer; and EquityESQ, led by San Diego lawyer and investor Ed Diab.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Paradigm , the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePanther , Bill4Time , MerusCase and Headnote — today announced the expansion of its leadership team with the hiring of two executives, one who will oversee product management and the other marketing.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Founded: 5/10/2019. Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Founded: 11/1/2019. Target customer: Solo and small to mid-size law firms.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Gone are the days when a law firm might only have a secondary income from a related business, such as a title company. Now, law firms and lawyers are moonlighting as business development consultants, app developers, coaches of all kinds, continuing education providers, and fiction and nonfiction authors.

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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2022

Sang Lee believes that algorithm-based assessments can help law firms make better, more ethical and less-biased decisions when hiring associates and laterals. In 2019, she was honored by the Girls Scouts Council of Greater New York as a Woman of Distinction. Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

During the past two years, the pace of tech adoption quickened as firms moved to automate their practices for remote work and virtual practice. We wondered what tools or initiatives small firms might open their wallets for this coming year. I encourage firms to take the time to review all their security protocols.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 17, 2022

Understanding the four stages of the buyer journey can point to ways to improve your marketing, practice management and payment systems. billion people worldwide purchased goods or services online in 2019. Here’s how your law firm can borrow the best from e-commerce and position itself to attract and serve more clients.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

While law firms may have been resistant to accepting online or electronic payments in the past, technology has changed the game. Today’s legal technology offers solutions that make electronic payments secure and convenient while helping firms meet their compliance and ethical obligations.

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LawSites

APRIL 1, 2022

I first wrote about Athennian in 2020, when it stepped out of its stealth development mode to announce an $8 million CAD Series A investment, on top of a previously unannounced $2 million CAD seed financing round in 2019. . Read about Nexl in the LawNext Legal Tech Directory. Fishman founded Jade in Atlanta in 2020.

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Clio

AUGUST 9, 2023

As the legal industry’s most in-depth examination into the state of legal practice, the Legal Trends Report brings together critical insights about law firm performance. It also sheds light on the forces shaping legal practices. This report defines mid-sized law firms as those with 21 or more employees.

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Clio

AUGUST 9, 2023

As the legal industry’s most in-depth examination into the state of legal practice, the Legal Trends Report brings together critical insights about law firm performance. It also sheds light on the forces shaping legal practices. This report defines mid-sized law firms as those with 21 or more employees.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Also among the top 15 were two episodes relating to enhancing diversity in law. You can also check out the most popular episodes of 2020 and of 2019. How An Idea Borrowed from Football Is Driving Law Firm Diversity, with Lisa Kirby of Diversity Lab. How One Company Aims to Change the Paradigm for Law Practice Management.

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LexCloud.ca

JUNE 15, 2021

Chantal Desloges Founder & Senior Partner Desloges Law Group Citizenship & Immigration Law 8 Professionals, 14 staff Toronto, Ontario In the fall of 2019 Desloges Law Group, a successful immigration firm, reached out to LexCloud.ca to support their move to a new office in downtown Toronto. “As

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What with COVID, the economy and the day-to-challenges of practicing law and managing a firm, it’s been a tough three years. Yet despite it all, smaller law firms have a bullish outlook on their future prospects — and with good reason. 2019 Survey. So says the 2022 State of U.S. 2020 Survey. .

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Anne Haag (@CBA_LPMT) is a Practice Management Advisor at the Chicago Bar Association. Anne worked as a patent paralegal at a Chicago IP firm before arriving at the CBA in 2017 as the Law Practice Management and Technology department’s trainer/coordinator. Most conferencing challenges are not that scary.

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LawSites

APRIL 10, 2023

With the news last week of the merger of legal research companies Fastcase and vLex , it seemed a good time to revisit our 2019 interview with the founders of Fastcase, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal. How do their predictions in 2019 stand up in 2023? Well, you’ll have to listen to find out the answer to that.

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LawNext podcast

JUNE 27, 2022

Sang Lee believes that algorithm-based assessments can help law firms make better, more ethical and less-biased decisions when hiring associates and laterals. Paradigm , home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time , and MerusCase , and e-payments platform Headnote.

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LawNext podcast

APRIL 8, 2024

Timing is everything, it is said, and so it was either ironic or fateful that Maptician , developed as a hoteling platform to help law firms and businesses manage office space, launched in 2019, just before the pandemic and period in which offices once bustling with people turned into downtown ghost towns.

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