LawSites

JUNE 6, 2021

For the legal technology industry, where IPOs have been few and far between, the news is significant. Although it is becoming increasingly common for legal technology companies to talk of plans for future IPOs, few have actually completed them. In 2019, KLDiscovery became a public company.

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Law Technology Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Danielle Hall has served as the Executive Director for the Kansas Lawyers Assistance Program since December 2019.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Earlier this month, e-discovery company Everlaw became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. Thank You To Our Sponsors. A reminder that we are on Patreon.

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LawSites

MAY 13, 2021

Published for the fourth consecutive year by Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, the Business of Law and Legal Technology Survey was conducted during August and September 2020. More than half (55%) said they have no plans in the foreseeable future to move practice management to the cloud.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Against that backdrop, here are my picks for the top legal tech trends of 2021. For 2019, I replaced the year-end list with a decade-end list. In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching development, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.). Legal tech went public. The new normal became the endless uncertainty.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2023

Last year, Rasa was selected as the 2022 Access to Justice winner at the American Legal Technology Awards. 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. Last month, Inc.

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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 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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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: They are much more likely than non-solo lawyers to work nights and weekends.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 5, 2022

million in seed funding in 2020 and $750,000 in funding in 2019. Learn more about Case Status in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. It also integrates with a number of practice management platforms. Last January, the company raised $3.5 ”

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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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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance. Brett Burney ( @BBurney ) is Principal of Burney Consultants LLC , an independent legal technology consulting practice.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software has hired Misti Holmes , a 20-year veteran of the legal technology, as its new chief operating officer in the United States. Learn more about LEAP on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Misti is an expert in legal technology.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The legal technology company Clio today announced the expansion of its leadership team, naming four people to C-suite positions as chief operating officer, chief people officer, chief technology officer and chief marketing officer. The new executives are: Ronnie Gurion, chief operating officer.

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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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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

Practice managers struggle to assess availability and capacity. I learned this technique early in my legal career; see my 1990 article Software Makes Decision Analysis Easy ( Legal Technology Newsletter, December 1990; with David Post). Bill Henderson’s 2019 post reviewing Randall Kiser ’s book.

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LawSites

APRIL 27, 2021

The legal technology company Clio this morning announced a Series E investment of $110 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve so-called unicorn status and one of only a small number of legal tech companies overall to achieve that status.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 19, 2024

The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software has hired Misti Holmes , a 20-year veteran of the legal technology, as its new chief operating officer in the United States. Learn more about LEAP on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Misti is an expert in legal technology.

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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. A legal practice management solution allows you to intake clients online and place them directly into your workflow.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 6, 2023

Last year, Rasa was selected as the 2022 Access to Justice winner at the American Legal Technology Awards. 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. Last month, Inc.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Earlier this month, e-discovery company Everlaw became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. Thank You To Our Sponsors. A reminder that we are on Patreon.

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Lawyerist

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

From Helping Clients to Helping Lawyer Clients Jeff Schoenberger never thought of legal technology as its own career path. While attending law school at the University of Virginia School, he was involved with legal clinics helping people with their legal needs. He thought this one-on-one work was what he most enjoyed.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

Brett Burney ( @BBurney ) is Principal of Burney Consultants LLC , an independent legal technology consulting practice. He is also a sought-after trainer and presenter for lawyers who seek to integrate Macs and iPads into their practice. Camille Stell: Collaboration Tools to Get It Done in One Place .

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LawSites

AUGUST 29, 2022

I spent last week at ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association. ILTACON is an opportunity for legal technologists of all ilks – from users to developers to vendors to investors – to come together and learn, share and socialize. In business in the U.K.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

4, 2019, the cloud practice management company Clio announced $250 million funding round -- one of the largest ever for a legal technology company. Shortly after making the announcement during an event in Clio’s Burnaby, B.C.,

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LawNext podcast

AUGUST 27, 2024

In what it says is the first AI agent for law , the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate , an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate would. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 8, 2023

million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners , with participation from Bain Capital Ventures , Behance founder Scott Belsky , and Clio Ventures , the investment arm of legal technology company Clio. One glaring illustration of this is when we observe two cases with similar injuries settle for multiples apart. “We

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LawNext podcast

JUNE 6, 2023

Last year, Rasa was selected as the 2022 Access to Justice winner at the American Legal Technology Awards. 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. Last month, Inc.

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LawNext podcast

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Earlier this month, e-discovery company Everlaw became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The legal technology company Clio today announced the expansion of its leadership team, naming four people to C-suite positions as chief operating officer, chief people officer, chief technology officer and chief marketing officer. The new executives are: Ronnie Gurion, chief operating officer.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Against that backdrop, here are my picks for the top legal tech trends of 2021. For 2019, I replaced the year-end list with a decade-end list. In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching development, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.). Legal tech went public. The new normal became the endless uncertainty.

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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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Legal Tech Monitor

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: They are much more likely than non-solo lawyers to work nights and weekends.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 30, 2021

For Marple, his move to KP Labs comes after 21 years at Liberty Mutual, where, in his most recent role, he led the investigation, testing, and implementation of new technology, processes, and business models to improve how legal professionals work. DeFelice, the company's cofounder and CEO, is a lawyer and technology entrepreneur.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. Founded: 5/10/2019. We apply Natural Language Processing and a semantic knowledge graph to the process that attorneys use to research, analyze and write complex legal documents.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In fact, according to the 2021 Legal Trends Report , the majority of consumers prefer electronic payment methods, with online payments being consumers’ top choice (66%), followed by automated payments (61%) and payments via mobile apps (61%). Research reported in the 2019 Legal Trends Report supports this point.

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