Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

This trend toward the increasing technology in law is echoed by industry analysts. In fact, legal technology is far more accessible and affordable than even two years ago. As a result, nimble small and medium-size firms can level the playing field and increase growth by understanding and leveraging technology.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.

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MAY 24, 2021

One of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. Since acquiring Headnote, it has integrated its e-payments technology into both PracticePanther and Bill4Time, with plans to also add it to MerusCase.

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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. Its total revenues for 2020 were $186.9

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LawSites

JULY 6, 2021

The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public. On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer , a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys. Cofounder Darren Fancher was previously CEO.

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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. “The year 2020 was pivotal for law firms and technology,” Aderant concludes.

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MARCH 19, 2024

InfoTrack may be one of the fastest growing yet least known legal technology companies in the United States. You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process servers, One Legal for California court filing, LawToolBox for court calendaring, and the Legal Talk Network group of legal podcasts.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2021

In fact, even before the pandemic, lawyers were adopting cloud-based legal software at higher rates than ever before. According to the 2020 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, 59% of lawyers surveyed were already already using cloud-based software pre-COVID.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics , a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners. .

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As legal technology has grown in popularity and prominence in recent years, great attention is being paid to investment activity. But the true history of investments in legal technology extends back some four decades and encompasses an array of products far more diverse than one might pick up from current coverage.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Lawmatics , a company whose platform provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, has closed a $10 million Series A financing round, it is announcing today. million seed round in October 2020. The financing follows the San Diego-based company’s raise of a $2.5 ”

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LawNext podcast

JUNE 4, 2025

Marwaha stepped down as CEO in 2022 to become Literas chairman, just before the tidal wave of gen AI swept over legal technology, and then, in a surprising move last October, he returned to the CEO role. Marwaha was formerly on this podcast in 2020: LawNext Episode 68: Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on Growth During A Crisis.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, your firm may have had to make quite a lot of changes quickly to meet the new remote normal. Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 11, 2022

‘Tis the season for legal technology predictions, which are entertaining but seldom useful. Chosen by the subscribers of our flagship TechnoLawyer newsletter , these awards serve as a buyer’s guide and also reflect important trends in legal technology. I explore five in this article.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Way back in 2020, I wrote about how the pandemic had escalated the importance of electronic payments as a feature of law practice management software. More about Actionstep in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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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 16, 2022

In a move sure to shake up the market for practice management software for mid-sized law firms, the cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies has acquired Cole Valley Software , developer of ContactEase, a popular client relations management (CRM) software for law firms. Tom Obermaier.

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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). Some lawyers get good work and others do not. He founded Capacity.

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LawSites

JUNE 13, 2022

In light of that, I reached out to CEOs and executives at several practice management companies for their thoughts on the deal — including on how it may impact their partnerships with LawPay going forward. That meant LawPay had to find a different law practice management provider to build its platform around.

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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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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. She was Co-Chair of the 2020 ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board.

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LawNext podcast

MAY 24, 2021

One of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. Since acquiring Headnote, it has integrated its e-payments technology into both PracticePanther and Bill4Time, with plans to also add it to MerusCase.

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LawSites

JUNE 9, 2022

In a deal that is sure to shake-up the already hyperactive market for law practice management software, AffiniPay , the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay , has acquired the law practice management company MyCase. ” Already, LawPay’s integration within MyCase is live. .

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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. In 2020, Attle launched Clio’s COVID-19 Relief Fund, through which the company donated $1.1

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 25, 2021

We asked a few practice management and technology friends to provide some favorite tips, apps or other sage advice to help you use technology to safely get the most from your summer vacation. If you ever wondered what Rome looks like without all the tourists, his 2020 Empty Rome video is a haunting must-see.

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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. Traction: We have 30+ solo and small law firm subscriptions since coming out of a soft launch in December 2020. Founded: 2/20/2020. Founded: 4/1/2020. Founded: 9/1/2020.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

If queried, most law firms would point to March of 2020 as the point in time that everything changed. To that end, the company has launched its proprietary Abacus Payment Exchange, available across its suite of practice management solutions (more on that momentarily). APX is a unique offering to the legal community in many ways.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That led her to subscription-based legal services, charging her clients a flat monthly fee, and it worked so well for her that she became not just an adopter of the model, but an evangelist – a frequent speaker and writer on starting and scaling a subscription-based law practice.

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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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AUGUST 10, 2021

Zach Posner cofounded The Legaltech Fund in 2020 as the first venture capital firm laser-focused on law and legal technology. Paradigm , home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time , and MerusCase , and e-payments platform Headnote. Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 5, 2024

In the fourth round of interviews of “The Geek in Review” podcast’s mini-series “Love & Legal Tech,” hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer chat with Chris Ford and Nikki Shaver , the dynamic couple behind the Legal Technology Hub. So for our love and legal tech feature we have with us today. Nikki Shaver 1:51 Sure.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics , a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners. .

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 27, 2022

These are the promised benefits of legal tech. When discussing legal tech as an industry, we often focus on horizontal solutions — research, document management, case management, practice management — that apply to law firms regardless of practice area. Field of law: Traffic. Website: turnsignl.com.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

AffiniPay , the parent company of payments platform LawPay and practice management platform MyCase , today named Catherine Dawson , a lawyer with 20 years of experience in data privacy, cybersecurity and mergers and acquisitions, as its general counsel.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Mike Suchsland , a veteran of the legal technology industry and the former president of Thomson Reuters’ legal business, today was named interim CEO of SurePoint , a company that provides practice management, financial and client relationship products for law firms.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Practice management company MyCase has named Arman Samani , an executive with more than two decades’ experience leading product development and innovation at high-growth SaaS companies, as its chief product and technology officer. In September 2020, MyCase was sold for $193 million to private equity firm Apax Partners.

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