Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

The Arizona Supreme Court — which in 2020 eliminated the longstanding ban on nonlawyer ownership of law firms — approved Nextpoint’s application to be licensed as an alternative business structure on April 18, 2023. Learn more about Nextpoint at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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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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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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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 29, 2023

The combination of the three companies, Reveal said, will create the first end-to-end e-discovery platform that addresses matters of all sizes and for all legal teams, from solo legal practitioners to the largest enterprise. They were funded by Reveal’s majority shareholder, the software investment firm, K1 Investment Management.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Hg , a global private equity investor, is leading a further majority investment in legal technology company Litera , which it acquired in 2018 from the investment firm K1 Investment Management. Goal-setting software company Objective Manager in July 2021. Firm intelligence company Foundation Software in January 2021.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2021

The software that lawyers relied on to run their firms used to be premise-based, but as reported by Nicole L. Black , in 2021 cloud computing software is the most prevalent. In fact, even before the pandemic, lawyers were adopting cloud-based legal software at higher rates than ever before.

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LawSites

MAY 13, 2021

Even so, most firms plan to increase their budgets for technology and process software and adopt more cloud-based technologies, the survey reports. The survey drew responses from 201 business and legal professionals at firms worldwide, ranging in size from 25 to more than 500 attorneys.

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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

JULY 1, 2022

Read more about Intaker at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Read more about MyCase at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Intaker was a participant in the 2020 Startup Alley at ABA Techshow (which I oversee). (You can see how it works at Intaker’s website.)

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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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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. Here are ideas. Video tools.

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LawSites

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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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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Global LegalTech Hub

MARCH 1, 2021

in the DLT & Crypto-Assets Framework Simona Ramos EU Horizon 2020 MSCA BAnDIT Project: (advanced Blockchain Attacks and Defense Techniques): Grant Agreement 814284* A blockchain is a peer to peer distributed ledger that records transactions between two or more parties in a verifiable and permanent way by storing them into a sequence of blocks.

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LawSites

MAY 16, 2022

The law practice management company MyCase said today that it has acquired Docketwise , a software platform for immigration attorneys that provides case management, immigration forms, and client-relationship management. Last November, MyCase announced another acquisition , of the cloud-based legal accounting company Soluno.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This groundbreaking concept of systemizing and optimizing a firm’s approach to non-hourly pricing through the use of a purpose-built software tool is an incredibly substantial innovation in the legal pricing space. Demo video: [link] Founded: 10/28/2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada Target customer: Solos, small and medium size firms.

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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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LawSites

DECEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round in October 2020. that makes investments of $5 to $15 million in early growth stage B2B software companies. Also participating in the round were Eniac Ventures , Revel Ventures , Interplay Ventures , The Legal Tech Fund , Bridge Investments , and Forefront Venture Partners. .”

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LawSites

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It started as a court reporting agency that also offered non-recourse financing of deposition costs, and then in 2020 launched Steno Connect , its own web-based video conferencing technology specifically built for remote depositions and exhibit handling. Read more about Steno Connect 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. Last January, the company raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital round, and it had previously raised of $1.5

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LawSites

JUNE 1, 2022

Marking its second acquisition this year, the cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies has acquired Coyote Analytics , a company that provides practice management, financial management and business intelligence software for law firms. Coyote’s software is currently installed on premises.

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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. Increased Adoption of Cloud Software. Document management software, 43%. CRM software, 11%.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

The legal technology company Litera has acquired Lynch Marks LLC, a California company that is the developer of PS/Ship , a provider of software for management of shipping and invoicing for law firms and professional services firms. Goal-setting software company Objective Manager in July 2021.

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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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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2022

Out of 65 products named in this year’s awards, just two legal technology products made the cut: Evisort , a company that provides AI-driven contract management for legal, procurement, sales, finance and IT teams; and Onit , a company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments. .

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LawSites

MARCH 30, 2022

This is the case even though the survey corroborated the perception that the pandemic had prompted an uptick in legal departments’ use of technology. More than half of in-house lawyers (54%) agreed that COVID had accelerated the adoption of new legal technology by at least three years.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 16, 2021

Most importantly, you will want to familiarize yourself with the software and test it in advance to understand all of its functionality. However, just like web conferencing software, not all exhibit-sharing tools are created equal. 20, 2020)). Get Used to New File Types. City of Chicago, Case No. 17 C 5859 (N.D.

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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. How we’re unique: Current solutions are built for specific departments but not legal functions. Founded: 2/20/2020. Founded: 4/1/2020. We need your vote! Clause Logic.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But 2020 brought us a combination that proved challenging: working from home while also doing live audio and video broadcasts from there. When changes happened rapidly in 2020, any connection that worked was a good one. How much time did you spend training on your videoconference software? Is someone texting me at this hour?

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

No matter what generation you’re from, no matter how tech savvy you are, no matter which industry you’re in, switching software is challenging. That being said, embracing technology (and technology changes) hasn’t always come naturally to legal professionals. Stats on law firms adopting new technology and benefits .

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LawSites

JULY 25, 2022

Read about Exterro Review and Exterro E-Discovery Data Management on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Leeds Equity’s initial investment in Exterro in 2018 was, at the time, the largest direct investment ever in a legal technology company. Also supporting the deal are a group of leading.

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JUNE 15, 2021

More than three-quarters of those who responded to the survey identified two trends as having the biggest impact on their organizations over the next three years: the increasing importance of legal technology and the increasing volume and complexity of information. Internal collaboration software. Clients Demand Tech.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The 2020 Legal Trends Report affirmed that the average lawyer completes just 2.5 These communication channels include encrypted email and cloud-based software. In addition, paralegals can have an extensive background in a specific practice area or experience working with legal technology. Consider these tips: 1.

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The terms legal assistant and paralegal may be used interchangeably, but the jobs of the contemporary legal assistant and paralegal differ. Moreover, the American Bar Association (ABA) still only changed the definition of paralegal, which specifies that one cannot use the term legal assistant in 2020.

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LawSites

JUNE 13, 2022

Jack Newton is the founder and CEO of the legal technology company Clio , whose products include Clio Manage for practice management and Clio Grow for CRM and client intake. The clear trend, he said, is for software providers to develop their own payments stack. Soumya Nettimi, CEO of Paradigm. Kelley Castell, CEO of ProfitSolv.

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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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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. Further, of those customer firms that do not have LPM software, 40% want to adopt a platform, she said.

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