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DISCO Cofounder Kiwi Camara Steps Down As CEO; Board Member Scott Hill Is Named Interim Leader

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Hill has served as a member of DISCO’s board since June 2021 and was previously chief financial officer of Intercontinental Exchange. In July 2021, under Camara’s leadership, DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Following Departure of its Founder, E-Discovery Company DISCO Names New CEO

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Since Camara’s departure, Scott Hill , who had been a member of DISCO’s board since 2021, had served as interim CEO while the board searched for a permanent successor. a provider of marketing automation technology and a subsidiary of Adobe Inc. Read more about DISCO in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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E-Discovery Company Nextpoint Raises Growth Capital Investment of Undisclosed Amount

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The firm will provide discovery and litigation legal services to other law firms and to corporate legal departments. Learn more about Nextpoint at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Founded in 2001, the company had been bootstrapped until 2021.

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In A $1B E-Discovery Acquisition Double-Play, Reveal Acquires Both Logikcull and IPRO

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. “From self-service offerings for smaller cases to enterprise-grade solutions for complex legal challenges, Reveal now stands as the go-to partner for automating the practice of law.” ” These acquisitions follow the 2021 merger of Reveal and Brainspace , backed by a $200 million investment by K1.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

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Then, in 2021, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges related to the fraud and forgeries I’d written about in 2016. Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. You can find my full series of posts about Bluford here.)

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Law Librarians Play Central Role In Legal Tech Adoption And Use, AALL ‘State Of The Profession’ Report Shows

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Whether they work in law firms or corporate legal, academia or government, law librarians play a central role in testing, recommending and deploying legal technology, according to the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2023 State of the Profession report, an exhaustive 252-page survey of the legal information landscape.

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In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital

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primary legal research materials, vLex originally partnered with the legal research service Casemaker to obtain U.S. case law and other materials. After Fastcase acquired Casemaker in 2021 , vLex partnered with Fastcase for U.S. primary law. As for Fastcase, it claims to have a subscriber base in the U.S.