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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

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While the last few years have brought an abundance of new and innovative legal tech products to market, the fact of the matter is that not every new product will succeed. Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years. In 2016, legal tech entrepreneur Derek Bluford was riding high.

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Fast Company’s List of World’s 606 Most Innovative Companies Includes Four from Legal Tech

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Fast Company is out with its annual ranking of the world’s most innovative companies , and of the 606 companies that made the list, just four are from legal tech. ” Here are the four legal tech companies that made the list, based on my review. . “They lead their fields and are transforming the world.”

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Calling All Legal Tech Startups: Applications Are Open for the ABA TECHSHOW 2024 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition

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Since the very first Startup Alley in 2017, the legal tech pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW. You were not one of the prior years’ winners selected to present at Startup Alley in 2017-2022. 14-17, 2024.

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On LawNext: Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha: The CEO Who Left Before AI and Returned to Lead Through It

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What happens when a CEO steps away from a legal tech company just before the generative AI revolution explodes, then returns two years later amid a landscape that is being dramatically transformed? As the CEO of Litera from 2016 to 2022, Marwaha led the legal tech company […]

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Harvey AI To Move Out Of Early Access Phase, Release More Affordable Versions Of Its Custom AI Models

Above the Law - Technology

It has been a whirlwind year for the Open AI-backed, generative AI legal tech startup Harvey, which went from a $5 million seed round in November 2022 to a $21 million Series A in April 2023 to an $80 million Series B in December 2023 at a valuation of $715 million. It was a year […]

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Exclusive Analysis: Legal Tech Exits, 2001-2022

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Recently, I posted here an exclusive analysis of legal tech funding from 1984 to 2020, a video timeline showing the evolving bar chart of investments in legal tech over nearly four decades. “This is our third analysis on the return of an investment of a legal tech venture” Blijd told me.

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ABA TechShow 2022: Arguably the Best TechShow Yet

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After nearly two years apart, ABA TechShow 2022 marked a ‘re-introduction’ into the real world as lawyers, legal professionals and legal tech leaders once again gathered together. For many attendees, this year’s legal tech gathering was their first in-person industry conference since before the COVID pandemic began.

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