God forbid a disaster had befallen Austin, Texas, last week, because it could have set back the evolution of legal tech by at least a decade. Assembled there were many of the best and the brightest of the legal tech world, who had all come together for the fourth edition of what has become the…

Applications are now open for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, a competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference.

Out of all the entries received, 15 startups…

Callidus Legal AI has rebranded to StrongSuit and launched a significantly upgraded legal research platform that includes automated case validation — what lawyers traditionally call “shepardizing” — marking the company’s evolution from a legal AI tool into what it describes as an end-to-end litigation platform.

The San Francisco-based company’s new platform automatically verifies that…

Harbor, the Chicago-based legal technology and consulting firm, continues its string of recent acquisitions with the addition of Encoretech, a specialized training and user adoption services company focused on the legal sector.

The deal marks Harbor’s first acquisition since receiving a majority investment from private equity firm BayPine in June and represents the…

What does McDonald’s real estate strategy have to do with legal tech? More than you might think, says Ken Crutchfield.

In the wake of Robin AI’s recent struggles to secure funding and reports of potential emergency acquisition talks, Crutchfield draws a compelling parallel to Ray Kroc’s revelation in The Founder that McDonald’s wasn’t really in…

Epiq announced today the sale of its Global Business Transformation Solutions (GBTS) division to K2 Services, a managed services provider. The transaction positions Epiq to concentrate more intensively on technology-enabled legal solutions while significantly expanding K2’s operational footprint in the professional services sector.

The deal is part of a broader strategic move by…

Legal technology company Clio has completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, marking the conclusion of the largest deal in legal tech history, and has simultaneously closed a $500 million Series G funding round, along with a $350 million debt facility, valuing the combined company at $5 billion, and clearing the way to…

The legal AI platform Alexi has launched what it is calling the most comprehensive AI workflow library on the market, designed to help law firms move beyond risky AI experimentation toward reliable, scalable automation of legal work.

The Toronto-based company introduced the Workflow Library in September, describing it as a solution developed for firms…

The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) today announced a major expansion and restructuring of its board of directors, expanding it from nine to 16 members, the largest increase in the organization’s 10-year history.

In a significant policy shift for the organization, CLOC is formally adding legal technology and service providers to its board for…

Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, has brought on two experienced legal tech executives to help it continue to scale its litigation support business beyond its core court reporting roots.

The Los Angeles-based company announced today that it has hired Adam Camras as general manager and senior vice…

If content is the raw material of generative AI, it only makes sense that an AI-driven contract automation platform would want to acquire the world’s largest database of contracts and clauses. That is exactly what happened recently when SimpleDocs, a company with an AI contract drafting, redlining and review platform, acquired…