The pandemic has sent lawyers packing — to makeshift offices in their bedrooms, basements and attics. But what happens when a lawyer’s home office is located outside the state in which the lawyer is licensed to practice? Is it ethical for a lawyer who is licensed in one state to practice from a home office…
ILTA Names Five ‘Influential Women in Legal Tech’ for 2021
The International Legal Technology Association today named five women, from locations ranging from Canada to Kenya, as its 2021 Influential Women in Legal Tech.
The list of influential women, released annually, recognizes five outstanding women leaders in the legal technology community, based on their mentorship history and overarching level of impact on legal…
New API from Wolters Kluwer Enables Embedding of Research on Firm Intranets
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. is today introducing an application programming interface (API) that will enable law firms to search and access treatise content on WK’s Cheetah research platform directly from their internal intranets.
The new search API allows access to WK’s treatise content through a representational state transfer (REST) API framework. It…
LexisNexis Extends Its Context Language Analytics to Cover Attorneys’ Briefs and Motions
Last year, LexisNexis introduced Context, a refinement of an analytics tool originally developed by Ravel Law that analyzes the language of a judge’s opinions to determine the cases and arguments the judge finds most persuasive in deciding specific types of issues. As I reported then, that original launch also included Context for expert…
Thriving in a Post-2020 Workplace: How Lawyers Can Leverage Lessons Learned
The past year has forever shifted how attorneys and firms work. But with unprecedented challenges came new lessons and opportunities.
Featured this week in the LawSites Resource Center is a whitepaper by NetDocuments that addresses the unique challenges that now face the legal industry and how professionals can meet them.
Topics addressed in the whitepaper…
Legaltech Moves: Aderant Names Veteran Product Strategist As Chief Product Officer
Atlanta-based Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Jairam Padmanabhan to the newly created position of chief product officer.
In this new role, Padmanabhan’s primary objective will be to accelerate the company’s worldwide innovation across its entire product suite.
Padmanabhan is a veteran product management leader with…
ILTA Will Hold Live Conference in August
There has been much speculation within the legal industry about when live conferences will return. Now we know.
The International Legal Technology Association said today its annual ILTACON conference in August will be a hybrid event, with both in-person programming and live-streamed educational content and sessions.
The in-person conference will take place in Las…
Evisort, AI Contract Management Platform, Raises $35M Series B
Evisort, an AI-powered contract management platform, today announced a Series B funding round of $35 million, bringing its total funding to $55 million.
The funding round follows a year of four-times revenue growth, the company says.
The round was led by global growth equity investor General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors Amity Ventures,…
Pandemic Hit Solos Most Severely, But Tech Users Fared Better, Clio Study Finds
Solos struggled more significantly than larger law firms in adapting to remote work throughout the pandemic, suffering greater shortfalls in new cases and firm revenue.
But solos who harnessed modern legal technologies fared significantly better during 2020 than those who did not — bringing in $50,000 more in revenue on average — and solos who…
LawNext: Varun Mehta On His Momentous First Year Leading ALSP Factor
In January 2020, Axiom Managed Services, one of two companies spun off in 2019 from alternative legal services provider Axiom, rebranded as Factor, a move the company characterized as a relaunch, and named a new CEO, Varun Mehta, a veteran of the legal tech industry who…
Legaltech Week 2.19.21 – In Which I Play A Drunk Cylon and Molly McDonough Moderates
If you missed Legaltech Week on Friday, here are the audio and video. Thanks to my futile attempt to connect from a remote location in Florida, I come across as a drunk Cylon (thanks Dennis Kennedy) and Molly McDonough steps in to moderate.…