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During the Clio Cloud Conference today, practice management company Clio today released its annual Legal Trends Report, based on analysis of data from tens of thousands of legal professionals and surveys of legal professionals and legal consumers, and it shows that the coronavirus crisis has resulted in a decided shift in legal practice,…
Bob Ambrogi
Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.
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Launching Today: A Global Directory of Legaltech Products and Resources
A website launching today aims to be the most complete global directory of commercial legal technology, listing legaltech tools, consultants, jobs, events, awards, resources and more from throughout the world in a single, unified resource.
The site, Legaltech Hub, is the creation of the husband-and-wife team of Nicola Shaver and Chris Ford,…
On LawNext: Rocket Lawyer Founder Charley Moore
In September, Rocket Lawyer became the first national company approved to participate in Utah’s regulatory sandbox, a pilot program for licensing new and alternative forms of legal providers and services. For Charley Moore, who founded Rocket Lawyer in 2008, it was yet another step in his quest to deliver high-value legal services at an affordable…
A Conversation with Goodwin Law’s COO, Winner of Multiple Innovation Awards
Since joining the global law firm Goodwin Procter as chief operating officer in 2014, Michael R. Caplan has racked up multiple awards for reshaping the firm’s business operations and establishing a new model of working with clients that offers them both legal advice and business-consulting services.
Caplan’s recognitions include having been named 2019
Featured on LawSitesResources: Guide to Investigative Research Software
The law doesn’t win cases, facts do.
Those words of wisdom come from Jared Correia, founder and CEO of Red Cave Law Firm Consulting, not to mention a friend and north-of-Boston neighbor of mine.
Jared has written a 24-page guide to performing research into public and private records and using that information to complete…
CASEpeer Integrates with Soluno to Add Cost and Trust Accounting
CASEpeer, a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys, is today launching an integration with the legal accounting software company Soluno that will provide its users access to a full suite of cost and trust accounting tools.
“Our goal was to have the integration between the two platforms be very seamless,” CASEpeer CEO
What to Expect at Next Week’s Clio Cloud Conference
For Clio, the practice management company that helped pioneer cloud computing for legal, it is only fitting that its Clio Cloud Conference be in the cloud, as it will be Oct. 13-16 next week.
But, at the same time, for a company whose physical conference has become known as one of the legal…
New Tech Tool Helps Organizations Achieve Diversity and Inclusion
A technology platform unveiled today is designed to help organizations develop and implement plans to achieve greater diversity, equity and inclusion.
The platform helps organizations assess their diversity and inclusion efforts, create a plan of action, and generate the policies and paperwork they need to move forward.
The platform was developed by SixFifty, the…
The Fourth Private Equity Investment In A Practice Management Company In As Many Weeks
In the span of less than a month, the landscape of law practice management software has been dramatically reshaped, as September brought a spate of three major acquisitions by private equity firms of companies with technology related to the management of smaller law firms.
Now there is another private equity investment to report: Actionstep,…
LawNext Special Report: Legalweek Head Mark Fried Answers Questions about Taking the Conference Virtual
After much speculation about the future of Legalweek – one of the world’s largest and most-anticipated legal technology and legal business conferences – the conference’s organizers announced on Oct. 1 that it will be virtual in 2021.
ALM Media, which produces Legalweek, said the conference will be rebranded as Legalweek(year) and will be extended…
On LawNext: Lex Machina Chairman Josh Becker’s ‘Exit Interview’ from Legal Tech
Sept. 30, 2020, was Josh Becker’s last day in legal tech, at least for the time being, as he pursues his campaign for election to the California state Senate in the district that encompasses Silicon Valley cities such as Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.
Most recently, Becker was chairman of the trailblazing legal…
New ‘Market Standards’ from LexisNexis offers Data-Driven Approach to M&A Research
LexisNexis says a new research tool it is launching today for searching, comparing and analyzing mergers and acquisitions is the most comprehensive and detailed database of publicly filed M&A deals available on the market.
Called Market Standards, it is part of Practical Guidance — the LexisNexis collection of practice-specific forms, clauses, checklists articles and…