As law firms begin to reopen offices, a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court today issued a statement recommending that they permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception.
Maintaining flexibility in individual working arrangements serves the dual purposes of enhancing lawyer well-being while also advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, the…
In a post here last month, The Lawyers of Substack, I wrote about lawyers who are publishing newsletters on Substack, a platform that has drawn big-name writers for its model that makes it easy to publish and monetize newsletters.
One of the lawyers I wrote about is David Lat, who is well…
A feature launched this week in Westlaw Edge is designed to help legal professionals more easily identify law that is contrary o their opponents’ arguments.
Called Quick Check Contrary Authority Identification, the feature helps find cases that may be helpful in arguing against an opponent’s filing and prioritizes them in search results, according to an…
There is an element of serendipity in the story of Nehal Madhani and his company Alt Legal. Even though he had been an insolvency lawyer who had never practiced trademark law, an early attempt at entrepreneurship — and at registering his own…
The practice management platform PracticePanther today introduced native e-signatures, enabling law firms to send and obtain signatures on documents from directly within the platform, a feature that could both save time for users and streamline tasks such as client intake.
The feature is available free to subscribers to PracticePanther’s Business Plan and requires no…
A panel tomorrow will feature a line-up of legal tech experts to survey what’s happening in the field now and what to expect in the years to come.
Presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, Legal Tech and Where It’s Going will address what legal technology is available now to help lawyers in their practices…
The cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies today announced a strategic investment from the private investment firm Aquiline Capital Partners by which Aquiline will acquire a majority ownership stake in the company.
Existing investor ParkerGale, which acquired a majority stake in the company in 2018, will roll a portion of its stake…
Thomson Reuters is getting into the game of AI-powered contract analysis with the launch today of HighQ Contract Analysis, a contract review tool that uses machine learning to find answers to specific legal questions.
Integrated with HighQ, the collaboration and workflow platform Thomson Reuters acquired in 2019, HighQ Contract Analysis is designed for attorneys…
At a time when corporations face increasing risk for the sensitive data they collect and control, their ability to identify and protect that data is critical. Enabling that is the focus of Text IQ, which uses AI to find and protect sensitive enterprise data for privacy, legal and compliance purposes.
Now, Text IQ has…
COVID was not kind to law firm marketing and business development, with two-thirds of firms reporting that business development was more difficult in 2020, and the overwhelming majority of firms pivoting their marketing strategies, turning from live conferences and face-to-face meetings to social media, email alerts and Zoom.
These are among the findings of the…
In today’s episode of How It Works, we look at the LINK app from Mobile Helix, enabling attorneys to work from anywhere, securely, on their documents, Outlook email, and firm intranet, from a tablet or smartphone.
To introduce the product and demonstrate how it works, I am joined by Seth Hallem, CEO, cofounder…
Yesterday, NetDocuments, the leading cloud-based document management systems used by law firms and corporate legal departments, announced that global private equity firm Warburg Pincus had acquired the stake in the company previously owned by PE firm Clearlake Capital Group. Existing investor Cove Hill Partners retained its stake in the company,…
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