Earlier this month, the law firm K&L Gates, one of the world’s largest firms, was honored as Law Firm of the Year in this year’s The Changing Lawyer Awards presented by the legal technology company Litera. The award is presented to the law firm that has most successfully reimagined the way it serves…
Discovery Company DISCO Raises $60M, Aiming To Become the Salesforce Of Law
The Austin, Tex., based discovery company DISCO said today that it has raised a $60 million equity financing, at a valuation for the company of $785 million, and bringing total investment in the company to $195 million.
The investment makes the company the market leader in cloud-based discovery technology, it…
BlackBoiler Raises $3.2M To Further Develop Its Automated Contract Review Technology
BlackBoiler, a company whose AI-based technology automatically marks up draft contract language, said today that it has secured $3.2 million in funding from a group of strategic investors that includes agreement cloud company DocuSign and a lead investor whose identity was not disclosed.
Daniel Broderick, cofounder and CEO of the Arlington, Va.,…
Clio Announces Multiple New Features During Its Clio Cloud Conference
During his keynote address opening his company’s Clio Cloud Conference today, cofounder and CEO Jack Newton announced a number of new products and features tied to its core law practice management products Clio Manage and Clio Grow.
Google My Business integration. Clio now integrates with Google My Business, a service that enables clients who…
Clio’s Latest Legal Trends Report Finds A Landscape Forever Changed By COVID
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,…
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…