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Recently, legal technology company SurePoint Technologies acquired the legal practice management company ZenCase in a strategic move aimed at enhancing SurePoint’s practice management offerings for mid-sized law firms. In this episode of LawNext, Eric Thurston, who recently marked…
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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Exterro and Integreon Form Strategic Partnership for Managed E-Discovery Services
Exterro and Integreon today announced a strategic partnership to deliver managed e-discovery and document review services, combining Exterro’s data risk management software with Integreon’s document review expertise.
The partnership aims to provide enterprise customers with an integrated solution for managing e-discovery processes while improving efficiency and reducing costs, the companies said. The partnership…
Expert Services Company Harbor Acquires Marketing Consulting Firm CLIENTSFirst
Harbor, a consulting company that provides expert services to the legal industry in strategy, technology, operations and intelligence, has acquired CLIENTSFirst Consulting, a marketing firm that provides consulting on client relationship management, data quality, e-marketing and other areas.
Harbor said that the addition of the CLIENTSFirst Consulting team will enable it to expand…
Entegrata Raises $4.5M To Further Its Mission To Transform Law Firm Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
With $4.5 million in seed funding to date and the backing of several legal technology veterans, the legal technology company Entegrata aims to transform how law firms integrate and analyze data across disparate business systems in order to drive data-informed decision-making.
The investment in the company, which was made public today, was led by…
Paladin, Building On Acquisition Of Pro Bono Manager, Unveils Analytics Platform for Law Firm Pro Bono
Paladin, a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, is today launching Paladin Insights, a new data analytics platform designed to provide real-time reporting capabilities for pro bono legal teams.
The new platform builds upon technology Paladin acquired when it purchased Pro Bono Manager in December 2023, a product…
AI Adoption Nearly Doubles Among Small Law Firms, According to Smokeball’s 2025 State of Law Report
The adoption of generative artificial intelligence in small law firms has almost doubled over the past year, with 53% of small firms and solo practitioners now integrating gen AI into their workflows, up from 27% in 2023, according to the 2025 State of Law Report released today by law practice management company Smokeball.…
Clio Plants Its Flag In Big Law Land with Acquisition of Enterprise Law Firm Software Provider ShareDo
The motto of law practice management company Clio is to “transform the legal experience for all.” But for many of its 17 years in business, that “all” has focused primarily on smaller law firms and their clients. Last year, Clio expanded that “all” to include mid-sized firms, and, in the wake of its…
How A New Documentary Aims To Raise Public Awareness Of The Access To Justice Crisis (and the Crowdfunding Campaign to Support It)
On this week’s show: LawNext takes you to the movies. Well, to a specific movie, anyway – a documentary being made to raise public awareness and understanding of the access to justice crisis in this country.
Today’s guests are the film’s director, documentary filmmaker Laura Hand, who previously directed The Tent Mender, about…
AffiniPay’s 2025 Legal Industry Report Portrays A Profession At A Technological Crossroads
AffiniPay, the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, including LawPay and MyCase, today released its 2025 Legal Industry Report, based on a survey of over 2,800 legal professionals, primarily in solo and small firms, and it reveals a profession at a critical technological crossroads,…
DeepJudge Introduces AI Workflows, Connecting Gen AI To Enterprise Search of Law Firms’ Internal Data
DeepJudge, developer of an AI-powered search platform for internal law firm data, has launched AI Workflows, a new feature of its product that allows law firms to deploy AI agents and applications across their internal firm data. The feature provides built-in AI workflows and also allows firms to create custom AI applications via a…
Should Courts Use ChatGPT? In This Appellate Opinion, Both The Majority and Dissenting Opinions Did
At a time when some courts are still questioning or even banning the use of generative artificial intelligence, a recent decision from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is notable for the fact that both the majority and dissenting opinions openly discussed their use of ChatGPT in their deliberations.
The decision, issued Feb. 20…
Merlin Launches Alchemy, Its 4th-Generation Document Intelligence Platform For Discovery and Investigations
The e-discovery company Merlin Search Technologies has launched Alchemy, a “document intelligence platform,” driven by generative artificial intelligence, that is designed to transform unstructured data into actionable intelligence for legal teams.
The Alchemy platform succeeds the previous version of Merlin’s platform, which was called DiscoveryPartner, and introduces several architectural innovations aimed at redefining…