Bob Ambrogi

With four different legal tech companies announcing executive appointments over the last week, including two to top sales spots, the timing leads me to wonder whether this is because companies are staffing up for the Legalweek conference that is just around the corner. Whatever the reason, here is a roundup of the newest additions…

Centerbase, a company that provides a cloud legal practice management platform for mid-sized law firms, today announced the beta launch of native document management, integrated directly within its platform. Leveraging Microsoft SharePoint as the underlying technology, it allows users to create, share, store and manage documents without leaving the platform. 

“Until now, best-in-class document…

In 2013, when Florida lawyer TJ Fraser set out to find a law practice management solution for his firm, he tested just about every product on the market, he says, but he could not find one that solved the problems he encountered in his day-to-day practice. So, rather than keep looking, he…

Epiq, the global, technology-enabled legal services company, is today launching an antitrust and white-collar compliance product that uses artificial intelligence to help corporate legal departments identify, measure and act on risk within their organizations in real time.

The product, Regulatory Risk Insights, uses AI and substantive expertise to identify intelligence about communications that may…

The cloud e-discovery company Casepoint said today that it has signed a multi-year contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), in a move that includes large-scale migration of ICE’s data from its current e-discovery provider Relativity.

In announcing the deal, Casepoint, whose…

If you are hungry to learn more about the latest trends and developments in legal tech, then keep the last week of January open on your calendar, as there are three separate legal tech conferences worthy of your time.

Legalweek is the OG of legal tech conferences. Long called Legaltech…

Last Friday was Legaltech Week’s year-end show, in which our panel of journalists and bloggers picked the year’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.

So what were the top stories? Well, if you missed it, no worries. Here’s the video:

By the way, the show is live every Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern…

With the new year came a new reporting requirement for many companies in the United States. The new requirement, which came about as part of the federal Corporate Transparency Act of 2021, means that many companies will have to report information about their beneficial owners — the individuals who ultimately control the company.

To help…

What are the nuances of driving innovation within a law firm or legal department? For an inside perspective on that question, we speak with Rachel Dooley, who at the time of this recording was chief innovation officer at the law firm Goodwin Procter and who is now…

In a marriage of pro bono platforms, Paladin, a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, has acquired Pro Bono Manager, a product developed by Pro Bono Net to enable large law firms to manage and measure their pro bono programs.

This is the first acquisition for…

Redlining is the bane of contract negotiations. The back-and-forth between the parties can drag on and on as they seek to arrive at language on which they both can agree.

Even before the advent of generative AI, several contracts technology products sought to streamline this process — most typically by comparing a draft received from…

Remember Pan Am? It was the world’s largest international airline for much of the 20th century and an innovative pioneer in the modern airline industry. But when its management failed to appreciate the dramatic changes underway in the industry, it suffered a series of economic blows, and management’s last-ditch efforts to save it came…