Bob Ambrogi

Timing is everything, it is said, and so it was either ironic or fateful that Maptician — developed as a hoteling platform to help law firms and businesses manage office space — launched in 2019, just before the pandemic and a period in which offices once bustling with people turned into downtown ghost…

Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal, a project management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the legal market.

The acquisition builds on the company’s launch last year of Bloomberg Law Contract Solutions, an AI-powered solution for…

I realized today that my LawNext podcast recently hit a milestone — its 25oth episode. In fact, with the latest episode posted this week, we are up to 254 episodes.

All 254 are shown in the image above or on this live-with-links episode gallery.

When I started LawNext in 2018, I was no…

With the goal of making legal scholarship freely available outside of “proprietary and predatory frameworks,” Yale Law School has launched Law Archive, a free and open archive for publishing legal scholarship.

Developed by Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library and the Center for…

With the tagline “Making Knowledge Work,” the document management company iManage is enormously successful within the legal industry, with more than 4,000 customers across six continents, including 80% of the Am Law 100 and more than 40% of Fortune 100 companies. Just last year, it

It is only Wednesday, but already this week has brought news of four notable investment deals in legal tech.

Luminance, a UK-based company that uses artificial intelligence to automate the generation, negotiation and analysis of contracts, and whose product is also used for e-discovery, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding…

In news that is perhaps an indicator of the legal industry’s interest in generative AI, the document management company NetDocuments said today that its launch of PatternBuilder MAX AI was its “most successful product launch by a factor of 10.”

From the product’s initial launch in October to early last month, the product…

As a cloud-based CRM and marketing platform for law firms, Lawmatics has always featured a standard dashboard where users can get an at-a-glance overview of their activity and metrics. But now, the company has introduced custom dashboards, enabling firms to create their own unique dashboards showing the precise data they wish to track. 

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A new tool from the litigation analytics company Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, allows attorneys to view visual maps of a party’s litigation history in order to help illuminate the party’s relationships and litigation trends that might not otherwise be obvious but that could be a factor in crafting a litigation strategy…

A remote-controlled race car that redlines documents? A slingshot for launching litigation? A “Yes, But …” button for testing out your legal theories?

These are just some of the products available through the new online store LawLawLand, launched by the contract management company SpotDraft.

While oriented towards inhouse legal teams, the products could…

In Los Angeles, the legal services organization Bet Tzedek has long run regular in-person legal clinics designed to help self-represented individuals better understand and navigate the sometimes complex process of conservatorship, by which a court appoints a person to manage the personal and financial affairs of someone who cannot make decisions for themself because…

I am speaking tomorrow on a CLE webinar on the state of legal technology, but the last day to register is today at 3 p.m. ET.

In a program presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, I am joining Damian Turco, MBA president and former chair of the MBA’s Law Practice Management Section, to discuss…