Not surprisingly given the economy, a survey of inhouse legal professionals finds that companies are slowing down or freezing hiring, reducing outside counsel spending, and conducting layoffs.
To help counter these cuts and reduce their workloads, legal departments are increasingly bullish on leveraging legal technology, the survey finds.
The survey by contract management company…
Choosing technology for your solo or small law firm can feel like a daunting task. Fortunately, it’s not as difficult as it might seem, as long as you have a plan that helps you choose the technology your firm needs and sufficiently vet the products and providers.
So says Nicole Black, nationally recognized author,…
PacerPro, a company that provides federal court data automation and experience capture for law firms, today launched a service focused on state court data, StatePro, offering access to 32 state courts initially and more to be added throughout this year and next.
In addition, PacerPro has named Noah Aron, an expert in electronic…
The global e-discovery and compliance technology company Relativity today named a new chief executive officer, Phil Saunders, who was most recently CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. He succeeds Mike Gamson, who departs after five years as a board member and three years as CEO.
Saunders will become CEO effective Dec. 12, with Gamson…
Earlier this month, the practice management company Filevine announced that, as part of a new document assembly feature, it had developed a proprietary document format, “.vine,” that it said would replace Microsoft Word and Google Docs in the legal industry. (See, Say What? Filevine Introduces Proprietary Document Format to ‘Become the New Standard in…
AffiniPay, the parent company of payments platform LawPay and practice management platform MyCase, today named Catherine Dawson, a lawyer with 20 years of experience in data privacy, cybersecurity and mergers and acquisitions, as its general counsel. The news comes a week after AffiniPay named another woman to its executive suite, marketing…
Last week, the cloud-based content management company NetDocuments was in Denver for its annual three-day Inspire 2022 conference for customers and partners. As it happens, I was there also, where I sat down for an exclusive live interview with the company’s two top executives, Josh…
What with COVID, the economy and the day-to-challenges of practicing law and managing a firm, it’s been a tough three years. Yet despite it all, smaller law firms have a bullish outlook on their future prospects — and with good reason.
So says the 2022 State of U.S. Small Law Firms survey conducted by…
[Editor’s note: This is the introduction to an article published in the free resource directory on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. It is co-authored by Marc Lauritsen and Bart Earle, president and vice president of Capstone Practice Systems.]
HotDocs is one of the oldest and best-known products in a market…
What were the top stories this week in legal tech? Find out when our live Legaltech Week roundtable reconvenes today at 3 p.m. ET, to discuss the latest developments in legal tech and legal innovation.
Among the stories we’re planning to take up:…
You can’t go home again, Thomas Wolfe famously wrote. But legal tech news announced today suggests otherwise.
In an integration between two law practice products, Lawmatics, the legal CRM product founded by Matt Spiegel in 2017, now integrates with MyCase, the law practice management platform that Spiegel originally founded in 2009 and…
Alvin Tedjamulia, a veteran of more than 40 years in legal technology, one of the three cofounders in 1998 of NetDocuments, and a true visionary in bringing the legal industry to the cloud, today announced that he is retiring as NetDocuments’ chief technology officer after 23 years in that role.
Tedjamulia announced the…
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