I spent last week at ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association. With nearly 3,000 attendees, it was the third largest ILTACON ever – a particularly significant stat given that we have yet to fully emerge from three years in the grips of the global pandemic.
ILTACON is an opportunity for legal…
Relativity, the global e-discovery and compliance technology company, said today that it has acquired Heretik, an AI contract review company whose product was built on the Relativity platform and whose staff is half composed of former Relativity employees.
Moving forward, Heretik’s end-to-end contract review product will be known as Relativity Contracts. It…
MerusCase, a law practice management software tailored for workers’ compensation, employment and labor, and insurance defense firms, today introduced MerusPay, an e-payments feature built natively in the MerusCase platform.
MerusCase says this native online payments capability enables users to now compliantly process payments without the need for additional third-party applications.
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At ILTACON today, BigHand, a company that provides operational and financial products for law firms, said that it has acquired Digitory Legal, whose platform provides cost analytics designed to help law firms and in-house legal departments better price their services and manage their costs.
Digitory says its analytics “unlocks information below the surface of the…
LegalEase Solutions, a company that provides customized legal solutions for corporations, in-house legal departments and law firms, has acquired the contract lifecycle management (CLM) consulting firm CLM Gurus, along with key executives and staff.
LegalEase says that the acquisition adds senior talent and experience for its end-to-end CLM implementation offerings, which encompass selection, requirement scoping,…
Today kicks off the first full day of ILTACON22, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Already, the day has brought a slew of news announcements from legal technology companies.
Here is a roundup of news announced this morning.
DISCO Joins the LexFusion Go-to-Market Collective As Its E-Discovery ProviderThe e-discovery company…
Tangibly, a trade secret management platform, has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed financing, with participation from WS Investment Company (law firm Wilson Sonsini’s venture arm), Madrona Venture Group, and a number of seed funds, influential founders and angel investors.
Others who invested in this round are Brainstorm Ventures, Incisive Ventures, PatentVest (an IP…
Last November, the document management company NetDocuments acquired Afterpattern, a no-code toolkit that law firms and legal teams can use to build apps and automate legal documents and workflows, promising at the time that it would be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform.
Today, that promise comes to fruition, as NetDocuments releases…
After attending the 2019 Clio Cloud Conference, I wrote a post describing the experience as like “a cult of innovation.” I meant that in the most-positive sense possible.
“Within the context of a profession known for its resistance to change,” I wrote, “having 2,000 people together at one time who share a great devotion…
I have written twice before about Map Engine, an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data — first when it launched in 2021 and again earlier this year when it expanded its selection of maps to cover…
In the world of legal technology, perhaps no company looms larger than Thomson Reuters, whose products such as Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Findlaw, 3E and many others span virtually every aspect of law practice and are used by legal professionals throughout the world.
Our guest this week, Kriti Sharma, is chief product officer, legal…
Less than a week after announcing its acquisition of BigSquare, a provider of financial and business intelligence and analytics for law firms, legal technology company Litera today announced another — of Micron Systems Inc., a developer of talent management software for the legal and accounting professions.
If you’re counting, this is Litera’s…
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