Last week, on the last day of the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, the nationwide organization of law librarians and legal information professionals, Elizabeth Adelman took office as the association’s new president. A key focus of her term will be on increasing the pipeline of those coming into the profession and…
Strategic Recapitalization of ‘Several Hundred Million’ Values Exterro at Over $1 Billion
Exterro, a provider of software for e-discovery, governance, risk and compliance, said today that it has completed a strategic recapitalization and secured additional committed equity capital as part of a continuation vehicle transaction that has provided it with “several hundred million” in new funding at a valuation of more than $1 billion, putting it…
LawNext Podcast: CALI Executive Director John Mayer on Using Tech to Advance Legal Education and Access to Justice
For 28 years, John Mayer has been executive director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, or CALI, a non-profit consortium of some 200 law schools that describes itself as “the innovative force pushing legal education toward change for the better.” Along the way, CALI’s mission expanded to include addressing access…
New SixFifty Product Automates Compliance with All State Data Privacy Laws
SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, is today launching a tool to help companies comply with the patchwork of data privacy laws in the United States by automating the creation of customized compliance documents.
Five U.S. states — California, Colorado, Virginia, Utah, and Connecticut — have passed…
Priori Legal, Marketplace for In-House Legal Teams, Raises $15M to Fuel Growth and Meet Demand
Priori Legal, a marketplace for in-house legal teams to find and hire outside counsel, has closed a $15 million A-1 financing round, it said today.
It will use the funds to scale operations to meet what it described as unprecedented demand for in-house counsel, as well as…
More Information on the ‘Quiet’ Launch of a New Legal Research Service by LexisNexis Parent RELX
Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. One interesting aspect of the launch was that nowhere on the company’s website did it mention that it is a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis.
I now…
Celebrating Four Years of My LawNext Podcast
I am thrilled to report that tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of the launch of my LawNext podcast.
I say thrilled because, at the time I launched it, it felt like a gamble.
At that point, I had been cohosting a very successful podcast for 13 years, Lawyer 2 Lawyer, with my…
Smith.ai, Virtual Receptionist Service, Now Offers Automatic Call Recording and Transcription
Smith.ai, a virtual receptionist service serving law firms and other businesses, now offers recording and transcription of all inbound and outbound calls, giving its customers access to the full conversations that the company handles on their behalves.
Smith.ai says it is the first virtual receptionist service to release call recording and transcription.
For law…
LollyLaw, Platform for Managing Immigration Law Practices, Launches Native E-Payments Feature
LollyLaw, a cloud-based practice management platform designed for immigration lawyers, is today launching a native electronic payments platform, LollyPayments.
The new e-payments capability enables LollyLaw customers to collect and reconcile payments without having to switch between LollyLaw and third-party vendors. It is available to all LollyLaw customers as of today.
The launch of LollyPayments…
Majority of E-Discovery Professionals Use Cloud Software, Survey Says, with Clear Advantages
A majority of e-discovery professionals now use cloud e-discovery software, with cloud software providing clear advantages for easing workflows, lowering costs and reducing common challenges, according to a survey released today by the cloud-based e-discovery company Everlaw in partnership with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS).
The survey, 2022 Ediscovery Innovation…
Fastcase Names the 2022 Fastcase 50, Honoring ‘Innovators, Techies, Visionaries and Leaders’ in Law
If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50, the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”
Today, Fastcase is…
New Judicial Analytics Product Predicts Motion Outcomes with Claimed 86.7% Accuracy
I am a big fan of litigation analytics, even once suggesting that it could be malpractice for a litigator not to use the technology.
There are a number of litigation analytics products on the market, and what they all have in common is that they extract data from court dockets and apply analytics to…