It was a mighty bold move for the legal technology company Mighty. After seven years in business serving personal injury lawyers, the company recently pivoted to launch Mighty Law, a law firm that directly competes against those PI firms by offering lower fees,…
Clio Gets A New Global Sales Leader, As It Names Former RingCentral VP Jenny Dingus to the Role
The law practice management company Clio has named Jenny Dingus, formerly a top sales executive with RingCentral, as its senior vice president of global sales.
In her new role, Dingus will oversee all facets of Clio’s global sales activities, including business development, closing sales, and solutions for supporting sales. Her focus will…
TCDI Completes Its Acquisition of Aon’s E-Discovery Practice, Expanding Its Reach Into the U.K.
North Carolina-based TCDI, a company that provides e-discovery and cybersecurity software and services, has completed its acquisition of the e-discovery practice of London-based global professional services firm Aon.
The acquisition expands the range of advisory services TCDI offers while also expanding its e-discovery capabilities and geographic reach into the U.K., TCDI says.
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Legaltech Week – Here Are Our Topics for Today’s Live Panel. Join Us!
Every Friday at 3 E.T., the Legaltech Week panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers convenes live to unpack the week’s top stories in tech and innovation.
Here are the stories we plan to discuss today (but others can always come up):…
Law Firm Marketing Software Intaker Now Integrates with the MyCase Practice Management Platform
Intaker, a marketing automation platform for law firms, now integrates with the practice management platform MyCase, so that every lead that comes in to a firm through an Intaker chat is automatically added to MyCase.
Intaker offers a unique chat application that begins and ends each chat session with a video greeting from…
Contract Analytics Company Della Inks Deal with London law firm Mishcon de Reya Following Stint in Mishcon’s MDR Lab Incubator
The AI-driven contract analytics startup Della and the London-based international law firm Mishcon de Reya have entered into a commercial agreement by which Della’s platform will be available to selected legal teams throughout the firm.
The deal comes after the two-year-old startup graduated in February from Mishcon’s MDR Lab, a 12-week program…
Litigation Analytics Company Gavelytics is Shutting Down Tomorrow
The hardest stories I have to report are the ones about legal tech startups that are forced to shut down. Today brings news that Gavelytics, a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow.
I first wrote about Gavelytics on the day that its product publicly launched, Sept. 26, 2017, and…
LexisNexis Parent RELX Quietly Launches Legal Research Service for Bar Associations and Small Firms
A new legal research service has quietly launched, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms, but what is not obvious from the service’s website is that the company behind it was formed as a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis.
Search through the website of the new service, which is called
LawNext Podcast: Thine Founder Sang Lee on How Algorithm-based Assessments Help Law Firms Make Better and Less-Biased Hiring Decisions
Sang Lee believes that algorithm-based assessments can help law firms make better, more ethical and less-biased decisions when hiring associates and laterals. The SaaS company she founded in 2019, Thine, leverages custom hiring algorithms and industrial and organizational (IO) psychology to create assessments that it says can reduce inconsistencies in how law…
In Bid to Disrupt PI, Legal Tech Company Pivots, Launches Legal Service to Compete with the Very Firms It Has Long Served
For the last seven years, Mighty has been a legal technology company operating a portal that helps personal injury law firms interface more seamlessly with the lienholders, such as medical providers, who have claims against their clients’ recoveries.
But as of today, Mighty is making a mighty big pivot, directly competing against those personal…
Newly Launched Huski Uses AI-Powered Image Recognition to Help IP Lawyers Protect Clients’ Trademarks
One impact of the pandemic has been a surge in new business startups, and that has meant a corollary surge in trademark applications. In the first year of the pandemic, trademark applications rose by a third, to 659,000 from the previous all-time high of 495,000 in 2019. So far this year, the U.S.…
How It Works: ImageRights for Law Firms, Helping Lawyers Protect Clients’ Copyrights
In the latest installment in our continuing video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of ImageRights for Law Firms, a recently launched technology that enables attorneys to directly track use of their own clients’ copyrighted works and then compile and assess any resulting infringement claims through the ImageRights’ cloud-based platform.
With automated evidence…