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…
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
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…
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…
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.…
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…
LawVu is a New Zealand company that says it is revolutionizing legal operations by waging war on a multiplicity of point solutions and providing in-house legal teams with the first truly connected platform for matter, contract and spend management.
LawVu recently conducted a…
With its acquisition last week of MyCase, LawPay and its parent company AffiniPay also acquired a new chief sales officer, Steven Silberbach, who formerly led global sales at Clio, and who is a veteran sales leader with significant experience in building revenue, value, and client impact.
Silberbach joined MyCase full-time…
The practice management product Rocket Matter today released a enhanced version of its integration with the secure file-sharing and e-signature platform ImagineShare that enables users to perform key document functions directly within Rocket Matter.
Last year, Rocket Matter released the initial version of its integration with ImagineShare, which its law firm customers…
The law practice management platform Litify is unique in several ways. For one, it is built on top of Salesforce, the sales and marketing automation platform used by many Fortune 500 companies. For another, it was developed by a team of people who came out of Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiffs’ law…
The news last week that AffiniPay, parent company of LawPay, had acquired MyCase, has generated significant interest and raised a number of questions.
For anyone who wants to learn more about the deal — and have a chance to pose their questions directly to the companies’ CEOs — I will be…
Nearly a year ago on my LawNext podcast, I interviewed Zach Posner, who cofounded The Legaltech Fund in 2020 as the first venture capital firm laser-focused on law and legal technology. At that point, the fund was still in the process of raising money from partners to invest, even as it had already begun investing…
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