Bob Ambrogi

With the acquisition last week by payments company AffiniPay, parent of LawPay, of practice management company MyCase, one intriguing aspect of the deal was that, until then, LawPay had been the legal tech equivalent of Switzerland, partnering with virtually every practice management platform, but always neutral as to which should win…

ImageRights International, a company whose technology has helped visual artists protect their copyrights since 2009, is now entering the legal tech market with its launch today of ImageRights for Law Firms, a platform designed to help law firms and corporate legal departments directly protect their clients’ copyrighted photographs, illustrations, digital art and other…

Today our Legaltech Week panel of journalists and bloggers will be joined by the CEOs of LawPay and MyCase to discuss the news this week that the former has acquired the latter and take our questions about the deal.

Our guests will be Dru Armstrong, CEO of AffiniPay, the parent…

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Earlier today, I reported the breaking news that is likely to have a profound impact on the law practice management market: AffiniPay, the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay, has acquired the law practice management company MyCase, along with several…

In a deal that is sure to shake-up the already hyperactive market for law practice management software, AffiniPay, the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay, has acquired the law practice management company MyCase.

Not only are LawPay and MyCase among the most widely used products in their respective sectors of…

The cloud based e-discovery platform Everlaw is today introducing a new clustering feature, fully integrated within the Everlaw platform, that uses artificial intelligence to visualize and map large sets of documents on a scale that makes it easy to zoom from a view of the entire corpus down into a granular by-the-document view.

Everlaw…

Last year, I wrote here about the beta release by Casetext of a powerful search tool, WeSearch, developed using an emerging branch of artificial intelligence known as neural networks, that is remarkably adept at finding conceptually related documents, even when they contain no matching keywords.

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool…

The surreptitiously leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade has been subjected to a firestorm of scrutiny and commentary. For good reason, the focus of the firestorm has been on the opinion’s ultimate ruling and its social and political implications.

But, legal tech nerd that I am, I wondered…

Marking its second acquisition this year, the cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies has acquired Coyote Analytics, a company that provides practice management, financial management and business intelligence software for law firms.

In February, SurePoint acquired Cole Valley Software, a popular client relations management (CRM) software for law firms.

SurePoint — previously known as Rippe…

Beware: A phishing scam that started today appears to be targeted at customers of a legal technology consulting and development company.

The email, which purports to come from a California company, Legal Soft Solutions, tells recipients that their payment failed to process and that they must update their payment method.

One obvious red flag in…

It may be one of the least heralded yet most critical jobs in many law firms – that of the docketing professional – and it is one that calls for a unique combination of technical, data-management, organizational and communication skills.

In litigation and intellectual property matters, it is the responsibility of docketing professionals to ensure…