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Erika Harold, a litigation attorney, former Illinois political candidate, and former Miss America, has been named the new executive director of the Illinois Commission on Professionalism (popularly known as 2Civility) effective April 11, succeeding long-time executive director Jayne Reardon, who retires in May, the Illinois Supreme Court announced today.

A commercial litigation…

The Business Intelligence Group, an organization founded to recognize “true talent and superior performance in the business world,” today announced the winners of its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards, an awards program designed to honor organizations, products and people who bring artificial intelligence to life and apply it to solve real problems.

Out of 65…

The legal technology company Apperio is today unveiling enhancements to its legal spend management software  for corporate legal departments that include options for individuals within a department – including allied professionals and finance staff – to personalize and customize their view of company legal spend data.

It is also introducing another new feature, Matter…

I had the great honor this week to record a conversation with Yevgen Poltenko, executive director of the Legal Development Network, an association of community-based non-governmental organizations that promotes people-centered justice in Ukraine, for the LexBlog podcast This Week in Legal Blogging. 

We discussed his organization’s efforts to assist Ukrainians with legal…

After two weeks off to attend two back-to-back legal tech conferences, ABA TECHSHOW and Legalweek, our Legaltech Week panel of is back live today at 3 E.T., where we will do a post-mortem on what were, for many, their first live conferences in two years.

Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you…

Last month, we announced the launch of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which we hope will become the most trusted source of legal tech products in the market.

We have been grateful for the response, both from users and vendors. In order for product listings to be as complete as possible, we are…

Potentially one of the biggest legal tech stories to come out of the Legalweek show in New York last week was the release by LexisNexis Legal & Professional of a new API Developer Portal. The self-service portal enables law firms to access some 99% of LexisNexis content – both raw content and metadata…

Last week brought a flurry of legal technology news, thanks to the first in-person Legalweek conference in two years. Yesterday, in the first of two posts, I began a round up the week’s notable announcements. Here is the rest of my round-up.

Reveal, a global provider…

Given that this happened two weeks ago, I am a bit tardy in reporting the results of the Startup Alley pitch competition, which was the opening night event at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago March 2. I blame it on two solid weeks of travel and a deluge of catching up after returning home.

The…

Last week brought a flurry of legal technology news, thanks to the first in-person Legalweek conference in two years. In this first of two posts, I will round up the week’s notable announcements. I’ll publish the second half tomorrow.

The cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies announced the…

Epiq, a global company that provides technology-enabled services to the legal industry and corporations, has acquired Fireman & Company, a leading legal industry management consulting firm, it announced today.

The acquisition enables Epiq to deliver broader knowledge management and data management expertise and provides Epiq with an expanded suite of strategic legal advisory…

BlackBoiler, a company whose AI-based technology automates the review and mark-up of inbound contracts right in Microsoft Word’s Track Changes, is today launching a redesigned platform with an enhanced user interface and a new tool that helps companies automate the creation of contract playbooks. 

The new platform can be used as a standalone product…