In this second of a two-part interview, we continue our conversation with Jeffrey Carr, a trailblazing general counsel who describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become mainstream.
As general counsel…
Over the past two years, Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, has been beefing up its coverage of legal news, bringing on the former editor-in-chief of Law.com to lead legal news, hiring several well-known legal-industry commentators as columnists, and increasing its hiring of legal news editors and reporters.
One result of this…
One of the most innovative general counsel ever, Jeffrey Carr describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Yet many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become mainstream.
As general counsel at FMC Technologies in the early 2000s, Carr…
What does Wordle have to do with legal tech — other than a cheap attempt on my part to generate some Google juice? Find out today at 3 E.T. by joining our regular Friday Legaltech Week roundtable, where we discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
Attendance is free, but you need to…
Paradigm, the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — today announced the expansion of its leadership team with the hiring of two executives, one who will oversee product management and the other marketing.
Joining Paradigm as vice president of product management is Marie Burgess, who…
Losses to businesses from the theft of their trade secrets add up to as much as three percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, according to a 2014 report by the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Yet a 2017 study by law firm Baker McKenzie found that less than…
Two Canadian companies, Edmonton-based AltaML, an AI studio devoted to building tools “to elevate human potential,” and Ottawa-based Compass Law, an independent Canadian legal publisher, are teaming up to launch a joint venture, Jurisage AI, in order to leverage their expertise in artificial intelligence and legal innovation.
“We bring deep legal publishing…
In a move to become the leading provider of business intelligence, financial and operational analytics for larger law firms, BigHand has acquired Iridium Technology, creating a combined organization with more than 3,600 customers worldwide — including some 81% of the Am Law 200 — and more than 350 employees.
With BigHand already a…
CaseMap, a product first introduced nearly a quarter century ago for managing litigation matters and evidence, and which has continued to remain locally installed software with no cloud access or collaboration capabilities, is finally moving to the cloud.
Today, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which acquired CaseMap in 2006, is announcing the official launch of
After nearly 32,000 votes, the results are in. Readers have been voting to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022, taking place March 2-5, 2022.
These 15 will face off in an opening night pitch competition that will be the opening…
It says something about a product when, even before it officially hits the market, it wins a major legal technology award. That is the case with a product being unveiled today, Infodash. It is the platform on which the law firm Ogletree Deakins built its ODConnect 2.0 intranet, which last week was named…
Karla Uribe, who joins the Hello Divorce leadership Feb. 1 as its first chief product officer, believes that technology and data can be used to drive better outcomes for couples going through divorce and their children.
She comes to the company with the mission of overseeing its product’s transition from a tech-enabled services…
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