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Bob Ambrogi
Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.
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Live on Friday: It’s the Predictions Edition of Legaltech Week
What’s ahead for legal tech and innovation for 2022? On today’s Legaltech Week live roundtable, our esteemed panel of bloggers and journalists will offer their predictions.
Last week, we discussed the top stories of 2021. We planned to also share predictions, but ran out of time. That means this week’s show is entirely devoted to…
Arizona Licenses Elevate As Alternative Business Structure, Making It First Non-Lawyer Owned Law Company with Affiliated Law Firm in U.S.
The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate, enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says.
This makes Elevate the first non-lawyer-owned law company, LPO, or ALSP in the United States to operate with…
Q&A With Clio’s New CFO Curt Sigfstead: Is An IPO On The Horizon?
Last week, legal technology company Clio named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.
Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.
Before joining…
How It Works: VitalLaw, Wolters Kluwer’s Intuitive Research Platform
On this episode of the video series How It Works: Wolters Kluwer’s VitalLaw, the intuitive legal research platform powered by Wolters Kluwer’s world-class analysis.
Introduced in October as an enhanced and rebranded version of the Cheetah research platform, with intuitive tools, new content, and seamless workflow integration, VitalLaw now also includes a free, public-facing…
LinkSquares Adds AI Capabilities to its Pre-Signature Contract Tool, Creating End-to-End AI CLM Platform
In June 2020, I reported on the launch by LinkSquares of LinkSquares Finalize, a pre-signature contract drafting and review product to complement its original product, LinkSquares Analyze, an AI-based, post-signature contract management and analysis platform, creating an end-to-end offering of products for drafting, reviewing and managing corporate contracts.
Now, LinkSquares is announcing the enhancement…
Another Acquisition for Litera: Shipping and Invoice Management Company PS/Ship
The legal technology company Litera has acquired Lynch Marks LLC, a California company that is the developer of PS/Ship, a provider of software for management of shipping and invoicing for law firms and professional services firms.
Litera says the acquisition adds another piece to its platform for law firms looking to solve more…
Continuing Its Acquisition Streak, Onit Acquires SecureDocs for Deal Rooms and Contract Management
In its largest deal so far in a recent string of acquisitions, Onit, the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired SecureDocs, a Santa Barbara, Calif., software company with products for contract management, virtual deal rooms and electronic signatures.
Onit says the acquisition strengthens its…
New ‘MatterAlert’ Provides Web-Based, Matter-Centric Docketing, Tickler and Calendar Software for Law Firms
A new legal software product unveiled today, MatterAlert, is a web-based, matter-centric docketing, tickler and calendar application designed to help law firms manage all matter-related dates, deadlines and other information in a single platform.
The product provides a matter dashboard to view all matter information in one place and matter templates to automate the…
On LawNext: Digitally Transforming the Legal Department: A Panel of Top GCs and Experts
At a time when corporations are demanding greater accountability, transparency and predictability from their legal departments, automation of manual processes is a critical strategic priority, offering the promise of greater efficiency and effectiveness. But what does it really mean for a legal department to digitally transform itself and how should it go about it? …
Today On Legaltech Week Live – Our Panelists’ Picks Of the Top Stories of 2021 and Predictions for 2022
Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022.
The program is…
Clio Names Technology Finance Veteran Curt Sigfstead as Chief Financial Officer
The legal technology company Clio has named Curt Sigfstead, a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer.
Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco, a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.…