She has been called the patron saint of solo and small law firms. For two decades, Carolyn Elefant has helped solo and small firm lawyers start and build their law practices. You know her as the creator of MyShingle.com, the longest-running blog on solo and small law firm practice, and she just released the…
Survey: Legal Departments’ Failure to Adopt Technology Forcing In-House Lawyers to Return to Office, Despite Clear Preference for Hybrid
Although the majority of U.S. in-house lawyers prefer not to return full-time to their offices, nearly half have done so, in part because their organizations have failed to effectively adopt new technologies that would facilitate hybrid work arrangements.
This is among the findings of a new survey of in-house lawyers commissioned by the contract management…
AltaClaro Raises $2.5M to Expand Its Experiential Training Platform for Lawyers
AltaClaro, a company that has developed a unique experiential training platform for lawyers, has raised a $2.5 million seed preferred financing round to further develop its product and expand its market share.
The financing round was led by Bryce Catalyst, a legal tech fund whose founding partner Cary Burch is the former…
Webinar Today: The Litera-Pitchbook VC Report – Betting on the Post-Covid Future
The venture capital market is enjoying its biggest moment since the dot-com days of the late 1990s. Globally, VC deal-making shattered records in 2021.
But certain pockets of the market are driving the current VC ecosystem, and not every aspect of the global startup scene is increasing at the same pace.
Today at 1 p.m.…
LexCheck Raises $5M to Drive Growth of Its AI-Powered Contract Negotiation Platform
LexCheck, a company whose platform provides AI-powered contract negotiation, has raised an additional $5 million of funding, on top of $3 million in seed funding it raised in May 2020.
The New York-based company said the funding would be used to further drive its growth, following a year in which it opened…
Another State Adopts Duty of Technology Competence for Lawyers, Bringing Total to 40
It has been a year since I have reported on a state adopting the duty of technology competence for lawyers, but now there is another: Hawaiʻi, bringing the total number of states that have adopted the duty to 40.
Effective Jan. 1, 2022, the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct were amended to revise…
On LawNext Podcast: How Legal Departments Can Use Data to Drive Smarter Decision-Making, with Jeffrey Solomon of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
As head of managed services and analytics at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, Jeffrey Solomon oversees a database that tracks over $150 billion in legal spend data. Legal departments are able to use…
Aiming to Enable Lawyers to Do More with AI, Contract Review Startup Della Raises $2.5M Seed Funding
Christophe Frèrebeau has a vision of where he wants his company’s artificial intelligence contract review technology to be in 10 years: “Our dream would be to be able to answer a question about a legal document, and answer it like a lawyer would.”
Frèrebeau is the cofounder and CEO of Della, a two-year-old…
PandaDoc Acquires LiveNotary; Launches Its Own Online Notarization Platform
PandaDoc, a San Francisco company whose platform automates document creation and workflows, said today that it has acquired the e-notary platform LiveNotary and and leveraged its technology to launch PandaDoc Notary, its own platform enabling customers to legally sign and notarize documents online.
PandaDoc Notary’s Remote Online Notarization (RON) is an all-in-one product…
New Director Named to Lead Illinois Commission on Professionalism, As Jayne Reardon Retires
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…
Two Legal Tech Products, Evisort and Onit, Among 65 Products Honored for AI Excellence
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…
Apperio Unveils Customization of its Legal Spend Management Dashboard by Legal Department Role
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…
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