Matt Spiegel

Stories are increasingly common of lawyers who leave law practice to start legal technology companies, but few achieve the level of success as an entrepreneur of Matt Spiegel. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase, one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies. In 2012, he sold…

Lawmatics, a company whose platform provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, has closed a $10 million Series A financing round, it is announcing today.

The financing follows the San Diego-based company’s raise of a $2.5 million seed round in October 2020.

Matt Spiegel, cofounder and CEO,…

Lawmatics, a cloud-based client intake and marketing automation platform for law firms, said today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding.

The company, based in San Diego, Calif., was founded in 2017 by Matt Spiegel, the original founder in 2009 of law practice management platform MyCase.

The funding was led by Eniac…



They say you can’t go home again, but Matt Spiegel came back to legal technology after selling the first company he founded, MyCase, and then moving to other verticals. Earlier this year, Spiegel launched his second legal technology startup, Lawmatics, a cloud-based platform designed to…

When last I checked in with the practice management platform PracticePanther last March, it had just taken a “large” private equity investment. At the time, CEO David Bitton told me that the company had seen exponential growth over the prior year, doubling its customers. Since March, the company has rolled out a number…

You've no doubt heard about Heartbleed, the security flaw that exposed personal information at many leading websites. The flaw was in OpenSSL, an open-source version of the SSL protocol that is used to encrypt transmissions between you and a website. The flaw created a vulnerability that could have exposed sensitive information. The vulnerability affected several leading Internet companies, including Google, Yahoo and Netflix. It made me wonder how many companies that cater to the legal profession were affected. I've collected a bit of information here. If you know of others, please let me know or add a comment below. If…

MyCase, the California company that provides web-based practice management software, this week announced a new product offering, website packages for law firms. The offering is unique in that the sites include seamless integration with the MyCase client portal. This means that clients can access the…

The Web-based practice management platform MyCase will roll-out a new project-management feature this weekend, MyCase Workflow, that will enable its users to create custom templates of tasks and calendar events, including automatic date calculations, that can be applied to any case.

Say, for example, you are a divorce attorney and you…

The cloud-based practice management application MyCase announced this week that it has  been acquired by AppFolio, a company that creates software for use in residential property management. MyCase founder and CEO Matthew Spiegel announced the acquisition in an email to subscribers this week, saying that he will…