One of the riskiest aspects of litigation practice is spoliation — the destruction or alteration of evidence — which can carry costly sanctions for both lawyers and their clients.
Today, the law firm Eversheds Sutherland and the legal research company Fastcase are releasing what they say is a first-of-its-kind tool designed to assess…
The contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today released an add-on module for companies to manage sourcing and supplier information, with the goal of reducing sourcing cycle time, automating supplier onboarding, and monitoring ongoing compliance.
Andy Wishart, Agiloft’s chief product officer, told me that this is the first of…
Did the legal tech movement begin in the 1970s? What is causing the current boom in legal tech? And what will happen once the pandemic is over?
These and other questions are the subject of a free webinar tomorrow, The Past, Present and Future of Legal Tech, presented by the University of Copenhagen and…
Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing software company, and Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of information and insights, particularly in the area of intellectual property, today announced a partnership to integrate Clarivate’s CompuMark international trademark data into the Alt Legal platform, giving Alt Legal customers access to CompuMark and its 186…
There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such…
Josef, an Australia-based, no-code software platform that enables legal professionals to automate common tasks, has raised $2.5 million.
The funding round was led by Australian venture firm Carthona Capital, with participation from U.S. investors, including The LegalTech Fund.
Added to the startup’s $1 million seed round in 2019, this brings its total…
Since launching my LawNext podcast in 2018, I am honored to have been able to interview many of the leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the legal field, from my very first guest, Nicole Bradick, just six months after she had founded the legal tech development company Theory and Principle, to this…
Join us today live at 3 ET for our regular Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, where our panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
We have a guest panelist sitting in with us today; Jeffrey Brandt, editor of the PinHawk Law Technology Daily Digest and chief…
As more and more legal professionals do their work from home and on the road, the high overhead and inflexibility of traditional office models become less and less appealing.
Enter the virtual law firm: an alternative practice model that opens up new possibilities for law firms and their clients.
On LawSites Resources, this week’s…
Ninety-two percent of law firms worldwide say they were completely or somewhat prepared for full-scale remote work at the pandemic’s onset, a survey released this morning finds.
Even so, most firms plan to increase their budgets for technology and process software and adopt more cloud-based technologies, the survey reports.
Published for the fourth consecutive year…
For lawyers looking to build their books of business, there is gold to be found in the biographies of corporate counsel. A shared law school or employment connection from the past can mean a foot in the door today.
Lawyers’ ability to find and act on those connections just got a significant boost with today’s…
Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt.
These are only the second and third non-profit projects to be approved to participate in the sandbox and the first in the nation to empower non-lawyers go give limited-scope legal advice about medical…
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