With the tagline “Making Knowledge Work,” the document management company iManage is enormously successful within the legal industry, with more than 4,000 customers across six continents, including 80% of the Am Law 100 and more than 40% of Fortune 100 companies. Just last year, it
Legal Tech Investment News this Week: Luminance for Contracts, Scrut for GRC, TRĒ for CRM, VXT for VoIP
It is only Wednesday, but already this week has brought news of four notable investment deals in legal tech.
LuminanceLuminance, a UK-based company that uses artificial intelligence to automate the generation, negotiation and analysis of contracts, and whose product is also used for e-discovery, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding…
NetDocuments Says Its PatternBuilder MAX AI Is Its ‘Most Successful Product Launch By A Factor of 10’
In news that is perhaps an indicator of the legal industry’s interest in generative AI, the document management company NetDocuments said today that its launch of PatternBuilder MAX AI was its “most successful product launch by a factor of 10.”
From the product’s initial launch in October to early last month, the product…
Lawmatics’ New Custom Dashboards Let Your Law Firm Track and Visualize The Data That Matters To You
As a cloud-based CRM and marketing platform for law firms, Lawmatics has always featured a standard dashboard where users can get an at-a-glance overview of their activity and metrics. But now, the company has introduced custom dashboards, enabling firms to create their own unique dashboards showing the precise data they wish to track.
Matt…
Powered By An Added 18M Cases, Lex Machina’s New ‘Litigation Footprint’ Visually Maps Parties’ Litigation Historys
A new tool from the litigation analytics company Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, allows attorneys to view visual maps of a party’s litigation history in order to help illuminate the party’s relationships and litigation trends that might not otherwise be obvious but that could be a factor in crafting a litigation strategy…
This New Catalog for Corporate Legal Teams (Or Any Legal Professional) Brings the Comical to Contracts
A remote-controlled race car that redlines documents? A slingshot for launching litigation? A “Yes, But …” button for testing out your legal theories?
These are just some of the products available through the new online store LawLawLand, launched by the contract management company SpotDraft.
While oriented towards inhouse legal teams, the products could…
In Los Angeles, Bet Tzedek’s New Online Legal Clinic Helps Pro Se People with Conservatorships
In Los Angeles, the legal services organization Bet Tzedek has long run regular in-person legal clinics designed to help self-represented individuals better understand and navigate the sometimes complex process of conservatorship, by which a court appoints a person to manage the personal and financial affairs of someone who cannot make decisions for themself because…
Last Day to Register: CLE Webinar Tomorrow on the State of Legal Tech in Law Practice
I am speaking tomorrow on a CLE webinar on the state of legal technology, but the last day to register is today at 3 p.m. ET.
In a program presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, I am joining Damian Turco, MBA president and former chair of the MBA’s Law Practice Management Section, to discuss…
Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas
Yesterday, I reported here on a lawsuit filed March 20 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her.
As it turns out, just a week before she filed her lawsuit, her…
Lawsuit By Former Legal Tech Exec Says She is Owed Over $1M In Stock and Was Sexually Harassed
In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise…
On LawNext: The Inside Story of the Caselaw Access Project, with Three of the People Who Made It Happen
March 1 marked the culmination of an ambitious and audacious project to digitize and provide free and open access to all official court decisions ever published in the United States. Called the Caselaw Access Project, it came about, starting in 2015, through an unusual partnership between Harvard Law School and a Silicon Valley-based legal…
Getting a Tech LLM: Is It Worth It?
As technology continues to transform our economy and culture, businesses need a new breed of lawyers who understand the legal and commercial aspects of technology. There is a specific need for lawyers skilled in bringing new products and new companies to market.
Cornell Tech’s Master of Laws (LLM) in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship is…