Live today at 3 p.m., it’s another episode of Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.

Guest panelist Kristin Calve, publisher and editor of Corporate Counsel Business Journal and the Pinhawk newsletters, will join us to share her experience attending…

The cloud-based law practice management company ZenCase has named Olivia Mockel, a lawyer and legal technology executive, as its president and chief operating officer. 

“I am driven to help legal professionals become more efficient through innovative legal technology,” Mockel said in a statement announcing her hire. “ZenCase is a platform that allows law…

When is a new conference not exactly a new conference? When it is the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference (or KM&I for short).

Let me explain.

Organizers Patrick DiDomenico and Joshua Fireman kick things off.

For years, the ARK Group’s annual KM conference in New York City was considered…

Attention all legal tech startups: We have made a change in the Startup Alley criteria that should now open applications to more companies.

We are eliminating the requirement that your company had never before exhibited at a national legal technology conference. Provided you meet the other criteria, you are now eligible to apply.

By way…



In his keynote address at the recently concluded 2023 Clio Cloud Conference, Jack Newton, the founder and CEO of Clio, said that we are at a time in the legal industry when leveraging technology is more important for lawyers than ever before. Technology,…

The law practice management platform Filevine today launched an enhancement to its Lead Docket lead intake tool that uses artificial intelligence to generate summaries of the key details of incoming leads and that help predict which leads are good matches for a law firm and which should be referred…

When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April, they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. By creating the world’s largest global legal research library, spanning more than 1 billion documents from more than 110 countries, they said,…

Was it just me, or did the Gaylord Opryland somehow seem more tolerable this year?

As I am writing this, I am sitting on a plane, having just taken off from Nashville after attending my 11th Clio Cloud Conference. I am, it turns out, a member of small club of fewer than 10 people…

I will confess that when my long-time friend Kevin O’Keefe told me that his legal blogging company LexBlog was developing a generative AI integration, I was not expecting much. I guessed they would simply add a conversational interface somewhere in the right control panel where authors could converse with ChatGPT without having to…



Soon after starting her own law practice, Kimberly Bennett decided there had to be a better way than the billable hour to charge for her services. She wanted predictable pricing for her intellectual property clients and predictable income for herself. That led her to…

In a separate post today, I wrote about major product announcements made today by the law practice management company Clio during its annual Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville. In addition to those announcements, Clio highlighted a number of updates and enhancements to its existing products, some of which had already been announced over the…

At its annual Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville today, the law practice management company Clio introduced an array of major new products and product updates, calling the series of announcements its most expansive product update ever in its 15-year history.

(I discuss the product updates and enhancements in a separate post today.)

New…