In November, the organization Frontline Justice launched with the mission of addressing the escalating access to justice crisis by empowering a new category of legal helper, the justice worker. The organization has an ambitious mission: To clear the way for justice workers to exist in all 50 states by 2035.
In pursuit of…
Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. 30, 2024.
Thomson Reuters launched Firm Central in 2013 at a media event in its then-headquarters in Eagan, Minn., as its answer to a then-growing crop of cloud-based practice management software such…
This was just passed along to me from someone at the Washington State Bar Association. If you are interested, act fast. The deadline is tomorrow. I am posting the notice verbatim.
…In March 2024, the WSBA Board of Governors (BOG) will consider the formation of a Technology Task Force. If approved, the Task Force
MaxVal Group, a company that provides intellectual property management software for law firms and corporations, has entered into a strategic partnership with Relecura, a developer of AI-enabled patent analytics and insights, through which MaxVal will become a reseller of Relecura’s services and will integrate Relecura’s analytics into Symphony, its flagship IP management platform.…
It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal, a 3L at The George Washington University Law School, to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases.
Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the…
We are just a week away from the Startup Alley pitch competition that is the opening night event of ABA TECHSHOW, and I recently had the opportunity to catch up with last year’s winner, Tony Valenti, founder and CEO of Universal Migrator, who told me that, since Startup Alley, “it’s been…
Best Lawyers, the oldest lawyer ranking and peer review company, has named Kevin Vermeulen, a veteran legal advertising and marketing executive, as senior vice president of business development.
In addition, the company has named Josh Rupall, its director of sales for the past 12 years, as director of client success.
In this…
At a time when some 92% of the civil legal problems of low-income Americans receive no or inadequate legal help, innovative measures are needed to close the justice gap. Recognizing that, Legal Aid of North Carolina, a program that provides free legal services to low-income people through the state, last year became the…
In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. After starting the week in New York at the glitzy celebration of big law tech that is Legalweek, and ending it in Charlotte, N.C., at the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovations in Technology…
Starting this year, many companies will be required to report information about their beneficial owners — the individuals who ultimately control the company. With that new requirement come new products to help companies and their legal counsel comply. I reported on one of these last month, and now there is another.
Beagle, a company that says it is harnessing the power of native AI to make e-discovery “cruelty free,” has raised $3 million in a seed funding round.
The round was led by ML Capital and supported by other investors including Davidovs Venture Collective (DVC) fund and Hugging Face’s co-founder Thomas Wolf.
Beagle says that,…
Today on Legaltech Week, live at 3 p.m., the panelists will share their impressions of Legaltech Week, which wrapped up yesterday. I’ll also talk about another legal tech conference I attended this week, the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovations in Technology Conference. Of course, we’ll also talk about any other notable news this week from the…
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