At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of brief, in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Curt Sigfstead, chief financial officer. He is responsible for managing Clio’s financial affairs, including finance, accounting, capital, treasury, taxation, and corporate…
Immigration Law Firm and Fastcase Partner to Create Case Management and Document Automation System
In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai have entered into a collaboration agreement with the legal technology and publishing company Fastcase to develop what they say will be a state-of-the-art immigration case management and document automation…
Hello Divorce Raises $3.25M to Span More of the Divorce Lifecycle, Including Financial Planning
Hello Divorce, a startup whose platform facilitates low-cost do-it-yourself and attorney-assisted divorces, has raised $3.25 million in an oversubscribed seed round to enable it to develop a broader range of tools and services to cover the entire divorce lifecycle, including the financial and other issues that arise in the wake of a divorce.
The…
Major Legal Tech News As NetDocuments Acquires Worldox to Accelerate Its Growth Among Small- and Mid-Sized Firms
Two of the leading global providers of document management systems for the legal industry are coming together, as the cloud-based DMS company NetDocuments has acquired Worldox, one of the oldest DMS systems still operating, in business since 1988, and one that primarily serves small- to medium-sized law firms.
In a media briefing yesterday,…
A Special LawNext Recorded Live at ClioCon: Clio CEO Jack Newton on the Antifragile Law Firm
In an episode of LawNext recorded in person at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton discusses the “antifragile” law firm, a concept he introduced in his conference keynote — derived from the book, Antifragile: Things That…
CosmoLex Adds CRM for Firms to Manage and Track Prospective Clients and Automate Intake Workflows
The practice management company CosmoLex has added a new client relationship management module to its all-in-one platform with the release of CosmoLex CRM.
The new CRM module is designed to enable law firms to manage, track, and communicate with prospective clients; automate intake workflows; and provide reporting to help better analyze marketing campaigns.…
Haley Altman, Former Litera Exec, and Mark Chandler, Former Cisco CLO, Join Board of Justice Tech Company Paladin
On the heels of raising an $8 million Series A financing round in May, Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro…
Today on Legaltech Week: ClioCon Recap, Tech Awards, E-Discovery Ethics, and More; Join Us Live at 3 ET
It has been a busy week in legal tech, including the 10th annual Clio Cloud Conference and the first-ever American Legal Technology Awards gala.
We’ll recap those stories and more with our usual Friday panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers today at 3 p.m. ET.
Attendance is free, but, if you have not already…
ClioCon Post-Mortem: Slightly Off Its A-Game, But Still the Best Conference in Legal Tech
Question: What do you call the best team in baseball when it’s off its A-game for a night? Answer: The best team in baseball.
So what do you call the best conference in legal tech when it is off its A-game for a year? The best conference in legal tech.
Monday and Tuesday this week…
LawNext Podcast: What Is Justice Tech? A Conversation with Maya Markovich
An increasing number of startups are defining themselves not as legal tech, but as justice tech. So what, exactly, is justice tech, who are some of the companies that represent it, and what is the business opportunity they present for potential investors? Our guest this week is Maya Markovich, executive director of the Justice…
Clio’s 2022 Legal Trends Report Finds Lawyers’ Business Growing But Fees Fail to Keep Pace
At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report.
It finds that law firms are seeing an average 10% increase in the growth of new business, but that their fees are…
At Kick-Off of ClioCon, Clio Unveils No-Code Websites, Text Messaging, Enhanced Payments, and Advanced Third-Party App Integration
As the Clio Cloud Conference kicked off in Nashville this morning – the conference’s 10th anniversary and its first time live since 2019 – Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton took to the stage to deliver a keynote address, during which he announced several new products and product enhancements.
New products he…