After attending the 2019 Clio Cloud Conference, I wrote a post describing the experience as like “a cult of innovation.” I meant that in the most-positive sense possible.
“Within the context of a profession known for its resistance to change,” I wrote, “having 2,000 people together at one time who share a great devotion…
I have written twice before about Map Engine, an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data — first when it launched in 2021 and again earlier this year when it expanded its selection of maps to cover…
In the world of legal technology, perhaps no company looms larger than Thomson Reuters, whose products such as Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Findlaw, 3E and many others span virtually every aspect of law practice and are used by legal professionals throughout the world.
Our guest this week, Kriti Sharma, is chief product officer, legal…
Less than a week after announcing its acquisition of BigSquare, a provider of financial and business intelligence and analytics for law firms, legal technology company Litera today announced another — of Micron Systems Inc., a developer of talent management software for the legal and accounting professions.
If you’re counting, this is Litera’s…
Last January, the law firm Redgrave LLP, which specializes in e-discovery and information law, formed the company Redgrave Strategic Data Solutions LLC to provide “innovative services and solutions centered at the intersection of the law, technology, and science.”
The company launched with a leadership team of veteran e-discovery and data science professionals, helmed by…
First came Lexis+, which LexisNexis launched in the U.S. two years ago as its next-generation premium legal research platform. Then, last May, came Lexis+ UK, the version tailored to the UK market. Now comes Lexis+ Canada, as the company today launches its product there.
When I first wrote about the U.S. version…
Just over a year ago, the e-discovery company CS DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
But on Friday, the company’s stock (LAW) took a tumble, dropping by more than 50% to close at $13.43, after the company announced its…
The rise of artificial intelligence has led some to speculate that robots could someday replace lawyers in performing many legal tasks. But what if chips in lawyers’ brains — or some other form of neurotechnological augmentation — could enable them to combine the benefits of AI systems while retaining desirable human capacities to create a…
The legal technology company Litera has acquired BigSquare, a provider of financial and business intelligence and analytics for law firms and corporate legal departments.
Litera said that the addition of BigSquare to its portfolio will empower law firms to make better financial decisions with instant access to financial data and insights.
Founded in 2009,…
As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Two years ago, Arizona became the first state to completely eliminate the prohibition. Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services…
One way to avoid the cost of downloading documents from the federal courts’ PACER database is by getting them instead from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by the Free Law Project.
But before you can get a document out of RECAP, the document had to…
Should the legal industry have a common set of data standards for classifying the work we do? The SALI Alliance – short for Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry – believes we should, and it recently released version 2.0 of its Legal Matter Standard Specification, which sets…
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