Clio’s choice of Austin, Texas, for its Clio Cloud Conference this year was a foray into enemy territory, and the enemy responded strategically with guerilla tactics of its own. Austin, as it happens, is the home base of AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay, CASEPeer and Docketwise, all of which are competitors to Clio.
“Momentum is the driving force that turns short bursts of energy into sustained success.” With those words during his opening keynote that has been become a signature event of the Clio Cloud Conference, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton explained why the conference chose “momentum” as its theme this year. It is an apt description,
Hope it wasn’t something he said on my podcast. A week after appearing on my LawNext podcast to discuss his one-year anniversary as chief executive officer at UnitedLex, James Schellhase is out of that job, replaced by the company’s general counsel Renee Meisel. Schellhase’s appointment as CEO in September 2023 was particularly significant for the
Usage of artificial intelligence by legal professionals has skyrocketed from 19% in 2023 to 79% this year, according to the ninth edition of the Legal Trends Report, released today by Clio during its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin. The report further finds that up to 74% of hourly billable tasks – such as information gathering
Calling it a major first step in its wider AI product roadmap, the law practice management company Clio today released Clio Duo, a generative AI product built directly into the Clio Manage law practice management platform. Clio released the product today at its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, after first announcing its plans to
If you are going to the Clio Cloud Conference in Austin starting Monday (or watching it virtually), do not miss our live-on-stage version of Legaltech Week, with a full panel of our regulars plus a special guest. Many of you are regulars for our weekly Friday live show, where we discuss the week’s top news
Stephanie Wilkins, who has been editor-in-chief of Legaltech News at ALM since 2022, today moves to Legaltech Hub, where she will be director of content. In her new role, Wilkins will be responsible for helping to develop a drive the content strategy for Legaltech Hub and for developing resources for law firms, corporate legal departments
Legalpioneer, a website that lists law-related companies in areas such as legal tech, justice tech and governance, has donated its entire data set of more than 13,000 companies to GitHub, a platform that allows developers to store, share and collaborate on code. The entire data set is now available under the Open Database License (ODbl)
Monday marks the start of the 12th Clio Cloud Conference, and as the company that produces it, Clio, continues to grow and expand, so too does the conference, with its largest-ever number of attendees and its move from a single host hotel to the Austin, Texas, convention center with attendees spread across a number of
Nominations are now open for the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which recognizes an innovator who has made significant impacts early in their career toward making the American legal system work better for everyone. That describes the person for whom the award is named, Alli Gerkman, who died of breast cancer in 2019 at the
One year ago, in September 2023, James Schellhase was named chief executive officer of the alternative legal services provider UnitedLex. The move was particularly significant, as he was only the second person ever to hold that title at the company, having succeeded Dan Reed, who cofounded UnitedLex in 2006 and had been its CEO ever since. Reed
The law practice management platform MyCase rolled out three product updates today that include MyCaseIQ, an AI conversational interface; enhancements to its accounting module; and an immigration add-on. It also announced the beta release of Smart Spend, a product that marries a business credit card to expense tracking within MyCase. Generative AI Enhancements Last January,
Several of our regular Legaltech Week panelists were in Chicago for RelativityFest last week, so we took the opportunity to get together and broadcast our show live from the same room (instead of Zoom squares). If you missed it Friday, here’s the video recording. A huge thanks to the public relations staff at Relativity for
A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms. The ruling brings an end to ROSS’s
Several of our Legaltech Week panelists are in Chicago for RelativityFest, so we’re going to (attempt to?) broadcast live from there. If you are in Chicago or attending RelativityFest, come watch us live at 2 CT/3 ET. We will be in the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Room Grand Hall MN. For anyone else, you can watch
Wolters Kluwer today brought generative AI to its VitalLaw legal research platform, launching new capabilities for users to locate and chat with legal information and get answers to legal questions, as well as to generate summaries and first drafts of compliance checklists or other key documents. This development combines these generative AI capabilities with the