The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, today announced that it has expanded its coverage of state courts in California to include Orange County Superior Court, its seventh California county.
Lex Machina now provides analytics for over 1.5 million California superior court cases and has total state court coverage of…

For at least 25 years, companies have attempted to succeed in the business of online dispute resolution, mostly without success. Could that be about to change?
Twenty-five years ago, I published an article, Cyberspace Becomes Forum for Resolving Disputes, about the promise and potential of online dispute resolution. I revisited the topic in a…

Possibly the hottest market in legal tech today is contract lifecycle management, and one of the most talked-about companies in that market is Ironclad, a six-year-old startup that recently raised a $100 million Series D – at a reported valuation of $1 billion – and that just made its first acquisition, of the clickwrap…

Between 2016 and 2018, I wrote a series of posts about Derek Bluford, a one-time rising star on the legal tech start-up scene whose star fell after I reported in 2016 of his settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients.
Now, Bluford has been…

Barely a day goes by that I am not sitting down with the developer of a legal tech product for a demonstration of how it works.
I find these demonstrations enormously helpful in understanding what a product does, how easy it is to use, and why I’d want it in my practice.
You know the…

Trustbooks is cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms. In this debut episode of How It Works, Trustbooks cofounder Chad Todd introduces the product and demonstrates how it works.
How It Works is a sponsored video series that lets you see how legal technology products work. Each episode features a hands-on demonstration, presented by…

April brings an embarrassment of riches when it comes to virtual conferences focused on innovation in law.
The only problem is that three of them overlap, which may cause you to channel that old Firesign Theatre bit, “How can you be two places at once …”
Here’s the line-up:

April 27-28: Everlaw Summit: Illuminate…

LinkSquares, a contract lifecycle management and analysis company, is unveiling several new features today, including Strategic Values, which are sets of expert-selected terms to help its AI-powered Linksquares Analyze product uncover and extract topics in contracts related to key issues such as GDPR, HIPAA, mergers and acquisitions, and more.
The company also announced…

Earlier this year, the legal technology company Litera expanded its product line-up into law firm intelligence with the acquisition of Foundation Software Group, developer of a firm intelligence platform for larger law firms, and the consequent formation of the Litera Firm Intelligence business unit.
Now Litera is further rounding out its firm intelligence offerings…

With the aim of providing corporate legal departments with a single system-of-record that joins together all of their internal and external legal work product, the company Joinder, which spun off last year from the global law firm Orrick, is today formally launching its platform.
The company describes its platform as one that “puts…


Throughout Europe and Eastern Europe, Holger Zscheyge is widely regarded as a leading authority on legal technology and innovation. President of the European Legal Technology Association, he is also founder and managing director of Infotropic Media, a Moscow-based legal publisher and producer of legal technology conferences, and a cofounder of Moscow Legal…

On Tuesday, I reported here that D. Casey Flaherty, who for the last two years has been director of legal project management at global law firm Baker McKenzie, and who developed the Procertas technology training and benchmarking platform, has joined LexFusion, a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies launched last October, as a…

Lawyerist, a company that offers business resources and coaching for small law firms, has made a strategic investment in The Law Practice Exchange, a company that facilitates the buying and selling of law practices.
Aaron Street, Lawyerist’s cofounder and CEO, told me that his company has made a significant cash investment in…