Today at noon ET, LexisNexis Canada will present the second program in its masterclass panel discussion series, Tech & Litigation, Shifting Paradigms. Today’s panel focuses on legal operations and how technology can help legal departments manage legal spend and outside counsel.
I will be one of the panelists, together with:
Seven weeks ago, as Litera announced its acquisition of Kira Systems, the pioneering AI contract analysis company, Kira announced the spin off of a new company, Zuva, to continue developing machine learning technology for business documents.
Now, Zuva is off to a running start, announcing today that it has secured Series A funding
You would be hard-pressed to find two people in legal technology more experienced in user interface and user experience design than Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart. Bradick is founder and CEO of the legal tech design and development firm Theory and Principle. Wishart is chief product officer at contract lifecycle management company Agiloft
Recent headlines in the financial press are replete with stories about the new boom in buy now, pay later financing for retail purchases, with many retailers, including Walmart, the nation’s largest, now offering these point-of-sale loans.
Now, the electronic payments company LawPay is bringing buy now, pay later financing to the legal industry. It will soon
On this episode of How It Works: Woodpecker, AI-enabled legal document automation for solo and small firms. Joining me in the video below to introduce Woodpecker and demonstrate how it works is founder and CEO Alex Melehy.
Melehy and his team of engineers and attorneys say they believe that generating accurate legal documents should
Fully virtual again this year, the Clio Cloud Conference is Oct. 26-29, with a full line-up of programs on legal practice and technology, keynote speakers such as Arianna Huffington, founder of Thrive and The Huffington Post, and entertainment from Grammy Award winning musicians.
On Friday, I saw down with George Psiharis, chief operating officer
The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues.
While we once might have thought these issues were temporary, many legal professionals continue to operate virtually, and even when we are fully free of the pandemic, many of us are likely
On this episode of How It Works: PracticePanther, a leading cloud-based law practice management software solution that serves tens of thousands of legal professionals in 170 countries.
PracticePanther offers features in case management, time tracking, billing, client intake, payment processing, calendaring, e-signatures, and more, all designed to empower lawyers to automate their practices.
Joining
Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, is today unveiling a benchmarking tool for law firm billing that is the first product to emerge from the newly minted Aderant Intelligence group.
The new tool, Aderant Intelligence: Benchmarking, is designed to enable firms to benchmark their billing performance by comparing their
The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, has added a module for litigation involving claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as claims under related state laws.
The collection consists of more than 90,000 cases involving violations of Titles II, III and V of the ADA, as well
There was a time when the central focus of law school publishing was the law review. But over the years, as more law school professors, staff and alumni launched blogs, they have become a more essential medium for keeping up with legal news, trends and critical thinking.
In a reflection of this development, McGeorge School
The ABA Journal dubbed Fred Rooney the father of legal incubators. He developed the first incubator in 2007 at City University of New York Law School, spawning the launch of some 70 incubators in the years since, many with Fred’s guidance or based on his model. While most are in the U.S., Rooney is
While some organizations wait until catastrophe strikes before adopting an email management system, success often lies in being proactive, not reactive. The right EMS not only improves your team’s productivity but can also enhance your client’s experience.
This week’s free featured resource on the Lawsites Resource Center, The Definitive Guide To Email Management For Mid-Size
Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Raphael (Rafi) Shure to the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer. He was previously senior vice president and chief client officer.
In turn, Shure has promoted two others to global leadership roles in consulting and customer support: Matt
The legal technology company Litera has named Ashley Miller as vice president sales, North America.
Miller was formerly at EY, where she was senior manager, legal function consulting. Earlier, she was with Thomson Reuters, where she served as director, legal managed services, and regional manager, strategic accounts.
Ashley MillerA 2013 graduate of Brooklyn Law
Last month, in a marriage of two contract management platforms, Conga acquired Contract Wrangler. For entrepreneur-turned-lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Neil Peretz, it was the conclusion of a journey that began five years earlier, when he founded Contract Wrangler with a vision of a contracts platform that would be more than just a repository, more than able