Legal automation company Josef has closed what it is describing as a lightning-fast funding round in order to capitalize on market response to Josef Q, the AI-powered product it brought out of beta in November 2023 that enables legal and compliance teams to easily create self-service Q&A tools. Participants in the round were Josef’s existing
Today on How it Works, Universal Migrator CEO and Founder Tony Valenti demonstrates how to use Universal Migrator to backup and restore data when expanding or switching solutions at your firm. Universal Migrator, a previous winner of the ABA Techshow Startup Alley, is a powerful tool that lets IT teams help law firms to
If you are a legal tech startup, don’t miss your chance to compete in Startup Alley, the pitch competition that is a seminal event of ABA TECHSHOW. The deadline for applications is Friday, Dec. 13, 2024 — just 10 days away. This is the ninth year of Startup Alley, in which 15 startups are selected
Everlaw for Good is a program run by the e-discovery company Everlaw, through which it makes its software available at no cost to legal aid organizations, nonprofit organizations, and investigative journalists. One beneficiary of that program is the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights nonprofit that works to seek justice on behalf of victims of atrocity
Lawyers who are members of the Maryland State Bar Association can now get free access to trust accounting and billing software, through a partnership between the bar and the law practice management company Smokeball. Under the partnership, all 18,000 members of the MSBA, which is a voluntary state bar, can sign up for free access
The New Jersey Supreme Court is seeking comments on proposals to adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers and to add a technology requirement for continuing legal education. If the court ultimately adopts the proposals, New Jersey would become the 41st state to require technology competence for lawyers and the fourth state to require
The legal technology company Litera said today that is has acquired Office & Dragons, a London-based company that develops document automation software for law firms and legal professionals. Office & Dragons specializes in software that allows editing, generation and review of multiple documents in a single process, to help law firms save time on repetitive
In the field of legal knowledge management and innovation, Sally Gonzalez is both a legend and a trailblazer. Over the course of her 40-year career, she has worked for some of the world’s largest law firms to develop and lead KM and strategic technology initiatives. She has overseen KM and information technology programs at such
SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and practical business use. Phase 1 covers over
I am very pleased to announce a new addition, starting today, to our line-up of regular panelists for Legaltech Week: Julie Sobowale, a Canada-based freelance journalist and lawyer who writes about legal tech and legal affairs for publications such as Canadian Lawyer, The Walrus, and others. Julie has been a guest panelist from time to
As the disaffected disembark from X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, they are landing in throngs on Bluesky, the X competitor that has seen its daily traffic grow 500% since the election and that shot to the top of the App Store last week. As of this week, Bluesky had surpassed 20
It was 22 years ago yesterday that I launched this blog. For its continued existence, I owe four debts of gratitude: To you, the readers, without whom this blog would have no reason to exist, and whose feedback and engagement over the years has been the greatest reward. There are still a handful of you
Recently, the Everlaw Summit, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, convened in San Francisco. In his keynote address there, cofounder and CEO AJ Shankar announced the general availability, after a year of beta testing, of a suite of generative AI features for reviewing, coding and analyzing documents in discovery and litigation prep. I was
This week on How it Works, we have a walkthrough of MyCase Accounting software, presented to me by Sales Engineering Manager Lindsay Bushong. MyCase Legal Accounting, in their words, “is easy-to-use accounting software built seamlessly into the MyCase practice management platform to meet the unique business needs of law firms. An end-to-end solution, MyCase’s legal
A year after releasing Lexis+ AI, its generative AI legal research platform, to general availability, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the release of a companion app for the U.S. market, the Lexis+ AI Mobile App, which is now available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play. The app is intended
Knowable, a legal technology company specializing in helping organizations bring order and organization to their executed agreements, has announced Ask Knowable, a suite of generative AI-powered tools aimed at transforming how legal teams interact with and understand what is in their contracts. Released today as a commercial preview and set to launch for general availability