In a hire designed to further accelerate its growth, Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, has named Prabhdeep Singh, who has held executive roles in technology companies such as Clover, WeWork and Uber, as chief operating officer. Singh was most recently operating partner at Armory Square Ventures, where he was a board
BARBRI, one of the leading companies in the field of legal education, has acquired SkillBurst Interactive, a company that provides on-demand learning programs for law firms and corporations. “The integration of SkillBurst Interactive will introduce innovative multilingual, interactive learning solutions that align with the evolving demands of law firms and legal professionals,” BARBRI said in
In the first two posts in this series, I have talked about the consolidation of ownership that has occurred in recent years for law practice management technology. Whereas this market was once characterized by a variety of competing companies, virtually all of the major products are now owned by one of six ownership groups. Part
In today’s episode, we feature three impromptu conversations with leaders of the case management company Filevine. Last week, I was in Salt Lake City to attend LEX Summit, the Filevine customer conference. While there, I snagged three of the company’s top executives for brief, impromptu conversations about the company, its products, and the conference. In
The three finalists have been announced for the 2024 KM&I LexPrize Innovation Award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the legal industry. As I noted when I first wrote about the LexPrize award in May, this is the first year of the award, which will be presented at
“You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” yelled the hawkers of olden days at major league baseball stadiums. In the modern days of law practice management, that may still be true. As I wrote yesterday in part one of this four-part series, the law practice management market has undergone dramatic consolidation, from what was
Finalists have been named for the 2024 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology, and this year, there is a twist for me: I’m honored to say I’m one of them. The awards recognize achievement in various categories related to legal technology, such as by a law firm, an
Sixteen years ago marked the beginning of a sea change in law practice management technology for solo and small law firms. On March 1, 2008, a virtually unknown company out of Canada called Themis Solutions launched the first cloud-based software product for managing a law practice, called Clio. Coincidentally, just a week earlier, another company,
Zuva, the company that spun off from AI contract review pioneer Kira when it was acquired by Litera in 2021, today released its own AI contract review tool, Zuva Analyze, which it says will enable in-house legal teams to review contracts 2-3 times faster than reviewing them manually. Developed by the same team that originally
Live today on the weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, we’ll get a briefing on the major upgrade to Vincent AI, the vLex AI assistant, from Robin Chesterman, global head of product, and Ed Walters, chief strategy officer, following yesterday’s announcement of major enhancements to the legal workflow assistant. Of course, the panel will also talk about
What if you could have an invisible guardian angel sitting on your shoulder during a deposition, whispering in your ear to point out questions you’ve asked awkwardly, inconsistencies in the witness’s testimony, and points needing follow-up or explication? In effect, that is what a new product introduced this week by Filevine can do for you.
Matt Rasmussen had worked for some 20 years in litigation technology and support at major law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and litigation services providers, when he wondered why mobile collections had to be so time-consuming, inefficient and invasively overbroad. As he looked into it, he realized there was a better way to manage mobile collections.
Ever since Casetext released CoCounsel on March 1, 2023, the race has been on among legal tech companies to develop the most capable generative AI assistant for legal professionals. Today, vLex is releasing a major upgrade to its Vincent AI that puts it firmly in the running for that honor. I might be even more
In his keynote speech opening LEX Summit in Salt Lake City, Filevine founder and CEO Ryan Anderson emphasized platforms as the future of technology for law firms, criticizing the legal technology landscape as a fragmented and inefficient array of point solutions, and promising that Filevine will deliver firms a better way by bringing together everything
Multiple lawyers who are using the payments app Venmo in their law practices are exposing client information to the public — and they may not even know it. These accounts expose client names and sometimes other details, such as payment amounts, the nature of the representation, or even the client’s financial straits. Model Rule 1.6
On Oct. 17 and 18, 2024, two of the legal industry’s leading experts on knowledge management and innovation, Patrick DiDomenico, founder and CEO of InspireKM Consulting, and Joshua Fireman, president of Fireman & Company, which is owned by Epiq, the global provider of technology-enabled legal services, will present the second-annual KM&I for Legal Conference in