In an episode of LawNext recorded in person at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton discusses the “antifragile” law firm, a concept he introduced in his conference keynote — derived from the book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — that certain firms
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CosmoLex Adds CRM for Firms to Manage and Track Prospective Clients and Automate Intake Workflows
The practice management company CosmoLex has added a new client relationship management module to its all-in-one platform with the release of CosmoLex CRM.
The new CRM module is designed to enable law firms to manage, track, and communicate with prospective clients; automate intake workflows; and provide reporting to help better analyze marketing campaigns.
The
Today on Legaltech Week: ClioCon Recap, Tech Awards, E-Discovery Ethics, and More; Join Us Live at 3 ET
It has been a busy week in legal tech, including the 10th annual Clio Cloud Conference and the first-ever American Legal Technology Awards gala.
We’ll recap those stories and more with our usual Friday panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers today at 3 p.m. ET.
Attendance is free, but, if you have not already
Haley Altman, Former Litera Exec, and Mark Chandler, Former Cisco CLO, Join Board of Justice Tech Company Paladin
On the heels of raising an $8 million Series A financing round in May, Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, has named two legal industry veterans to its board to help it usher in a new phase of
ClioCon Post-Mortem: Slightly Off Its A-Game, But Still the Best Conference in Legal Tech
Question: What do you call the best team in baseball when it’s off its A-game for a night? Answer: The best team in baseball.
So what do you call the best conference in legal tech when it is off its A-game for a year? The best conference in legal tech.
Monday and Tuesday this week
LawNext Podcast: What Is Justice Tech? A Conversation with Maya Markovich
An increasing number of startups are defining themselves not as legal tech, but as justice tech. So what, exactly, is justice tech, who are some of the companies that represent it, and what is the business opportunity they present for potential investors? Our guest this week is Maya Markovich, executive director of the Justice
Clio’s 2022 Legal Trends Report Finds Lawyers’ Business Growing But Fees Fail to Keep Pace
At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report.
It finds that law firms are seeing an average 10% increase in the growth of new business, but that their fees are 3% below where
At Kick-Off of ClioCon, Clio Unveils No-Code Websites, Text Messaging, Enhanced Payments, and Advanced Third-Party App Integration
As the Clio Cloud Conference kicked off in Nashville this morning – the conference’s 10th anniversary and its first time live since 2019 – Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton took to the stage to deliver a keynote address, during which he announced several new products and product enhancements.
New products he announced were Clio
On Eve of ClioCon, Thoughts On the Legal Tech Industry from CEO Jack Newton
With the Clio Cloud Conference kicking off live Monday for the first time since 2019, and with this year marking the conference’s 10th anniversary, I caught up earlier today with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton.
Some of what we talked about is under embargo until Monday, when Clio will be announcing new products
Trellis Expands Its Court Analytics Platform Into Another Five States, for Total Coverage of 21 States
Trellis, a company that provides legal analytics and research for state trial court records, has expanded its coverage into another five states, bringing its total coverage to 21 states.
Trellis has now added coverage for courts in Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. In each of those states but Michigan, its coverage spans all counties. Michigan covers the counties
Lex Machina Adds Court Analytics for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cases
The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, has again expanded its coverage, this time adding a Chapter 11 bankruptcy module that provides legal analytics for over 115,000 Chapter 11 proceedings.
The module includes the entire docket in any bankruptcy proceeding filed after 2009 in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court under Chapter
LawNext Podcast: Why (and How) This Texas Law Firm Sent Its Staff to Portugal For A Month
At a time when law firms are struggling to retain talent and wrestling to balance hybrid workplaces, the Texas-based corporate law firm Vela Wood did something unique: It sent its employees and their families to Portugal for a month. Why did it do it? How did it do it? What did clients think? And are
Aderant Unveils Cloud Docketing Product that Combines CompuLaw with American LegalNet
Last January, Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, acquired American LegalNet (ALN), the docketing technology and rules-based calendaring company.
When it did, Aderant already had a leading rules-based calendaring product of its own, CompuLaw, which it acquired in 2011, and which originally was introduced to the legal market
I Put WordRake’s New Version 4.0 to the Test Against the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association
As reported here yesterday, the legal editing software WordRake released a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a new Simplicity editing mode for simplifying complex language.
With this release, WordRake now has two editing modes: Brevity and Simplicity. You might consider the Brevity mode
WordRake Releases Version 4.0 of its Legal Editing Software, Including New ‘Simplicity’ Mode for Simplifying Complex Language and New Pricing
The legal editing software WordRake is today releasing a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a new Simplicity editing mode for simplifying complex language.
WordRake President Scott Johns calls this a “massive update” in which WordRake has “expanded functionality, dramatically increased editing algorithm quantity and
You Can Now Research and Analyze Labor Arbitrators and their Awards with New Tool from Wolters Kluwer
While recent years have brought a number of products to market for analyzing judges and their rulings, little is available for analyzing private arbitrators, and particularly arbitrators in labor and employment matters.
A new tool introduced today takes a major step towards remedying that. Called Labor Arbitrator and Awards Analyzer, it is part of the