The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics, a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners. 
The LawLytics platform is an all-in-one website publishing and SEO platform for small law firms. Its…

Smith.ai, a virtual receptionist service, today introduced business intelligence tools that enable law firms and other businesses to visualize metadata showing who is calling them, when they call, and what actions were taken with each call.
Users of Smith.ai’s receptionist service will now have access, at no additional cost, to a call dashboard that…

After a two-week hiatus, our Friday Legaltech Week roundtable is back today at 3 p.m. E.T. to discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do.
The roundtable starts at 3 p.m. ET. Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you can do here.…

The legal technology company Litera today announced the winners of The Changing Lawyer awards for 2021, which recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in embracing and driving change through new technology, service models, or behavior across five different categories.
The awards were announced during The Changing Lawyer Virtual Summit…

At its first-ever customer conference today, the practice management company MyCase announced that it has acquired the cloud-based legal accounting company Soluno, and that it will leverage Soluno’s expertise to develop full-featured accounting natively within the MyCase platform.
The company also announced the launch of MyCase Drive, which syncs a lawyer’s documents between MyCase…

As text messaging increasingly becomes a preferred form of communication for many, the cloud practice management platform PracticePanther today said it has added built-in, two-way text messaging as a feature available to all customers at no additional cost.
Lawyers can provide the text number to clients for them to ask questions or upload documents or…

The legal technology company Clio today announced the expansion of its leadership team, naming four people to C-suite positions as chief operating officer, chief people officer, chief technology officer and chief marketing officer.
“These additions to Clio’s leadership will extend our capabilities on all fronts, including our products, people, operations, in what’s becoming an exciting…

In the latest installment of How It Works, we learn about Evisort, a leading provider of contract management and AI solutions for legal, procurement, sales, finance, and IT teams.
Joining me to tell us about it is Riley Hawkins, senior director of product. After providing an introduction to Evisort, Hawkins demonstrates how to:

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Hg, a global private equity investor, is leading a further majority investment in legal technology company Litera, which it acquired in 2018 from the investment firm K1 Investment Management.
The terms of this new investment are not being disclosed.
In the two years since Hg acquired Litera, Litera has been on a trajectory…

On the latest installment of How It Works: Breaking news from the contract lifecycle management company Agiloft, which today announced its 2021 winter release, featuring new Connected Experiences for easier enterprise integration, enabling teams to collaborate on contracts within established applications and ecosystems.
Joining me today to provide an overview of Connected Experiences and…

Last year, I wrote here about Lexion, an AI-powered contract management system for mid-market corporations that emerged out of the Allen Institute for AI, the AI research institute created by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.
At the time, the company had just raised $11 million in a Series A round, and discussed plans to…

At its Inspire 2021 customer conference today, the cloud content management platform NetDocuments is announcing that it has acquired Afterpattern, a no-code automation toolkit for legal professionals to product document and workflow automations.
The company said that Afterpattern will be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform, in order to allow customers to further focus…

This week on LawNext: A look at the innovative Tech Edge J.D. program at Santa Clara University School of Law. As law schools come under fire for failing to teach the practical skills students need to succeed in the real world, this program does the opposite. It aims to change the return on investment…