Category: LawSites

This post was originally published on this siteSeal Software, the company that helped spawn the increasingly competitive field of enterprise contract review and analytics, has now expanded into the pre-execution, negotiation side of the contracts lifecycle with the launch of Seal Now, a contract analytics product specifically designed to review draft contracts prepared by a […]

This post was originally published on this siteThe International Legal Technology Association has released an executive summary of its annual technology survey of law firms that underscores firms’ continuing adoption of cloud-based technologies while finding that only about 20% of firms are currently using or testing artificial intelligence and machine learning. ILTA will release the […]

This post was originally published on this siteAlt Legal, the cloud-based, intellectual-property docketing software company, has acquired MarkTend, a trademark docketing and monitoring software, for an undisclosed price. As a result of the acquisition, MarkTend will shut down its docketing software business and its customers will be transitioned to Alt Legal. Alt Legal will continue […]

This post was originally published on this siteAttention legal technology startups: Here is your chance to compete to be featured as a presenter and exhibitor in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, taking place in Chicago Feb. 26-29, 2020. Today, we are officially announcing the call for […]

This post was originally published on this siteWell, it’s happened again. A major law firm has exposed secret information because it did not properly redact a court filing. It is the oldest screw-up in the technology book, yet it happens with surprising frequency and by lawyers who you might think should know better. It happened […]

This post was originally published on this siteTechnical difficulties have delayed the release of this week’s episode of my own LawNext podcast, but meanwhile I am a guest on the most-recent episodes of two other podcasts. Thanks to both for including me. Legal Rebels Podcast: Exploring New Frontiers in Research for the Legal Industry. On […]

This post was originally published on this siteI am thrilled to announce a new awards competition for legal blogs — not because the world needs another contest, but because this one aims to do something different, to celebrate excellence in blog writing and spotlight the authors who make legal blogging so vital and essential. The […]

This post was originally published on this siteElectronic filing of court documents is one of those technologies that can be both a blessing and a curse. While e-filing eliminates the headaches of paper filing and saves time overall, there is no standardization of the process across different courts, requiring different logins, different filing formats, and […]

This post was originally published on this siteLegalist, a San Francisco-based litigation finance company started by two Harvard University dropouts and advised by retired 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner, has just raised $100 million, which it will use to fund plaintiffs in 100-200 commercial cases over the next two years. Legalist […]

This post was originally published on this siteMichigan today become the 37th state to adopt the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers. The Michigan Supreme Court issued an order adopting a variation of Model Rule 1.1, Comment 8, of the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct. [See my Tech Competence page where […]