Category: LawSites

This post was originally published on this siteIn my role as publisher and editor-in-chief of LexBlog, it is my great honor today to announce the winners of the inaugural LexBlog Excellence Awards, a first-of-its-kind contest designed to honor excellence in the writing of legal blog posts. Unlike other “best blog” awards, ours were not designed […]

This post was originally published on this siteWith its much-ballyhooed launch in 2017 and its backing by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Twitch founder Justin Kan, Atrium said it would “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of a law firm and a separate-but-connected entity to provide back-end services and technology. But now there are signs […]

This post was originally published on this siteBuilding on its 2018 acquisition of the AI technology and consulting firm LexPredict, the global law company Elevate has launched a Digital Strategy and Solutions business unit and hired a big name in legal AI to run it — Brian Kuhn, formerly global managing leader of the IBM […]

This post was originally published on this siteJason Tashea, the lawyer and former technology reporter for the ABA Journal, has joined an early-stage technology startup devoted to empowering pro se litigants in small claims cases. Tashea is now product manager at Quest for Justice, a company formed last August with the goal of building an […]

This post was originally published on this siteAs was reported here yesterday, the London-based contract-management company Juro announced a $5 million Series A investment round led by the U.S. investment banking firm Union Square Ventures. What does the investment mean for the company’s expansion in the U.S. market? In a conversation yesterday, I put that question […]

This post was originally published on this siteReynen Court, a company that is often described as the app store of law, today said it has raised an additional $3 million of financing as it prepares to come out of beta in the first quarter of this year. The company’s mission is to make it easy […]

This post was originally published on this siteFor the first time at its 2020 annual conference, the American Association of Law Libraries will dedicate a portion of its exhibit hall to featuring startups and emerging companies in the legal information field. Start-Up Central will be a dedicated space at the annual meeting for newer companies […]

This post was originally published on this siteThe legal technology company Aderant, which provides business and practice management software for larger law firms, has acquired Bellefield Systems, developer of the cloud-based mobile-friendly timekeeping product iTimekeep, which runs on Microsoft Azure, and its related product OCG Live, which works with iTimekeep to enforce compliance with outside […]

This post was originally published on this site Although it has been some 40 years since women started entering the practice of law in large numbers, and even though women make up as many as half of incoming associates each year, they still account for just 20% of equity partners at larger firms. Part of […]

This post was originally published on this siteIt has been quite a year for legal tech startup Evisort. Twelve months ago this week, the company introduced its flagship product, Document Analyzer, a cloud-based AI and text-mining application that helps enterprises analyze and manage their contracts. At the time, I wrote that it “might just be […]