Category: LawSites

This post was originally published on this siteAt its 10th annual Relativity Fest conference in Chicago last week, the e-discovery company Relativity announced the winners of the 2019 Innovation Awards, which recognize third-party applications that integrate with Relativity to streamline processes, solve complex workflows, or create an altogether new solution that positively impacts business strategy. This […]

This post was originally published on this site Nineteen years ago, Mark Harris and Alec Guettel founded Axiom, a pioneering service to provide on-demand legal talent to corporate legal departments, growing it into a company with a roster of more than 2,000 lawyers that works with over half of the Fortune 100, while also developing technology and managed services arms. […]

This post was originally published on this siteIf you’re a legaltech startup, I don’t want to spook you, but Halloween is the last day to submit your application for one of 15 spots 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. […]

This post was originally published on this site As I mentioned in my post earlier today about the Clio Cloud Conference, a new feature this year was the podcast alley, where a string of podcasters were able to set up shop — LawNext among them. Among the people I sat down with to record conversations […]

This post was originally published on this siteWe often hear that lawyers are fearful of innovation. We often hear that lawyers are luddites when it comes to technology. We often hear that lawyers are horrible at business. We often hear that lawyers are miserable in their work. So what happens when you gather 2,000 legal […]

This post was originally published on this siteThe ABA Journal has a new publisher and editor-in-chief, according to sources familiar with the hiring. He is John O’Brien, a journalist who has held a number of reporting and editing roles in the Chicago area. As I reported here in September, the magazine’s former editor and publisher, […]

This post was originally published on this siteFor all the talk about using technology to enhance access to justice, it puts things in perspective to see tangible examples. One of the best sources of such examples is the annual set of Technology Initiative Grants awarded by the Legal Services Corporation. Established in 2000, the TIG […]

This post was originally published on this siteI have written a number of times here about the innovative LawX lab at BYU Law, in which students use design thinking to tackle issues in access to justice. The lab has already produced two notable applications: SoloSuit, an award-winning online tool to help self-represented people who have been […]

This post was originally published on this siteTomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern time, I am moderating a free webinar, Why Self-Service Is Critical To The Future Of Legal Departments, sponsored by Everlaw and Above the Law. We will look at how legal departments, in the face of heightened client expectation, are exploring self-service technologies in order […]

This post was originally published on this siteJack Newton, the cofounder and CEO of practice management company Clio, describes his vision for the company as becoming the operating system of law — a point he reiterated yesterday during his keynote that opened the Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego. To that end, Clio has steadily […]