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The Clio Cloud Conference is always the occasion for the law practice management company to announce new and enhanced products, and today’s kick-off of this year’s event was no different, with CEO Jack Newton unveiling what he described to me as the most important product release since Clio’s debut 13 years ago.…
Bob Ambrogi
Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.
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Law Street Media, the Fastcase News Service, Launches M&A News Feed, Using Data from Matterhorn
Law Street Media, the legal news service owned by Fastcase, is adding coverage of mergers, acquisitions and financings, using data and documents provided by Matterhorn Transactions, a company that provides comprehensive databases, analyses, and reports of publicly filed transactional information.
This adds transactional news to Law Street Media’s existing litigation-focused coverage of technology,…
New ‘Judicial Brief Analysis’ from LexisNexis Allows Lawyers to Compare Up to Six Briefs at Once
Despite its name, Judicial Brief Analysis, an enhancement introduced today to the Lexis+ legal research platform from LexisNexis, is targeted at lawyers, enabling them to analyze up to six briefs at a time and receive a report comparing all case law, arguments, citations and quotes.
The product’s name is meant to suggest that it…
ZERO’s New Product Automatically Captures Billable Time On A Lawyer’s Desktop Computer
Some lawyers will tell you that there is no greater nuisance in their daily work than recording their billable time. For those lawyers, salvation has arrived, and its name is Apollo.
Apollo is a new AI-driven software product being released today by ZERO, a company whose flagship product automatically captures billable time spent on emails…
Nomination Deadline Nears for Litera’s Changing Lawyer Awards; Will Include First ‘WFH Creative Award’
The deadline is Monday, Oct. 25, to submit nominations for The Changing Lawyer Awards 2021, sponsored by Litera, which will be presented to winners Nov. 10 as part of the fourth Changing Lawyer Virtual Summit.
The awards recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in both embracing and…
How It Works: MyCase, Practice Management Software that Enables Law Firms to Run from Anywhere
On the latest installment of How It Works: MyCase, a complete law practice management solution that helps firms run efficiently from anywhere, provide an exceptional client experience, and easily track firm performance so that they can reach their business goals.
Cathleen Swallow, senior director of product management at MyCase, joins me to provide…
AI-Powered Tax Research Platform Blue J Launches First-of-its-Kind Entity and Relationship Diagramming
For tax lawyers and accountants, a major pain point is the time they spend drawing complex entity and relationship diagrams — diagrams that map the major players involved in a client’s tax scenario and the relationships among them.
Until now, the state of the art for creating these diagrams has been Microsoft PowerPoint, according to…
Integration Between Docket Alarm and Courtroom Insight Connects 500M Litigation Documents to Judge and Expert Witness Profiles
A new integration between two litigation-focused legal technology products connects more than 500 million federal and state litigation dockets and documents with a database of expert witness and judicial profiles, with the aim of helping lawyers better evaluate expert witnesses.
The integration is between Docket Alarm, a Fastcase-owned product that mines federal and…
After WSJ’s Explosive Exposé on Judges’ Financial Conflicts, Free Law Project Posts the Data For All to See
In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest.
To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.
The data…
Paradigm, Parent to Three Practice Management Platforms, Acquired By Francisco Partners
Paradigm — the parent company to practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase and payments platform Headnote — is being acquired by Francisco Partners, a major investment firm that specializes in investments in technology businesses.
A Reuters report valued the deal at $400 million, citing “people familiar with…
Evisort Now Self-Populates Contract Dashboards to Quickly Visualize Data and Summarize Key Metrics
Upload 10,000 contracts today and nearly instantly visualize critical contract data and key metrics.
That is what contract management company Evisort says its customers can now do with the launch today of its new Intelligent Dashboarding.
Intelligent Dashboarding is the first self-populating dashboard that instantly visualizes contract data and summarizes key metrics without manual…
A New Panelist Joins Our Legaltech Week Roundtable Today; Watch Live At 3 ET
A new panelist is joining us today as a regular on our weekly Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable, where a panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
The new panelist is Jean O’Grady, publisher of the blog Dewey B Strategic, where she writes about “risk, value, strategy,…