As many businesses across the United States struggle to deal with the employment issues arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, today released a free automated tool to help them develop essential policies on working from home, sick leave, and other critical…

As the COVID-19 pandemic has stymied standard ways of closing deals and signing documents, Litera said today it is offering six months of no-cost access to a lite version of its deal-management platform Litera Transact.

In a message sent to Litera customers today, CEO Avaneesh Marwaha said that he is hearing from law…

On Monday, March 23, the practice management company Clio announced that it was committing $1 million to a disaster relief fund to help the legal community successfully navigate the challenges and hurdles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We want to ensure lawyers are set up to succeed as well as ensuring…

The practice management company Clio is announcing today that it is committing $1 million to a disaster relief fund to help the legal community successfully navigate the challenges and hurdles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We want to ensure lawyers are set up to succeed as well as ensuring their their clients can…

The coronavirus pandemic has forced organizers of legal conferences to cancel a multitude of events. Today, a free webinar will explore options for moving these events online, through online conferences, webcasting and virtual summits.

It is being presented by Events.Legal. I will be a panelist, along with:…

To help legal professionals who are having to work from home or make other adjustments during the coronavirus crisis, I have created a page where I will track offers of free products and services from legal technology companies and others.

I have started it here: Coronavirus Resources.

If you have something to add, email…

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the global legal services provider Integreon said today that it has taken steps to enhance the ability of its employees working from home or other remote environments to provide their services securely, including a partnership with SecureReview, a company that provides a secure infrastructure for remote workers.…

To help solo and small-firm lawyers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australia-based company Legaler is offering its secure online video chat platform free to firms of 10 lawyers or fewer.

Legaler’s platform allows lawyers to schedule, host and archive secure video meetings with multiple participants and screen sharing.

While Legaler’s starter package is already…

Even amid a global pandemic, companies are not exempt from compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which applies to any company that stores or processes personal information about EU citizens, including U.S. companies.

Aiming to make GDPR compliance easier for companies, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson…

As law firms send their staffs to work from home and courts take their proceedings online, coronavirus has caused competence in technology to rise to a new level of urgency for the legal profession.

What are the implications of this for lawyers and firms? What will it mean for firms that lag in technology adoption?…

On Thursday, March 12, facing the escalating threat of the coronavirus pandemic, Brigham Young University Law School made the decision to close down live classes, send students home, and teach the remainder of the semester online.

As it happened, I was at the law school that day, where he was scheduled to interview the school’s…

The legal publishing and blogging company LexBlog has launched Coronavirus Legal Daily, a resource that pulls together blog posts from throughout the world that address the legal issues surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.

The resource is updated regularly with blog posts from the LexBlog network, covering legislative and regulatory developments, legal issues relating to the…