In 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 to honor overall blogs, but…

With 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 the revolution is at…

Building 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 Watson Legal business.

The…

Jason 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 access-to-justice platform to enable…

As 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 to Richard Mabey,…

Reynen 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 for law firms and legal departments…

Legility, a Nashville-based provider of legal operations services for legal departments and law firms, has acquired Inventus, a Chicago- and London-based, international provider of e-discovery services, with locations across Europe, Asia and North America.

The result of the acquisition, Legility says, will be to “create the world’s preferred partner for technology-enabled services for the…

The prominent U.S. investment banking firm Union Square Ventures — known as the backer of technology companies such as Twitter, Twilio, Etsy and Kickstarter, as well as legal research company Casetext — is crossing the pond to lead a $5 million Series A investment round in Juro, a London-based company whose machine learning…

In 2002, three years after its founding, when Salesforce was still an upstart startup seeking to make its mark in the enterprise CRM space, founder Mark Benioff and his team conceived of a brash guerilla advertising campaign to take on the company that was then the incumbent industry leader, Siebel Systems.

With the tag…

In legal technology, it was a decade of tumult and upheaval, bringing changes that will forever transform the practice of law and the delivery of legal services.

Feisty startups took on established behemoths. The cloud dropped rain on legacy products. Mobile tech untethered lawyers. Clients demanded efficiency and transparency. Robots arrived to take over our…

In my LawNext podcast, I have conversations with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Here are the 10 episodes that were most popular during 2019.

Note: This reflects unique downloads during 2019. It is not the most popular of all time. That honor goes to my 2018 interview…

It was an epiphany, of sorts, for Greg Garman. In 2015, after 18 years at the same firm, including several as managing partner, he came to believe that most firms operated under a broken business model. Within weeks, he and several colleagues left the firm to start a smaller, more innovative practice, and he…