After 10 years as a lawyer at two leading transactional law firms, Haley Altman decided there should be a better way to structure the workflow around the many deals in which she was involved. So in 2016, she left law practice to found Doxly, a technology platform designed to transform the archaic and chaotic process…
The LegalBoard, the Keyboard Made for Lawyers, Goes Wireless
“Never in my 14 years of blogging and more than two decades of covering legal technology have I seen the legal world react to a new product as it did this week to the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed for lawyers.”
That is what I wrote in 2017 after I published a blog post…
A Different Kind of Lawyer Directory, Made with Millennials In Mind
What do millennials look for when shopping for a lawyer? They want to know if you’ll meet with them in Starbucks. They want to know if you accept payment via Venmo or Bitcoin. They want to know a fun or quirky fact about you.
That, at least, is the premise of Modern Attorney, a…
New Predictive Analytics Tool Ranks Law Firms to Help Clients Pick the Best One
At its annual user conference this morning in Miami, Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions unveiled a product that will help corporate legal departments pick the best law firm for a litigation matter by using predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to rank outside law firms along a range of metrics.
The product, LegalVIEW Predictive Insights,…
Australian Startup Lawpath Raises $4.4M to Grow Its Online Legal Platform
Australian legal startup Lawpath has closed a $4.4 million fundraising round, which it said was one of the largest capital raises for legal tech in Australian history.
The investment will be used to strengthen its products and services in Australia and to expand into Asia.
Lawpath also today launched a new legal services platform…
LawNext Special Report: Avvo Founder Mark Britton at the Clio Cloud Conference
In 2018, Mark Britton left Avvo, the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO until he sold it earlier that year to web behemoth Internet Brands. Soon after, he joined us here on LawNext…
Georgia Moves Closer to Adopting Duty of Technology Competence
The Board of Governors of the State Bar of Georgia have voted to approve proposed changes to the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct that would adopt the duty of technology competence. The proposed changes will now be published for a 30-day comment period and then submitted for approval to the Georgia Supreme Court.…
Nearly Half of Solos Have No Website; Two-Thirds of Firms Not on Twitter; 30% Have Blogs
Can a law firm be successful in 2019 without a website?
I wondered this as I reviewed the findings of the 2019 Legal Technology Survey Report produced by the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center.
According to the survey, 43% of solos do not have websites. Even more surprising, this percentage has…
MyCase Adds E-Signatures, Online Intake, Lead Analytics, Dashboards for Cases and Leads, and More
It has been a year since I last checked in with MyCase, the cloud practice management platform. Over that time, the company has continued to add new features and improve existing ones. Here are some of the most-notable enhancements made in recent months.
E-Signatures for PDF DocumentsIn August, MyCase added e-signatures for…
LawNext Special Report – Clio COO George Psiharis at the Clio Cloud Conference
George Psiharis was employee number six at Clio, which he joined shortly after the practice management company was founded in 2008. Now, he is COO of an enterprise with more than 400 employees and growing, responsible for customer success, business development and data operations.
Psiharis also oversees Clio’s annual Legal Trends Report,…
Announcing the Judges for the LexBlog Excellence Awards
With the Nov. 1 deadline for submissions fast approaching, I am thrilled to announce the stellar line-up of judges for the inaugural LexBlog Excellence Awards, which will honor exemplary writing on legal blogs.
As I explained in a post announcing the awards, these awards are unlike other “best blog” awards. Rather than…
Winners Named of Relativity’s 2019 Innovation Awards
At 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 year’s winners were:…
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