The venture capital market is enjoying its biggest moment since the dot-com days of the late  1990s. Globally, VC deal-making shattered records in 2021. 

But certain pockets of the market are driving the current VC ecosystem, and not every aspect of the global startup scene is increasing at the same pace. 

Today at 1 p.m.…

LexCheck, a company whose platform provides AI-powered contract negotiation, has raised an additional $5 million of funding, on top of $3 million in seed funding it raised in May 2020. 

The New York-based company said the funding would be used to further drive its growth, following a year in which it opened…

It has been a year since I have reported on a state adopting the duty of technology competence for lawyers, but now there is another: Hawaiʻi, bringing the total number of states that have adopted the duty to 40.

Effective Jan. 1, 2022, the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct were amended to revise…



As head of managed services and analytics at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, Jeffrey Solomon oversees a database that tracks over $150 billion in legal spend data. Legal departments are able to use…

Christophe Frèrebeau has a vision of where he wants his company’s artificial intelligence contract review technology to be in 10 years: “Our dream would be to be able to answer a question about a legal document, and answer it like a lawyer would.”

Frèrebeau is the cofounder and CEO of Della, a two-year-old…

PandaDoc, a San Francisco company whose platform automates document creation and workflows, said today that it has acquired the e-notary platform LiveNotary and and leveraged its technology to launch PandaDoc Notary, its own platform enabling customers to legally sign and notarize documents online.

PandaDoc Notary’s Remote Online Notarization (RON) is an all-in-one product…

Erika Harold, a litigation attorney, former Illinois political candidate, and former Miss America, has been named the new executive director of the Illinois Commission on Professionalism (popularly known as 2Civility) effective April 11, succeeding long-time executive director Jayne Reardon, who retires in May, the Illinois Supreme Court announced today.

A commercial litigation…

The Business Intelligence Group, an organization founded to recognize “true talent and superior performance in the business world,” today announced the winners of its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards, an awards program designed to honor organizations, products and people who bring artificial intelligence to life and apply it to solve real problems.

Out of 65…

The legal technology company Apperio is today unveiling enhancements to its legal spend management software  for corporate legal departments that include options for individuals within a department – including allied professionals and finance staff – to personalize and customize their view of company legal spend data.

It is also introducing another new feature, Matter…

I had the great honor this week to record a conversation with Yevgen Poltenko, executive director of the Legal Development Network, an association of community-based non-governmental organizations that promotes people-centered justice in Ukraine, for the LexBlog podcast This Week in Legal Blogging. 

We discussed his organization’s efforts to assist Ukrainians with legal…

After two weeks off to attend two back-to-back legal tech conferences, ABA TECHSHOW and Legalweek, our Legaltech Week panel of is back live today at 3 E.T., where we will do a post-mortem on what were, for many, their first live conferences in two years.

Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you…

Last month, we announced the launch of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which we hope will become the most trusted source of legal tech products in the market.

We have been grateful for the response, both from users and vendors. In order for product listings to be as complete as possible, we are…