The legal technology company Litera has unveiled a new podcast series, Legaltech Matters, and I had the honor of hosting the first episode — an interview with CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on what’s driving Litera’s acquisition strategy and where it’s going.

The new biweekly podcast series is dedicated to creating conversations about technology,…

Our regular Friday Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable will feature a guest today: Jim McGinnis, CEO of practice management company MyCase.

McGinnis will take questions from our panel of legal tech journalists, including about news yesterday of an integration between MyCase and the virtual receptionist service Smith.ai, and also about the inaugural…

The law practice management company Smokeball has secured a $30 million investment from private investors and employee shareholders in order to double down on growth, it said today.

The company said it will use the funds to fast-track the expansion of its team of more than 200 employees and the development of its proprietary…

MyCase, the cloud-based practice management platform, and Smith.ai, a virtual receptionist service for law firms and other businesses, have created an integration by which MyCase customers will be able to outsource call answering while viewing and tracking call logs directly within MyCase.

To take advantage of the integration, MyCase customers will need a…

It is another big investment in contract lifecycle technology, as London-based ContractPodAi today announced a $115 million Series C investment headed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, reportedly at a valuation five times greater than the company’s Series B round in 2019.

The investment is “big” in terms of dollars — exceeding last year’s…

Seven weeks ago, as Litera announced its acquisition of Kira Systems, the pioneering AI contract analysis company, Kira announced the spin off of a new company, Zuva, to continue developing machine learning technology for business documents.

Now, Zuva is off to a running start, announcing today that it has secured Series…

Today at noon ET, LexisNexis Canada will present the second program in its masterclass panel discussion series, Tech & Litigation, Shifting Paradigms. Today’s panel focuses on legal operations and how technology can help legal departments manage legal spend and outside counsel.

I will be one of the panelists, together with:…

You would be hard-pressed to find two people in legal technology more experienced in user interface and user experience design than Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart. Bradick is founder and CEO of the legal tech design and development firm

Recent headlines in the financial press are replete with stories about the new boom in buy now, pay later financing for retail purchases, with many retailers, including Walmart, the nation’s largest, now offering these point-of-sale loans.

Now, the electronic payments company LawPay is bringing buy now, pay later financing to the legal industry.…

Fully virtual again this year, the Clio Cloud Conference is Oct. 26-29, with a full line-up of programs on legal practice and technology, keynote speakers such as Arianna Huffington, founder of Thrive and The Huffington Post, and entertainment from Grammy Award winning musicians. On Friday, I saw down with George Psiharis, chief operating officer of Clio, to discuss the company's planning for the conversation and to learn more about what attendees should expect. What follows is a transcript of our conversation, which I have edited for clarity, concision and continuity. Also, Clio provided a promotional code for readers…

On this episode of How It Works: Woodpecker, AI-enabled legal document automation for solo and small firms. Joining me in the video below to introduce Woodpecker and demonstrate how it works is founder and CEO Alex Melehy.

Melehy and his team of engineers and attorneys say they believe that generating accurate legal documents should…

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. While we once might have thought these issues were temporary, many legal professionals continue to operate virtually, and even when we are fully free of the pandemic, many of us are likely to continue to practice virtually, at least part of the time. Given this, I thought it would be useful to round up the ethics opinions from the last 18 months that address issues relating to the pandemic's impact on our practices and our clients. Invariably,…