Yesterday, I reported that law practice management company Clio acquired the automated court-calendaring company CalendarRules. This was Clio’s second acquisition, after its 2018 acquisition of Lexicata, which it developed into its CRM platform Clio Grow.
Yesterday, I discussed the acquisition with Jack Newton, cofounder and CEO of Clio, and Scott…
Hello Divorce, a California startup whose platform facilitates low-cost do-it-yourself and attorney-assisted divorces, has raised a seed investment of $2 million to help fuel its expansion to all 50 states.
The investment was led by CEAS Investments, a single-family office that specializes in long-term investments in disruptive technologies.
Other investors included Jack…
Earlier in 2021, Apperio released a report on the findings from our survey of 160 in-house lawyers in private equity: Responsibility without control? Legal spend challenges facing private equity leaders in 2021.
Following the positive press reaction to this report, I was consistently asked whether the findings were also relevant to in-house legal teams…
Priori Legal, a marketplace for in-house legal teams to find and hire outside counsel, is expanding to also serve as a marketplace for legal technology and alternative legal services providers.
The expansion means that inhouse legal teams will be able to use Priori not only to hire lawyers to help with projects, but also…
Law practice management company Clio has acquired the automated court-calendaring company CalendarRules, Clio’s first acquisition since becoming the first law practice management company to achieve unicorn status earlier this year and its second acquisition ever.
“This acquisition is an important one as we continue to help law firms navigate a changing legal…
[Note: This is the second of an exclusive two-part series on lawyer marketplace UpCounsel, which – 16 months after new owners rescued it from shutting down – is now launching a crowdfunding campaign. In part one, I wrote about UpCounsel came back from the brink of closing down and rebuilt its business.] …
[Note: This is the first of an exclusive two-part series on lawyer marketplace UpCounsel, which – 16 months after new owners rescued it from shutting down – is now launching a crowdfunding campaign. The campaign opens to the public July 28, but readers of this blog can access the private friends and family campaign,…
Lou Andreozzi, the former chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, has been appointed to the board of directors of global managed services provider Integreon, the company said today.
The news comes a month after Integreon was acquired by the private equity firm EagleTree Capital.…
The practice management platforms Tabs3 and CosmoLex, both of which share a common owner, have each launched their own payment processing services to allow their customers to accept credit card and electronic check payments, Tabs3Pay and CosmoLexPay.
Both companies already offered credit-card processing through third-party providers — Tabs3 through LawPay and ProPay and…
With his contract-management company having just raised $40 million in Series B funding, Linksquares cofounder and CEO Vishal Sunak is aiming for some big goals, including “to build legal tech solutions that simply weren’t possible before.”
In announcing the raise, which brings the company’s total funding to $61.4 million, Sunak vowed that…
On this episode of How It Works: ContractPodAi, the award-winning legal platform designed for in-house legal teams to streamline and simplify all legal processes, from the simplest to the most complex.
Already established as a leading product in end-to-end contract lifecycle management, ContractPodAi recently expanded beyond CLM with the launch of ContractPodAi cloud, a…
The cloud-based practice management platform MerusCase is today launching an integration with CalendarRules to provide rules-based calendaring of court deadlines.
“This integration enhances your legal calendaring process and allows your law firm to stay on track using a single source of truth for your deadlines and events based on specific jurisdiction and court-appointed…
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