The private equity firm Warburg Pincus has acquired NetDocuments, one of the leading cloud-based document management systems used by law firms and corporate legal departments, according to a report this morning by Legal IT Insider.

Warburg Pincus has acquired the company from Clearlake Capital Group, with existing investor Cove Hill retaining its stake…

One of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. And one of the companies that best represents that trend is Paradigm, which was founded two years ago as ASG LegalTech and rebranded this…

If you missed Friday’s Legaltech Week review of the top stories in legal technology and innovation, here are the video and audio recordings.

Two guest panelists joined us this week: Roy Strom, correspondent for Bloomberg Law and formerly a reporter for The American Lawyer and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, and

At a time when many are predicting a tsunami of eviction cases resulting from the pandemic, the organization Pro Bono Net, in collaboration with several legal aid organizations, has launched TenantHelpNY.org, an online resource designed to help tenants in New York understand their housing rights.

The new site provides resources to help tenants…

Live today at 3 E.T. is our weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, where our panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.

Two guests are joining our regular line-up of panelists for today’s show:…

David Colarusso, director of the Legal Innovation & Technology Lab at Suffolk Law School in Boston, recently joined me for an episode of my Law Insights program on Litera TV.

Among the topics we discussed were the work and mission of the LIT Lab and some of…

One of the riskiest aspects of litigation practice is spoliation — the destruction or alteration of evidence — which can carry costly sanctions for both lawyers and their clients.

Today, the law firm Eversheds Sutherland and the legal research company Fastcase are releasing what they say is a first-of-its-kind tool designed to assess…

The contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today released an add-on module for companies to manage sourcing and supplier information, with the goal of reducing sourcing cycle time, automating supplier onboarding, and monitoring ongoing compliance.

Andy Wishart, Agiloft’s chief product officer, told me that this is the first of…

Did the legal tech movement begin in the 1970s? What is causing the current boom in legal tech? And what will happen once the pandemic is over?

These and other questions are the subject of a free webinar tomorrow, The Past, Present and Future of Legal Tech, presented by the University of Copenhagen and…

Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing software company, and Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of information and insights, particularly in the area of intellectual property, today announced a partnership to integrate Clarivate’s CompuMark international trademark data into the Alt Legal platform, giving Alt Legal customers access to CompuMark and its 186…

There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such…

Josef, an Australia-based, no-code software platform that enables legal professionals to automate common tasks, has raised $2.5 million.

The funding round was led by Australian venture firm Carthona Capital, with participation from U.S. investors, including The LegalTech Fund.

Added to the startup’s $1 million seed round in 2019, this brings its total…