Between 2016 and 2018, I wrote a series of posts about Derek Bluford, a one-time rising star on the legal tech start-up scene whose star fell after I reported in 2016 of his settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients.

Now, Bluford has been…

Trustbooks is cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms. In this debut episode of How It Works, Trustbooks cofounder Chad Todd introduces the product and demonstrates how it works.

How It Works is a sponsored video series that lets you see how legal technology products work. Each episode features a hands-on…

Barely a day goes by that I am not sitting down with the developer of a legal tech product for a demonstration of how it works.

I find these demonstrations enormously helpful in understanding what a product does, how easy it is to use, and why I’d want it in my practice.

You know the…

April brings an embarrassment of riches when it comes to virtual conferences focused on innovation in law.

The only problem is that three of them overlap, which may cause you to channel that old Firesign Theatre bit, “How can you be two places at once …”

Here’s the line-up:

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LinkSquares, a contract lifecycle management and analysis company, is unveiling several new features today, including Strategic Values, which are sets of expert-selected terms to help its AI-powered Linksquares Analyze product uncover and extract topics in contracts related to key issues such as GDPR, HIPAA, mergers and acquisitions, and more.

The company also announced…

Earlier this year, the legal technology company Litera expanded its product line-up into law firm intelligence with the acquisition of Foundation Software Group, developer of a firm intelligence platform for larger law firms, and the consequent formation of the Litera Firm Intelligence business unit.

Now Litera is further rounding out its firm…

With the aim of providing corporate legal departments with a single system-of-record that joins together all of their internal and external legal work product, the company Joinder, which spun off last year from the global law firm Orrick, is today formally launching its platform.

The company describes its platform as one that “puts…



Throughout Europe and Eastern Europe, Holger Zscheyge is widely regarded as a leading authority on legal technology and innovation. President of the European Legal Technology Association, he is also founder and managing director of Infotropic Media, a Moscow-based legal publisher and producer of legal technology…

Lawyerist, a company that offers business resources and coaching for small law firms, has made a strategic investment in The Law Practice Exchange, a company that facilitates the buying and selling of law practices.

Aaron Street, Lawyerist’s cofounder and CEO, told me that his company has made a significant cash investment in…

On Tuesday, I reported here that D. Casey Flaherty, who for the last two years has been director of legal project management at global law firm Baker McKenzie, and who developed the Procertas technology training and benchmarking platform, has joined LexFusion, a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies launched last October, as a cofounder…

The Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable will enter a new realm tomorrow, as our weekly panel goes virtual and our usual talking heads take the form of avatars (for this week only).

You’ll be able to watch us the normal way, on Zoom, and if you haven’t already registered for one of our previous weekly roundtables,…

Finding a lawyer to consult with remains an intimidating proposition for many consumers. They don’t know who to call or what it might cost them.

A new website called Pro Help Legal aims to address that problem by offering near-instant access to video chat with a lawyer, with clear disclosure in advance of the…