The results are in. Readers have been voting to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2021, which will be held virtually March 8-12, 2021. These 15 will face off in a virtual pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, with the conference's attendees voting to pick the top winner. The first-place winner gets a package of marketing and advertising prizes. In November, we issued a call for entries. From all the entries we received, a panel of judges narrowed the applications…

Veristar, a two-year-old company that provides services in e-discovery and litigation support, has acquired the assets of Planet Data Solutions, a 20-year-old company that provides contract analysis and e-discovery technology and services.

Under the terms of the acquisition, Planet Data’s Exego software division will operate under a separate Exego LLC. Exego is…

The deadline is Friday to vote to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2021.

Your votes determine the 15 companies that will be selected to face off in a virtual pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW.

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Barely six months into his new position as senior vice president and general counsel for The Coca-Cola Company, Bradley M. Gayton has taken dramatic action to increase diversity and inclusion among the company’s outside counsel, telling firms that they must meet minimum diversity commitments or face consequences ranging from fee reductions to…

This week saw the first virtual version of Legalweek, typically one of the largest legal tech and legal industry conferences. How well did the physical conference translate to the virtual world? Our panelists share their thoughts.

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The Ireland-based company Brightflag, whose platform uses artificial intelligence to help corporate legal departments better manage their legal spend and legal matters, is adding a set of new reports to its existing reporting feature that are designed to provide companies with a more nuanced perspective for assessing their relationships with outside counsel.

The news…

The annual Legalweek conference in New York is always the occasion for legal technology companies to roll out announcements of new products and features. This year’s conference, which kicked off yesterday in a virtual version redubbed Legalweek(year) and reformulated as a year-long series of events — is no different, although the announcements…

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. said today it is enhancing its Kluwer Competition Law resource with the addition of the Merger Thresholds Monitor, a knowledge management platform maintained by Granville Knowledge Management that provides up-to-date merger control thresholds, procedural information, exchange rates, interpretation and guidance for 135 jurisdictions worldwide.

Merger thresholds…

TermScout is a unique legal technology startup devoted to reviewing, rating and comparing the software contracts of leading business-to-business companies so that software buyers can better and more easily understand what they are being asked to sign.

Today it marked its official launch with the release of the first major set of its customer-favorability…

In an alliance announced today, KPMG and SirionLabs are teaming up to offer digital contract management to enterprises worldwide, combining KPMG’s consulting expertise in addressing complex business problems with SirionLabs’ AI-driven contract lifecycle management technology.

The alliance encompasses KPMG in the U.S., KPMG in the U.K., and member firms of the global professional…

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Kira Systems, the first company to develop AI-powered contract analysis, technology that is now becoming commonplace in the legal profession. To mark the anniversary, Kira’s cofounders are releasing a book, AI For Lawyers: How Artificial…

We introduce a new segment this week: panelists’ rants and raves, a lightning round of what made us mad or glad this week. Other stories we discuss include: a look-ahead to virtual Legalweek, an ABA ethics opinion on responding to negative online criticism, ROSS’s litigation gambit calling Thomson Reuters a monopoly, whether virtual firms…