As it has almost every year since 2011, the legal technology newsletter TechnoLawyer has published its picks for the top products of the year.

Winners are picked through “passive” voting, based on the number of reader click-throughs on articles published during the year about new products.

“When you and your fellow TechnoLawyer subscribers click…

Two years ago, I signed off the podcast I’d done for 13 years to launch a new podcast, LawNext, where I planned to feature the innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.

Ninety-two episodes later, I’ve had the honor of speaking with many of the leading innovators in legal.…

Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from the LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry.

This week’s featured resource:

White Paper: Artificial Intelligence 101: Introducing AI into Contract Management.

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Artificial intelligence (AI)…

Thomson Reuters is today introducing an artificial intelligence brief-checking tool designed to help judges understand and validate the briefs submitted in their courts.

But that begs the question: If your judge is using this tool to check the briefs of you and your opponents, then wouldn’t you want to use it first, before you…

Litera today announced a further expansion of Litera TV, its platform of streaming legal programming, with a new Netflix-like user experience, new hosts, and the announcement that it will provide gavel-to-gavel live coverage of next week’s ILTA>ON conference, with me as one of two anchors hosting the coverage, along with Caroline Hill,…

The managed services company Factor, one of two companies that spun off last year from legal services company Axiom, said today that one of its original investors, the investment firm Carrick Capital Partners, will multiply its stake in the company to become its majority shareholder.

Although the amount of the investment has not been disclosed,…

A year after it acquired HighQ, the London-based enterprise collaboration and file-sharing platform for the legal industry, Thomson Reuters is today announcing an upgraded version of the platform, which it says is the most significant HighQ release to date, with more than 100 new features and enhancements.

Among the most notable features of…

It should have come as no surprise when California attorney Erin Levine recently announced her plan to go nationwide with her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. After all, the site has been seeing rapid growth and has earned Levine broad accolades, including the 2020 James I. Keane Memorial Award for…

Kira Systems is known in the legal profession for its machine learning software that identifies, extracts and analyzes text in commercial contracts, often used in M&A due diligence reviews. But in a unique public policy partnership, Kira’s software is being deployed as part of a police-reform initiative aimed at reducing police violence.

The reform…

The contract management lifecycle company Agiloft has received a $45 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital — the first outside investment for this 29-year-old California company.

In conjunction with the investment, Eric Laughlin has been named chief executive officer, succeeding Agiloft’s founder Colin Earl, who will remain with…

If you missed our live panel of legal journalists yesterday discussing the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation, here are the audio and video recordings.

This week’s topics included: the Utah Supreme Court approves sweeping regulatory changes to address access to justice, e-discovery company Reveal acquires AI company NexLP, Biglaw lawyers flock…

In June, Documate founder Dorna Moini  and Northwestern Law professor Dan Linna issued a challenge to law students: Build an innovative legal technology application to solve a legal problem using the Documate document-automation platform and win $1,000.

Today, the winners of that Law for Everyone Challenge, selected by a panel of…