Author: Bob Ambrogi
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Canadian Bar Association Chooses CosmoLex As Exclusive Preferred Practice Management Software
In a major win for the law practice management platform CosmoLex, it has entered into an agreement with the 36,000-member Canadian Bar Association to be the CBA’s exclusive preferred practice management software for members. In a country known for having strict regulatory requirements for legal accounting, the CBA said that CosmoLex “checks all the boxes” for …
Casetext Launches Co-Counsel, Its OpenAI-Based ‘Legal Assistant’ To Help Lawyers Search Data, Review Documents, Draft Memos, Analyze Contracts and More
With the legal industry consumed with interest in generative AI and legal tech companies scrambling to incorporate the technology into their products, it was a sure bet that, sooner rather than later, Casetext would come out with a product of its own. After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural …
Building On Its Acquisition of Parley Pro, LexisNexis Adds Contract Lifecycle Management to CounselLink
Building on its acquisition last year of the contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform Parley Pro, LexisNexis is today announcing the integration of Parley Pro’s CLM capabilities to its cloud-based CounselLink enterprise legal management solution for corporate legal departments. CounselLink is also today introducing work intake features designed to facilitate the submission and management of legal …
LawPay Introduces ‘Pro’ Tier to Bridge Features Gap Between Payments and Practice Management
With ABA TECHSHOW beginning Wednesday, you can expect several companies to introduce new products and features this week. First up is the online payments company LawPay, which today is announcing a new product tier, LawPay Pro, that enhances the standard LawPay electronic payments platform with the addition of legal billing features. The additional features, such …
Wolters Kluwer Reorg Brings Its Two Major Legal Businesses Under Same Roof
With revenues last year of some $5.5 billion, the Dutch company Wolters Kluwer is a major global publishing and technology company for professionals in law, health, accounting and compliance. But something that always seemed askew to me about its corporate organization was that its two principal legal product groups, Enterprise Legal Management Solutions (ELM) and …
Akin Gump Loses Bid To Dismiss Legal Tech Company’s Counterclaims In Suit Over Ownership Of Bill-Drafting Software
The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. As I reported here in November, Akin Gump sued Xcential in the …
LawNext Podcast: Paralegal Kathryn Tewson On Her Quest for Accountability from DoNotPay
Kathryn Tewson was a little-known paralegal when, on Jan. 24, she was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. That day, she published a scathing series of tweets recounting her investigation of DoNotPay, the company that describes itself as “the world’s first robot lawyer.” She concluded that the company’s supposed AI-driven products were little more than smoke …
In the Third Legal Tech Rebranding in Three Weeks, 40-Year-Old AbacusNext Rebrands as CARET
There is a saying that once is luck, twice is coincidence, and three times is a pattern. If so, then we now officially have a pattern of legal technology companies rebranding, as it has happened three times in the last three weeks. The latest to rebrand is AbacusNext, a provider of software for legal and …
Reminder: A Chance For You To Share Your Legal Tech Insights And Possibly Win A Gift Card
Here’s a possible win-win: Share your legal tech knowledge or experiences with the legal community and possibly win a gift card for doing so. Two weeks ago, we announced a unique campaign to encourage writers to contribute to the resources library of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Contribute an article during February and put yourself …
Filevine Unveils AI-Driven Immigration Forms, Accounting Integration with Oracle NetSuite, and A Broad Vision for AI
At its LEX Summit user conference this week, the law practice management company Filevine made two major product announcements, and its CEO outlined a broad vision for incorporating AI throughout the company’s products. The first of the two product announcements is a feature that uses artificial intelligence to translate client documents and then extract and …
On LawNext Podcast: ‘A Bit Of A Nothingburger’: Joshua Browder Speaks To The DoNotPay Controversy
On this episode of LawNext: Joshua Browder, founder of DoNotPay. Browder achieved international recognition when, at just 17 years old in 2015, he founded DoNotPay, touted as the world’s first robot lawyer, to help people appeal parking tickets. The company claims the app has saved motorists in the U.S. and UK many millions of dollars. …
Bessemer Venture Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Legal Practice Management Company Litify
Bessemer Venture Partners, a VC firm that has already made substantial investments in legal technology companies such as Clio, DISCO and Anaqua, has acquired a majority stake in Litify, a law practice management platform founded in 2016 by a team of people who came out of Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiffs’ law firm in …
On LawNext Podcast: Documate Founder Dorna Moini on Rebranding As Gavel and How Law Firms Can Productize their Legal Services
Last week, Documate, the no-code document automation platform, rebranded as Gavel, a move designed to better reflect the company’s mission to become the platform of choice for legal professionals and legal organizations wanting to “productize” the delivery of legal services by packaging services as online legal products. Gavel founder and CEO Dorna Moini joins LawNext this week to discuss …
With Launch of Second-Generation Platform, Legatics Expands from Transaction Management into Project Management
With the launch today of its second-generation platform, London-based Legatics is expanding the capabilities it offers customers from its core of legal transaction management into broader legal project management. With some 40 templates, customizable templates, and a new interface designed to be more intuitive, Legatics now supports legal project workflows and deal closures across a range …
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