Law Practice Management Suites
On LawNext: Revisiting the Fastcase Origin Story: Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal on How Their Company Came To Be
With the news last week of the merger of legal research companies Fastcase and vLex, it seemed a good time to revisit our 2019 interview with the founders of Fastcase, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal. The occasion of this interview was the company’s 20th anniversary, and we recorded it live, on the exhibit hall floor, at the annual conference of the American Association …
Strategies for Building a Sustainable Legal Practice
Amid the seemingly ubiquitous discussions of “will lawyers be replaced by insert the latest innovation,” perhaps a more important question for lawyers and the legal profession is being obscured: Why don’t more people with legal problems currently turn to lawyers as the solution? The post Strategies for Building a Sustainable Legal Practice appeared first on 2Civility.
Fastcase CEO Ed Walters Joins The Legaltech Week Live Panel At 3 ET Today To Discuss the Fastcase-vLex Merger
With the merger of Fastcase and vLex the biggest legal tech story of the week, Fastcase CEO Ed Walters joins our Legaltech Week panel live today at 3 p.m. ET to discuss the news with our regular group of legal tech journalists and bloggers. We’ll also talk about Thomson Reuters’ sale of its Elite group …
6 Essential Emails Your Law Firm Should Be Sending
From appointment reminders to case updates, here are the six types of emails that ensure you’re providing top-notch service to your clients. Email communications are a cornerstone of running a modern law firm. According to the American Bar Association, 41% of law firms use email marketing. As one of the most commonly used law firm …
On LawNext: 15 Years, 15 Lessons: Clio Founder Jack Newton On What He’s Learned About Building a Successful Company
In the 15 years since he and Rian Gauvreau cofounded the legal practice management company Clio in 2008, Jack Newton has learned a thing or two about what it takes to build a successful company. As its CEO since the start, Newton has overseen the growth of the company from fledgling startup to a centaur …
In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital
In a deal that will reshape the legal research and legal technology landscape on a global basis and threaten the longstanding “Wexis” legal research duopoly, the companies vLex and Fastcase today announced that they have merged into a single entity that they say will have the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms …
New CEO at SurePoint, Eric Thurston, Says His Focus Will Be On Customer Service And Company Growth
SurePoint, a company that provides practice management, financial and client relationship products for mid-sized law firms, today announced the appointment of a new CEO, Eric Thurston, a veteran business-transformation leader with more than two decades of experience scaling and leading high-growth software and services companies across several verticals, including legal. Venture investor Mike Suchsland, a …
Legalweek News Roundup Part 2: CASEpeer, Evisort, Everlaw, Hanzo, LawPay, LexCheck, LinkSquares, LegalEase, Logikcull, Milestones, MyCase
This week marked the annual Legalweek show in New York, one of the world’s largest and most prominent legal technology conferences. Although COVID kept me from attending, it is not keeping me from covering the news coming out of the show. Previously, I posted part one of my roundup of Legalweek news, featuring news from Reveal-Brainspace, Casepoint, …
On LawNext: Casetext’s Three Top Execs On CoCounsel, GPT-4 and ‘A New Age in the Practice of Law’
Now in its 10th year in business, Casetext has introduced a series of unique products over the years that have cemented its reputation as a leading innovator in legal technology and AI. Now, at time when seemingly every legal tech developer is rushing to incorporate the GPT artificial intelligence model into their products, Casetext has …
On the St. Paddy’s Day Edition of Legaltech Week Live At 3 ET: PR Pet Peeves in Advance of Legalweek and, BTW, that Whole GPT-4 Thing
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, so bring your green beer and join us live at 3 p.m. ET for Legaltech Week, where our regular group of panelists come together to discuss the top stories of the week in legal tech and innovation. With Legalweek starting Monday and all our panelists getting deluged with PR pitches, we thought …
