[Original post from Bob Ambrogi at Above the Law]

And the winners are …

We’ve been tallying your votes to select 15 legal technology startups to participate in the second-annual Startup Alley at the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW conference March 7-10, 2018. Today, more than 6,000 votes later, we announce the winners. A big thanks to everyone who voted.

The 15 winning companies get to be highlighted as exhibitors in a special “Startup Alley” portion of the TECHSHOW exhibition hall. They will also participate in a pitch competition on the opening night of the conference, in which attendees will vote live for their favorite.

The competition is a cooperate effort of ABA TECHSHOW, Above the Law, Evolve Lawand Lawsitesblog.com.

Without further ado, the winners in order of their vote tallies are:

  1. Book-It Legal. Book-It Legal provides a web platform connecting attorneys with law students across the country for per-project legal tasks, such as research, editing, document review, and writing articles. Our company gives attorneys a way to get quick assistance and reduce costs to clients while providing students a more convenient and flexible way to gain experience and earn income.
  2. Gideon LegalGideon is a fundamentally new way for law firms to connect, communicate with, and service clients, at scale. Gideon is an intelligent messaging platform that connects firms with their best leads, in real-time, from their website, directory profiles, and social media. Gideon learns a firm’s preferences on particular case types and to predict likely case outcomes, enabling them to deploy resources to optimum value. Built to fit existing workflows, Gideon integrates with case management software.
  3. Time MinerTime Miner eliminates the hassle of manual, contemporaneous methods most attorneys use to keep track of billable time spent on their smartphones.  Automatic, with no timers to start and stop, Time Miner captures past calls and texts with clients, and produces a report on-demand that shows your billable activity in terms of client, date and time, duration, and dollar value based on your hourly rate.
  4. Voluble: Insights for LitigationVoluble collects and analyzes consumer posts from a broad range of online sources to generate insights specifically for litigation. Our proprietary tools and partnerships give us access to data from a comprehensive array of social media platforms, forums, e-commerce sites, and blogs. Our experienced litigation team transforms vast amounts of unstructured consumer chatter into relevant and reliable data that can be used by experts to support their opinions in affirmative or rebuttal reports.
  5. LawyawEighty-five percent of lawyers work at small firms and do not have the administrative support or resources of big firms. As a result, they spend a lot of unbillable time managing fragmented and inefficient administrative workflows and only bill an average of two hours a day versus big firms that leverage support staff and bill an average of six hours a day. Lawyaw is a machine learning vertical SaaS company that streamlines predictable administrative tasks so that small firms can spend as more time on revenue generating activities.
  6. SavvySuit. “Okay Google, talk to Florida Pro Bono Matters.” Go ahead, try it on your Android. Learn firsthand how SavvySuit is pushing the legal profession forward with the creation of conversational user interfaces. One such interface is a sophisticated pro bono catalog which allows attorneys to find pro bono cases with ease. This catalog provides case descriptions aggregated from over 30 organizations, including traditional legal aids and nation-wide programs like the ABA Military Pro Bono Project.
  7. SimplyAgreeSimplyAgree is a signature and closing management tool for complex corporate transactions. Our web-based platform streamlines the administrative tasks of a closing — from automating signature packets to closing binders — so attorneys can focus on getting deals done and exceeding client expectations. SimplyAgree reduces these time-intensive closing processes from days to minutes, while providing the attorney with increased risk oversight and cost predictability.
  8. Evichat. Evichat is a tool for lawyers to collect authenticated evidence from their clients’ mobile devices and social media accounts in an eDiscovery lite platform built specifically for mobile data where it can then be redacted and/or exported. We can also produce time-stamped web page archives with all meta data.
  9. VortexLegalVortexLegal is the Expedia for legal services – a one-stop shop where you can search for, hire, rate and review legal service providers like court reporters, interpreters and translators, private investigators etc. There is no marketplace for legal service providers so we are providing a new way to procure these services that offers more transparency in pricing and allows small and medium sized operators to compete with national service providers.
  10. NextChapterTurboTax for bankruptcy attorneys. NextChapter is a web application for attorneys to prepare, manage and file their bankruptcy cases online. Our unique web workflow guides attorneys through the bankruptcy process making it easier and faster to prepare cases.
  11. Caliber Litigation Services. Technology has completely changed the user experience of many traditional services — from catching a cab to renting a car. What if I told you that same opportunity existed to change the court reporting industry? We built a proprietary tech platform from the ground up to access thousands of court reporters for services — from video to real-time reporting, all at a lower cost than the current industry providers.
  12. BeagleBeagle helps companies follow their own rules or the ones set out by a regulatory agency. As companies are drowning under information, they need technology to process it in order to make the right decisions. Beagle is a technical solution to help that decision-making process and can be trained to read and understand the rules. Beagle can tell decision makers which rules apply, why and gives them suggestions. It is a decision augmentation process technology based on our property AI techniques.
  13. Digitory LegalDigitory Legal helps law firms and in-house legal departments easily and accurately predict, price and manage legal matters. Clients save money and promote accountability with precise legal budgets; automated accrual management features; and intuitive RFP tools. Law firms reduce overhead and increase profitability with time-saving project management solutions; task-level data; and clearly scoped, accurate budgets that will strengthen attorney-client relationships.
  14. Social EvidenceSocial Evidence is a cloud-based application that quickly and accurately collects, organizes, and analyzes data from specific social media sites for named accounts and provides tools to assist the legal professional to easily search, find, and use relevant case-related information in a repeatable, admissible, and legally-defensible format.
  15. QualmetQualmet is a cloud-based platform used by law departments to quickly and easily measure the value of external legal service providers. The company focuses on raising the business value created between in-house and outside counsel. Through performance metrics and objective benchmarking, the company and its namesake product create an industrywide common language. Released earlier this year, the platform has been adopted by legal departments from a wide range of industries.

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