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ROI First… Invoice Later: ZERO AI Enabled Email Management System for Lawyers Delivers Actual ROI

By Jean O'Grady on October 9, 2019

Every vendor I deal with talks a good ROI game. Very few know how to deliver it. Even fewer have built the delivery of ROI into their sales and pricing strategy. Well I finally found such a company in the legal tech space. I was recently introduced to Alex Babin, the Founder and CEO of a company called ZERO. According to Babin law firms will not be charged for the ZERO product until the product delivers…

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Fastcase Docket Alarm Releases New Docket Calendaring Feature

By Jean O'Grady on September 19, 2019

Fastcase is at it again…building alliances that drive content and functionality. Today Docket Alarm a customizable analytics and docket platform is announcing a a new calendaring feature from Calendar Rules. This new features is being announced at the National Docketing Association’s Annual Conference in Denver, Co.. The CalendarRules feature is integrated into the DocketAlarm research platform and links with a library of court rules and automatically calculates any deadline. Subscribers of Docket Alarm now…

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State Analytics Platform Gavelytics Enhances Northern California Coverage — New York and Texas Coming in Q4

By Jean O'Grady on September 4, 2019

Today Gavelytics announced the addition of millions of trial court dockets, rulings, and other litigation documents from Northern California including new coverage of Alameda County. They have already begun to expand outside of California with the addition of analytics for Florida and Nevada. In a phone call today I asked Gavelytics CEO Rick Merrill which states they planned to launch next. I am pleased to report that Merrill indicated that New York and Texas should be launched in Q4.…

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Bloomberg BNA Announces BIG Name Change Now: Bloomberg Industry Group

By Jean O'Grady on September 3, 2019

Today Bloomberg BNA dropped the venerable BNA as in Bureau of National Affairs from the company name. The new name is Bloomberg Industry Group which gives us a wonderful new acronym in Legal Publishing: BIG. According to the press release reprinted below — the new name better reflects the diverse range of businesses, professionals and markets which it serves. Flagship product lines will continue to branded as Bloomberg Law Bloomberg Tax & Accounting, Bloomberg Government, and…

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Lex Machina Launches New Consumer Protection Module Offers Webinar Today

By Jean O'Grady on August 27, 2019

Lex Machina is announcing the launch of the Consumer Protection Litigation analytics module covering nearly 145,000 cases, including more than 26,000 class action lawsuits, pending in federal district court since 2009. This is the 15th topical module added to the Lex Machina platform. Every Lex Machina module provides data driven insights into judges, courts, law firms, individual attorneys, and parties which can be used to win new business or develop litigation strategy. The new module…

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Demystifying Blockchain: Katherine Lowry Invites You to Build a Blockchain at ILTA

By Jean O'Grady on August 19, 2019

This week, ILTACON 2019 is being held August 18-22, in Orlando, FL. Attendees will have the opportunity to attend a four-part series on the hot topic and still mysterious cluster of technologies known as blockchain. The program is the brainchild of Katherine Lowry, Director of Practice Services at BakerHostetler. I recently interviewed Lowry to gain some insights into the evolution of her interest in blockchain in the law and her goal in designing the…

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Ken Crutchfield Succeeds Dean Sonderegger as Vice President & General Manager of Legal Markets Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.

By Jean O'Grady on August 19, 2019

Today Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US announced the successor to Dean Sonderegger who was recently promoted to the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager. Ken Crutchfield was previously Senior Vice President & General Manager for the Bloomberg Tax Technology division of Bloomberg BNA was named Vice President & General Manager of Legal Markets at Wolters Kluwer. Crutchfield will lead the legal markets group and focus on …

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Lexis Nexis Integrates Courtlink Into Lexis Advance Hooray!

By Jean O'Grady on August 11, 2019

CourtLink was one of Lexis’ earliest product acquisitions and it is seemingly the last to be integrated into the flagship Lexis Advance platform. Starting Monday Lexis Advance subscribers will see a host of new features and a cleaner more streamlined interface. This will be none to soon for customers. The integration of CourtLink was a massive undertaking. The system contains over 189 million unique dockets and 36.5 milling documents. Over 100,000 new dockets are added…

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What Do Law Firms Need to Know About Buying Litigation Analytics Products?

By Jean O'Grady on July 28, 2019

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During the Great Analytics ‘Shoot-Out’ at AALL, law librarians tested and compared the results of seven federal litigation analytics platforms. Analytics tools enable lawyers to ask completely new questions and gain insights which were virtually unavailable in a text based research world. It takes a special skill set to ask the right “data quality” questions when firms are assessing the dozens of analytics products competing for a share of lawyers desktop or an organization’s information…

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Acquisitions, Alliances and Joint Ventures Announced By Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer

By Jean O'Grady on July 18, 2019

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters spent the past week showing off newproductsand features at the annual American Association of Law Libraries ( AALL) Meeting and Conference in Washington DC. Since the close of the conference on Tuesday, each has announced a new alliance of some kind. Thompson Reuters acquired HighQ Software (July 17th) Wolters Kluwer formed and alliance with Docket Navigator (July 18th) Lexis Nexis formed a join venture with Knowable…

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ROI First… Invoice Later: ZERO AI Enabled Email Management System for Lawyers Delivers Actual ROI

Fastcase Docket Alarm Releases New Docket Calendaring Feature

State Analytics Platform Gavelytics Enhances Northern California Coverage — New York and Texas Coming in Q4

Bloomberg BNA Announces BIG Name Change Now: Bloomberg Industry Group

Lex Machina Launches New Consumer Protection Module Offers Webinar Today

Demystifying Blockchain: Katherine Lowry Invites You to Build a Blockchain at ILTA

Ken Crutchfield Succeeds Dean Sonderegger as Vice President & General Manager of Legal Markets Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.

Lexis Nexis Integrates Courtlink Into Lexis Advance Hooray!

What Do Law Firms Need to Know About Buying Litigation Analytics Products?

Acquisitions, Alliances and Joint Ventures Announced By Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer

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