Though the debate of whether or not law firms should embrace legal technology continues, the pandemic has brought to light the advantages of document automation.  Since mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the way law firms operate. While some firms were forced to adapt on the fly as they spent weeks setting up a viable virtual office, other firms were well-suited to handle the situation as they already had the necessary digital infrastructure in…

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Our Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable is on again this Friday, as it is most Friday, to discuss and dissect the top news stories of the last two weeks. However, we will start an hour earlier this week, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Join us Friday, Sept. 15, at 2 p.m. ET. It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required. Register once and you’re registered for every subsequent week. All prior episodes are…

Two docketing technology companies will be battling each other in federal court, as New York based CourtAlert.com has filed a lawsuit against California based American LegalNet alleging theft of trade secrets. In a complaint filed Sept. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, CourtAlert.com alleges that American LegalNet (ALN), its CEO Erez Bustan, and its regional sales manager Robert Loeb, conspired to steal CourtAlert’s confidential and proprietary information, including…

In July, I reported here on a survey of private equity firms in the U.S. and U.K. that found that a softening market for M&As and fundraising, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, was causing them to scrutinize their external legal spend more carefully than ever before. Now, the sponsor of that survey,  the spend tracking, management and analysis company Apperio, has extended that research to venture capital firms, analyzing the situation confronting senior legal…

For legal professionals who use the cloud-based document management system NetDocuments, workspaces form the hub of their legal matters, where all members of a team can access, organize and collaborate on documents, messages and folders related to a matter. But workspaces can also pose a potential speed bump when getting started on a new matter, because they can be created only by a user with full administrative permissions. While there are strong reasons for…