The Lawyer+Mom+Owner Virtual Summit is a first-of-its kind program devoted to “parenthood, practice and profit in the pandemic.” Taking place Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, the conference aims to provide practical advice on protecting your firm and your clients and operating virtually during the pandemic. It will also look at how mom-owned firms are breaking barriers in uncommon practice areas, supporting other women and advancing diversity. For my Law Insights program on Litera.TV this week,…

The law practice technology company Clio this week announced the five finalists that will compete for the title of “Best New Integration” and a $100,000 grand prize in the 2020 Launch//Code developer contest. This is the third year of the contest, which recognizes innovative third-party apps that integrate with the Clio Manage practice management platform and that address a difficulty legal professionals face daily when managing their business or growing their firm. The winner is…

We were off last week, but the Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable returns tomorrow to discuss and dissect the top news stories of the last two weeks. Join us tomorrow, Sept. 18, at 3 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 also available, both as a podcast and on YouTube. The panel changes from week to…

Last February, the legal research company Casetext launched Compose, a first-of-its-kind product that uses artificial intelligence to help create the first draft of a litigation brief in a fraction of the time it would normally take. At the time, as I wrote in this February blog post, cofounder and CEO Jake Heller said the product was “poised to disrupt the $437 billion legal services industry and fundamentally change our understanding of what types…

The former founder and CEO of litigation platform Allegory Law, Alma Asay is now an evangelist at Litera, where she serves as a legal technology expert and advisor to Litera clients, helping them to bring innovative ways of thinking and practice to life. As a legal tech founder, I learned that there were two critical components driving my business forward that proved to be a constant challenge: money and feedback. Money is obvious and…

SoloSuit, the Utah-based legal startup that helps consumers respond to debt collection lawsuits, and that originally emerged from LawX, the legal design lab at BYU Law School, is going national. George Simons, who helped develop SoloSuit as a BYU Law student and is now the company’s owner and CEO, announced the expansion yesterday during a presentation as part of the Startup Battlefield pitch competition during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 virtual conference,…