Just last week, I reported here about the name change of Axiom Managed Services, one of two companies spun off last year from alternative legal services provider Axiom. With its new name, Factor, and a “doubling down” by two long-term investors, the company characterized the move as a relaunch to position it for rapid growth. Now the company, which has operated without a formal chief executive officer since last year’s spin-off, has named…

Few would dispute that an essential ingredient in addressing the access-to-justice crisis is technology. Technology can provide the economies of scale, efficiencies of process and tools of innovation that can enable legal services to be provided more broadly and equitably. But what must be done for technology to improve access-to-justice? How can we best harness technology and put it to effective use in bridging the justice gap? At the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovations in Technology …

A product coming out today from the e-discovery company CloudNine makes it easy to collect email and attachments from Office 365 email custodians and Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage files. Called CloudNine Collection Manager, the product is designed to be easy enough for first-time collectors to use yet powerful enough for e-discovery professionals handling complex native collections. It installs locally as a desktop utility and defensibly performs native data collections either from a single email…

In what it is positioning as a relaunch of the company, Axiom Managed Solutions, one of two companies spun-off last year from alternative legal services provider Axiom, is changing its name to Factor and launching a new website at www.factor.law. The company also said that two of the original investors in Axiom, Benchmark Capital and Carrick Capital, “are doubling down on the newly branded organization and will remain long-term investors.” The company declined…