A common service that law firms perform is to compile multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other legal data. But an equally common problem is presenting that data in a way that is visually informative and compelling.
A new product called Map Engine aims to solve that problem by making it easy and economical for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional data.
Released yesterday, Map Engine was developed as a…
Founder Charley Moore
The online legal services provider Rocket Lawyer has raised $223 million in growth capital financing to help it meet what it says has been a strong and accelerating demand for its digital legal documents and advice.
The financing was led by Vista Credit Partners a strategic credit investor and financing partner focused on the enterprise software, data, and technology markets.
Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer provides businesses and individuals with legal documents, attorney advice, online…
The legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, today announced that it has expanded its coverage of state courts in California to include Orange County Superior Court, its seventh California county.
Lex Machina now provides analytics for over 1.5 million California superior court cases and has total state court coverage of 2.5 million cases, it says.
Its California coverage now includes the superior courts for:
Los Angeles County.
Sacramento County.
San…
For at least 25 years, companies have attempted to succeed in the business of online dispute resolution, mostly without success. Could that be about to change?
Twenty-five years ago, I published an article, Cyberspace Becomes Forum for Resolving Disputes, about the promise and potential of online dispute resolution. I revisited the topic in a post here five years ago, writing then that ODR “remains largely a fringe form of resolving any types of…
LexFusion, the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of seven legal technology companies, has now added another three members to the roster of companies it represents.
LexFusion aims to change the paradigm for how law firms and legal departments purchase technology by serving as the go-to-market representative of companies that it has thoroughly vetted and selected as best-in-breed in each company’s category.
It was founded by legal industry veterans Joe Borstein…
Possibly the hottest market in legal tech today is contract lifecycle management, and one of the most talked-about companies in that market is Ironclad, a six-year-old startup that recently raised a $100 million Series D – at a reported valuation of $1 billion – and that just made its first acquisition, of the clickwrap transaction platform PactSafe.
What makes Ironclad different than other CLM companies, says cofounder and CEO Jason Boehmig, is that…
Between 2016 and 2018, I wrote a series of posts about Derek Bluford, a one-time rising star on the legal tech start-up scene whose star fell after I reported in 2016 of his settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients.
Now, Bluford has been sentenced to seven years in prison on charges related to those forgeries and fraud.
On Thursday, Phillip A. Talbert, acting…
Trustbooks is cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms. In this debut episode of How It Works, Trustbooks cofounder Chad Todd introduces the product and demonstrates how it works.
How It Works is a sponsored video series that lets you see how legal technology products work. Each episode features a hands-on demonstration, presented by the product’s developer and moderated by me.
A picture is worth 1,000 words. Follow this series to see for yourself…
Barely a day goes by that I am not sitting down with the developer of a legal tech product for a demonstration of how it works.
I find these demonstrations enormously helpful in understanding what a product does, how easy it is to use, and why I’d want it in my practice.
You know the saying: A picture is worth 1,000 words.
Knowing how useful these demos are to me, I believe legal professionals who…
April brings an embarrassment of riches when it comes to virtual conferences focused on innovation in law.
The only problem is that three of them overlap, which may cause you to channel that old Firesign Theatre bit, “How can you be two places at once …”
Here’s the line-up:
April 27-28: Everlaw Summit: Illuminate 2021
The past year forced many in the legal industry to rethink how they have and should conduct legal work…