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…

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…

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…