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#ILTACON19: Post-Mortem Notes, Musings and Observations

By Bob Ambrogi on August 23, 2019

Home now from ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. It is five frenetic days of seminars, exhibitors and networking by legal technologists and vendors from all over the world. Here are some of my somewhat-random thoughts about the event. Let’s start with what many were thinking: Orlando in August? I mean, WTF? But, guess what – the weather gods cooperated and kept any significantly stifling heat at bay. The…

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Webinar Tomorrow Will Provide Sneak Peek Into New PWC Product for Small Firms

By Bob Ambrogi on August 20, 2019

Tomorrow I am moderating a webinar in which attendees will get an exclusive first look at a new product for solo and small firms being introduced by the PWC New Ventures group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC). The free webinar, How Successful Small Law Firms Get Ahead of the Game, is being sponsored by PWC and Above the Law. The featured speaker is T.C. Whittaker, leader of PWC’s law firm solutions group. The new cloud-based…

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LawNext Episode 49: Dean Sonderegger of Wolters Kluwer on the ‘Future-Ready Lawyer’

By Bob Ambrogi on August 19, 2019

Which firms are best prepared to keep pace with changes in the legal market? That was the question explored in a recent survey of U.S. and European law firms, the 2019 Future Ready Lawyer Survey, conducted by Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory. Among the findings: The firms that are best prepared for the future are those that already leverage technology. In this episode of LawNext, I discuss the survey with Dean Sonderegger, who …

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#ILTACON19 News: CloudNine E-Discovery Software Now Available Via Private Cloud

By Bob Ambrogi on August 19, 2019

Explore Web Dashboard — The Explore dashboard as it appears in the Oasis environment.

I wrote here last week about the rollout by CloudNine of new versions and enhancements for its suite of e-discovery products. Now at ILTACON, the company is announcing a partnership with the legal technology company Oasis Discovery to offer access to its products through a managed private cloud. Law firms will be able to use CloudNine’s three on-premises products — Explore for early case assessment, LAW for data importing, and Concordance for document review…

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At #ILTACON19, Law Firm Tech Spin-Off Debuts App Designed to Better Serve and Inform Clients

By Bob Ambrogi on August 19, 2019

Being announced today at ILTACON is a client-facing app and cloud platform designed to provide law firm clients with intuitive access to legal documents, automated legal forms and agreements, secure messaging, and digital billing and payment. Called ConnectIVITY, the app is being developed by Connective Counsel, a startup technology company that spun off in 2018 after beginning as an internal project at the midsized Cleveland, Ohio, firm Kohrman Jackson & Krantz (KJK). The app…

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Debuting at #ILTACON19: ‘Legal AI Efficacy Report’ Promises to Cut Through Market Hype

By Bob Ambrogi on August 18, 2019

If there is one category of legal technology products where it is difficult to separate the hype from the reality, it is artificial intelligence. Seemingly every new product to come on the market claims to use AI in some way, shape or form. Given that, the new Legal AI Efficacy Report, being announced tomorrow at ILTACON, should be a welcome resource for many law firms and legal departments. The report promises to be an…

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Litera’s Acquisition of Doxly: I Speak with the CEOs on What’s Ahead

By Bob Ambrogi on August 16, 2019

As I wrote here earlier, Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired Doxly, a four-year-old company founded by a former biglaw partner to manage the legal transactions process. I have just had a phone call with the CEOs of the two companies and can provide more details. First, to sum up the news. the document technology company Litera Microsystems has acquired Doxly, a platform designed to manage the transaction-closing process from end to…

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Friday Roundup: So Much News, So Little Time, Not to Mention #ILTACON19

By Bob Ambrogi on August 16, 2019

So much legal technology news, I can barely keep up with it all, thanks in part to the fact that Sunday is the start of ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Here are some of the week’s headlines. Litera acquires Doxly. Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired Doxly, a four-year-old company founded by a former biglaw partner to manage the legal transactions. With Litera having just last month…

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Ahead of #ILTACON19, Levit & James Finalizes Its Pay-Per-Document Pricing for Best Authority

By Bob Ambrogi on August 15, 2019

Software company Levit & James, Inc. today announced the formal release of a pay-per-document licensing option for the latest version 5.0 of its Best Authority, a Microsoft Word add-in that automatically finds and marks all the legal citations in a brief and generates a table of authorities. Formerly, law firms could purchase Best Authority only through a site license. The price of the license was based on the number of litigators and appellate attorneys within…

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Join Me for A Legal Media Panel at #ILTACON19

By Bob Ambrogi on August 14, 2019

If you are attending ILTACON 2019, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, next week, consider joining me and other legal technology journalists for a panel discussion on the state of the industry. Moderating the panel is Gina Passarella, editor-in-chief, ALM Media. In addition to myself, panelists will be: Caroline Hill, editor-in-chief, Legal IT Insider. Zach Warren, editor-in-chief, Legaltech News. Roy Strom, reporter, Bloomberg Law. We will…

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Tracking New and Intriguing Websites and Products for the Legal Profession

Blog Authors

#ILTACON19: Post-Mortem Notes, Musings and Observations

Webinar Tomorrow Will Provide Sneak Peek Into New PWC Product for Small Firms

LawNext Episode 49: Dean Sonderegger of Wolters Kluwer on the ‘Future-Ready Lawyer’

#ILTACON19 News: CloudNine E-Discovery Software Now Available Via Private Cloud

At #ILTACON19, Law Firm Tech Spin-Off Debuts App Designed to Better Serve and Inform Clients

Debuting at #ILTACON19: ‘Legal AI Efficacy Report’ Promises to Cut Through Market Hype

Litera’s Acquisition of Doxly: I Speak with the CEOs on What’s Ahead

Friday Roundup: So Much News, So Little Time, Not to Mention #ILTACON19

Ahead of #ILTACON19, Levit & James Finalizes Its Pay-Per-Document Pricing for Best Authority

Join Me for A Legal Media Panel at #ILTACON19

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