The two legal research companies Fastcase and Casemaker have settled their three-year legal battle over Casemaker’s claims of copyright in Georgia administrative regulations. In federal court in Atlanta, the two companies jointly filed a stipulated dismissal of the matter. The request did not not reveal the terms of the settlement, but the dismissal was “with prejudice,” meaning the matter cannot be refiled at a later date. I have reached out to both companies for comment…

Few would argue with the proposition that law firm hiring is dysfunctional. Firms place too much weight on prospects’ grades and schools’ prestige, pay new hires exorbitant salaries that require billing them out at rates that exceed their experience, provide inadequate training and mentoring, and struggle to achieve diversity. A new startup aims to upend that cycle by changing how new lawyers are recruited, hired, priced and trained. In so doing, the company believes it…

Friday is the last day to cast your vote to select the 15 legal technology startups that will participate in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2020. The 15 companies will face off in a pitch competition on TECHSHOW’s opening night and be featured as exhibitors in a special portion of the conference’s exhibition hall. I posted descriptions of the 26 semifinalists on Nov. 18. The ballot for voting can be found here…

Nicholas (Nik) Reed was two months out of Stanford Law School when he and classmate Daniel Lewis cofounded the legal research company Ravel Law. Becoming its COO, he helped drive its growth. When LexisNexis acquired Ravel in 2017, he became vice president of product strategy, playing a lead role in integrating Ravel’s visualization and analytics tools into Lexis Advance. Now, Reed is leaving Ravel to join another legal technology startup, the Axiom spin-off Knowable…