As legal technology companies step up to the plate and offer free products and services to help the legal community get through this time of crisis, LawToolBox is extending an offer that can help get firms up and running on effectively managing all their matters through Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Teams. LawToolBox is legal calendaring and deadline management software that integrates with a number of platforms. But through its integration with Office 365 Teams…

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In Response to COVID-19 Crisis, PacerPro Offers Three Months Free Access

By Bob Ambrogi

March 26, 2020

PacerPro, a company that provides automated distribution of federal court filings, said today that it is offering three months of free access to its service, as a way of helping legal professionals transition to remote work. PacerPro’s service automatically sends notices of new filings, together with their associate PDFs, to everyone on a litigation team, within moments of the filing. PacerPro also provides access through its website to all your federal case dockets and…

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Litera Acquires Best Authority, Industry-Leading Table-of-Authorities Tool

By Bob Ambrogi

March 26, 2020

The document technology company Litera has acquired Best Authority, which is possibly the leading standalone product among legal professionals for generating tables of authorities in legal briefs. Best Authority, developed by Levit & James Inc., is in use at over 90% of Am Law 100 law firms has over 1,000 customers in total. An add-in for Microsoft Word, it automatically finds and marks all the legal citations in a brief and generates a TOA.…

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Top Law Firm Invests $8.2M in Legal Research Company Casetext

By Bob Ambrogi

March 26, 2020

Fueled by interest in its new brief-automation product, the legal research company Casetext said today that it has raised $8.2 million in new funding in a round led by “one of the top revenue-generating law firms in the country.” It did not disclose the name of the firm. Casetext cofounder and CEO Jake Heller said the additional funding would be used to invest more heavily in Compose, the product the company unveiled last month…

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New Daily Podcast Features Legal Professionals ‘In Seclusion’

By Bob Ambrogi

March 25, 2020

As working from home becomes the new normal for legal professionals, a new daily podcast highlights their stories. Called In Seclusion, the podcast is hosted by Greg Lambert, chief knowledge services officer at Jackson Walker and better know to many as a blogger at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog and cohost of another podcast, The Geek in Review. Having launched the podcast just this week, Lambert already has three interviews posted:…

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Free Legal Tool Helps Businesses Create Key COVID-19 Employment Policies

By Bob Ambrogi

March 25, 2020

As many businesses across the United States struggle to deal with the employment issues arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, today released a free automated tool to help them develop essential policies on working from home, sick leave, and other critical issues. Readers may remember that I wrote about SixFifty just last week, when it launched an automated product to…

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Litera Offers Free Six-Month Access to Lite Version of Litera Transact

By Bob Ambrogi

March 25, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic has stymied standard ways of closing deals and signing documents, Litera said today it is offering six months of no-cost access to a lite version of its deal-management platform Litera Transact. In a message sent to Litera customers today, CEO Avaneesh Marwaha said that he is hearing from law firms that standard deal processes are not possible for lawyers working from home offices, and that many lawyers are still putting…

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LawNext Episode 67: Clio CEO Jack Newton on His Company’s $1M COVID-19 Relief Fund

By Bob Ambrogi

March 24, 2020

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On Monday, March 23, the practice management company Clio announced that it was committing $1 million to a disaster relief fund to help the legal community successfully navigate the challenges and hurdles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We want to ensure lawyers are set up to succeed as well as ensuring their their clients can continue to get the legal help they need,” Jack Newton, the company’s cofounder and CEO, explained. In this…

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Clio Commits $1 Million To Help Legal Community Through Coronavirus Crisis

By Bob Ambrogi

March 23, 2020

The practice management company Clio is announcing today that it is committing $1 million to a disaster relief fund to help the legal community successfully navigate the challenges and hurdles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We want to ensure lawyers are set up to succeed as well as ensuring their their clients can continue to get the legal help they need,” Jack Newton, the company’s cofounder and CEO, told me during an interview…

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Free Webinar Today: Transitioning Your Conferences to Online During Covid-19

By Bob Ambrogi

March 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced organizers of legal conferences to cancel a multitude of events. Today, a free webinar will explore options for moving these events online, through online conferences, webcasting and virtual summits. It is being presented by Events.Legal. I will be a panelist, along with: Nicole Fisher, health, human rights, and international policy advisor and Forbes contributor. Matt Fok, CEO and founder of eZ-XpoHelp, a virtual event network. Brett Burney, legal technology…

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