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Was it just me, or did the Gaylord Opryland somehow seem more tolerable this year?
As I am writing this, I am sitting on a plane, having just taken off from Nashville after attending my 11th Clio Cloud Conference. I am, it turns out, a member of small club of fewer than 10 people who have attended every ClioCon…
Continue Reading The Gaylord Opryland Isn’t So Bad After All … and Other Takeaways from the Clio Cloud Conference

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There’s little doubt that In today’s rapidly evolving legal landscape, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into legal is poised to change the way lawyers operate. Clio’s unveiling of Clio Duo, a multifaceted AI tool designed to assist legal professionals, raises some interesting questions about the future of the legal profession, what constitutes success and how being a good…
Continue Reading Clio’s New AI Tools: Transforming Legal Practice and Redefining Legal Success?

In a separate post today, I wrote about major product announcements made today by the law practice management company Clio during its annual Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville. In addition to those announcements, Clio highlighted a number of updates and enhancements to its existing products, some of which had already been announced over the course of the year. Here…
Continue Reading In Addition to Major Product Announcements, Clio Rolls Out Slew of Product Updates

At its annual Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville today, the law practice management company Clio introduced an array of major new products and product updates, calling the series of announcements its most expansive product update ever in its 15-year history.
(I discuss the product updates and enhancements in a separate post today.)
New products include an add-on offering a…
Continue Reading Clio Goes All Out with Major Product Announcements, Including A Personal Injury Add-On, E-Filing, and (Of Course) Generative AI

Starting Monday in Nashville is the 11th annual Clio Cloud Conference, a conference presented by the legal practice management company Clio that focuses on legal tech, legal innovation and the future of legal practice. It will be the largest ClioCon yet, with 2,500 people attending in person and another 1,000 attending virtually, for a total attendance of 3,500.
Assuming…
Continue Reading Coming Monday at ClioCon: There Will Be Maps!

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Anyone who has had to manage the internal redistribution and filing of daily docket updates from dozens of courts for hundreds of cases in a large law firm, celebrated on the day that automated docket management tools from companies such as PacerPro and ECFX hit the market. Yet, today a federal judge issued a stunning order which could impact lawyers…
Continue Reading Federal Judge in North Carolina Deals Big Blow to Innovative Docket Workflow Efficiency Tools Including PacerPro

Today ECFX announced that they had raised $7M in funding to expand their court notice management platform. Investors include Growth Street Partners, The Legal Tech Fund. Cove Fund as well as other investors. ECFX was founded in 2019 by attorneys Dan O’Day and Nelson Quintero. Their system is designed to streamline and automate the processing, distribution and internal filing of…
Continue Reading ECFX Court Alerts Platform Raises $7M

ECFX has raised $7m from a number of investors including Growth Street Partners, which today (21 June) announced a minority investment in ECFX. ECFX provides electronic court notice management for …
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Continue Reading ECFX raises $7M from Growth Street Partners, The LegalTech Fund, Cove Fund & Others 

ECFX, a company that automates the downloading and distribution of filings in federal and state court cases, has taken a $7 million minority growth investment led by Growth Street Partners, with additional participation from The LegalTech Fund, which specializes in investing in innovative legal technology companies, Cove Fund, and other existing investors.
The company said it will…
Continue Reading ECFX, Platform for Distributing and Managing Electronic Court Notices, Raises $7 Million Growth Investment

It was major news April 4 when the legal research and technology companies Fastcase and vLex announced their merger, creating a single entity that they say now has the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms and a legal research library of more than 1 billion documents from more than 100 countries. 
It is a deal that could…
Continue Reading On LawNext Podcast: The Four Founders of vLex and Fastcase on the Merger Of Their Two Companies

When UniCourt was founded in 2017 to provide access to court data and analytics, APIs were an afterthought, cofounder Josh Blandi now says. The company’s original focus was on building an application to provide law firms and others with easy access to federal and state court records. But soon customers were asking for API access to the data, and UniCourt…
Continue Reading With New Enterprise API, UniCourt Takes An API-First Approach To Providing ‘Legal Data As A Service’

Legal IT Movers and Shakers: Lupl, Freeths and Intapp make big name hires 

In a deal that will reshape the legal research and legal technology landscape on a global basis and threaten the longstanding “Wexis” legal research duopoly, the companies vLex and Fastcase today announced that they have merged into a single entity that they say will have the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms and a legal research library…
Continue Reading In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital

Today vLex and Fastcase, two of the  fastest-growing legal technology companies, announced that they are merging to form the world’s largest  digital law library. The combined company will also have the world’s largest law firm subscriber base and resources containing more than one billion legal documents from more than 100 countries.  Oakley Capital and Bain Capital Credit are investing…
Continue Reading vLex and Fastcase Merge to Form World’s Largest Global Law Library (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)