Law Practice Management Suites

Usage of artificial intelligence by legal professionals has skyrocketed from 19% in 2023 to 79% this year, according to the ninth edition of the Legal Trends Report, released today by Clio during its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin.
The report further finds that up to 74% of hourly billable tasks – such as information gathering and data analysis – could
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Calling it a major first step in its wider AI product roadmap, the law practice management company Clio today released Clio Duo, a generative AI product built directly into the Clio Manage law practice management platform.
Clio released the product today at its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, after first announcing its plans to launch the product at its
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If you are going to the Clio Cloud Conference in Austin starting Monday (or watching it virtually), do not miss our live-on-stage version of Legaltech Week, with a full panel of our regulars plus a special guest.
Many of you are regulars for our weekly Friday live show, where we discuss the week’s top news in legal tech and legal
Continue Reading Legaltech Week: Catch Us Live on Tuesday at ClioCon (and Watch Our Regular Show Today)

Monday marks the start of the 12th Clio Cloud Conference, and as the company that produces it, Clio, continues to grow and expand, so too does the conference, with its largest-ever number of attendees and its move from a single host hotel to the Austin, Texas, convention center with attendees spread across a number of nearby hotels.
With 2,600
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The law practice management platform MyCase rolled out three product updates today that include MyCaseIQ, an AI conversational interface; enhancements to its accounting module; and an immigration add-on. It also announced the beta release of Smart Spend, a product that marries a business credit card to expense tracking within MyCase.
Generative AI Enhancements
Last January, AffiniPay, the parent company of
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At its recent customer conference in Salt Lake City, called LEX Summit, the case management company Filevine unveiled a number of product releases and updates. Among them were several products for litigators driven by generative AI, including a first-of-its-kind tool, Depo CoPilot, that helps guide a lawyer during a deposition, and another, DemandsAI, that generates settlement demand letters in the
Continue Reading LawNext Podcast: A Deep Dive Into Filevine’s New Gen AI Tools for Litigators, with Product Leads Michael Anderson and Alex McLaughlin

Over the first three posts in this series, I’ve talked about the shrinking ownership of law practice management technology for solo and small firms — how most of the major contenders in the market have all come to be owned by just six overarching ownership groups.
I’ve shown you who those groups are and which products they own. I’ve covered
Continue Reading The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 4 of 4): Wrapping It All Up

In the first two posts in this series, I have talked about the consolidation of ownership that has occurred in recent years for law practice management technology. Whereas this market was once characterized by a variety of competing companies, virtually all of the major products are now owned by one of six ownership groups. Part 2 provided a “scorecard” of
Continue Reading The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 3 of 4): Future Development and Market Opportunities

In today’s episode, we feature three impromptu conversations with leaders of the case management company Filevine. Last week, I was in Salt Lake City to attend LEX Summit, the Filevine customer conference. While there, I snagged three of the company’s top executives for brief, impromptu conversations about the company, its products, and the conference.
 In today’s show, you
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“You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” yelled the hawkers of olden days at major league baseball stadiums. In the modern days of law practice management, that may still be true.
As I wrote yesterday in part one of this four-part series, the law practice management market has undergone dramatic consolidation, from what was once a robust marketplace
Continue Reading The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 2 of 4): A Scorecard of Who Owns What

Sixteen years ago marked the beginning of a sea change in law practice management technology for solo and small law firms. On March 1, 2008, a virtually unknown company out of Canada called Themis Solutions launched the first cloud-based software product for managing a law practice, called Clio. Coincidentally, just a week earlier, another company, Rocket Matter,
Continue Reading The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 1 of 4): A Market Dominated by Just Six Ownership Groups

The Filevine user conference, LEXSummit2024 kicked off recently in Salt Lake City with a keynote presentation by its CEO, Ryan Anderson. Anderson offered up his view of where the company in specific, and perhaps legal tech, in general, should be going.

Anderson called to mind Steve Jobs and the iPhone introduction in 2007 as a map for the future.
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In his keynote speech opening LEX Summit in Salt Lake City, Filevine founder and CEO Ryan Anderson emphasized platforms as the future of technology for law firms, criticizing the legal technology landscape as a fragmented and inefficient array of point solutions, and promising that Filevine will deliver firms a better way by bringing together everything they need in a single
Continue Reading Law Firms Demand ‘Single Pane of Glass’ To Manage their Cases, Filevine CEO Says in LEX Summit Keynote