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Legal automation company Josef has closed what it is describing as a lightning-fast funding round in order to capitalize on market response to Josef Q, the AI-powered product it brought out of beta in November 2023 that enables legal and compliance teams to easily create self-service Q&A tools.
Participants in the round were Josef’s existing three investors: OIF Ventures,
Continue Reading Responding To Strong Market Interest In Its Gen AI Product, Josef Closes ‘Lightning-Fast’ Funding Round

Today on How it Works, Universal Migrator CEO and Founder Tony Valenti demonstrates how to use Universal Migrator to backup and restore data when expanding or switching solutions at your firm.

Universal Migrator, a previous winner of the ABA Techshow Startup Alley, is a powerful tool that lets IT teams help law firms to backup data for the purposes of
Continue Reading How It Works: Universal Migrator Demos Backup and Restore Tools using Clio Manage

If you are a legal tech startup, don’t miss your chance to compete in Startup Alley, the pitch competition that is a seminal event of ABA TECHSHOW. The deadline for applications is Friday, Dec. 13, 2024 — just 10 days away.
This is the ninth year of Startup Alley, in which 15 startups are selected to compete in a
Continue Reading Just 10 Days Left to Apply for Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW

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For as long as you have been in business, you have been taught there are a limited number of ways to generate referrals.

  • Ask your clients and contacts – anyone in your database (or rolodex) – for referrals and ask often.


Continue Reading Where Referrals Fit in Your Sales Strategy

Lawyers who are members of the Maryland State Bar Association can now get free access to trust accounting and billing software, through a partnership between the bar and the law practice management company Smokeball.
Under the partnership, all 18,000 members of the MSBA, which is a voluntary state bar, can sign up for free access to Smokeball Bill, Smokeball’s
Continue Reading Maryland State Bar Members Now Get Free Trust Accounting Software in Deal with Smokeball

Everlaw for Good is a program run by the e-discovery company Everlaw, through which it makes its software available at no cost to legal aid organizations, nonprofit organizations, and investigative journalists.
One beneficiary of that program is the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights nonprofit that works to seek justice on behalf of victims of atrocity
Continue Reading On LawNext: How One Legal Tech Company Is Donating Its Software To Help Pursue Justice In Atrocity Crimes

The New Jersey Supreme Court is seeking comments on proposals to adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers and to add a technology requirement for continuing legal education.
If the court ultimately adopts the proposals, New Jersey would become the 41st state to require technology competence for lawyers and the fourth state to require tech-related CLE.
In 2012, the
Continue Reading Another State Moves Towards Adopting Duty of Tech Competence and Mandatory Tech CLE for Lawyers

In the field of legal knowledge management and innovation, Sally Gonzalez is both a legend and a trailblazer. Over the course of her 40-year career, she has worked for some of the world’s largest law firms to develop and lead KM and strategic technology initiatives. She has overseen KM and information technology programs at such global firms as Norton Rose
Continue Reading LawNext: As She Retires From a Trailblazing Career in Legal KM and Innovation, Sally Gonzalez Shares Lessons Learned

The legal technology company Litera said today that is has acquired Office & Dragons, a London-based company that develops document automation software for law firms and legal professionals.
Office & Dragons specializes in software that allows editing, generation and review of multiple documents in a single process, to help law firms save time on repetitive work that would otherwise
Continue Reading Litera Acquires UK Document Automation Company Office & Dragons to Streamline Document Editing

SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and practical business use.
Phase 1 covers over 100 employment law topics
Continue Reading SixFifty Unveils Project To Encode All U.S. Employment Law As Data, with Free Access for Academics

I am very pleased to announce a new addition, starting today, to our line-up of regular panelists for Legaltech Week: Julie Sobowale, a Canada-based freelance journalist and lawyer who writes about legal tech and legal affairs for publications such as Canadian Lawyer, The Walrus, and others. Julie has been a guest panelist from time to time,
Continue Reading Today on Legaltech Week, A New Panelist Joins Our Regular Line-up, Canadian Journalist Julie Sobowale

This week on How it Works, we have a walkthrough of MyCase Accounting software, presented to me by Sales Engineering Manager Lindsay Bushong.
MyCase Legal Accounting, in their words, “is easy-to-use accounting software built seamlessly into the MyCase practice management platform to meet the unique business needs of law firms. An end-to-end solution, MyCase’s legal accounting software allows
Continue Reading How It Works: A Demonstration of MyCase Accounting Software

Recently, the Everlaw Summit, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, convened in San Francisco. In his keynote address there, cofounder and CEO AJ Shankar announced the general availability, after a year of beta testing, of a suite of generative AI features for reviewing, coding and analyzing documents in discovery and litigation prep.
I was at
Continue Reading LawNext: How Gen AI Can Be A Game-Changer for Discovery and Litigation, with Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar