Decisis, the legal research service that LexisNexis parent RELX launched in 2021 to compete against Fastcase for a share of the bar association partnership business, has expanded over just the past year from 10 to 20 bar partnerships, including 14 state bar associations.
In fact, two of those state bars have yet to publicly announce their move and still
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Aderant, a global provider of legal business management software, said today that it has signed a multi-year renewal of its partnership with LawPay to provide its users with integrated access to LawPay’s electronic payments solution.
The Aderant and LawPay integration fully automates and extends payment enablement options for customers of Aderant Expert and Aderant Sierra to provide a fully
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Paladin, a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, today launched a province-wide pro bono portal for Ontario, developed in partnership with the Ontario Bar Association.
While Paladin has launched pro bono portals in 13 U.S. states, this is its first outside the U.S. The company says it plans to roll-out portals in
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“Everybody understands the world is volatile, but they don’t necessarily understand why it’s volatile or how to deal with it,” says Sean West, cofounder of Hence Technologies and author of the new book, Unruly: Fighting Back When Politics, AI, and Law Upend the Rules of Business. “Unruly is a play on words. … The world is kind of ‘unruling.’
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Legal technology company FirmPilot announced today that it has raised $11.7 million in total funding, with Thomson Reuters Ventures and HubSpot Ventures joining as strategic investors in its latest round.
The AI marketing platform for law firms secured $4.7 million in this strategic investment round from the two new backers. This follows $7 million raised through a 2023 seed round
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PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in outside counsel management for corporate legal departments, has acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal.
The news comes as the CLOC Global Legal Institute, a conference devoted to legal operations professionals in corporate legal, kicks off today in Las Vegas.
“This strategic acquisition reinforces PERSUIT’s unique ability to deliver
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One of the best-known idioms about lawyers is the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln, “A lawyer’s time and advice are his stock in trade.” But I doubt you have ever heard this one: “A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows where the law keeps its spare keys.”
Last week, social media was abuzz with the discovery that
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If you follow legal tech at all, you would be justified in suspecting that Tom Martin has figured out how to use artificial intelligence to clone himself.
While running LawDroid, his legal tech company, the Vancouver-based Martin also still manages a law practice in California, oversees an annual legal tech awards program, teaches a law school course on generative
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This week on How it Works, we’re joined by Daniel Diamond, Chief Revenue Officer at Alexi, for a brief demonstration of the software’s key features.
Alexi is, in their words, a “flexible AI platform trusted by leading law firms to develop proprietary insights, orchestrate high-quality work, and deliver stronger results — in a fully private, firm-controlled environment.”
In an interview
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Seattle-based legal technology startup Supio has secured $60 million in Series B funding to accelerate the development and adoption of its AI-powered platform for personal injury law firms. The funding round was led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures, bringing Supio’s total funding to $91 million.
Sapphire Ventures is a recurring investor, having previously led
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Hence Technologies has unveiled Hence Global, an AI-powered platform designed to help businesses and their legal counsel manage geopolitical uncertainties by providing customized risk analysis and insights tailored to specific business roles and needs.
Launched last week, the platform aims to address what the company describes as “the unruly collision of politics, technology, and law” manifesting in shifting political
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Coheso, an AI-powered intake and work management platform that describes itself as a “legal front door” for corporate legal and compliance teams, today announced a significant enhancement to its platform with the addition of a universal contract lifecycle management (CLM) connector, which it says enables seamless integration and granular data mapping with organizations’ CLM systems.
The new capability allows
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Contract management is emerging as the top use case for generative artificial intelligence in legal departments, according to a new survey of in-house legal professionals released today, the 2025 AI Impact on In-House Legal Teams Survey Report.
Conducted by the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft, the survey finds that a significant majority (70.8%) of legal teams foresee AI-driven
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Gauvreau CPA, a recognized Clio Gold Partner, has selected Universal Migrator as their solution for migrating client firms into Clio, significantly accelerating their onboarding processes and expanding their service capabilities.
Universal Migrator is a tool that helps law firms and legal organizations migrate their data when moving from one practice management solution or technology platform to another. Working primarily with
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Nominations are now open for the American Legal Technology Awards, which honor innovation and excellence in the legal industry.
Nominations will be accepted through July 31. The awards will be presented at a gala dinner in Boston on Oct. 15, 2025, at Suffolk University Law School.
Self-nominations are encouraged, the organizers say, and there is no fee to nominate.
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