Last June, legal technology company Clio and legal marketing company Scorpion announced that they had formed a comprehensive strategic partnership aimed at giving law firms greater visibility into their marketing investments and outcomes, addressing what the companies described as a longstanding blind spot in how lawyers understand and optimize their client acquisition efforts. The partnership […] read more

Tradespace, the San Francisco-based AI-powered intellectual property management platform, has acquired Paragon, an AI patent-drafting startup founded by three Princeton University computer science students. The acquisition, Tradespace says, makes it the first AI-powered platform to support the complete IP lifecycle, from initial invention disclosure through patent drafting, prosecution, portfolio management and commercialization. The deal brings […] read more

God forbid a disaster had befallen Austin, Texas, last week, because it could have set back the evolution of legal tech by at least a decade. Assembled there were many of the best and the brightest of the legal tech world, who had all come together for the fourth edition of what has become the […] read more

Applications are now open for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, a competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference. Out of all the entries received, 15 startups will […] read more

Harbor, the Chicago-based legal technology and consulting firm, continues its string of recent acquisitions with the addition of Encoretech, a specialized training and user adoption services company focused on the legal sector. The deal marks Harbor’s first acquisition since receiving a majority investment from private equity firm BayPine in June and represents the company’s sixth […] read more

Epiq announced today the sale of its Global Business Transformation Solutions (GBTS) division to K2 Services, a managed services provider. The transaction positions Epiq to concentrate more intensively on technology-enabled legal solutions while significantly expanding K2’s operational footprint in the professional services sector. The deal is part of a broader strategic move by K2 Services, […] read more

Legal technology company Clio has completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, marking the conclusion of the largest deal in legal tech history, and has simultaneously closed a $500 million Series G funding round, along with a $350 million debt facility, valuing the combined company at $5 billion, and clearing the way to move forward […] read more

The legal AI platform Alexi has launched what it is calling the most comprehensive AI workflow library on the market, designed to help law firms move beyond risky AI experimentation toward reliable, scalable automation of legal work. The Toronto-based company introduced the Workflow Library in September, describing it as a solution developed for firms that […] read more

As the long-running litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence has moved to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s copyright rulings in favor of TR, amicus curiae have come out in force to support the position of the now-defunct AI legal research startup that it did not […] read more

AJ Shankar, CEO and founder of e-discovery company Everlaw, used the company’s annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to announce that Deep Dive, a new AI tool within the company’s platform that enables legal teams to ask questions across millions of documents, will reach general availability before the end of the year following a successful […] read more