The L Suite, a community for in-house legal executives, has acquired Luminate+, an e-learning platform that aggregates continuing legal education content from major law firms into a Netflix-style streaming service. The L Suite said that the acquisition, announced today, will enable it to address a longstanding need for practical learning tailored for modern in-house counsel […] read more

Legal technology company SurePoint Technologies has acquired the legal practice management company ZenCase in a strategic move aimed at enhancing SurePoint’s practice management offerings for mid-sized law firms. The deal, announced today, builds on SurePoint’s acquisition last year of the legal business intelligence and analytics company Leopard Solutions, and paves the way for SurePoint to combine […] read more

Lawmatics, a legal technology platform for client intake, CRM and marketing automation, is rolling out a comprehensive redesign of its user interface aimed at making its increasingly complex feature set more accessible and intuitive for law firms of all sizes. The update, which is going live this week, represents the first phase of what founder […] read more

One of my most-read stories last year was The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It was about the jarring juxtaposition I experienced of traveling from Legalweek in New York, that glitzy celebration of big law tech, directly to the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovations in Technology […] read more

Generative AI presents a generational opportunity for legal aid organizations to address the justice gap, keynote speaker Laura Safdie told the roughly 350 people who convened in Phoenix on Sunday for the inaugural AI for Legal Aid Summit. Noting data showing that more than 90% of civil legal needs go unrepresented, Safdie (pictured above), former […] read more

If context switching is the bane of AI adoption in law firms, legal technology company Syntheia may just have the balm. Recognizing that lawyers spend much of their days in email, it has developed an AI-powered document analysis tool that allows lawyers to obtain summaries and insights from legal documents by simply forwarding them from […] read more

LexCheck, a legal technology company specializing in contract review, is launching a new AI-powered contract analysis tool that aims to solve two persistent challenges in contract technology: the ability to handle complex agreements beyond routine contracts such as NDAs, and the creation and maintenance of contract playbooks. The company’s new product, LexCheck Insights, combines know-how […] read more

With this post, voting is now officially open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the ninth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, April 2-5, 2025. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW, which […] read more

In their annual report on the state of the U.S. legal market, Thomson Reuters and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law say that 2024 was a pivotal year for law firms, marking the beginning of the end for the traditional law firm business model and perhaps also of the billable […] read more

On Dec. 5, in a move to enhance access to justice, the Supreme Court of the state of Washington issued a historic order authorizing a regulatory reform pilot program by which entities not owned by lawyers will be able to deliver legal services. The move makes Washington only the third state, after Utah and Arizona, […] read more