Tech-perplexed lawyers: We’ve enjoyed (not) seeing you at the Legal Tech Non-Event.

Read on for a rundown of recent news from some of the companies that have joined us.

And as always, visit our Document Management for Law Firms page for all of your tech-adoption needs.

DocStyle

Returning to the events circuit for the first time since the pandemic began, DocStyle will be exhibiting this year at the 2022 ALA Annual Conference & Expo alongside Worldox. Meet with us May 15th – 18th at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee, Florida as we share our vision for the future.

On Friday, April 1st we’re releasing a major update to DocStyle, that will significantly expand on the functionality of both our Defined Terms and Cross-Referencing feature-sets.

At first, checking for definitions within a document was all about presenting information to the users. What we’ve learned is that having the flexibility to navigate definitions while preserving your working location inside the document is critical. Applying the same knowledge, we redesigned and enhanced Cross-Referencing as well, for a better interaction with the document.

With the ability to style paragraphs automatically at its core, DocStyle delivers a complete Cross-Referencing and Defined Terms experience, all in one solution.

Expanding on our commitment to support the drafting and review process, NOVO Compare and PuR MetaData from Evolution Software can be purchased directly from DocStyle. We’re proud to offer document comparison and metadata removal tools, expanding our document review capabilities.

Click here for more.

iManage

Microsoft joins iManage and Pivot Point Security for an ILTA expert panel discussion on the latest trends and key considerations for keeping a mobile workforce secure, productive, and collaborative. Join us on April 20 for When Life Gives You Lemons: Keeping your Workforce Protected in an Era of Uncertainty for a discussion on best practices for maximizing your firm’s security. For more information and to save your spot, click here.

For the exciting announcement of the strategic partnership between iManage and Microsoft, click here.

Moxo

Moxtra, the industry’s leading client interaction solution provider,  announced a new brand identity and name earlier this month – Moxo.  The rebrand reflects the evolution of the company’s offerings from a  collaboration solution to a OneStop Interaction Flow solution that  supports the entire interaction lifecycle of high-value client  management. 

While retaining the mobile-first approach the company was founded on,  the Moxo solution now encapsulates powerful collaboration within the  higher order framework of structured client interaction workflows. This  enables snap-in business process integration, blending structured and  unstructured business interactions supporting the entire lifecycle of  client management — from onboarding, servicing to exception  handling.  

For more insights on the rebrand, visit the Moxo Newsroom. 

Alongside the rebrand, Moxo released its 2022 Digital Resilience  Report. The 2022 report’s findings reveal the digital-first nature of  today’s world — especially for high-touch, client-facing businesses such  as law firms. To better understand how businesses are addressing  these challenges and what opportunities for improvement are available,  Moxo surveyed 1,500 clients and 1,500 internal- and external-facing  employees across three high-touch industries, including legal. 

To download the 2022 Digital Resilience Report, visit the Moxo  Resource Library.

MyCase

MyCase, a leading provider of cloud-based legal practice management software and payment services to law firms, continued to expand its series of virtual sessions designed to help lawyers run their firms more efficiently.

In How to Build a Winning Marketing Strategy for Your Firm, legal marketing experts Nancy Myrland and Stacey Burke discussed the do’s and don’ts of executing successful marketing plans to help firms stand out from their competition. 

To help firms make more informed, data-driven decisions, Law Practice Management Consultant Jared Correia shared his top tips and best practices for data management in How to Make the Most of Your Data. 

As closing out a law firm’s books for the fiscal year can be a daunting task for many lawyers, MyCase hosted Tax Season Starter Kit: 6 Ways to Ensure Your Firm’s Books are Ready. Here, Duane Carey, Training Manager for Soluno, covered the best ways to stay one step ahead of year-end with simple practices that lawyers can employ all year long.

Stay up to date with the latest interactive sessions from MyCase here. 

NetDocuments

The 2022 Buyers Guide for Document Management, Assembly & PDF Tools is now available! In the guide, Legal Tech Publishing covers latest developments and updates, upcoming enhancements on the roadmap, and features that make your law firm more productive by working in (and never leaving) NetDocuments.

As a result of significant growth in Canada, with the addition of two Seven Sisters law firms, NetDocuments is setting up and will operate a new fifth commercial service region in Canada. NetDocuments currently operates services in the US, UK, Germany, and Australia, as well as a government-specific service based on FedRAMP Authorization.

From hyperautomation to tech that improves employee satisfaction, discover 10 legal tech trends that have the potential to drive meaningful outcomes in 2022 and beyond. Find out how your team can mobilize to benefit and what thought leaders from across the industry have to say.

Josh Baxter, Chief Executive Officer at NetDocuments, was named 2022 CEO of the Year by Utah Business for his incredible impact on the company and community. See additional awards and accolades for our people, products, and organization.

VIQ Solutions

VIQ Solutions has been laser-focused on expanding global presence to continue to grow as one of the leaders in digital voice capture and transcription technology. In the past 6 months, VIQ has bolstered their transcription services by acquiring two leading transcription companies, The Transcription Agency in the United Kingdom, and Auscript in Australia. To lead the transitions and accelerate growth as the international demand for digitization of evidence-based workflows increases, VIQ has added a key executive and board leadership roles. Read all VIQ Solutions’ latest press releases here.

VIQ Solutions has created a strategic partnership with Lexel™, a cloud-based legal evidence management software, to optimize legal case analysis, trial preparation and real-time transcription to assist legal professionals globally. Lexel provides a collaboration tool that can be utilized by attorneys remotely working on strategy & trial preparation. Learn how to redefine your digital workspace to improve efficiency.

Digitizing evidentiary information can help streamline legal workflows, saving time and reducing the opportunity for errors. MobileMic™ Pro, soon to be upgraded to CapturePro™ Mobile, is a mobile-based app that simplifies recording spoken conversations, depositions, and statements in real time. Once captured, legal professionals can either request a professional verbatim transcript or use FirstDraft™ to obtain an automated transcript for same-day review and editing. Learn how to use technology to improve legal processes.

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Read on for a rundown of recent news from some of the companies that have joined us.

And as always, visit our Practice Management for Law Firms page for all of your tech-adoption needs.

AbacusNext

Recently, Abacus Payment Exchange (APX) version 2.0., was made available to new and existing firms using the current version of AbacusNext and Zola Suite platforms. APX streamlines the payments process by integrating it directly into the practice management environment, where firm employees spend their workday managing clients, projects, and communications. 

APX provides a single platform to oversee the entire billing and collections process. Everything is connected to manage, securely process, and collect your clients’ payments through APX – moving your money fast!

Here are just a few new features you’ll experience with APX 2.0: 

• Cash Flow Ease and Speed – Unlike other payment solutions APX uses a single integrated platform to process your accounts and bill clients – one point of contact, one point of reconciliation and get paid in 2 business days. 
• Transparent Pricing – APX offers a flat fee for credit card and ACH transactions with no monthly fees, or hidden charges.  
• Secure and Compliant – With APX, your data is safe – APX is PCI compliant, one of the highest levels of security certification and with APX integration, you’re not storing or processing any payment data.

Have questions about how your business can automate its payments? Click here.

Assembly Legal

Late last year, Assembly Legal announced the launch of their new lead management intake solution, Neos Intake Pro. The solution brings end-to-end client management to Neos cloud-based case management software, allowing firms to capture leads effectively, and turn more of them into clients. Neos Intake Pro features a Zapier integration for lead management, dynamic intake forms, and marketing return on investment dashboards. Click here to find out more.

Assembly Legal is also proud to announce the release of Neos Automatic Timekeeping, the most advanced litigation feature on the market. Automatic Timekeeper will allow our customers to track time against cases without manually starting and stopping a timer. The new Neos Automatic Timekeeper allows our customers to minimize lawyer time required to record billable time and prepare time sheets, more accurately track billable activities, and increase productivity and revenue. Find out more here.

Additionally, Assembly legal is excited to be back in the in-person industry event circuit, recently attending both the National Trial Lawyers Summit and the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Winter Convention. At AAJ, Assembly was the proud sponsor of both the Women Trial Lawyers Caucus Signature Brunch and Injury Board’s member tailgate event, strengthening the company’s long history of industry partnerships. The team at Assembly Legal looks forward to seeing more of their customers (representing over 2,600 law firms), as well as prospective customers, at future industry events this year.

Clio

Introducing Clio Payments

Clio recently added native payment processing to their cloud-based offerings. Clio Payments is now available in their flagship practice management system, Clio Manage. Legal professionals can manage the entire legal client journey—from client intake, all the way through payment collection—through one secure, compliant, and trusted system.

To learn more about adopting online payments for legal services, check out their recent publication: The Ultimate Guide to Accepting Legal Payment Processing Solutions.

Legal Rates Benchmark Calculator

Clio launched their anticipated 2021 Legal Trends Report. The report focuses on how legal professionals are harnessing technology to adapt their services to new consumer expectations while building more successful, resilient firms. Legal professionals can use the report to better understand changing dynamics in the industry, including average rates for legal services.

To compare your rates against other legal professionals in your state you can use their new competitive rates calculator.

2022 Clio Cloud Conference, now a hybrid event, hosted from Nashville, TN

The 10th annual Clio Cloud Conference is back this October—and it’s more accessible than ever before. Thousands of legal professionals from around the globe will gather in person, or at select virtual conference sessions, to discover new ways to make an impact on the legal industry.

Get your pass at cliocloudconference.com today with discounted pricing still in effect (*prices increase March 24, 2022).

Filevine

Vinesign, the eSignature solution from Filevine, released an enhanced document verification service, accomplished through the use of private Blockchain technology. The new, publicly available verification portal allows anyone to confirm key details about a Vinesigned document and its signatures in order to uphold its authenticity. Learn more about it here.

Filevine ranks as one of the most innovative, fastest-growing technology companies on Deloitte’s annual list, with a three-year growth rate of 730%.  Read more here.

Filevine, the Legal Work Platform, announced that its security practices meet Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II standards based on an independent audit conducted by Marcum, LLP, an American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) auditing firm. SOC 2 reports are industry-recognized, independent audits that provide assurance about the design and effectiveness of controls in place at a service organization, demonstrating the company’s ability to adhere to critical security practices. The rigorous audit included five security domains: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

Find out more here.

Get Staffed Up

Get Staffed Up, founded by lawyers for lawyers, staffs law firms with incredible, full-time, offshore virtual assistants in two key areas: Administrative and Marketing.

Their mission is to help lawyers delegate their way to freedom.In 2021, they helped 276 law firms delegate their way to freedom and placed 289 virtual assistants. Here’s what your peer, Josh Whisler, founder of the Whisler Law Firm, has to say: “Get Staffed Up has provided us with the highest qualified team members. We couldn’t be happier. GSU has been one of the greatest decisions this firm has made in creating our ‘A Team’.”

One of the ways we stay true to our mission is through our free monthly webinar series. On February 22nd, we discussed how virtual assistants can help publish and promote a book. Learn more about it HERE. Want to be on the invite list for the next one? Sign up for our newsletter HERE.

Delegating your way to freedom isn’t just a task, it’s also a mindset. Changing your mindset requires focus. That’s why we are doing our Spring Delegation Challenge. Follow us on social media to learn more and sign up HERE. You could win $2,100.00.

Litify

Insurance Carriers, Insurance Defense Firms, and other industry thought leaders are coming together to discuss the future of claims litigation at LitiQuest Insurance on April 7th in Santa Monica, CA. Speakers from CLM, AmTrust Insurance, Deloitte, and more will be discussing a new way for carriers and defense firms to collaborate towards better claims litigation outcomes.

Insurance Defense Firms will not want to miss this event where Carriers share insights about how they plan to select outside counsel in a new data-driven world.  To check out the full agenda and register for the event you can visit: https://www.litify.com/litiquest-insurance/ 

Litify was also the only Legal Practice Management platform to be named a “Soonicorn” in Tracxn’s top legal tech startups of 2022. Check out the article here and learn more about why Litify is taking off in the category by visiting Litify.com.

MyCase

MyCase, a leading provider of cloud-based legal practice management software and payment services to law firms, recently welcomed the addition of Chief Product and Technology Officer, Arman Samani. Samani joins MyCase as an accomplished industry leader with over two decades of experience in building and overseeing innovation at high-growth SaaS businesses.

The leadership team expansion comes on the heels of multiple acquisitions and product feature announcements. Most notably, the company recently unveiled its new Accounting and Drive functionalities, set for release in 2022:

• MyCase Drive is a complete desktop document management solution that syncs to MyCase, allowing firms to efficiently find and organize documents using their computer’s file explorer and advanced search capabilities.
• Available in 2022, MyCase Accounting is a fully integrated, legal-specific accounting solution that centralizes a law firm’s financial data, eliminates redundant data entry across multiple systems, and ensures trust compliance with easy, three-way reconciliation.

In addition to the new features, MyCase continues to expand its core product with new integrations that allow lawyers to work more efficiently with their existing technology. LEX Reception is the most recent addition to MyCase’s expanding set of integrations, which include Mailchimp, Smith.ai, and more. 

PracticePanther

PracticePanther released new product enhancements to their all-in-one legal case management platform, along with educational content and resources for law firms to remain profitable with legal technology and online payments.

PracticePanther announced in early February that firms can now request an unlimited amount of documents for electronic signatures with their built-in eSignature feature at no additional cost. Having the ability to send, track, and store documents for signature allows users to streamline their documents process and gain better visibility into their signature trail.

Access PracticePanther’s on-demand webinar where Payment Specialist, Zach Herrmann, speaks on how a streamlined intake and billing process prompts clients to pay their invoices faster. Additionally, PracticePanther released an eBook with attorney and founder of Red Cave Legal, Jared Correia, where he presents the business case for law firms on the need for online payments and identifies the blockers for law firms slow to adopt it.

Rocket Matter

This fall, Rocket Matter added a host of new functionalities to their fully integrated practice management software.

Firms using Rocket Matter’s new Premier Tier now have access to powerful advanced functionalities including:

• A new Business Intelligence Module. Users can quickly generate advanced reports and analyze key performance indicators from within a simple drag-and-drop interface.
• Effortless e-signatures. Rocket Matter’s integration with ImagineShare allows attorneys to send e-signature documents and requests directly from their email addresses. E-signature documents can also be generated and sent from within Outlook without switching to a secondary software.
• Customizable billing rules. Law firms can define custom rules on a case-by-case basis to ensure that timekeepers adhere to important billing requirements. Insurance defense attorneys will greatly benefit from customizable LEDES billing audit rules, which prevent invoice rejection based on LEDES code billing errors.
• Paperless prebills. Firms can now move work into a “prebill” status so they can review and audit prior to invoicing.
• Automated billing cycles. Users can easily schedule auto-generated prebills.

As part of the recent update, Rocket Matter has also leveled up a number of core functionalities, including enhancements to speed and responsiveness. To try the new Premier Tier and streamline your practice, sign up here.

SmartAdvocate

SmartAdvocate recently announced its latest software release, featuring over 1,000 enhancements. Among them are new visual themes, customized dashboards and new screens for specialized cases that involve Social Security Disability and Veterans’ Affairs. Also added to the software, are several updates which will help firms increase their productivity. Users will be able to perform mass emails/faxes from the SmartAdvocate Medical Records Follow-up Dashboard, and combine multiple documents into a PDF. This release also includes new integrations which will allow users to utilize full text search in Word and PDF documents, secure medical record services, eSignature solutions, litigation support and accounting services. 

Read full press release here.

Zola Suite

Zola Suite has announced their exclusive integration with HotDocs®, the world’s leading document automation platform. Designed in close collaboration with the HotDocs engineering team, this integration enables firms to use the data they’ve already captured in Zola Suite to be used directly in HotDocs, resulting in a massive increase in productivity. Users can also save the generated document directly back to Zola Suite’s document management system. To learn more about what’s new with Zola Suite, click here.

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And as always, visit our Legal AI Software page for all of your tech-adoption needs.

Onit

Are you prepared to future-proof surges in contract activities? A panel of in-house experts from VMware, Onit and the World Commerce  & Contracting organization gathered to answer this question, discussing how to start and complete a journey to build a sophisticated, tech-enabled contract ecosystem within your enterprise. You can hear their advice here.

Onit has introduced a new podcast hub for the latest developments in legal ops, AI and ideation. There, you can hear pioneers in digital transformation and legal technology discuss challenges and opportunities covering areas such as AI and NDAs and how to create world-class legal operations.

Onit has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape Report: Worldwide Contract Life-Cycle Management Software for Corporate Legal 2021 Vendor Assessment (Doc # US46965921, November 2021). Onit introduced its Contract Lifecycle Management software two years ago, which now includes AI for all phases of contract management. On average, Onit CLM customers see a 9% annual cost savings and a 24% reduction in sales cycles while decreasing hours spent on contracts by 20%.

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And as always, visit our Contract Management for Law Firms page for all of your tech-adoption needs.

ContractPodAi

After identifying the average contract value erosion of 9.2% in 2014, World Commerce & Contracting (World CC) is releasing its latest report, “The 10 Pitfalls 2022.”

In a Dec. 9 webinar, ContractPodAi Chief Technology Officer Anurag Malik and World CC President Tim Cummins will share this latest research and help you answer the three biggest questions around contracting today: Are your contracts losing value, how can you identify the sources of leakage, and what can you do to prevent them?

To learn more and register for this webinar, click here.

ContractPodAi was also named winner of the 2021 British Legal Technology award for “Legal AI Supplier of the Year” recently. This is the second straight time that ContractPodAi has earned this prestigious prize for helping legal leaders streamline department workflows and monitor company-wide objectives.

With the realization that automation is the future of contract management, the annual British Legal Technology Awards recognize excellence in legal tech and IT security within the U.K. and international legal sectors. The “Legal AI Supplier of the Year” category, in particular, honors teams that positively impact the legal tech industry.

To see the complete list of 2021 British Legal Technology Award winners, click here.

ContractWorks

ContractWorks is proud to announce that it has been named the 2021 LegalTech Solution of the Year in the second annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards program.

This highly competitive awards program aims to perform the most comprehensive evaluation of LegalTech tools, services, and companies today, with the goal of recognizing the breakthrough solutions. This year there were more than 1,300 nominations from innovative companies around the world. All entries are judged on the Tech Breakthrough criteria, which include Innovation, Performance, Ease of Use, Functionality, Value, and Impact.

“The ContractWorks team is incredibly proud to be named LegalTech Breakthrough’s LegalTech Solution of the Year. We work hard to create contract management software that is easy to use so customers can make an impact quickly, and this award is another indication that our value proposition is resonating.” – ContractWorks CEO Will Reynolds

Click here to read more on the ContractWorks blog.

Donna

Donna, the AI-powered Microsoft Office Add-in that helps lawyers draft and review contracts, expands their business with a new service called Conalyzer. Conalyzer offers developer-friendly APIs to extract, index, and transform text in legal documents. 

Unlike general NLP solutions like IBM Watson, HuggingFace, or Spacy, Conalyzer is designed from the ground up to address the challenges faced when analyzing legal documents and integrating the results into an application.

Conalyzer is currently letting in developers onto the platform. To get your API key and see more details about what Conalyzer can do, click here. 

Donna itself has also undergone a significant makeover with the release of a new app version. While the app still offers the same features, Donna hopes the latest version allows for a more user-friendly experience. 

Donna has, for example, introduced a Power Moves™ menu, which includes some of the most liked and appreciated tools such as Highlight, Insert Cross-Reference and Update All Links — now all easily accessible with just one click.

Find out if Donna is right for you with their 14-day free trial.

Outlaw

In a continuous effort to bridge the gap between legal and business, Outlaw has joined Filevine, the leading legal work platform. Through this acquisition, the companies are advancing the way legal work gets done for all legal professionals and have already released several new features:

— Native Salesforce integration to expedite sales deal cycle times

— Dynamic clause library to further knowledge management

— Filevine and Outlaw native integration for advanced document assembly and automation

Outlaw has also made further enhancements to their unique feature — batch generation, allowing for more flexibility to be used across industries. From accounting services to management consulting to mass tort practices, organizations are using Outlaw batch generation to draft and send out thousands of customized documents in minutes. Whether it’s being used for a short stack of legal documents with a high number of variables or mass contract production to be sent out for eSignature, the tool adapts to an organization’s workflows to instantly populate and create individualized, flawless documents. Read more on how global enterprise UCaaS company Intrado used Outlaw batch generation to grow their revenue in the multi-millions in two months.

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Tech-perplexed lawyers: We’ve enjoyed (not) seeing you at the Legal Tech Non-Event.

Read on for a rundown of recent news from some of the companies that have joined us.

And as always, visit our Spend Management for Law Firms page for all of your tech-adoption needs.

Xakia Technologies 

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And as always, visit our Practice Management for Law Firms page for all of your tech-adoption needs.

Clio

Clio has released the 2021 Legal Trends Report. Now in its sixth year, the 2021 Legal Trends Report includes aggregated responses from 150,000 legal professionals using Clio over the last two years, as well as, survey responses from more than 1,000 legal professionals and 1,000 general consumers in the U.S. on what they deem most important to them today and in a post-COVID world. This analysis identified technology adoption as a key aspect of law firm survival and success during the height of the pandemic. In 2021, the most successful firms continue to adopt technological solutions for more flexible client-centered services. Click here to find out more.

Clio has also introduced Clio Payments. With Clio’s all new payments suite built into Clio Manage, law firms can make it easy for clients to pay their bills online with debit, credit, or eCheck. You can send trust payment requests and maintain evergreen retainers—all while maintaining compliance with trust accounting rules. Allowing clients to pay with automated, flexible payment plans has the potential to make legal services much more accessible to those who need them most by giving consumers the flexibility to pay over a longer period of time. This can be a competitive advantage for firms acquiring clients in the first place, but also a valuable tool for improving collection rates in the long run. You can find out more here.

Following substantial growth and record-breaking Series D and E funding rounds, Clio expands its C-suite portfolio by naming a new Chief Operating Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer. This new structure will see the C-suite double in size and bring on new leaders from high growth stage and public companies, while also further leveraging the tenure and deep experience of existing engineering and marketing leads. Find out more about the new leadership team here.

Filevine

Filevine unveiled new tools and capabilities to enhance the intersection of Legal and Business for organizations at its recent Legal X conference, which took place September 27-29 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company introduced enhancements to its Legal Work Platform to make work more seamless, transparent, and effortless for legal professionals and everyone they interact with. For a recap of the conference and product updates and improvements, read the full press release here.

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Read on for a rundown of recent news from some of the companies that have joined us.  

And as always, visit our CRM for Law Firms page for all of your tech-adoption needs. 

Answering Legal

Answering Legal’s “Everything Except The Law” podcast, which educates attorneys on the topics that weren’t covered in law school, recently released three new episodes. 

Episode 14 of the podcast includes a discussion with Nanato Media co-founder Liel Levy on putting together marketing campaigns specifically for Hispanic legal consumers. Episode 15 features a conversation with Dr. Monica Delgado (from Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP) about how lawyers can best transition into a post-COVID state. And in newly released Episode 16, lawyer business coach Alay Yajnik shares tips for hiring top talent for your firm. 

The “Everything Except The Law” podcast can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor or the Answering Legal YouTube channel.    

Visit the Answering Legal blog for full episode recaps. 

Filevine

Legal X is happening September 27-29 in beautiful Park City, Utah. That’s three days in an idyllic mountain setting with some of the most creative, driven, and brilliant legal minds of our time.

Filevine has finalized the Legal X Keynote Speaker Lineup, which includes Ben Crump, Ally Love, Abby Wambach, Alexis Ohanian, and an open-air concert with Jimmy Eat World. 

For more information and to register for Legal X, click here.

Filevine has also ranked No. 665 on Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Filevine also ranked on the list in 2020.

The Inc. 5000 represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. The companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 have been very competitive within their markets, and this year’s list proved especially resilient and flexible given 2020’s unprecedented challenges.

Click here for more. 

Lawmatics

Recently, Lawmatics CEO, Matt Spiegel, joined Moshe Amsel, host of the Profit with Law podcast, to discuss the importance of delivering a great client experience throughout the entire sales process. 

Click here for the full conversation, which covers: 

• The differences between CRM and practice management systems
• KPIs and metrics your law firm can use to evaluate the success of your sales process
• How a positive client experience is more important than the legal outcome

Can you say that your law firm has a strategy in place to reach your long-term goals and vision? If not, then you’re nothing short of blindly wandering through the dark. 

Business school teaches you that when you start a business (a law firm is a business by the way) one of the first things you need to do is create a business strategy. A strategy increases your chances of successfully reaching your vision and standing out against the competition.

Without a strategy, you risk blending into the crowd.

Here, we provide expert guidance on building a law firm’s long-term business strategy. 

Moxtra

To understand how consumers prefer to engage with businesses and what strategy service providers need to employ, Moxtra surveyed 1,000 consumers and 200 senior-level decision makers in the healthcare, education, insurance and logistics industries. 

Click here for the results, which highlight the ongoing importance of convenience to consumers, and reveal areas where businesses need to level up their technology offerings to deliver on consumer expectations.

In 1943, human psychologist Abraham Malsow introduced his now famous, and often referenced, Hierarchy of Needs. In his paper “A Theory of Human Motivation”, he detailed a theory that humans are motivated to fulfill their needs in a tiered sequence — in order to move to another level of needs, the more basic needs must be satisfied. 

This concept is best illustrated as a pyramid detailing foundational/biological needs, moving up towards more psychological and social needs.

In this article, Moxtra looks at Maslow’s defined needs — Physiological, Safety, Love/Belonging, Esteem, and Self-Actualization — and how integrated mobility has become in today’s world on our collective paths to self-actualization.

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Read on for a rundown of recent news from some of the companies that have joined us.  

And as always, visit our Artificial Intelligence page for all of your tech-adoption needs. 

iManage

iManage announced this month that leading global law firm Linklaters has selected iManage Work 10 for comprehensive, secure document and email management and collaboration. iManage is now the document and email management system of choice of all five of the prestigious “Magic Circle,” multinational, London-headquartered law firms. iManage Work 10 will replace Linklaters’ existing document management and email filing systems to deliver a single, unified platform to its 6,500 global professionals.

Linklaters selected iManage as its strategic partner following a rigorous market review and selection process. A trial that included a range of functional, integration, and performance-related criteria culminated in the adoption of iManage Work in the Cloud.

Click here for more.

iManage announced in August the availability of its risk management products in the iManage Cloud, beginning Q4 2021. The choice of deployment model, whether on-premise or within iManage Cloud, provides flexibility that ensures legal and professional services organizations a best-class solution for sophisticated, secure risk management. 

The dual offering allows organizations to leverage their preferred deployment, licensing, and maintenance model tailored to their unique business requirements. The approach also provides a streamlined migration path for organizations that want to move from on-premise to cloud-based solutions at their own pace, rather than forcing organizations to adopt change before they are ready.

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Legalsifter

What impact will technology have on legal services in the future? Change is coming to the legal profession, perhaps the most meaningful change in history. A recent survey found that companies gave law firms only 5.5/10 on law firms willingness to adapt to new technology.

The NewLaw Academy spoke with 15 thought leaders in legal innovation to get a sense of what characteristics future lawyers will need to be successful. Among those interviewed was our own Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter. 

Click here for more. 

In a recent episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast, host Charlie Uniman, welcomed Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter.

Listen here. 

SimpleLegal

SimpleLegal announced in August the addition of optical character recognition (OCR) to its document management system (DMS). The new OCR feature allows users to read and search text characters of digitized files in an image format, providing thorough document searching and easier collaboration.

Documents are critical to legal practice, and corporate legal departments must have an effective document management system to be more efficient, increase productivity and mitigate risk. SimpleLegal’s DMS is built into its legal operations software, which means matter files are easily accessible within one system. Customers can find the information they need without uploading files into multiple systems or working from incorrect document versions. The addition of the OCR functionality enables attorneys and in-house professionals to search for keywords within all digitized files, returning all-inclusive results instantly.

Read more here. 

Reveal Brainspace

Reveal Brainspace, the global provider of the leading AI-powered eDiscovery platform, recently announced that GoeDisco has engaged the AI technology powerhouse to provide superior, end-to-end solutions driving today’s forward-thinking legal organizations. It says that 90% of data in existence today has been created just in the last couple of years. 

This means the volume of information that is relevant to the process has become so great that unless the tools used can quickly analyze data and find relationship out of seamlessly desperate content types you are going to be incapable to meet your disclosure obligations, leave alone making eDiscovery simple and predictable.

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Onit, Inc. 

Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise workflow and artificial intelligence platforms and solutions, including enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management and business process automation, has added new executive leadership for product management and human resources.

Mary Fuzat joins Onit as the Vice President of Product Management. With more than two decades of software leadership experience, her focus has been on customer-impacting leadership roles that include product management and integration, cross-functional team leadership and business process optimization. 

David Gray brings more than 20 years of management and executive experience in human resources, with a solid background of progressive HR responsibility across Fortune 50, technology and financial services companies. As Onit’s Vice President of Global Human Resources, he turns a strategic vision to worldwide HR operations in areas such as staff development, performance management and employee morale.

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Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise workflow and artificial intelligence platforms and solutions, including enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management and business process automation, today announced that the Houston Business Journal has included Onit co-founder and CEO Eric M. Elfman as an honoree for its Most Admired CEO Awards.

The awards recognize CEOs based on contributions to company success, civic involvement, career achievement and more. Hundreds of CEOs were nominated, yet the Houston Business Journal only selected 50 for this award.

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Tech-perplexed lawyers: We’ve enjoyed (not) seeing you in June at the Legal Tech Non-Event.

Read on for a rundown of recent news from some of the companies joining us.  

And as always, visit our Main Page for all of your tech-adoption needs.

Clio

Clio has been recognized as the Gold Standard in privately owned Canadian businesses by the nation’s leading business awards program. Each year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies apply to Deloitte Canada’s prestigious program and undergo a rigorous application process, but only the best are awarded the title of Canada’s Best Managed Companies.

This will be the fourth year Clio has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, and the company is now being recognized with the Gold Standard distinction within the already elite category. 

“This is a major milestone for us in building an enduring 100-year-old company,” said Jack Newton, CEO and Founder of Clio. “Our long-term vision is to support all those who engage with the legal industry, and as we expand our portfolio we will look to grow our workforce to achieve these goals — which is why we are committed to creating a vibrant ecosystem for Canadian tech talent.”

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LawPay

LawPay has announced a payment integration with eBillity’s rebranded time and billing software, LawBillity. 

Realization rates are below average for law firms, indicating that the amount a law firm invoices is lower than the amount of billable work performed. This new LawBillity and LawPay integration is the solution to this problem as it will increase efficiencies and time savings, all while remaining legally compliant.

LawBillity, a legal time tracking and billing software, allows users to improve utilization rates and increase law firm profitability. The platform enables lawyers to capture every billable minute, improve transparency with clients, and with the new LawPay integration, streamline billing and payments in a single, powerful software solution.

“We are excited to offer legal firms the ability to get paid faster by offering secure online payment options that also keep them compliant,” said Douglas Dweck, Vice President of LawBillity and co-founder of eBillity. “LawPay is well respected in the legal field, offers competitive pricing, and will integrate easily with LawBillity.”

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MyCase

MyCase, Inc., has appointed Jim McGinnis as the company’s Chief Executive Officer.

McGinnis most recently served as EVP/GM of Wolters Kluwer’s Tax and Accounting North America Professional Segment. Over the past three years, he helped extend CCH Axcess as the leading SaaS solution in the Accounting profession. 

Prior to that, Jim served as Vice President at Intuit where he led Marketing and Product Management for the Professional Division and led the Accountant Segment as part of Intuit’s QuickBooks business. He has held senior leadership positions at Activision, Pepsico, and Procter and Gamble.

“I’m honored and excited to lead a company so beloved by its customers,” said McGinnis. “MyCase is in a wonderful position to help law firms better serve their clients and better manage their firms. I cannot wait to contribute to MyCase’s strong track record of best-in-class product and customer delight.”

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TimeSolv

TimeSolv, a provider of web-based software for legal billing and timekeeping, has announced a new payment solution dubbed TimeSolvPay designed to allow law firms to increase collection rates and modernize and automate their receivables process.

For busy law firms of all types and sizes, this new premier payment processor creates a consolidated experience for time capture, billing, invoicing, and payment collection, all within the TimeSolv system. TimeSolvPay boasts transparent, easy-to-understand pricing, insightful analytics, and rich functionality.

“Accepting online payments means attorneys are providing more convenient options and getting paid quicker,” said TimeSolv CEO Raza Hasan. “With this type of tech in place, firms can better forecast cashflow and streamline management of receivables and trust-related payments.”

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Tech-perplexed lawyers: We’ve enjoyed (not) seeing you in April at the Legal Tech Non-Event.

Read on for a rundown of recent news from some of the companies joining us.  

And as always, visit our Main Page for all of your tech-adoption needs.

ContractPodAi

ContractPodAi has launched ContractPodAi Cloud, a new legal platform that streamlines and simplifies all in-house legal processes. 

Building on the strength of ContractPodAi’s end-to-end CLM solution, this no-code platform allows teams to manage any legal scenario, process, or document using the platform’s pre-built and configurable applications such as claims, RFP review, and IP portfolio management.

In addition, the platform offers simple, guided forms and templates to create a legal application from scratch in minutes – a fast, easy, and intuitive way to scale highly tailored solutions to in-house teams’ everyday legal needs. 

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ContractWorks

ContractWorks has received top marks from leading software review sites, based largely on customer feedback. 

In G2’s Spring 2021 reports, ContractWorks was recognized as one of the best contract management software solutions across the Small Business, Mid Market, Enterprise, and Overall categories, primarily due to high marks for fast implementation and setup, ease of use, and leading customer support. 

Additionally, ContractWorks was once again featured as a product leader, with a 97% user satisfaction score, in Crozdesk’s Top 20 Document Management Software list.

ContractWorks also scored a 99 overall, including perfect scores of 100 in both the Ease of Use and Customer Support categories, in Gartner Digital Markets’ Competitive Comparison reports published this month. 

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NetDocuments

The NetDocuments Partner Program has been selected as part of the CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, Partner Program Guide Five Star list in 2021. In earning this recognition, the NetDocuments Partner Program expanded its ecosystem to include best-in-class service and technology providers receiving the highest customer satisfaction rates as well as leveraging an expansive ISV partner channel focused on providing customers the best NetDocuments user experience.

The Channel Company’s research team analyzed the vendor applications and designated select companies including NetDocuments as 5-Star based on a range of criteria including partner incentives, margins and discounts, partner profitability, pricing, sales leads, marketing support, pre- and post-sales support, training, and education offerings, as well as technical certifications.

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Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions published its LegalVIEW Insights report  —  the first of four quarterly reports in 2021 — analyzing emerging legal industry issues using data from its LegalVIEW Data warehouse.

Last year produced the biggest shakeup in the outside legal services market since the Great Recession as 90 percent of corporate legal departments (CLDs) reduced their active provider relationships, and 16 percent of attorney-client relationships that existed in 2019 were paused in 2020, the report found. 

The inaugural report, compiled by Nathan Cemenska, Director of Legal Operations and Industry Insights for Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, focuses on corporate legal department (CLD) law firm vendor usage.

 Due in part to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the economy, every law firm segment was impacted. 

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