The recently launched is the capstone to a massive undertaking executed over three years to digitize all U.S. case law, some 6.4 million cases dating back to 1658. Leading the project was , director of the at Harvard Law School, which partnered with…

Sarah Schaaf wanted to revolutionize how lawyers get paid. After growing up with lawyer parents and then becoming a lawyer herself, including a stint in Google’s legal department, she saw the problems lawyers had in collecting from clients. She…

They say you can’t go home again, but came back to legal technology after selling the first company he founded, , and then moving to other verticals. Earlier this year, Spiegel launched his second legal technology startup, , a cloud-based platform…

It was big news earlier this month when practice management company announced that it had acquired , the first cloud-based CRM and client-intake platform for lawyers. It was the first acquisition by 10-year-old Clio, which says it will continue to…

At just 17 years old, made international news when he created , a chatbot that helped appeal parking tickets, reportedly saving motorists in the U.S. and UK millions of dollars. Now 21, he has just released a series of apps designed to help consumers…

Kevin O’Keefe believes that lawyers get their best work from relationships and a strong word-of-mouth reputation, and that blogging is the perfect way to build relationships and reputation. In 2003, he founded LexBlog, a company devoted to helping…

What if a lawyer could know how a judge is likely to rule in a case or how heavy is a judge’s workload? Rick Merrill was a litigator at a large law firm who became frustrated over his inability to get meaningful information about the judges before…

Earlier this year, left , the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO, after selling it to web behemoth . Explaining his departure in a , he wrote, “It’s time for me to go.” In this episode of LawNext, Britton reflects on…

Why AI Is Harder than You Think

Should legal ethics rules be changed to allow non-lawyer ownership of legal services providers? So controversial is the question that it was major news in July when the voted to appoint a task force to study and make recommendations on the issue….