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TIAA’s Gamble on ‘New Law’ Firm Novus Law

When the financial services organization faced a high-stakes regulatory matter that could have major implications for the company’s reputation and brand, it needed to quickly get to the core of the matter. While it is unusual for a large enterprise…

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The Founders of Findlaw and Justia on 25 Years of Making Law Free

Twenty-five years ago, in the still-fledgling days of the web, the husband-and-wife team of and founded and quickly developed it into the most highly trafficked legal site on the internet. In 2001, they sold FindLaw to the West Group, and two years…

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Founder-Turned-VC Jules Miller On Investing In Legal Tech

knows what it is to be a legal tech entrepreneur. She is a three-time founder, twice of legal tech companies: Hire an Esquire in 2012 and Evolve Law in 2015. Now a partner in venture capital firm , she is leading her firm’s expansion into legal tech…

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BlackBoiler Founder Dan Broderick On Automating Contract Markup

Dan Broderick believes businesses waste billions in repetitive work reviewing and negotiating semantically similar contracts. As a former lawyer, he saw the problem first-hand. It led him to found , whose AI-based technology automates the review and…

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Suffolk Law Dean Andrew Perlman On Innovating Legal Education and Legal Services

is one of the nation’s leading forces helping to establish the future of legal education and legal practice.  As a professor and now dean at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, he has helped drive the creation and development of programs…

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John Tredennick On His New Company Merlin and the Magic of Open Source

After Catalyst, the pioneering cloud-based e-discovery company he founded and spent 19 years building, for $75 million, was not ready to sit back and rest on his laurels. Instead, he launched two separate but related undertakings — , a company…

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Stevie Ghiassi on Legaler, Legaler Aid and the Global Legal Tech Report

To say that is a busy man is an understatement. In addition to founding , a secure video meeting platform for lawyers, the Australia-born entrepreneur is the founder of the recently launched , a charity to support social justice legal cases…

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Lauren Sudeall on Legal Deserts and Other Obstacles to Access to Justice

A from the American Bar Association portrayed the nation’s legal deserts – large swaths of the country in which there are few or no lawyers. That report followed from a published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review that documented these legal…

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Clio CEO Jack Newton and VP of Product Mik Lernout on the Changing Landscape of Law Practice

The practice management company Clio recently released its annual , based on analysis of data from tens of thousands of legal professionals and surveys of legal professionals and legal consumers, and it showed that the coronavirus crisis has resulted…

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Priori Legal Cofounders Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt on their $6.3M Raise

The legal marketplace Priori Legal today announced a $6.3 million Series A financing, with existing investors joined by several legal industry heavyweights. In this special edition of LawNext, the company’s founders Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt join…

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