{"id":77948,"date":"2021-12-21T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77948"},"modified":"2021-12-21T17:50:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:50:41","slug":"the-top-5-legal-technology-news-of-2021-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/12\/21\/the-top-5-legal-technology-news-of-2021-black\/","title":{"rendered":"The top 5 legal technology news of 2021 [Black]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/columns\/article\/the-top-5-legal-technology-news-of-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The top 5 legal technology news of 2021<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; fromabajournal.com by Nicole Black<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There were also a significant number of acquisitions, resulting in the unprecedented consolidation of legal technology companies. What follows are the more notable examples, although there were many others that are not listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Litera acquired Kira Systems, Clocktimizer, DocsCorp and\u00a0 Foundation Software.<\/li>\n<li>MyCase acquired Soluno, Casepeer and Woodpecker.<\/li>\n<li>Clio acquired CalendarRules and Lawyaw.<\/li>\n<li>Francisco Partners acquired Paradigm, which had previously acquired PracticePanther, Headnote, Bill4Time and MerusCase.<\/li>\n<li>Private equity firm Warburg Pincus acquired NetDocuments.<\/li>\n<li>Smokeball-Leap-InfoTrack Group acquired LawLytics and Lawgical.<\/li>\n<li>ProfitSolv acquired Tabs3 (and also owns Rocket Matter, Cosmolex, LexCharge, ImagineTime and TimeSolv).<\/li>\n<li>Veritext acquired Reportex.<\/li>\n<li>Intapp acquired Repstor.<\/li>\n<li>Onit acquired Bodhala and BusyLamp.<\/li>\n<li>Consilio acquired Xact Data Discovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markcohen1\/2021\/12\/16\/legal-transformation-is-a-business-story\/?sh=454e9b0d58a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Legal Transformation Is A Business Story<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from forbes.com by Mark Cohen<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nThe first step in law\u2019s transformation journey is to align the legal function with the mission, purpose, and culture of business and to instill a customer- centric, team-oriented mindset. This is not an easy or quick process, but it is a necessary one. The legal function cannot achieve alignment unless it: speaks the language of business and understands its goals and risk profile, works proactively and at the speed of business, operates as a team (internally and across the enterprise),\u00a0upskills,\u00a0and adopts a customer-centric, results-oriented approach to everything it does. Legal must embrace the data-backed, tech-enabled, multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving, value-creation, and customer-centricity of business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top 5 legal technology news of 2021 &#8212; fromabajournal.com by Nicole Black Excerpt: There were also a significant number of acquisitions, resulting in the unprecedented consolidation of legal technology companies. What follows are the more notable examples, although there were many others that are not listed below. Litera acquired Kira Systems, Clocktimizer, DocsCorp and\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,825,837,833,830,285,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-law-schools","category-legal-operations","category-legal-reform","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77975,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77948\/revisions\/77975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}