Legal Tech Deal Tracker

Legaltech Rundown: Uptime Legal Systems Acquires LexCloud, Spellbook Integrates With Practical Law, and More

Anaqua hopes to elevate its technology offerings and widen its clientele following the acquisition.

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November 01, 2024 | News

By Benjamin Joyner

An update on the legal tech market's past week, from product launches to new partnerships.

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October 29, 2024 | News

Harbor Acquires U.K.-Based Legal Tech Services Company Ascertus

Alt Legal Acquires Trademark Paralegal Services Company WeberMark

The acquisition of Ascertus is Harbor's third M&A deal since its inception and further expands its international footprint.

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October 24, 2024 | News

Legaltech Rundown: Law Insider Acquires oneNDA, Billables AI Receives $3.9 Million in Seed Funding and More

With the acquisition, Alt Legal launched its own intellectual property paralegal service called Alt Legal Assist.

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October 18, 2024 | News

Data Mining Company Actfore Spins Off From Discovery, Info Gov Provider ActiveNav

An update on the legal tech market's past week, from product launches to new partnerships.

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October 16, 2024 | News

Reveal Acquires Redaction Tool Source Code From E-Discovery Provider Milyli

Following the spinoff, Actfore aims to expand its user adoption and expand its market share.

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October 03, 2024 | News

France-Based Legal Tech Company DiliTrust Expands to US Market With doeLegal Acquisition

Reveal said it acquired Blackout source code in hopes of boosting redaction capabilities on its e-discovery platform.

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September 25, 2024 | News

BARBRI Acquires Skillburst, Growing Its Digital Training Resources for Lawyers

In addition to gaining a well-established foothold in the U.S., doeLEGAL also offered DiliTrust a complimentary enterprise legal management product suite.

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September 18, 2024 | News

Workday to Acquire Evisort, Bringing AI-Powered Document Intelligence to Finance and HR

Law firm training provider SkillBurst Interactive has honed its generative AI training with the help of a number of Am Law firms.

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September 17, 2024 | News

Thomson Reuters Acquires UK Startup Safe Sign Technologies, Developer of Legal-Specific LLMs

The deal marks the second major acquisition of a CLM company by an enterprise software company in 2024.

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August 21, 2024 | News

Litera Acquires FileTrail, Seeking to Expand its Information Governance Capabilities

Founded by a current trainee solicitor at A&O Shearman, Safe Sign is the second major generative AI acquisition for Thomson Reuters, following on the company's acquisition of Casetext for $650 million in cash in 2023.

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July 29, 2024 | News

By Isha Marathe By Rhys Dipshan

The FileTrail acquisition adds to the list of over a dozen acquisitions by Litera since 2019.

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July 22, 2024 | News

LexisNexis Completes Acquisition of Belgian Gen AI Startup Henchman

Legaltech Hub Acquires Legal Tech Consultants, Expanding to 'Full-Service Consulting'

Lexis intends to integrate Henchman's generative AI technology into it's Lexis+ AI and Lexis Create platforms.

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July 09, 2024 | News

CARET Sells Flagship Product HotDocs to Mitratech

Spurred by a close relationship between the two companies, the acquisition will see Legaltech Hub grow its consulting subscriptions and add more content offerings tailored to legal tech vendors.

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June 12, 2024 | News

Sirion Acquires Eigen Technologies to Expand Capabilities and Financial Services Footprint

CARET, formerly known as AbacusNext, sees the strategic sale of its HotDocs product to Mitratech as an opportunity to focus on serving the needs of midsize law firms.

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June 06, 2024 | News

LexisNexis Announces Agreement to Acquire Contract Drafting Startup Henchman

Sirion noted that the deal will allow it to expand its data extraction capabilities to more documents beyond contracts.

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June 03, 2024 | News

By Isha Marathe By Stephanie Wilkins

On completion of the acquisition, LexisNexis plans to immediately incorporate Henchman's document enrichment capabilities into products such as Lexis+ AI and Lexis Create.

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May 30, 2024 | News

KKR Fund Acquires Majority Stake in CLM Provider Agiloft

American Arbitration Association Acquires ODR.com Parent Company, Planning AI-Powered Expansion

As a part of the deal, FTV Capital will make an additional investment in the company, and JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in software companies, will join on as a new investor.

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May 30, 2024 | News

SurePoint Technologies Acquires Business Intelligence Provider Leopard Solutions

The acquisition will enable ODR.com's parent company to tap into the AAA's resources to build more advanced AI-powered ADR solutions, and allow the AAA to rapidly expand its services and footprint.

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May 16, 2024 | News

Elevate Acquires E-Discovery Company CJK Group to Grow Foreign Language Expertise

The acquisition of Leopard Solutions, founded by Laura Leopard, comes a little over two years after Surepoint bought Cole Valley Software, developer of law firm client relationship management (CRM) software company ContactEase.

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May 08, 2024 | News

Reveal Acquires Onna to Enhance E-Discovery Platform's Data Management Capabilities

Elevate is one of the few ALSPs not owned by lawyers to continue its M&A streak, further expanding into foreign markets.

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May 07, 2024 | News

Docusign to Acquire CLM Provider Lexion for $165M in Cash

The addition of Onna to the Reveal platform strengthens the "left side" of its EDRM and adds to the company's goal of building a full-spectrum, AI-powered e-discovery solution that goes "from collection to the courtroom."

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May 06, 2024 | News

Legal Tech Rundown: Harvey Acquisition, Relativity Hire, Thomson Reuters API Portal, and More

Docusign looks to strengthen its position in Intelligent Agreement Management by adding Lexion's generative AI capabilities to the Docusign IAM platform, in the process expanding its ability to serve the legal market.

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April 12, 2024 | News

By Isha Marathe By Cassandre Coyer

An update on the legal tech market's past few weeks, from product launches to new partnerships.

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April 09, 2024 | News

Bloomberg Law Acquires Project Management Solution Dashboard Legal

Gwabbit Founder Todd Miller Acquires Majority Stake in CRM Provider TRĒ AI

Bloomberg Law's acquisition of project management and collaboration solution Dashboard Legal further extends its reach beyond legal research following the company's release of Bloomberg Law Contract Solutions last year.

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April 02, 2024 | News

Legal Tech Rundown: Robin AI Integrates With Claude 3, New ALSP Merger and More

The acquisitions comes during a time when the CRM market is fast evolving and expanding.

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March 22, 2024 | News

Intapp Announces Gen AI Capabilities, Delphai Acquisition, as Part of New 'Intelligence Applied' Strategy

An update on the legal tech market's past few weeks, from product launches to new partnerships.

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February 22, 2024 | News

E-Discovery Consolidation Continues: Complete Legal Acquires Frontline's E-Discovery Business

With its new brand vision, Intapp will leverage AI in new ways across its offerings, from a Microsoft Copilot integration to updates to its CRM and fund management platform DealCloud.

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January 24, 2024 | News

Paladin Rings in 2024 With Pro Bono Manager Acquisition, New Partnership

The acquisition comes just weeks after Complete Legal also announced it was merging with two e-discovery and legal support companies—Chicago-based L2 Services and St. Louis-headquartered Precise Legal.

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January 10, 2024 | News

Complete Legal Merges With L2 Services, Precise Legal in Major E-Discovery Services Market Consolidation

Pro Bono Manager marks Paladin's first-ever acquisition, and will allow the company to expand its network and access more pro bono data and insights.

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January 09, 2024 | News

X1 Discovery Sells its Social Discovery Product to Pagefreezer to Refocus on Enterprise Offerings

The three merged e-discovery providers will operate under the Complete Legal brand, and continue to focus on catering to what it sees are the unmet e-discovery and services needs of small and midsized law firms.

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December 19, 2023

Epiq Acquires Digital Transformation Firm Mainspring, Seeking to Solve CLM Shortcomings

Following the divestiture, X1 plans to invest in both its X1 Search and X1 Enterprise Collect solutions, with a "major new release" of X1 Search scheduled for 2024.

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November 28, 2023 | News

Legal Solutions Provider Morae Global Acquires UK-Based Exigent

As the legal industry expresses mixed feelings and concerns about the implementation capabilities of their contract lifecycle management solutions, Epiq is hoping to beef up its CLM consultancy offering with its latest acquisition, Mainspring.

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November 01, 2023 | News

Exterro Acquires Data Discovery Platform Divebell Expanding Its Privacy Compliance Capabilities

The acquisition expands Morae's reach across five continents and doubled its personnel.

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November 01, 2023 | News

Private Equity Firm Consello Capital Acquires Majority Stake in ProSearch

With the acquisition, Exterro looks to become a one-stop-shop that covers the entire data compliance lifecycle.

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October 19, 2023 | News

Weeks After Launch, Harbor Acquires Stout's Legal Management Consulting Practice

The acquisition comes just months after ProSearch announced its Review Services offering which looks to leverage generative AI technology.

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October 17, 2023 | News

Actionstep Acquires Legal Accounting Software Soluno From AffiniPay

Harbor, which launched in August via the merger of several legal service providers, noted that the acquisition will expand its enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management (CLM), and legal operations capabilities.

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September 25, 2023 | News

Canadian Legal Tech Companies CiteRight and Jurisage to Merge

Actionstep's acquisition of Soluno is its third M&A deal in the past year and its second in the past month.

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September 05, 2023 | News

By Gail J. Cohen

The merger of the two companies will create a comprehensive, integrated legal research and drafting solution that is available in Canada and will soon also be available in the U.S.

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August 30, 2023 | News

Actionstep Acquires Australia-Based Practice Management Platform FilePro

Reveal Acquires Logikcull and IPRO to Create E-Discovery 'Superpower'

Actionstep is the latest company from the Australia and New Zealand region moving to expand its market share this year.

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August 29, 2023 | News

HBR Consulting, LAC Group and Wilson Allen Officially Merge into 'Harbor'

Reveal aims to create a "two-horse race" in e-discovery, founder and CEO Wendell Jisa told Legaltech News, as K1 Investment Management's total investment in Reveal tops $1 billion with the new acquisition.

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August 18, 2023 | News

Thomson Reuters Officially Acquires Casetext for $650 Million as Deal Closes

In addition to HBR Consulting, LAC Group and Wilson Allen, Harbor will intergrate three other companies, including KP Labs, a since acquired legal tech company launched by California law firm Keesal, Young & Logan in 2018

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August 17, 2023

Level Legal Acquires PC Forensics, Adding New Internal Forensics Team

In addition to confirming that the deal had officially closed, Thomson Reuters also indicated that it is collaborating with Casetext "on a legal drafting solution that leverages Westlaw, Practical Law and Document Intelligence."

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August 15, 2023 | News

Alt Legal Acquires TM Cloud's Docketing System, Accelerating Global Expansion

Level Legal's expansion comes after the legal service provider has built out its C-suite with several new hires.

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August 03, 2023 | News

Consilio to Acquire UK's Lawyers On Demand and SYKE to Globally Expand ELS Offerings

In its fourth acquisition, IP and Trademark cloud docketing provider Alt Legal absorbed TM Cloud's docketing system, attracted by its international customer base.

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August 02, 2023 | News

HBR Investor Acquires Keesal Propulsion Labs, With Plans for Partnerships

The acquisition is the latest move in a pattern of expansion for Consilio in recent years, bolstering the company's enterprise legal services capabilities and international reach.

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July 11, 2023 | News

Thomson Reuters to Acquire Casetext for $650 Million Cash

In addition to HBR, Keesal Propulsion Labs (KP Labs), a standalone legal tech company launched by California law firm Keesal, Young & Logan, will have the opportunity to work closely with several companies under Renovus Capital Partners' umbrella.

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June 26, 2023 | News

Intapp Acquires Employee Compliance Software Provider Paragon Data Labs, Enhancing Risk Management Offering

"The acquisition of Casetext is another step in our 'build, partner and buy' strategy to bring generative AI solutions to our customers," said Steve Hasker, president and CEO of Thomson Reuters, in the press release.

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May 04, 2023 | News

Litera Acquires CRM Provider Upper Sigma, Expanding Its Marketing, Business Development Capabilities

A new product, Employee Compliance, will be a stand-alone offering that works with Intapp's existing suite of risk and compliance products

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April 24, 2023 | News

Thomson Reuters Sells Majority Stake in Elite Product Business to TPG

Litera's acquisition of Upper Sigma comes a few years after it also expanded its marketing and business development offerings with the purchase of U.K-based Concep.

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April 04, 2023 | News

Fastcase Merges With vLex, With Plans for Integrated AI-Powered Research Offerings

As part of the sale, Thomson Reuters will maintain a minority stake in Elite , which includes 3E, ProLaw, eBillingHib and Mattersphere, and actively support its ongoing development.

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April 04, 2023 | News

Litify Sells Majority Stake in Practice Management Platform to VC Firm Bessemer

The merger creates a global law library with over a billion documents, which Fastcase CEO Ed Walters called "the most important training set" for large language models, such as those that power ChatGPT.

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February 09, 2023 | News

Exterro Acquires Zapproved, With Plans for Integration Still in the Works

As part of the acquisition, Bessemer partner Brian Feinstein becomes the Chairman of Litify's Board of Directors and is tasked with guiding the company through continued growth and product development.

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January 19, 2023 | News

Pre/Dicta Acquires Shuttered Gavelytics in Push to Accelerate State Court Predictions

Exterro and Zapproved will now operate as a single company, with former Zapproved private equity investor K1 Investment Management retaining a minority stake in the combined e-discovery provider.

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January 11, 2023 | News

Major, Lindsey & Africa Acquires Hire an Esquire, Eyeing Its Recruitment Technology

At the time it closed its doors in June 2022, Gavelytics had expanded its court analytics to 25 states. Those advancements will help Pre/Dicta accelerate the creation of its own predictive analytics tool for state courts.

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January 05, 2023 | News

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory Acquires Della AI

Major, Lindsey & Africa's acquisition of Hire an Esquire marks the firm's first recruitment M&A in over a decade.

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December 30, 2022 | News

HBR Splits Advisory Business From IT Managed Services With Private Equity Acquisition

In one last legal tech acquisition of 2022, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory acquires London-based Della AI, bringing the startup into the company's Legal Software unit.

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November 15, 2022 | News

SirionLabs Acquires Contract Automation Platform Zendoc in Move to Improve User Experience

As the consulting services market becomes more competitive, HBR Consulting looks to "best position the company for the future," through the sale of its Advisory business to private equity firm Renovus Capital.

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November 08, 2022 | News

Axiom Expands Global Staffing Reach by Acquiring Australia's Plexus Engage

At a time when CLM tools have been facing some pushback from customers, with its acquisition of Zendoc, SirionLabs aims to focus on enhancing users' experience.

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November 07, 2022 | News

Ontra Acquires Software Provider Captain as It Ramps Up Its M&A Activity

The acquisition expands Axiom's on-demand talent pool to over 6,900 lawyers, incorporates Plexus technology into Axiom's global operations, and rebrands Plexus Engage as Axiom Global Australia.

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November 07, 2022 | News

Reveal Acquires Technically Creative, Building Out Its Data Connection Capabilities

Ontra CEO Troy Pospisil said that with its acquisition of Captain, the company hopes to bolster its digital funds lifecycle management solution, before moving on to more M&As.

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October 24, 2022 | News

NetDocuments Acquires DMS Provider Worldox, Expanding Footprint in Small, Mid-Sized Firm Market

As part of the acquisition, the e-discovery company announced it will create an "automated data connector suite" and team of data connection experts to help companies extract data from their disparate technology systems.

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October 18, 2022 | News

HaystackID Acquires E-Discovery Provider Business Intelligence Associates

Worldox's on-prem and cloud offerings will be maintained by NetDocuments for "the foreseeable future," allowing Worldox customers to transition to Netdocuments at their own pace,.

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September 07, 2022 | News

Relativity Acquires Contract Review Solution Heretik, Eyeing RelativityOne Integration

The acquisition of BIA is the fifth M&A deal HaystackID has closed on in the past four years.

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August 29, 2022 | News

By Rhys Dipshan By Cassandre Coyer

As part of the acquisition, Heretik, which was co-founded by a Relativity alumnus, will be rebranded as Relativity Contracts.

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August 22, 2022 | News

LegalEase Solutions Acquires CLM Gurus, With Eye on Implementation Challenges

BigHand Acquires Digitory Legal, Bolstering Analytics Capabilities With DEI Focus

The acquisition comes just months after the ALSP expanded its own CLM offerings.

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August 22, 2022 | News

Litera Acquires Talent Micron Systems, Adding Talent Management Capabilities

The acquisition, BigHand's second this year, comes at a time when the legal market is increasingly under pressure to pay more attention to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) commitments.

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August 16, 2022 | News

Mitratech Acquires TalentReef in Move to Further Its HR Tech Offerings

Litera's expansion into HR-related technology comes less than a week after it announced it's also expanding its legal analytics capabilities with the acquisition of BigSquare.

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August 10, 2022 | News

Litera Continues Its M&A Run With BigSquare Acquisition, Bolstering Its BI Capabilities

In its second deal in less than a month, and the 21st acquisition total, Mitratech says the TalentReef acquisition really connects "the dots between legal, HR and compliance."

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August 10, 2022 | News

Aderant Acquires Law Firm People Management Platform viGlobal

Attracted to financial business analytics company BigSquare's data and cloud capabilities, Litera is adding another notch to its M&A belt.

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August 09, 2022 | News

TCDI Acquires Aon's E-Discovery Business, Expanding UK Business and Software Tools

The acquisition, Aderant's second in less than a year, allows the company to further serve law firms' recruitment, staffing, employee onboarding, and employee evaluation needs.

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June 09, 2022 | News

LawPay Parent Company Acquires MyCase, Integrating Case Management With Digital Payment

The deal is driven by 2020 investor Trivest Partners and includes software tools such as Aon's NOMAD mobile processing platform, PHI/PII detection and post-data-breach support tools, as well as advisory services such as information governance.

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June 09, 2022

Smarsh to Acquire TeleMessage, Further Building Communications Capture Capabilities

AffiniPay wants to serve the "entire legal market" with its digital payments platform, and its most recent merger with legal practice management software MyCase suite is paving the way.

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May 16, 2022 | News

MyCase Acquires Immigration Software Docketwise, Keeping Brisk M&A Pace

Israel-based TeleMessage provides mobile messaging and voice capture and archiving capabilities with a products portfolio that includes Mobile Archiver, Secure Enterprise Messaging and Mass Messaging.

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May 16, 2022 | News

LegalTech Hub Expands Into Job Listings With LegalTech Jobs Acquisition

The purchase of Docketwise is the fourth publicly disclosed acquisition by MyCase since 2021 and follows a company rebrand earlier this month.

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May 12, 2022 | News

LexisNexis Acquires CLM Provider Parley Pro, Expands ELM Solution CounselLink

LegalTech Hub co-founder Nicola Shaver says the LegalTech Jobs acquisition is "a manifestation of our strategy to evolve the Hub beyond a directory. It's a resource center, useful to many verticals in the industry."

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May 10, 2022 | News

Paradigm Acquires LollyLaw, Expanding Into Immigration Practice Management Space

LexisNexis sees the acquisition as a complement to its enterprise legal management platform CounselLink, which it also expanded with a host of new features.

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April 20, 2022 | News

Epiq Acquires Fireman & Co. to Gain Data, Knowledge Management Expertise

With Lollylaw, Paradigm's second acquisition since the beginning of 2022, the company now owns six standalone legal tech products.

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March 15, 2022 | News

ETRM Acquires Litigation Support Company L2 Services, Adding Digital Scanning Capabilities

Epiq says the future of law firms and corporate legal departments will focus on enhanced data and knowledge management.

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March 08, 2022 | News

DISCO Announces First-Ever Acquisition: Congruity 360's Legal Hold, Request Automation Tools

The acquisition comes just 4 months after ETRM group bought ALSP Goldmine, and a year-and-half after it launched its cybersecurity service.

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February 25, 2022 | News

SurePoint Acquires ContactEase, Eyeing Midsize Firms' Demand for Marketing Tech

Yesterday, the legal tech company announced it acquired Congruity 360's regulatory request solutions, Hold360 and Request360 to address corporate legal departments' workflow and legal hold needs.

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February 18, 2022 | News

Paradigm Acquires TrustBooks, Bringing in DIY Accounting Solution for Law Firms

As Big Law competes for midsize law firms' work, more midsize firms are adopting software that keeps client development opportunities flowing, says SurePoint CEO Tom Obermaier.

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February 17, 2022 | News

BigHand Acquires Iridium Technology, Bolstering its BI, Analytics Offerings

With the acquisition, Paradigm looks to further evolve into a one-stop-shop provider, and bring in more small and solo law firms into its ecosystem.

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February 01, 2022 | News

Alt Legal Acquires Towergate's Section 2(d) Trademark Watch Service, Expanding Law Firm Base

The acquisition comes at a time when both BigHand and Iridium have expanded their product lines through recent acquisitions over the past few years.

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January 26, 2022 | News

Mitratech Acquires Legal Spend Provider Quovant, Its Sixth Deal Since 2021

Alt Legal will close Towergate Informatics' Section 2(d) Citation Watch business and migrate existing clients, including a number of firms, to its own service.

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January 19, 2022 | News

Litera Acquires Collaboration Manager Prosperoware, Continuing M&A Run

To meet corporate legal departments' increasing digital transformation appetite, Mitratech says it will acquire and internally develop as many useful offerings as needed.

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January 18, 2022 | News

FileTrail Acquires Fellow IG Company Teravine in First Move Under New CEO

Prosperoware provides enterprise software focused on the adoption and governance of collaboration systems, adding another piece to the Litera system that has seen a number of new software companies join the fold in recent years.

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January 18, 2022 | News

Onit Acquires SecureDocs to Fill E-Signature, CLM Gaps

Harold Westervelt, FileTrail's first new CEO in more than 20 years upon his appointment in October, said the company acquired Teravine to strengthen its information governance solution. It's a move he called "a game-changer for the market and the company."

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January 11, 2022 | News

Litera Acquires Shipping and Processing Specialist PS/Ship, Continuing M&A Drive Into 2022

Onit's acquisition of SecureDocs was in part motivated by the company's desire to reach clients outside the Fortune 500. While this is the third acquisition for Onit in the past 12 months, the company sees M&A announcements slowing down this year.

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January 11, 2022 | News

Aderant Acquires American LegalNet, Eyeing Faster Cloud Transition and Broader Offerings

Litera continues to build out its all-in-one legal suite by acquiring Lynch Marks, the developer of the PS/Ship product suite. The deal comes after Litera's five acquisitions in 2021 and additional investment from private equity owner Hg in November.

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January 05, 2022 | News