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 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.
MyCase
On November 9, 2021, MyCase kicked off their inaugural Customer Conference, where they made a number of pivotal announcements and provided insight into key investments they are making to accelerate product development and customer growth.
In his keynote address, CEO Jim McGinnis shared the news of three major acquisitions made earlier this year: Soluno (Legal Accounting), CASEpeer (Practice Management for Personal Injury Firms), and Woodpecker (Legal Document Automation). Widening MyCase’s portfolio of legal technology software solutions, these acquisitions will feed into their mission of providing lawyers with the tools they need to succeed in today’s competitive legal landscape.
MyCase Drive is a complete desktop document management experience that syncs to MyCase, allowing firms to efficiently find and organize documents using their computer’s file explorer and advanced search capabilities.
MyCase Accounting will be available in 2022. Leveraging the expertise of the Soluno team, MyCase will accelerate the development of full-featured accounting within MyCase.
Punctuating the conference, they released the MyCase 2021 Legal Industry Report. This report offers a deep dive into how the pandemic impacted law firms, and the steps lawyers took to continue to grow their firms during this unprecedented time, based on inputs from over 2,000 legal professionals.
