Latham & Watkins has overtaken Hogan Lovells as the second largest NLJ 500 firm in Washington, D.C., by attorney head count, after steadily growing its office in the nation’s capital in the past seven years. It’s one of several rank changes in the market this past year. The number of full-time equivalent…

Legal tech startup Wordsmith announced that it raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm Index Ventures and including participation from General Catalyst, among others, on Thursday. In the legal tech space, Index Ventures has previously led a funding round for generative AI-powered contract drafting,…

Law firms are considering leasing new office space in Atlanta up to three years before their current leases end as they foresee competing for increasingly scarce new “quality” space amid the lowest level of office construction in a decade, a new report states. According to commercial real estate broker JLL’s…

Apple became the first tech giant to be charged under the EU’s Digital Markets Act on Monday, just three months after Brussels officials first opened their investigation. According to the EU’s antitrust division, the Cupertino, California-headquartered company’s App Store rules do not allow app developers to freely communicate with their own…

Midyear Money: The Top 2024 Legal Tech Investments (So Far) | Legaltech News Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2024/06/24/midyear-money-the-top-2024-legal-tech-investments-so-far/ NEWS Six months into 2024, and it’s clear that legal tech funding is slowly, but steadily, bouncing back, spurred in significant part by booming interest in generative artificial intelligence. June 24, 2024 at…

The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFAA) was a big deal when, on March 3, 2022, it became law. Like most laws, it had its 15 minutes of fame and then faded away from general discussion. The EFAA provides that employers no longer can force…