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In the October 2018 issue of Legal Management, the official publication of the Association of Legal Administrators, Pratik Patel, Vice President of Innovation and Products at Elevate discusses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and why law firms will continue to use it in higher frequency…

The LABJ has recognized Elevate CFO Rick Learman as a finalist in the 12th annual CFO Awards. The CFO Awards honor finance professionals in LA County for their ongoing efforts and contributions to their organizations. Given the challenging and ever-changing economic climate, CFOs serve as essential members of a company’s core leadership team.

LOS ANGELES – September 14, 2018 – Global law company Elevate announced that it has expanded its geographic footprint by launching operations in Krakow, Poland. This move provides Elevate’s global customers with extended time zone coverage and access to a strong talent pool in Poland. It also adds an EU-based center of excellence to the company’s existing global network of operations in the US, UK, India and the Philippines.

Elevate, makers of the Cael Enterprise Legal Management suite of apps, this week released a version of Cael Project for iPhone. Legal teams using Cael Project can now manage matters, tasks and budgets via smartphone…

Elevate announced the hire of Craig Conte as Managing Director, Head of Contracts Consulting. Conte brings more than a decade of experience in contract management, compliance and optimization. Conte will lead consulting services in Elevate’s contracts group, helping law departments navigate all steps of their contracts transformation journeys. He was previously at Capgemini where he served as Vice President and Head of Contract Compliance & Optimization services. Conte also has over ten years of private practice experience in New York. He is currently based in the UK…

Elevate announced today that it has acquired the assets of E‑STET, a U.S.-based e-discovery company. This move expands Elevate’s e‑discovery, document review and managed services capabilities serving corporate law departments and law firms around the world. The acquisition included E‑STET’s infrastructure, including colocation servers running Relativity software and office space in downtown Los Angeles, as well as several former E‑STET customers…

The founders of Valorem Law Group, Patrick Lamb and Nicole Auerbach, have created a new law firm called ElevateNext that will work alongside law company Elevate to help customers significantly reduce legal spend. ElevateNext will perform all “attorney-required” work for clients using the Valorem model, while all “attorney-not-required” work will be provided by Elevate…

Elevate today announced it has partnered with the new law firm ElevateNext, formed by the founders of Valorem Law, and with the legal team of Univar (NYSE: UNVR), to design, build and operate the law department of the future. Univar will collaborate in the development of tailored, scalable process innovations, and Elevate will develop and deploy proprietary technology, consulting and managed legal services, alongside law firm ElevateNext, with the goal of reducing legal spend by 50 percent…

Elevate, a global law company providing consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms, announced that it has secured financing from a credit fund managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, the growth-focused private investment platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Elevate will use the proceeds for strategic acquisitions, investments in its Cael enterprise legal management (ELM) software, and expansion of delivery capabilities…

Elevate, a law company providing consulting, technology and managed services for global law departments and law firms, today announced the hire of Christopher Sweet as Director of Consulting. A legal operations professional previously at JPMorgan Chase, Sweet also brings law firm experience having instituted legal project management at Reed Smith…

Elevate’s Vince Vetri and Starbucks’ Lisa Kremer-Brown for ACC Docket: You can’t manage what you can’t measure. So, how do we demonstrate the value that our legal department returns to the company through improved outside counsel management? This common question is posed frequently by legal operations professionals and there are often multiple answers. When Starbucks and Elevate considered how the legal operations team could effectively communicate the value of enhanced outside counsel management, we started by asking ourselves, “what data are available and how might we best leverage those data as the basis for decision making?”

Elevate, a law company providing consulting and technology services for global law departments and law firms, has been ranked in ‘Band 1’ by Chambers & Partners in the publication’s category for global legal services providers. This is the fourth year the law company has been ranked by Chambers and the first year it has been positioned in ‘Band 1,’ the highest ranking possible based on Chambers’ in-depth, objective research with lawyers and customers.

Official announcement issued by Hogan Lovells, reprinted here with permission LONDON –  Global law firm Hogan Lovells today launches a new flexible lawyering programme powered by law company Elevate. This initiative is the latest addition to Hogan Lovells Legal...

Elevate GC Daniel Coll interviewed for Corporate Counsel Daniel Coll, general counsel of Elevate Services Inc., an alternative legal services provider, believes that heading a legal operations group today could put an in-house lawyer on the fast track to...