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Aderant®, the leading global business management software provider, announced today a multi-year renewal of its strategic partnership with LawPay, the leading payment management software for law firms. With this enduring alliance, Aderant reinforces its continued commitment to forging and maintaining strategic partnerships with best-in-class technology and services providers.

Aderant, a leading global legal business management provider, has announced the appointment of Josiah Chaves as its new Chief Client Officer, underscoring its commitment to client success. In this role, Chaves will unite operational teams to work seamlessly for clients, ensuring the execution of Aderant's product vision and enhancing client experiences. Chaves previously served as General Manager of Business of Law Solutions and played a pivotal role in spearheading Aderant’s cloud strategy.

Aderant has announced that iTimekeep, a leading AI-powered timekeeping solution for law firms, has successfully completed a SOC 2® Type 2 audit with zero exceptions noted. This accomplishment underscores the company's unwavering commitment to ensuring the security, availability, and confidentiality of its products and its law firm clients' data.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, has announced that Holland & Knight, an award-winning law firm with more than 2,200 attorneys and other professionals, has selected Expert Sierra as its practice management cloud solution.

Law firm clients require the best in data security, availability and confidentiality. Addressing these critical needs, leading global business management software provider Aderant® has announced its successful completion of SOC 2® Type 2 audits for both its Expert Sierra and vi by Aderant SaaS platforms. Zero exceptions were noted in the audit reports.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, has launched viAllocate, a new solution that helps law firms maximize billable utilization, balance associate workloads, and improve operational efficiency and profitability.

Aderant will make the most of ILTACON 2024 in Nashville next week, debuting several new technology solutions and spearheading an ILTA community discussion about law school/legal tech education with Vanderbilt Law School. The legal business management software leader will also speak on AI and deliver several company updates during the conference.

Aderant, a global legal business management software provider, continues to charge forward in attracting talent from the mainstream tech sector with the appointment of Michael “Mike” McKay as Vice President of Software Engineering. McKay was an Executive Director at NCR and holds several patents from his 25-year IBM tenure before joining NCR. McKay joins a dynamic team and will be partnering with Cody Walker, VP of Business of Law and Stridyn Services who joined Aderant in 2023.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, has announced a new partnership with BigHand, a leading provider of data and insights technology. BigHand is the first partner to join the Aderant Technology Partner Program at the Gold level.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, has launched Stridyn, an innovative, AI-driven cloud platform that brings together the Aderant product line on one platform harnessing the full potential of cloud and AI technology.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, announced today that the company now has 170 Expert Sierra clients. Expert Sierra is Aderant Expert in the cloud, a powerful infrastructure-as-a-service which leverages Expert’s #1 legal practice management solution to deliver the most comprehensive end-to-end cloud management solution on the market today. Mid-to-large sized law firms, including Am Law 200 firms, some with more than 1000 fee earners, use Expert Sierra to manage their financial and business needs efficiently and securely.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, has announced its new collaboration with Vanderbilt Law School, which aims to drive greater awareness about artificial intelligence to benefit both law students and law firms. AI is a top priority for both organizations, as evidenced by Aderant’s prolific introduction of AI tools like MADDI to enhance law business management and Vanderbilt Law’s recent founding of Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (VAILL) to explore how AI intersects with the delivery of legal services and access to justice.

Assertively delivering upon its strategy to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud capabilities, Aderant, a global legal business management software provider, announced the appointment of Lisa Erickson as Vice President of Product AI & Cloud Transformation. Erickson has 25 years of experience in the technology field. In this newly-created position, Erickson will draw upon her vast expertise to innovatively drive the company’s AI and cloud development initiatives forward.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, has announced the launch of its new Matter Reconciliation module for BillBlast, legal’s fastest growing billing application. BillBlast Matter Reconciliation effectively automates both the process of obtaining matter-related data and reconciling law firm matter records with data provided by the client vendor. The new module can be used as an add-on for BillBlast clients but can also function as a standalone solution for non-BillBlast firms.

Aderant, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, today announced its successful completion of a SOC 2® Type II examination, resulting in earning the company the SOC 2® Type II Report with no exceptions noted for its vi by Aderant and Expert Sierra Saas platforms. Compliance with SOC 2® Type II requirements indicates that Aderant has effectively implemented information controls to ensure security, availability, and confidentiality that meet the entity’s objectives.

Aderant, the leading global provider of legal business management solutions, unveiled a new Terms Review Workflow feature for Onyx, the AI-powered solution that has transformed Outside Counsel Guideline (OCG) compliance for law firms around the world. Since its launch, Onyx has reshaped OCG compliance across time, billing, and eBilling by providing automated and unified solutions that enable law firms to tackle compliance challenges.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, today announced Pinsent Masons has selected and gone live with a firmwide rollout of its industry leading iTimekeep solution to address current business needs and future growth opportunities. Pinsent Masons is a multinational law firm with decades of experience and expertise in Energy, Financial Services, Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Technology, Science, and Industry.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, today at Momentum Sydney announces a transformative update to its time-tracking software, iTimekeep. This update introduces features powered by Aderant's AI, MADDI, designed to improve time tracking accuracy and ensure successful bill payment. Known for its simplicity and ease of use, iTimekeep has been the go-to time entry solution for legal professionals for over a decade. It is ranked as the #1 Mobile Time Entry Solution and #1 Primary Time Capture Solution in ILTA's 2022 Technology Survey.

Today, Aderant releases version 8.2 SP3 of its flagship practice management software, Expert, used by the majority of the largest law firms around the world. This latest release brings significant enhancements to Expert Billing, including new and improved features for the Paperless Billing module, and integration with Onyx, Aderant's new Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCG) management solution powered by its AI, MADDI. This update underscores Aderant's ongoing commitment to evolving the Expert product line, ensuring it meets the multifaceted demands of the modern legal sector.

Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management solutions, introduced MADDI, a revolutionary new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual associate that is being applied across the company’s applications and is intuitively designed to not only automate routine, repeatable tasks but enable actionable insights and behavioral prompts to optimize complex activities across the firm. MADDI brings calm to the growing chaos of billing and matter management by harnessing the power of AI through automation and predicted activities to streamline manual processes and solve firms' biggest challenges.

Aderant, a leading provider of legal business management solutions, has announced the upcoming launch of Onyx – a revolutionary AI-powered solution that will transform Outside Counsel Guideline (OCG) compliance for law firms – at its upcoming Global Momentum conference in Denver, CO. Previously, firms have used a patchwork of manual and semi-automated systems to take in OCGs and enforce their terms in timekeeping, but this left behind billing and eBilling. With the groundbreaking Onyx solution, Aderant offers a fully automated and unified system that connects compliance throughout the timekeeping, billing, and eBilling processes.

Aderant®, a global business management software provider for law firms, today announced that UK top 50 law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper has selected its leading Expert Sierra cloud-based practice management system (PMS). Penningtons Manches Cooper is a full-service law firm that provides global legal services to both business and individuals across a broad range of sectors including private wealth, shipping, technology, and real estate.

Aderant, a leading provider of global business management software for law firms, today announced a strategic partnership with London-based legal spend analytics and matter management provider, Apperio. The partnership is designed to enhance the law firm-client relationship by enabling firms to build client trust and reduce invoice friction. Together, the companies will deliver a solution that law firms can leverage to increase visibility into work-in-progress (WIP) and therefore strengthen the overall client relationship.

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, has strengthened its executive firepower with two new C-level hires, Doug Matthews as Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Andrew Hoyt as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In addition, the company has promoted Jessica Kattman to Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications. Aderant continues to make bold strides forward to expand its team and talent base.

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, today announced with partner Fireman & Company, a legal industry-focused management consulting firm, the global launch of Handshake ConnectX: pre-designed intranet portals for law firms.

Today, Aderant announces the launch of Milana, a revolutionary new cloud docketing solution which combines the best of CompuLaw, including its industry-leading court rules, with the rich feature set of American LegalNet (ALN) solutions to create a best-of-both-worlds cloud product. Milana, which means “mix” or “bring together” in Hindi, is the culmination of 10 months of development since Aderant acquired ALN in January 2022. Milana introduces a new standard of litigation docketing, offering an easy-to-use cloud-based solution that will continue to lead the market and drive innovation with the ongoing rollout of new features and functionality immediately available to end-users.

Aderant, an industry leader of Business of Law and Practice of Law technology solutions, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of viGlobal, which ranks number one amongst law firms, and is a leading provider of people management software in the professional services market. How law firms attract and manage their people directly correlates to how effectively they manage matters and service clients. Therefore, the viGlobal platform is a natural fit to join the growing Aderant product suite with the purpose of helping law firms run better businesses across-the-board.

After a two-year hiatus, the 2022 Momentum conference attracted nearly 600 attendees to Austin, Texas, with clients traveling from as far as Australia to participate in the week’s events. After shifting the conference to an online-only experience in 2020 and 2021, this year, Aderant offered attendees a choice – attend virtually for access to live-streamed and on-demand content, or make the trip to Austin for over 100 in-person sessions geared at training existing customers to further enable use of their current solutions, discussing best practices in client-led panels, and educating firms on where Aderant can address other current and emerging gaps within their firms.

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider, today announced a new business partnership with ZERO, a pioneer in productivity automation solutions for professional services firms. The new integration of Aderant iTimekeep with ZERO harnesses the power and precision of predictive AI to fully automate time tracking and categorization of lawyers’ billable time. Users of iTimekeep can now capture and categorize billable time automatically without having to learn new tools or adapt to new workflows. ZERO’s technology is an intelligent engine that interfaces with iTimekeep and runs in the background, continually learning from user behavior to eliminate the administrative drag of manual time tracking. The combination will ultimately produce more accurate time logs, reduce revenue leakage, and maximize billable time for lawyers.

Aderant®, a leading global provider of business software to law firms, announced today that Cole, Scott & Kissane P.A. (CSK) has selected Aderant Intelligence: Benchmarking (“Benchmarking”), a new cloud-based data analytics offering which provides unprecedented insight into law firm revenue realization and billing efficiency. Exclusively available to Aderant BillBlast clients, Benchmarking measures how an individual law firm is performing regarding billing realization and offers comparisons to the overall market.

Aderant, a leading global provider of business software to law firms, announced today the acquisition of American LegalNet (ALN), a respected provider of court forms, eFiling, calendaring and docketing solutions. Aderant and ALN customers will now have access to an expanded suite of best-in-class solutions that will further enable law firms to meet the demands of their clients today while preparing for the future.

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, announced that Chris Cartrett has succeeded Deane Price as the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective today. In July 2021, Aderant announced that Price would be stepping down to pursue other opportunities and promoted Cartrett to President, priming him to take over the CEO position. Cartrett is now President and CEO of Aderant.

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider, announced a new partnership with LawPay, the leading accounts receivable solution for law firms in North American markets. Many Aderant Expert and Expert Sierra clients have been accepting payments online via ClientPay, which combined with LawPay in February 2021 to form the industry leading payment solution for large law firms. The Expert/LawPay integration, planned for release in 2022, will fully automate and extend payment enablement options for Expert/Sierra customers to include a fully cloud-based payment solution with scheduled payments, encrypted signatures, online payments and more.

CompuLaw, the leading legal calendar, docket and matter management solution from Aderant®, ranked #1 in the Primary General Litigation Docketing (rules-based) Calendaring Software category in the recently published 2021 ILTA Technology Survey.

Aderant, a leading global provider of business software to law firms, opened registration today for its exciting Momentum 2022 conference which will be held at the Hilton Austin on May 16-19 both in-person in Austin, Texas and virtually. Building upon the record-setting success of the all-virtual Momentum 2021 conference, Aderant has planned four days of dynamic, expert-led education encompassing every product and offering in its legal business/financial software suite.

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider, breaks new ground today with the launch of Aderant Intelligence: Benchmarking (“Benchmarking”), a new data analytics solution which provides unprecedented insight into law firm revenue realization and billing efficiency. Now generally available for Aderant BillBlast eBilling clients, Benchmarking allows firms to track and analyze key metrics to gauge their billing performance, providing optimized visibility and transparency.

Aderant®, a global business management software provider for law firms, has announced the promotion of Raphael (Rafi) Shure to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). In his previous role as Senior Vice President and Chief Client Officer, he was responsible for all professional services and global support. As COO, Shure will now oversee all internal and client-facing operations, including finance, IT, professional services, and customer support.

Aderant®, a global business management software provider for law firms, has announced the selection of technology veteran George Seymour to lead its global sales teams as chief revenue officer (CRO). Seymour steps into the CRO role vacated by Chris Cartrett, Aderant’s new President who is also slated to become CEO in January 2022. Based out of Aderant’s Atlanta headquarters and reporting to Cartrett, Seymour will enhance and execute measurable, aggressive growth objectives for the company.

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, announced that its Handshake knowledge management (KM) enablement suite now integrates with Microsoft Teams to provide a wide range of Teams Provisioning features for Handshake customers. Law firms using newly released Handshake 3.9.6 can now create teams which extend Microsoft Teams’ innate features to effectively share and control access to information.

Today, Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business software solutions, published the results of its 2021 Law Firm Leader Survey on compliance and billing. The survey results offer a look into the struggle among law firms to meet increasingly complex client compliance and billing requirements, often referred to as Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs). Marie Burgess, Senior Director of Product Management at Aderant, stated, “Compared to the 2019 OCG Survey figures, firms definitely received a larger number of OCGs throughout 2020 and into 2021. Across its law firm clients, Aderant is seeing an increase in the prioritization of OCG compliance and eBilling driven by the customer requirements of each firm.”

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, announced today that the prestigious, Michigan based firm Varnum LLP (“Varnum”) has purchased Aderant Expert. The firm chose Expert, an enterprise law practice management system (PMS), because of its unparalleled time and billing capabilities. Additionally, Varnum has selected Aderant to host and maintain their Expert system via its cloud-based SaaS offering, Aderant Sierra. Sierra has a reputation for providing superior performance, top-notch security, and the flexibility to enhance a firm’s services while maintaining seamless business operations. With Aderant managing the infrastructure of Varnum’s Expert PMS, the firm can focus more of its resources on strategic and market-facing initiatives.

Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, has announced that CEO Deane Price will be leaving Aderant to pursue other opportunities within Roper Technologies, Aderant’s parent company. Chris Cartrett, promoted to President of Aderant as of July 1st, will succeed Price as Aderant’s CEO in January 2022.

Today, Aderant® announced it has appointed Scott Moretti as Senior Director of Sales for the Eastern U.S. region. Aderant, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, selected Moretti for this key leadership position due to his longstanding track record of success in legal tech sales. Moretti fills the position recently vacated by Kevin Standing when Standing retired after nearly 25 years with Aderant.

Aderant, a leading global provider of business software to law firms, just completed its highly successful Virtual Momentum 2021 conference entirely online which set an attendance record and delivered 60+ sessions over three days. Over 1300 people, most of them Aderant’s law firm clients and prospects, participated in the highly interactive event to learn about the company’s latest developments for its state-of-the-art technology suite.

Most firms were unexpectedly prepared for the pandemic’s changes to daily operations and plan to invest substantially in technology and process in the coming years, according to The Aderant 2020 Business of Law and Legal Technology Survey results released today. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Aderant®, a leading global business management software provider for law firms, has hosted the survey.