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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

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2014 Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research. Casetext Launches LegalPad, A Writing and Publishing Tool for Lawyers. Turns Out Legal Research Services Vary Widely in Results. Seeking To Expand Among Smaller Firms, Legal Research Service Casetext Adds Features, Lowers Price. Top Law Firm Invests $8.2M

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Major E-Discovery News, As Exterro, Eyeing IPO, Acquires Zapproved for Undisclosed Amount

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Exterro’s last major acquisition was 2020, when it acquired AccessData , then one of the leading providers of digital forensic investigation technology, in a deal valued at more than $100 million. Zapproved’s strengths, he said, includes world-class customer service and a unique set of software to serve its enterprise customers.

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LAPD Shootings of Unstable People Holding Sharp Objects on the Rise

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While LAPD shootings have dramatically declined in recent decades, scrutiny has grown in recent months of shootings where mentally ill, intoxicated or homeless people are shot by police while armed not with firearms but with knives, swords, heavy tools or other blunt objects, reports the Los Angeles Times.