LawSites: PacerPro Expands Into State Courts, Hires Silicon Valley Veteran As CTO: “Multiple pieces of news today from PacerPro, a company that enables law firms to automate the workflow around distributing and capturing federal court filings. The company, which until now specialized in helping law firms manage federal court PACER filings, said it is expanding into coverage of state court dockets, starting with California and New York and expanding over the next year to cover 10 major legal markets.To help drive its expansion, PacerPro has brought on a new chief technology officer, Dhana Bala, a Silicon Valley veteran with more than 17 years of experience in software engineering and leadership.Both announcements come on the heels of a $5 million Series C investment in the company by Berkley Capital, the private equity investment subsidiary a Fortune 500 insurance company. “As law firms have come to see the value of our products for automating workflows and data collection for federal court filings, we have heard from them that they want the same functionality for state court filings,” Gavin McGrane, PacerPro’s cofounder and CEO, said in a statement announcing the news…”