Robert Ambrogi's LawSites

Nominations are now open for the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which recognizes an innovator who has made significant impacts early in their career toward making the American legal system w...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/nominations-are-now-open-for-the-alli-gerkman-legal-visionary-award-deadline-is-nov-1.html

The law practice management platform MyCase rolled out three product updates today that include MyCaseIQ, an AI conversational interface; enhancements to its accounting module; and an immigration...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/mycase-announces-new-ai-accounting-and-immigration-features-plus-update-on-smart-spend.html

 One year ago, in September 2023, James Schellhase was named chief executive officer of the alternative legal services provider UnitedLex. The move was particularly significant, as he was o...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/lawnext-a-year-into-his-tenure-unitedlex-ceo-james-schellhase-on-how-the-company-is-embracing-innovation.html

Several of our regular Legaltech Week panelists were in Chicago for RelativityFest last week, so we took the opportunity to get together and broadcast our show live from the same room (instead of...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/heres-the-video-of-our-legaltech-week-panel-recorded-live-friday-at-relativityfest-in-chicago.html

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search to...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/federal-court-dismisses-ross-intelligences-remaining-antitrust-claim-against-thomson-reuters.html

Several of our Legaltech Week panelists are in Chicago for RelativityFest, so we’re going to (attempt to?) broadcast live from there. If you are in Chicago or attending RelativityFest, come wat...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/in-chicago-come-watch-the-legaltech-week-panel-live-today-or-watch-us-on-zoom-as-usual.html

Wolters Kluwer today brought generative AI to its VitalLaw legal research platform, launching new capabilities for users to locate and chat with legal information and get answers to legal questio...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/wolters-kluwer-brings-gen-ai-to-its-vitallaw-legal-research-platform-to-answer-questions-and-more.html

DiliTrust, a company headquartered in Paris, France, that provides an all-in-one corporate governance suite for in-house legal teams, has acquired the U.S.-based enterprise legal management compa...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/with-acquisition-of-delaware-based-elm-company-doelegal-france-based-dilitrust-moves-to-bring-its-corporate-legal-software-suite-to-u-s-market.html

Since 2019, LexLab, an innovation lab at UC Law San Francisco, has run an annual legal tech startup accelerator program, but last year, the program shifted gears slightly to focus on justice tech...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/lexlab-at-uc-law-san-francisco-announces-second-cohort-of-its-justice-technology-accelerator-program.html

At its recent customer conference in Salt Lake City, called LEX Summit, the case management company Filevine unveiled a number of product releases and updates. Among them were several products ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/lawnext-podcast-a-deep-dive-into-filevines-new-gen-ai-tools-for-litigators-with-product-leads-michael-anderson-and-alex-mclaughlin.html

In notable news for the e-discovery industry, the legal software and services provider Elevate has acquired Redgrave Data, a consulting firm that provides services and software for e-discovery an...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/in-notable-e-discovery-news-alsp-elevate-acquires-consulting-company-redgrave-data.html

Over the first three posts in this series, I’ve talked about the shrinking ownership of law practice management technology for solo and small firms — how most of the major contenders in the m...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-4-of-4-wrapping-it-all-up.html

In a hire designed to further accelerate its growth, Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, has named Prabhdeep Singh, who has held executive roles in tec...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/steno-names-prabhdeep-singh-former-clover-wework-and-uber-exec-as-coo-to-help-accelerate-growth.html

BARBRI, one of the leading companies in the field of legal education, has acquired SkillBurst Interactive, a company that provides on-demand learning programs for law firms and corporations.  �...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/in-a-marriage-of-legal-education-companies-barbri-acquires-skillburst-interactive.html

In the first two posts in this series, I have talked about the consolidation of ownership that has occurred in recent years for law practice management technology. Whereas this market was once ch...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-3-of-4-future-development-and-market-opportunities.html

In today’s episode, we feature three impromptu conversations with leaders of the case management company Filevine. Last week, I was in Salt Lake City to attend LEX Summit, the Filevine customer...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/on-lawnext-live-from-filevines-lex-summit-interviews-with-three-of-its-leaders.html

“You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” yelled the hawkers of olden days at major league baseball stadiums. In the modern days of law practice management, that may still be true. ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-2-of-4-a-scorecard-of-who-owns-what.html

The three finalists have been announced for the 2024 KM&I LexPrize Innovation Award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the legal indus...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/finalists-named-for-inaugural-km-winner-to-be-voted-at-october-event-in-nyc.html

Finalists have been named for the 2024 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology, and this year, there is a twist for me: I’m...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/finalists-named-for-american-legal-technology-awards-and-guess-whos-one-of-them.html

Zuva, the company that spun off from AI contract review pioneer Kira when it was acquired by Litera in 2021, today released its own AI contract review tool, Zuva Analyze, which it says will enabl...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/kira-spin-off-zuva-unveils-new-contract-review-ai-for-in-house-legal-teams-zuva-analyze.html

Sixteen years ago marked the beginning of a sea change in law practice management technology for solo and small law firms. On March 1, 2008, a virtually unknown company out of Canada called Themi...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-1-of-4-a-market-dominated-by-just-six-ownership-groups.html

Live today on the weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, we’ll get a briefing on the major upgrade to Vincent AI, the vLex AI assistant, from Robin Chesterman, global head of product,...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/today-on-legaltech-week-guests-ed-walters-and-robin-chesterman-from-vlex-discuss-the-new-vincent-ai-plus-the-weeks-top-news.html

Matt Rasmussen had worked for some 20 years in litigation technology and support at major law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and litigation services providers, when he wondered why mobile collecti...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/lawnext-how-one-legal-tech-startup-is-simplifying-data-collection-from-mobile-devices.html

What if you could have an invisible guardian angel sitting on your shoulder during a deposition, whispering in your ear to point out questions you’ve asked awkwardly, inconsistencies in the wit...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/this-new-ai-copilot-is-your-guardian-angel-during-a-deposition.html

 Ever since Casetext released CoCounsel on March 1, 2023, the race has been on among legal tech companies to develop the most capable generative AI assistant for legal professionals. Today, vLex...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/as-it-unveils-major-upgrade-of-its-vincent-ai-vlex-may-now-be-the-most-capable-ai-assistant-in-the-legal-market.html

In his keynote speech opening LEX Summit in Salt Lake City, Filevine founder and CEO Ryan Anderson emphasized platforms as the future of technology for law firms, criticizing the legal technology...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/law-firms-demand-single-pane-of-glass-to-manage-their-cases-filevine-ceo-says-in-lex-summit-keynote.html

Multiple lawyers who are using the payments app Venmo in their law practices are exposing client information to the public — and they may not even know it. These accounts expose client names an...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/some-lawyers-using-venmo-are-exposing-confidential-client-information-and-they-may-not-even-know-it.html

On Oct. 17 and 18, 2024, two of the legal industry’s leading experts on knowledge management and innovation, Patrick DiDomenico, founder and CEO of InspireKM Consulting, and Joshua Fireman, pre...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-state-of-knowledge-management-and-innovation-in-legal-with-patrick-didomenico-and-joshua-fireman.html

For some lawyers, tracking time is so tedious and onerous that they leave their law firms for jobs where hourly billing is not required, such as working inhouse at a corporation. Even apart from...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/law-practice-management-platform-centerbase-now-automatically-captures-time-spent-working-in-microsoft-word-and-outlook.html

Assembly Software recently announced the launch of NeosAI, a set of generative AI-powered features integrated directly into the Neos case management platform, with the goal of transforming how le...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/how-it-works-a-demo-of-neosai-integrating-generative-ai-directly-within-the-neos-case-management-platform.html

In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/on-lawnext-all-about-spellbooks-new-ai-agent-capable-of-performing-complex-legal-tasks-with-ceo-scott-stevenson.html

On Sept. 19, The Resolution Center celebrates its 30th anniversary. Long formerly known as the North Shore Community Mediation Center, it is an organization that provides conflict resolution and ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/a-favor-to-ask-help-support-and-celebrate-community-mediation.html

The chief executive officer of law practice management company CARET left that role on her accord and remains a member of the company’s board of directors, the company says. Earlier this week, ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/caret-says-its-ceo-left-of-her-own-accord-remains-on-companys-board.html

As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research star...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/breaking-trial-continued-in-thomas-reuters-lawsuit-against-ross-intelligence.html

Spellbook, the company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review in 2022, today launched what it says is the first AI agent for law, capable of planning and...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/spellbook-launches-gen-ai-agent-that-can-plan-and-execute-complex-transactional-workflows.html

The document automation company Gavel has launched pre-built workflows — sets of automated forms for document generation that are tailored to specific practice areas and jurisdictions, and that...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/gavel-launches-pre-built-workflows-for-document-automation-starting-with-three-for-california-that-are-free-to-use.html

Two veterans of legal media have partnered to launch a communications firm to represent to represent legal and business clients in marketing, media relations, crisis management and more. Called L...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/two-legal-media-veterans-launch-communications-consultancy.html

Today on the weekly Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable, we’ll be discussing the just-concluded ILTACON, as well as some of the stories and announcements that came out of it. The show...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/today-on-legaltech-week-live-at-3-et-our-iltacon-post-mortem-as-we-discuss-the-conference-and-the-news-that-came-out-of-it.html

When Eric Friedrichsen stepped into the role of chief executive officer of e-discovery company DISCO four months ago, he was taking the helm of an enterprise that had faced turbulent waters in re...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/discos-new-ceo-says-company-is-overcoming-challenges-and-getting-back-to-growth.html

Imagine, if you will, a small backwater town into which one day a large shiny object falls from the sky and lands dead center on the main street of the town’s modest commercial center. The obje...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/at-iltacon-anticipation-for-the-shiny-object.html

Last year, just ahead of ILTACON, NetDocuments introduced ndMAX, a generative AI tool built directly into the NetDocuments platform to enhance various document-related workflows, starting with Pa...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/netdocuments-expands-ndmax-with-launch-of-ndmax-assist-an-ai-powered-assistant-integrated-within-the-companys-platform.html

UniCourt, a company that provides access to litigation data and analytics, today launched into beta a first-of-its-kind product that combines LLMs and APIs to allow its customers – which includ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/unicourts-new-product-combines-llms-with-apis-to-let-you-go-deep-into-customizing-court-docket-data-and-delivering-it-where-you-need-it.html

It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their prod...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/its-the-battle-of-the-ai-legal-assistants-as-lexisnexis-unveils-its-new-protege-and-thomson-reuters-rolls-out-cocounsel-2-0.html

Aderant, a provider of business management software to larger law firms, today introduced a product designed to help law firms better allocate work among their associates.  Called viAllocate, th...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/aderant-introduces-viallocate-a-product-designed-to-solve-work-allocation-issues-for-law-firms.html

The Supreme Court of Texas this week gave preliminary approval to rules that would allow the delivery of legal services in certain circumstances by licensed legal paraprofessionals and licensed c...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/texas-supreme-court-preliminarily-approves-delivery-of-legal-services-by-licensed-paraprofessionals.html

Earlier this year, I wrote about the beta launch of davinci, an AI tool to assist intellectual property practitioners throughout the patent prosecution process. Today, that tool emerges from beta...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/davinci-rebrands-as-deepip-and-announces-general-availability-of-its-ai-copilot-for-patent-prosecution.html

Universal Migrator has added two new extractors for helping law firms migrate their data from one platform to another, bringing its total number of migration extractors to 114. It has also enhanc...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/with-latest-additions-universal-migrator-now-has-114-extractors-to-help-law-firms-backup-and-migrate-their-data.html

For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/david-v-goliath-trial-begins-this-month-in-case-that-challenges-thomson-reuters-longstanding-copyrights-in-legal-research-materials.html

For at least two decades, artificial intelligence has been used in e-discovery to help surface and prioritize review of potentially responsive documents from large document collections. But while...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/lawnext-podcast-is-gen-ai-the-new-paradigm-for-technology-assisted-review-in-e-discovery-three-redgrave-scientists-discuss.html

Among the world’s top 100 private cloud computing companies are two in the legal tech sector, according to Forbes Cloud 100 2024. Included on this year’s list are Icertis, a company that prov...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/two-legal-tech-companies-make-forbes-cloud-100.html

Law practice management company LEAP recently announced the launch of three major AI features built directly into the platform, including LawY, a new legal AI assistant backed by human verificati...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/how-it-works-a-demo-of-the-new-ai-legal-assistant-in-law-practice-management-platform-leap.html

Legau, a comprehensive legal document drafting platform launched in Portugal in 2021, will make its formal launch in the U.S. market at ILTACON this week, where it has been selected as one of 26 ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/at-iltacon-next-week-portugal-based-legau-marks-the-u-s-launch-of-its-comprehensive-legal-drafting-product-for-word-and-outlook.html

Ever wonder how much coffee gets consumed at a week-long legal tech conference? Well, with ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, set to convene this we...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/how-much-coffee-does-it-take-to-fuel-a-week-long-legal-tech-conference-iltacon-spills-the-beans.html

Within the span of five days recently in Chicago, I attended two somewhat different conferences, and at each, I found evidence that we are moving the ball forward on developing and implementing p...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/at-two-back-to-back-conferences-evidence-that-were-moving-the-ball-forward-on-using-ai-in-law.html

When it comes to big names in legal operations and legal innovation, it is hard to think of one bigger than David Cambria, who has long been described as the godfather of legal operations, includ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/david-cambria-known-as-godfather-of-legal-operations-joins-epiq-to-lead-legal-business-advisory-practice.html

Last week, as the law practice management company Clio announced a record $900 million funding round, the largest ever for a legal technology company, I published an exclusive LawNext podcast in...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/heres-the-video-version-of-my-interview-with-jack-newton-about-clios-record-900m-raise.html

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another Legaltech Week, the live show where a panel of journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.  Among...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/what-well-be-talking-about-today-on-legaltech-week.html

For a law firm, choosing and deploying software raises many questions. How do I protect client confidentiality? Where does artificial intelligence fit in? What is the best software for my firm’...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/qa-five-common-questions-lawyers-ask-about-legal-tech-adoption-and-use.html

I recently wrote here about an American Bar Association survey of law schools that offer AI classes. The survey found that 55% of responding law schools offer such classes. A Reuters news story p...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/remember-that-aba-survey-of-law-schools-with-ai-classes-this-may-be-a-more-accurate-list.html

Last month, KKR, a major global investment firm, announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Agiloft, the contract lifecycle management company. As part of the ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/on-lawnext-podcast-in-the-wake-of-kkrs-acquisition-of-clm-company-agiloft-ceo-eric-laughlin-discusses-its-past-and-future.html

Mark O’Brien, who cofounded the innovative access-to-justice organization Pro Bono Net together with Michael Hertz 25 years ago, and who has been its executive director since 2005, is stepping ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/mark-obrien-to-leave-pro-bono-net-the-legal-help-organization-he-cofounded-25-years-ago.html

Technology that helps people do their own legal work should be against the law. That at least is the view of some bar authorities, and the implication of regulatory proposals. Many lawyers think ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/guest-post-unauthorized-help-a-contrarian-upl-analysis.html

In its first major pronouncement on the ethics of using generative AI in law practice, the American Bar Association has issued an opinion saying that lawyers need not become experts in the techno...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/in-first-ethics-ruling-on-gen-ai-aba-says-lawyers-must-have-reasonable-understanding-of-the-technology-but-need-not-become-experts.html

With hallucinations continuing to haunt applications of generative AI in the legal field, Paxton AI, a startup for contract review, document drafting and legal research, today released results of...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/paxton-ai-releases-benchmarking-data-showing-94-accuracy-of-its-legal-research-tool-also-releases-new-confidence-indicator-feature.html

The global legal technology company Litera said today that it has acquired FileTrail, a leading provider of information governance and records management software for law firms, corporations and ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/litera-acquires-filetrail-expanding-its-capabilities-in-governance-risk-and-compliance.html

You have been hearing about it in the news, now see how it works. Last month, Henchman, a generative AI-driven platform that promises to deliver “the fastest contract drafting experience ever ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/how-it-works-a-demo-of-henchman-generative-ai-driven-contract-drafting-and-negotiation-within-word.html

In reporting yesterday on the record-setting $900 million investment in law practice management company Clio, I included a list of the 10 largest previous investments in legal tech. It did not ta...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/the-25-largest-legal-tech-investments-of-all-time.html

As the law practice management company Clio today announced a record $900 million funding round, the largest ever for a cloud legal technology company, at a whopping $3 billion valuation, Clio’...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/exclusive-lawnext-interview-ceo-jack-newton-on-clios-record-setting-900m-raise.html

The law practice management company Clio today announced a record-setting raise of $900 million, at a valuation of a whopping $3 billion, in an oversubscribed Series F investment round that the c...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/clio-sets-legal-tech-funding-record-with-900m-raise-at-3b-valuation-lawnext-has-exclusive-podcast-interview-with-founder-jack-newton.html

The law practice management platform Rocket Matter this week rolled out the next generation of its software, a “reimagined” version of the product that emphasizes flexibility and customizatio...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/rocket-matter-unveils-the-next-generation-of-its-law-practice-management-platform.html

The law practice management company Clio today unveiled Clio Accounting, providing legal-specific bookkeeping and accounting as an add-on to U.S. customers of its Clio Manage platform. I have not...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/clio-launches-its-own-legal-specific-accounting-and-bookkeeping-software-as-add-on-to-clio-manage.html

In a further expansion of the CoCounsel AI legal assistant it acquired last year through its purchase of Casetext, Thomson Reuters today unveiled CoCounsel Drafting, a document drafting tool that...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/thomson-reuters-launches-cocounsel-drafting-for-transactional-documents-with-litigation-docs-coming-later-this-year.html

The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software is today introducing three artificial intelligence features built directly into its all-in-one practice management platform – including o...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/exclusive-law-practice-management-software-leap-introduces-three-ai-features-with-a-unique-human-in-the-loop-twist.html

Citators — tools that validate whether a case or statute is still good law — have always been an essential component of a full-featured legal research platform. But in this age of AI-generate...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/new-citators-from-vlex-and-paxton-underscore-that-they-are-the-holy-grail-for-legal-research-companies.html

The American Arbitration Association today announced the launch of a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to enable parties with multiple arbitration cases to streamline thei...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/aaa-introduces-apis-for-case-administration-partners-with-lexpipe-to-help-firms-with-free-api-installation.html

Whether you are a purchaser, designer or user of legal tech in your firm or organization, it is important to understand the basics of user experience and user interface design. Now there is an on...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/ux-101-for-legal-a-new-online-course-from-theory-and-principle-teaches-the-basics-of-ux-ui.html

Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, was inspired to start the company based on her own experiences as a litigator and appellate advocate. A pivotal moment for her came in an as...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/lawnext-podcast-how-clearbrief-helps-lawyers-find-the-best-facts-to-support-their-writing-with-founder-jacqueline-schafer.html

A cardiologist with a background in medical technology, computer science and artificial intelligence has launched a product for legal professionals and physician expert witnesses that targets the...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/just-launched-quench-uses-gen-ai-to-bring-greater-speed-and-accuracy-to-medico-legal-records-review.html

Last October, during its annual Clio Cloud Conference, the law practice management company Clio announced its plan to roll out an e-filing service, called Clio File, during 2024, starting with ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/in-a-first-for-law-practice-management-platforms-clio-rolls-out-an-integrated-e-filing-service-in-texas.html

This recent Reuters story caught my attention: “More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI,” it said, citing a new survey conducted by the American Bar Association. Other reports i...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/recent-reports-of-law-schools-ai-adoption-have-been-greatly-exaggerated.html

Law.com Radar, a service that delivers AI-enhanced alerts of new lawsuits filed in more than 2,400 U.S. federal and state courts, is now tagging all new civil filings using the taxonomy developed...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/law-com-radar-now-uses-sali-tags-for-greater-precision-in-litigation-case-alerts-across-jurisdictions.html

Three weeks after the death of its executive director Craig W. Weinlein, The Sedona Conference has named its longtime deputy executive director to step into that role. Kenneth J. Withers, who has...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/the-sedona-conference-names-longtime-deputy-director-ken-withers-as-executive-director.html

On today’s live Legaltech Week, we’ll be talking toilet paper — and what it signifies for life and legal tech. Also on the agenda: stories about legal ethics and AI, AI risk in legal resear...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/today-live-on-legaltech-week-were-talking-toilet-paper-so-bring-your-best-potty-puns-to-the-chat.html

Advances in generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, have the potential to disrupt the practice of law for many, many lawyers — especially junior lawyers. A 2023 Thomson Reuters report on ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/how-lawyers-can-stay-necessary-and-employed-in-the-age-of-generative-ai.html

Clearbrief, a legal technology company that uses AI to help lawyers find and insert facts to support their legal writing, has raised an additional funding round of approximately $4 million. This ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/ai-legal-writing-tool-clearbrief-raises-4-million-to-fuel-expansion-among-larger-law-firms.html

If you are a lawyer whose practice involves regularly working with PDF forms, such as those from courts and government agencies, a new generative AI feature from document automation company Gavel...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/new-gavel-feature-uses-ai-to-convert-pdfs-into-automated-document-generation-workflows.html

A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their pra...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/new-legal-ethics-opinion-cautions-lawyers-you-must-be-proficient-in-the-use-of-generative-ai.html

Investments in legal tech got off to a slow start in 2024. A Crunchbase report just last week said that legal tech startups had raised only $356 million this year, compared to $871 million last y...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/a-slow-year-for-legal-tech-funding-over-400-million-invested-in-legal-tech-in-the-last-30-days.html

We have just added a new feature to LawSites that enables readers to explore more about the products and product-categories I cover here. Now, when you are reading a post, the sidebar provides di...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/a-cool-new-feature-of-this-blog-if-i-may-say-so-myself.html

If you, like me, missed Legaltech Week last Friday, here is the recording. I was away, as were several of our other regulars, but panelists Victor Li, Isha Marathe, Joe Patrice, and Stephanie Wil...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/missed-legaltech-week-last-week-i-know-i-did-no-worries-heres-the-recording.html

Eighteen months ago, the first-of-its-kind Judicial Innovation Fellowship launched with the mission of embedding experienced technologists and designers within state, local, and tribal courts t...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/on-lawnext-cofounder-jason-tashea-on-the-first-year-and-uncertain-future-of-georgetowns-first-of-its-kind-judicial-innovation-fellowship.html

On Friday, I spoke to a group of trial lawyers on the use of generative AI in litigation. Many in the room were that increasingly rare breed of lawyer who actually go into court and try cases. Of...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/is-gen-ai-creating-a-divide-among-law-firms-of-haves-and-have-nots.html

Every lawyer in Texas is now eligible for free access to trust accounting and billing software, thanks to an exclusive partnership announced today between the State Bar of Texas and the law pract...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/every-lawyer-in-texas-now-has-free-access-to-smokeballs-trust-accounting-and-billing-software.html

Raghu Ramanathan, who in February was named president of the Legal Professionals segment within Thomson Reuters, overseeing all its products for the legal profession, believes there should be ope...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/new-president-of-thomson-reuters-legal-segment-says-industry-needs-open-benchmarking-on-gen-ai.html

LexIQ, an early-stage startup focused on using artificial intelligence to draft and review contracts in Microsoft Word, is today launching its waitlist for corporate legal departments and law fir...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/startup-lexiq-an-ai-copilot-for-contracts-backed-by-techstars-and-j-p-morgan-launches-waitlist-today.html

Last week, KKR, a major global investment firm, announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Agiloft, the contract lifecycle management company. As part of the d...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/as-kkr-acquires-majority-stake-in-agiloft-an-interview-with-the-clm-companys-ceo-eric-laughlin.html

This has been a notable year for BriefCatch, a legal technology company devoted to helping legal professionals improve their legal writing. It started nine months ago, with the company’s raise ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/on-lawnext-ceo-ross-guberman-on-how-briefcatch-is-expanding-its-mission-to-help-legal-professionals-improve-their-writing.html

Today on the LawNext PR podcast, Assembly Software CEO Daniel Farrar joins Bob Ambrogi to discuss today’s launch of NeosAI, a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into the Neos cas...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/lawnext-pr-assembly-software-launches-neosai-ai-embedded-in-the-neos-case-management-platform.html

Last September, two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting prog...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/building-on-its-jurisage-merger-citeright-launches-ai-powered-tool-for-litigators-to-summarize-and-synthesize-case-law.html

Last week, I reported here that researchers at Stanford University planned to augment a study they released of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/in-redo-of-its-study-stanford-finds-westlaws-ai-hallucinates-at-double-the-rate-of-lexisnexis.html