Are courts the next frontier for legal AI? Shlomo Klapper, founder and CEO of the AI-driven judicial case-preparation platofrm Learned Hand, believes they are. A former litigator at Quinn Emanuel and law clerk for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Klapper is building what he calls a “reasoning engine” for judges — AI…
PracticePanther Launches PantherAccounting Plus, a Native Trust and Operating Accounting Suite for Law Firms
PracticePanther, the cloud-based legal practice management platform that is part of Paradigm’s suite of legal software products, today launched PantherAccounting Plus, a comprehensive trust and operating accounting feature set built natively into its platform.
The new capability enables law firms to manage the full lifecycle of their financial operations – from client retainers…
Josef Launches ‘Rapid Ingestion Engine,’ Using AI To Turn Messy Business Inputs Into Structured Legal Workflows
Josef, the Australia-based legal automation platform, has launched a new capability it is calling the Rapid Ingestion Engine, which uses AI to convert unstructured business inputs — such as email threads, meeting notes and term sheets — into the structured data that legal workflow templates require.
The idea, according to Josef CEO and cofounder…
Universal Migrator Releases scripts that migrate Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom to Clio, MyCase, Litify and Lawmatics
Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into major practice management tools Clio, MyCase, Litify, and Lawmatics.
With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 144+ applications, spanning practice management, CRM, billing/accounting, and…
Clio Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Clio Work, Also Launches Vincent Mobile App
Clio today announced two notable updates to its AI product line: the addition of agentic capabilities to Clio Work, and the launch of a standalone Vincent by Clio mobile app for iOS and Android.
Agentic Clio WorkWhen Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled Clio Work at ClioCon last October — in a keynote that…
The NFL Has a New Official Professional Services Partner, and Yes, It’s a Legal Tech Company
There was a time, not so long ago, when the most exciting sponsorship deal a legal technology company might land was having its logo on a tote bag at an ABA conference. Those days, it appears, are decidedly over.
Today, 8am — the company formerly known as AffiniPay and parent of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and…
In AI-Powered Brand Deal, Harvey Partners with Yet Another Harvey — You Know, Its Other Namesake
Following its February news that it had entered into a brand partnership withj Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits, the legal AI company Harvey said today that it has entered into another such partnership involving another iconic Harvey — only this time it is using AI to make…
On LawNext: Mary Technology Wants to Solve Litigation’s ‘Fact Chaos’ Problem
E-discovery platforms have gotten great at narrowing millions of documents down to manageable sets. But what happens next — the grueling work of extracting facts, organizing them, and building a reliable case narrative — has remained largely manual. In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi talks with Daniel Lord-Doyle
A New Legal Research Conference Coming Soon — And Last Day Before Ticket Prices Increase
I have been meaning to write about the new Law Firm Research & Innovation Conference taking place April 28 in New York, and then I realized there is now some urgency to it, as ticket prices go up tomorrow, April 1.
The new conference is being organized by LegalTech Connect, the same team…
CollBox Wins 10th Annual Startup Alley Pitch Competition At ABA Techshow
CollBox, a company that helps law firms get paid more quickly, won the 10th annual Startup Alley pitch competition at ABA Techshow last week in Chicago.
Second place went to Candle AI, an email assistant that helps small and mid-sized law firms eliminate email overload. The third-place winner was Lawdify, an autonomous…
Survey Finds Majority of Federal Judges Have Used AI in Their Work, But Daily Use Remains Rare
A first-of-its-kind random-sample survey of federal judges has found that more than 60% have used generative artificial intelligence tools in their judicial work, though fewer than one in four use these tools on a daily or weekly basis.
The study, conducted by researchers at Northwestern University in collaboration with the New York City Bar Association,…
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