Selecting an AI Partner for Modern Transactional Work: Pierson Ferdinand’s Story

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“The SimpleAI Word Add-In has quickly become an everyday tool used by partners across our firm.” 

Christina Wojcik, Chief Innovation Officer, Pierson Ferdinand LLP 

Pierson Ferdinand (“PierFerd”) is a Partner-led, tech-driven, and fully distributed law firm providing high-quality legal services across 25+ markets. With more than 270 global

Anthropic’s Legal Plugin for Claude Cowork May Be the Opening Salvo In A Competition Between Foundation Models and Legal Tech Incumbents

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To read today’s news, you’d think it was the shot heard ’round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least.

“Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,” reports The Guardian. “Anthropic’s Move Into Legal, Data Services Sinks Software Stocks,” says Bloomberg. “A selloff in … stocks

At the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovation Conference, Talk of ‘Radical Collaboration,’ Cutting-Edge AI, and Doing More with What You Have

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In video remarks that opened the second day of the Legal Services Corporation’s annual Innovations in Technology Conference in San Antonio last week, Bridget Mary McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, urged attendees to engage in “radical collaboration.”

“AI alone won’t…

LawNext: From Customer to Acquirer: Filevine’s Ryan Anderson and Pincites’ Sona Sulakian on Building AI Contract Intelligence

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In this episode of LawNext, we talk with Ryan Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Filevine, and Sona Sulakian, former CEO and co-founder of Pincites, about Filevine’s acquisition of the AI-powered contract redlining company. The deal, which closed in December, marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of the year. Even more notably for this traditionally litigation-focused…