Weil’s demise happened quickly and is unfortunate. Since Bloomberg Law reported the news, many have covered the situation. David Lat also offered a detailed analysis.
Symptoms and central causesAs the dust settles, a couple of core issues appear to have thrown the firm off balance. Two partners, Barry Wolf, who planned…
Blue J, the Toronto-based tax research and advisory platform, said today that it has raised $176 million in Series E capital to scale its agentic AI and expand into new geographic markets.
The round was led by JMI Equity, a leading growth equity investment firm. Existing investors Oak HC/FT and Sapphire Ventures also participated…
Nikki Shaver, CEO of Legaltech Hub (LTH), is leaving the company Dec. 1 to join law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell as chief AI and knowledge officer. Shaver and her husband, Chris Ford, founded LTH in 2020 as a legal tech directory, and she oversaw its growth into a highly regarded…
As I have reported here, the legal technology company Clio is making a big push into the judiciary. It wants to develop AI tools to make judges’ jobs easier, and it has even trademarked the phrase “judiciary-grade AI.”
To that end, Clio has made two key hires: Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who joined…
As NetDocuments rolls out a completely redesigned user experience, a new Microsoft 365 integration, and real-time co-authoring, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Chief Product Officer Dan Hauck in an episode recorded live at the company’s Inspire conference in Orlando in October. Hauck, who last appeared on the show in 2022,…
There is plenty of talk today about whether AI will end the billable hour. If work that once took hours can be…
Over the past few years, there have been a few twists and turns in the competition among legal research platforms to be the preferred partner of state and local bar associations.
Once, that competition was almost exclusively between Fastcase and Casemaker. That changed when Fastcase acquired Casemaker in 2021. Then, in 2023, Fastcase merged…
Got conferences? If so, then probably one or more of Legaltech Week’s regular panelists has been there in the last couple weeks — from ClioCon in Boston to the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to NetDocuments Inspire in Orland0 and some smaller ones along the way — and we will be sharing our reports and…
NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter believes the document management system is becoming something even greater — a law firm’s organizational intelligence layer. As lawyers increasingly do their work inside AI tools such as Claude, Harvey, Legora and ChatGPT, Baxter says NetDocuments’ job is to build and preserve the firm’s context, then make it accessible through…
At its annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco this week, the e-discovery company Everlaw unveiled Omni, an agentic AI investigation suite that orchestrates the full range of the company’s tools to answer questions about a case.
The company also launched Workflows, a drag-and-drop tool for automating complex document reviews, and Everlaw for Word, a…
Within the span of 48 hours this week, I was an in-person witness to the legal profession’s divide on AI. Through a bit of karmic coincidence, I was in a room one day dominated by people who fear it as a threat, and then two days later with those who embrace it as an opportunity.…
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