8am, the parent company of a suite of practice and business management products for lawyers and accountants, is now guaranteeing next-day payments for customers of its LawPay and CPACharge payments platforms, it said today.
The company also announced new capabilities that it says streamline billing and improve visibility into financial performance for its customers.
The…
[Note: Since first publishing this post, I have made several edits and updates based on information provided by Thomson Reuters and other sources. In most cases, I have indicated where I have changed or added information.]
For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools…
Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word.
“With Gavel Exec for Web, lawyers can chat with an AI purpose-built for legal work,…
Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval.
The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are significantly larger, across every query type, technology domain and jurisdiction tested.
QaECTER is the product of Questel’s…
A New York-based legal tech startup called Abstract is making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, offering law firms and corporate legal departments what it describes as a fundamentally different approach to keeping clients and businesses informed about government activity that may affect them.
At Legalweek in March, I had…
In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli entrepreneur Erez Vega-Kadoch kept receiving what he considered to be inappropriate text messages from an Israeli company. Never having consented to the messages, he decided to fight back and file a small claims case against the company.
But when he searched…
Legal AI has made lawyers faster. Faster contract review. Smarter redlines. Drafting assistance that saves real time.
For the most part, legal AI products have been built around lawyers: how they work and how to make that work better. This isn’t surprising when you consider whose budget pays for legal AI.
But the first friction…
Clio has made Clio Work — the AI workspace for legal research, analysis and strategy it launched last October — available as a standalone product for solo, small and mid-sized law firms, removing the requirement that customers also subscribe to its flagship practice management platform, Clio Manage.
The Vancouver-based company, which describes itself as the…
LexisNexis and Luminance today announced a partnership that will let mutual in-house legal customers access LexisNexis’s Protégé AI assistant from inside Luminance’s contract negotiation platform, with a pathway to move into Lexis+ with Protégé for more involved legal work.
Under the arrangement, users working in Luminance’s natural-language assistant, Lumi, can pose legal questions and receive…
It started with Harvey, the legal AI company that signed Gabriel Macht – the actor who played Harvey Specter on Suits – as a brand ambassador. Then Legora one-upped everyone by signing the actor Jude Law, building a whole campaign around the tagline, “Law just got more attractive,” and shooting the thing with an Oscar-winning…
In its sixth acquisition, Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing and management platform, has acquired WebTMS, a UK-based provider of IP portfolio management software with more than 25 years in business and over 500 clients globally.
The acquisition, announced today, brings together Alt Legal’s automation-driven approach to trademark docketing with WebTMS’s deep configurability…
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