Articles Posted in December, 2023

Dru Armstrong was named CEO of AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, in July 2021. Less than a year later, AffiniPay shook up the legal tech landscape by acquiring MyCase, one of the leading law practice management platforms, in a deal that also included four other practice management products: CASEPeer for personal injury firms, Docketwise for immigration…

There in the bar, it suddenly struck me that I was in a moment that summed up the very essence of what made this conference so unique.

It was nearly 11 p.m. on the second night of the TLTF Summit outside Miami. A group of us were in the hotel bar, stridently debating whether…

The deadline calendaring and matter management company LawToolBox has added new artificial intelligence features through its integrations with Microsoft Outlook and Teams that automate the calendaring of court dates and contractual deadlines.

With the new features, LawToolBox can read emails and attachments in Outlook, such as court orders and contracts, and extract deadlines and…

On Nov. 6, OpenAI introduced the ability for any user with a ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise account to create their own custom versions of ChatGPT, which OpenAI calls GPTs. “GPTs are a new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be more helpful in their daily life, at specific tasks, at…

[This guest post is by Maya Markovich, executive director of the Justice Technology Association, an organization formed to support companies in the justice tech sector. She is also executive in residence for justice tech at Village Capital, the largest organization in the world supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups.]

Justice tech entered mainstream industry…

Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of VerifAI, a Microsoft Word add-in from the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft that uses generative AI to help lawyers review contracts up to 15 times faster.

VerifAI uses generative AI to review contracts against your personal guidelines, and answer your…

In August, I wrote here about a new feature in Clearbrief that uses generative AI to create hyperlinked timelines, enabling users to create case chronologies directly in Word, complete with hyperlinks to the source documents in the case record that support the dates and events shown in the timeline.

Today, Clearbrief is extending…

Each year for the past three years, the LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship has awarded fellowships to promising law students to participate in research projects related to eliminating racism in the legal system. This year, 15 students received fellowships of $10,000 each…

Voting is now open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW, which is Feb. 14-17,…

On the latest LawNext PR podcast, we feature news breaking today from legal tech startup Lawmato, which is relaunching its virtual legal consultation platform app with new and improved features.

As you will see in the podcast, one of the new features is…

After a week away for Thanksgiving, we are back live today at 3 p.m. with another episode of Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.

Among the stories on tap for us to discuss today:…