Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. Now, as it expands into new markets, we get details on its adoption to date.
It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel, a product developed in partnership with OpenAI…
During ABA Techshow last week in Chicago, I had the opportunity to sit down for a brief conversation with Jack Newton, founder and CEO of law practice technology company Clio, who provided additional details on some of the company’s recent news.
We discussed Clio’s greater focus on midsized law firms, its impending launch…
This week brought the eighth annual Startup Alley pitch competition, the opening night event of ABA Techshow at which 15 startups competed for top honors by delivering their pitches live to an audience of Techshow attendees.
Now on my way home from Techshow, I finally have a chance to post the winners. Here were the…
Law practice management company Clio said today that Lawyaw, the document automation software it acquired in 2021, will now be called Clio Draft.
The new name reflects a deepened integration of products and services since the acquisition, Clio says.
“Uniting under the Clio banner gives us a clear focus on delivering value to our…
At the American Bar Association’s Techshow this week in Chicago, the law practice management platform Smokeball will unveil its plan to deploy generative artificial intelligence within its platform across the client lifecycle, from intaking new clients to handling their matters to billing them for the work.
It will launch the first set of…
In November, the organization Frontline Justice launched with the mission of addressing the escalating access to justice crisis by empowering a new category of legal helper, the justice worker. The organization has an ambitious mission: To clear the way for justice workers to exist in all 50 states by 2035.
In pursuit of…
Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. 30, 2024.
Thomson Reuters launched Firm Central in 2013 at a media event in its then-headquarters in Eagan, Minn., as its answer to a then-growing crop of cloud-based practice management software such…
This was just passed along to me from someone at the Washington State Bar Association. If you are interested, act fast. The deadline is tomorrow. I am posting the notice verbatim.
…In March 2024, the WSBA Board of Governors (BOG) will consider the formation of a Technology Task Force. If approved, the Task Force
MaxVal Group, a company that provides intellectual property management software for law firms and corporations, has entered into a strategic partnership with Relecura, a developer of AI-enabled patent analytics and insights, through which MaxVal will become a reseller of Relecura’s services and will integrate Relecura’s analytics into Symphony, its flagship IP management platform.…
It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal, a 3L at The George Washington University Law School, to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases.
Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the…
We are just a week away from the Startup Alley pitch competition that is the opening night event of ABA TECHSHOW, and I recently had the opportunity to catch up with last year’s winner, Tony Valenti, founder and CEO of Universal Migrator, who told me that, since Startup Alley, “it’s been…
Best Lawyers, the oldest lawyer ranking and peer review company, has named Kevin Vermeulen, a veteran legal advertising and marketing executive, as senior vice president of business development.
In addition, the company has named Josh Rupall, its director of sales for the past 12 years, as director of client success.
In this…
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