Did you know that the law practice management company Smokeball is named for a famous court case — Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. — that stands for the proposition that a company has a duty to deliver on its promises?
It is fitting, then, that Smokeball is today unveiling a new global…
When Clio acquired vLex in 2025, a key asset it gained was Docket Alarm, one of the world’s largest litigation databases containing more than 1 billion filings from federal and state courts. At the ClioCon user conference last year, Clio relaunched it as Clio Docket.
Now, Clio is making Clio Docket available…
Trellis, a legal research company that provides state trial court data and insights, has expanded agentic AI access to its data with a new plugin for OpenAI’s ChatGPT and a native assistant called Trellis Chat, both of which are in addition to the Trellis MCP connector for Claude that the company launched…
Perform legal work in Harvey, get a draft time entry created automatically in Aderant’s iTimekeep.
That is the upshot of a integration announced today by the two companies.
With the integration, law firms that are customers of both Harvey and iTimekeep can connect the two products so that work done in Harvey is…
DeepJudge, the Zurich-based enterprise search company that describes itself as the institutional intelligence platform for legal AI, today introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol, an open protocol designed to let users move from one AI product into another – and, in some cases, back again – while retaining the full context of their work.…
This week, LexisNexis announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City — a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI companies such as OpenAI and Amazon Web Services sit in the same room and build legal AI together, in real time.
The company is calling it a new model…
Relativity today announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI interface that lets lawyers ask plain-language questions across an entire RelativityOne matter and get back answers with citations to the underlying record.
Relativity CEO Phil Saunders calls it a fundamentally new way for lawyers to get straight to the answers in their most consequential legal…
Howard Katzenberg’s idea for a trademark software company began with a trademark fight of his own. Today, he is formally launching that software, called GleanMark, a U.S. trademark research and workflow platform for lawyers.
The platform combines free USPTO search with AI-driven clearance analysis, office-action response drafting, automated deadline tracking, and portfolio monitoring, all…
Rarely do law firms lose clients on merit, argues Cesar Tapia. They lose them before intake ever happens – to missed calls, slow follow-up and dead voicemail.
Today, Tapia and his cofounder Eslam Odeh are launching their answer to that problem – Paravo, a startup emerging from stealth with what it describes…
SurePoint Technologies, a company that provides practice-management, finance and growth technology products for mid-sized law firms, named Jeff Steinberg its chief executive officer on July 23, elevating Eric Thurston, who had led the company since 2023, to executive chairman. Two…
DISCO is moving beyond e-discovery, the technology that has been its bread and butter ever since its founding in 2013, to launch what it describes as the industry’s first unified litigation solution, an AI-native application that combines the facts of a matter with relevant U.S. case law.
The product, which the company has not yet…
Thomson Reuters says the large language model it has been quietly building in-house now performs competitively with the best general-purpose AI models in the world, and it has released its first benchmarking results to back up the claim.
In a July 31 post on the company’s innovation blog, Chief Technology Officer Joel Hron…
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