Bob Ambrogi

Twenty years ago, I had the great good fortune to help launch the podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer as cohost along with J. Craig Williams. It was one of the first legal podcasts of any kind, was the very first podcast of the Legal Talk Network, and is today the longest continuously running…

A new panelist joins our Legaltech Week panel today: Rhys Dipshan, editor-in-chief of legal technology at ALM. Rhys has been a reporter and editor for 17 years, and he has covered legal tech for nearly a decade. We look forward to his contributions and insights.

Lots to cover today, including our impressions of the…

At its annual BoxWorks conference in San Francisco today, Box announced the launch of Box Shield Pro, an enhanced suite of AI-powered security capabilities designed to address the evolving cybersecurity needs of law firms, financial services firms, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and others.

The new offering builds on Box’s existing Shield security platform by…

In an unusual judicial response to the ongoing epidemic of AI-generated fictitious citations, Washoe County, Nev., District Court Judge David Hardy has crafted what he calls a “creative and unpredictable” solution that offers a different way for courts to address attorney misconduct involving artificial intelligence.

The unusual order, first reported by Mark Robison at the…

Calling it a breakthrough that “sets a new standard for AI-powered legal research quality,” Jus Mundi, the AI-powered research platform for international law and arbitration, today announced the launch of Jus AI 2, the second generation of the AI assistant it launched last year, saying it provides the solution to one of legal AI’s…

The problem of legal timekeeping is as old as the billable hour itself. Lawyers either interrupt their work to record time contemporaneously, breaking their flow and concentration, or they reconstruct their time retroactively, inevitably missing billable work and resulting in weaker narratives for clients. 

Enter Ajax, an AI-powered time-tracking platform that aims to solve…

Forbes is out this week with its 10th annual Cloud 100 list, tracking the top companies in cloud computing, and four legal tech companies made the list, while one dropped off from last year.

Two other legal tech companies were highlighted as rising stars — “startups on track to be some of the…

Daniel Lewis has witnessed legal technology’s evolution from multiple vantage points that few others can claim. As a Stanford law student in 2012, he and classmate Nik Reed co-founded the legal research startup Ravel Law with the audacious goal of taking on LexisNexis and Westlaw using machine learning and data analytics – at a…

I took advantage of my flight home from Austin to write my review of 8am’s inaugural Kaleidoscope conference, which I’d just attended there. I published that review earlier today, and you can see it in full here.

Once done with that, I pulled out my Kindle and returned to reading Travels with Charley,…

Attending the inaugural Kaleidoscope conference in Austin last week, I couldn’t shake a strange feeling: I’d been here before. That was impossible, of course, as this was 8am’s very first customer conference. But the energy, the setup, the vibe all felt uncannily familiar. It was, as Yogi Berra might have said, déjà vu all over…

Two weeks after the company formerly known as AffiniPay unveiled its rebranding as 8am, it convened its inaugural Kaleidoscope customer conference in Austin today, where its chief product officer, Leslie Witt, took to the stage to deliver a keynote address in which she announced key platform integrations, new AI-powered tools, and expanded financial services…

Twenty years ago today, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the city of New Orleans and surrounding parishes. Eighty percent of the city was flooded, many people died, and many others lost their homes.

For many of us, the images from those awful days are seared into our collective memory – the…