Two pages for two products — both introduced the same day (here and here) — two strikingly similar motifs.
LawNext Episode 11: Avvo Founder Mark Britton on Why He Started The Company, Why He Sold It, and Why He Left
Earlier this year, Mark Britton left Avvo, the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO, after selling it to web behemoth Internet Brands. Explaining his departure in a memo to his staff, he wrote, “It’s time for me to go.”
In the latest episode of LawNext, Britton reflects on his 12 years…
Vincent Joins CARA, EVA and Clerk as the Latest AI-Driven Research Assistant
The international legal research platform vLex today introduced the beta version of Vincent, an AI-powered legal research assistant that analyzes legal documents you upload and finds relevant research results.
Vincent is in the same vein as CARA from Casetext, Clerk from Judicata, and EVA from ROSS Intelligence in that you upload a brief, legal document…
Breaking: Legal Services Provider UnitedLex Receives Major Majority Investment
Fast on the heels of the Sept. 10 announcement that Atrium — the combination law firm and legal technology company — had raised $65 million, today comes news that enterprise legal services provider UnitedLex has received a majority investment from CVC Capital Partners.
Although the amount of the investment was not disclosed, the company…
What Would that Law Firm Merger Look Like? New Tool Allows ‘What-If’ Modeling
Speculation about potential law firm mergers and acquisitions makes for good sport, not to mention serious business. Today, ALM Intelligence released a tool that gives speculators some hard-and-fast data and the ability to model what a potential merger would look like.
Available to subscribers to ALM Intelligence’s Legal Compass platform for data research…
Clio Names Finalists for $100,000 Startup Contest
In just two weeks, the sixth Clio Cloud Conference kicks off in New Orleans. I have attended all five of the prior Clio conferences and, as I wrote last year, I have uniformly praised each one. This year’s conference has a great line-up of keynote speakers and presenters, including Bryan Stevenson, founder…
LawNext Episode 10: Dr. Khalid Al-Kofahi, Head of Artificial Intelligence at Thomson Reuters
In July, Thomson Reuters unveiled Westlaw Edge, the next generation of its legal research platform that uses artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to help legal professionals find answers and perform research more efficiently. The engineering of the AI that went into that was spearheaded by Dr. Khalid Al-Kofahi, vice president of research…
New Corpus Linguistics Platform Lets Legal Researchers Explore the Meanings of Words and Phrases
A first-of-its-kind technology platform launching today allows legal researchers to examine large collections of historical texts to help determine the meanings of words and phrases in the contexts in which they historically were used.
The Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform was developed by BYU Law in Provo, Utah, which is introducing it…
A New Platform Launches for Global Legal News and Commentary
I’ve written about a lot of websites over the years. But now I get to write about one that I had a hand in launching. This week, LexBlog formally launched a first-of-its-kind, global news and commentary network, delivering timely and targeted articles from legal bloggers throughout the world.
As I wrote when I
Clifford Chance Names Legal Industry Veteran To Lead Development of New Technology
Multinational law firm Clifford Chance, one of the 10 largest law firms in the world, has hired legal-industry veteran Jeroen Plink as CEO of Clifford Chance Applied Solutions, where he will lead a global team tasked with developing and bringing to market new technologies to solve major problems faced by the firm’s clients.…
My Last Episode of Lawyer2Lawyer: What We’ve Learned About Podcasting
Now available is the latest episode of the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, which, as I recently explained here, will be my last after 13 years, as I turn my attention…
LawNext Episode 9: Bill Henderson on Changing the Non-Lawyer Ownership Rules
Should legal ethics rules be changed to allow non-lawyer ownership of legal services providers? So controversial is the question that it was major news in July when the State Bar of California voted to appoint a task force to study and make recommendations on the issue. What spurred the bar to take this action was…
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