Aderant, a provider of business management software to larger law firms, today introduced a product designed to help law firms better allocate work among their associates.
Called viAllocate, the product helps law firms maximize billable utilization, balance associate workloads, and improve operational efficiency and profitability, Aderant says.
It is designed to address the challenges…
The Supreme Court of Texas this week gave preliminary approval to rules that would allow the delivery of legal services in certain circumstances by licensed legal paraprofessionals and licensed court-access assistants who are not lawyers.
“For years, the Court has made combating this ‘justice gap’ a top priority, and it has become clear that we…
Earlier this year, I wrote about the beta launch of davinci, an AI tool to assist intellectual property practitioners throughout the patent prosecution process. Today, that tool emerges from beta for general availability under a new name, DeepIP, and with a new direct integration within Microsoft Word.
DeepIP is an AI copilot that…
For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its legal research service, particularly its headnotes and Key Number System.
The validity of those copyrights will be a central issue later this month when the…
For at least two decades, artificial intelligence has been used in e-discovery to help surface and prioritize review of potentially responsive documents from large document collections. But while technology-assisted review (TAR) has traditionally been driven by AI in the form of supervised machine learning, some vendors and e-discovery professionals are starting to…
Among the world’s top 100 private cloud computing companies are two in the legal tech sector, according to Forbes Cloud 100 2024.
Included on this year’s list are Icertis, a company that provides contract intelligence software, which is ranked 39th, and Clio, a provider of law practice management software, which ranked at…
Law practice management company LEAP recently announced the launch of three major AI features built directly into the platform, including LawY, a new legal AI assistant backed by human verification. In this latest installment in the LawSites video series How It Works, you get to see LEAP’s new AI assistant in action.
In…
Legau, a comprehensive legal document drafting platform launched in Portugal in 2021, will make its formal launch in the U.S. market at ILTACON this week, where it has been selected as one of 26 companies to participate in the conference’s Startup Hub.
Designed to streamline the legal drafting process for attorneys, Legau hopes to…
Ever wonder how much coffee gets consumed at a week-long legal tech conference?
Well, with ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, set to convene this weekend in Nashville, organizers plan to serve some 1,500 gallons of the caffeinated brew.
Organizers hope this year’s ILTACON will set an attendance record, with…
Within the span of five days recently in Chicago, I attended two somewhat different conferences, and at each, I found evidence that we are moving the ball forward on developing and implementing practical applications for generative AI in law.
You may wonder why I even needed evidence. After all, for the last year and a…
When it comes to big names in legal operations and legal innovation, it is hard to think of one bigger than David Cambria, who has long been described as the godfather of legal operations, including for his trailblazing work as COO and head of global operations for Fortune 50 company Archer Daniels Midland and…
Last week, as the law practice management company Clio announced a record $900 million funding round, the largest ever for a legal technology company, I published an exclusive LawNext podcast interview with Jack Newton, Clio’s founder and CEO, recorded a few days ahead of the announcement.
With so much interest in that story and…
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