In a further expansion of the CoCounsel AI legal assistant it acquired last year through its purchase of Casetext, Thomson Reuters today unveiled CoCounsel Drafting, a document drafting tool that works within Microsoft Word and that leverages both the generative AI capabilities of CoCounsel and the practical content of Practical Law.
Launching today in…
The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software is today introducing three artificial intelligence features built directly into its all-in-one practice management platform – including one with a unique human-in-the-loop twist.
“LEAP’s AI solutions are not here to replace lawyers or the work they do, but support and complement their expertise by allowing…
Citators — tools that validate whether a case or statute is still good law — have always been an essential component of a full-featured legal research platform. But in this age of AI-generated hallucinations, they may be more important than ever before.
Just two products have long dominated the legal research market as the gold…
The American Arbitration Association today announced the launch of a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to enable parties with multiple arbitration cases to streamline their case administration.
The APIs will allow parties to send and receive documents, file new cases, and track case-related activities.
For firms that may not have robust technology…
Whether you are a purchaser, designer or user of legal tech in your firm or organization, it is important to understand the basics of user experience and user interface design. Now there is an online course to help you do just that.
The legal technology design and development company Theory and Principle has produced…
Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, was inspired to start the company based on her own experiences as a litigator and appellate advocate. A pivotal moment for her came in an asylum case she was handling pro bono, when her ability to…
A cardiologist with a background in medical technology, computer science and artificial intelligence has launched a product for legal professionals and physician expert witnesses that targets the tedious task of reviewing and analyzing thousands of pages of medical records.
The product, Quench SmartChart, uses generative AI to streamline the medico-legal review process, enabling users…
Last October, during its annual Clio Cloud Conference, the law practice management company Clio announced its plan to roll out an e-filing service, called Clio File, during 2024, starting with Texas, which would make it the first law practice management platform with built-in e-filing. Today, it delivered on that promise, launching Clio File for e-filing…
This recent Reuters story caught my attention: “More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI,” it said, citing a new survey conducted by the American Bar Association. Other reports in the news and on LinkedIn sounded a similar takeaway.
Indeed, the survey, AI and Legal Education Survey Results 2024, recently…
Law.com Radar, a service that delivers AI-enhanced alerts of new lawsuits filed in more than 2,400 U.S. federal and state courts, is now tagging all new civil filings using the taxonomy developed by the SALI Alliance, a group working to standardize legal data across the industry.
By labeling filings using SALI’s taxonomy, Law.com…
Three weeks after the death of its executive director Craig W. Weinlein, The Sedona Conference has named its longtime deputy executive director to step into that role.
Kenneth J. Withers, who has been The Sedona Conference’s deputy executive director for 10 years and with the organization for nearly 19 years, was named Friday…
On today’s live Legaltech Week, we’ll be talking toilet paper — and what it signifies for life and legal tech. Also on the agenda: stories about legal ethics and AI, AI risk in legal research, surging billing rates, and more.
The show is live at 3 p.m. E.T. If you haven’t already, you can sign…
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