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The motto of law practice management company Clio is to “transform the legal experience for all.” But for many of its 17 years in business, that “all” has focused primarily on smaller law firms and their clients. Last year, Clio expanded that “all” to include mid-sized firms, and, in the wake of its…
Bob Ambrogi
Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.
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How A New Documentary Aims To Raise Public Awareness Of The Access To Justice Crisis (and the Crowdfunding Campaign to Support It)
On this week’s show: LawNext takes you to the movies. Well, to a specific movie, anyway – a documentary being made to raise public awareness and understanding of the access to justice crisis in this country.
Today’s guests are the film’s director, documentary filmmaker Laura Hand, who previously directed The Tent Mender, about…
AffiniPay’s 2025 Legal Industry Report Portrays A Profession At A Technological Crossroads
AffiniPay, the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, including LawPay and MyCase, today released its 2025 Legal Industry Report, based on a survey of over 2,800 legal professionals, primarily in solo and small firms, and it reveals a profession at a critical technological crossroads,…
DeepJudge Introduces AI Workflows, Connecting Gen AI To Enterprise Search of Law Firms’ Internal Data
DeepJudge, developer of an AI-powered search platform for internal law firm data, has launched AI Workflows, a new feature of its product that allows law firms to deploy AI agents and applications across their internal firm data. The feature provides built-in AI workflows and also allows firms to create custom AI applications via a…
Should Courts Use ChatGPT? In This Appellate Opinion, Both The Majority and Dissenting Opinions Did
At a time when some courts are still questioning or even banning the use of generative artificial intelligence, a recent decision from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is notable for the fact that both the majority and dissenting opinions openly discussed their use of ChatGPT in their deliberations.
The decision, issued Feb. 20…
Merlin Launches Alchemy, Its 4th-Generation Document Intelligence Platform For Discovery and Investigations
The e-discovery company Merlin Search Technologies has launched Alchemy, a “document intelligence platform,” driven by generative artificial intelligence, that is designed to transform unstructured data into actionable intelligence for legal teams.
The Alchemy platform succeeds the previous version of Merlin’s platform, which was called DiscoveryPartner, and introduces several architectural innovations aimed at redefining…
ABA Tech Survey Finds Growing Adoption of AI in Legal Practice, with Efficiency Gains as Primary Driver
There has been a significant increase in the adoption of artificial intelligence-based tools among law firms, with 30% of respondents now using AI technology compared to just 11% in 2023, according to the just-released 2024 edition of the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Survey Report.
It finds that time savings and increased efficiency remain…
How It Works: Our Product Walkthrough with the Clearbrief.ai Team
This week on How it Works, Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, along with Tim Parker, account executive at Clearbrief, walk me through the software.
Clearbrief is a software that has been covered extensively on this blog and on LawNext podcast since it placed as a Startup Alley…
Another New Study of Legal AI Shows Some Models Can Significantly Improve Work Quality and Efficiency
Just last week, I wrote about a first-of-its-kind benchmarking study of legal AI tools, and now comes another, much-different study, that is also the first of its kind.
This time, in a randomized controlled trial, researchers have found that the latest generation of AI technologies can significantly enhance both the quality and efficiency of…
‘My Dear Miss Glory, the Robots Are Not People,’ Says Judge In Yet Another Hallucinations Case
“My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are; they have an enormously developed intelligence, but they have no soul.”
With that quote from R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), a 1920 science fiction play by Czech writer Karel Čapek, U.S. District Judge Kai N. Scott, in the…
ALSP QuisLex Names Sirisha Gummaregula as President and CEO
The alternative legal services provider QuisLex today announced the appointment of Sirisha Gummaregula as its president and chief executive officer, succeeding former CEO Ram Vasudevan.
“This leadership transition underscores the company’s continued commitment to delivering innovative, high-quality legal and compliance solutions to clients around the globe,” the company said in a statement.
Gummaregula…
CaseMap, the LexisNexis Case Management Platform, Gets Gen AI for Summaries, Timelines, and More
LexisNexis Legal & Professional said today that it has launched CaseMap+ AI, a new version of its platform for managing litigation matters and evidence that incorporates generative artificial intelligence to enhance the review of deposition transcripts and documents.
“CaseMap+ AI integrates cutting-edge AI capabilities to empower litigators with efficient…