After building his career as an engineer at Facebook and as a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jay Madheswaran and his cofounders spotted an opportunity to deploy cutting-edge AI to transform what they saw as an underserved segment of the legal market, launching Eve, an AI platform purpose-built for plaintiffs’ law firms. Eve has…
Federal Judge in Virginia Declines To Sanction Lawyer Who Filed AI-Generated Erroneous Citations
In yet another case involving the use — and misuse — of generative AI in legal research, a federal district court judge has declined to impose sanctions on an experienced attorney who submitted a brief containing miscited and misquoted cases generated by artificial intelligence.
Although the attorney, Thad M. Guyer, acknowledged using gen AI tools…
BriefCatch ‘Conquers the Bluebook’ with AI-Powered Citation and Writing Tools In Its New Version 4
BriefCatch, a legal technology company whose Microsoft Word add-in helps legal professionals improve their writing, has unveiled two new features that use generative artificial intelligence to enhance legal document preparation: AI-driven Bluebook citation correction and a context-aware writing advisor.
These features, introduced as part of BriefCatch’s release of version 4 of its software, mark…
Legal AI Tools Show Promise in First-of-its-Kind Benchmark Study, with Harvey and CoCounsel Leading the Pack
Are you still on the fence about whether generative artificial intelligence can do the work of human lawyers? If so, I urge you to read this new study.
Published yesterday, this first-of-its-kind study evaluated the performance of four legal AI tools across seven core legal tasks. In many cases, it found, AI tools can perform…
Breaking: KPMG Becomes First of Big Four To Practice Law in U.S., As Arizona Approves Its ABS License
In a historic development for the legal profession, KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax, and advisory firm, became the first Big Four firm with a subsidiary licensed to practice law in the United States, as the Arizona Supreme Court approved the application of KPMG Law US to be licensed as an alternative…
Intapp Launches AI-Powered DealCloud Activator to Enhance Business Development for Professional Services Firms; Announces Other Product Updates
Intapp, a global company that provides cloud-based software tailored to legal, accounting and financial services firms, has unveiled DealCloud Activator, an AI-enabled growth platform designed to help professional services firms adopt and sustain successful business development practices.
The platform, which combines artificial intelligence with behavioral science to guide professionals in their client relationship management,…
Wolters Kluwer’s Competitive Bidding Tool LegalCollaborator Gets Gen AI Summarization and Reverse Auctioning
Wolters Kluwer today beefed up its LegalCollaborator product for corporate legal departments with the addition of new summarization functionality driven by generative artificial intelligence and the ability for legal departments to now leverage reverse auction capabilities to drive more competitive law firm bids.
The new summarization capabilities will help corporate legal departments assess…
LexisNexis Will Work More Closely with OpenAI To More Widely Deploy Its Models Across Products
LexisNexis Legal & Professional and OpenAI today announced plans to work more closely with each other to integrate OpenAI’s large language models and APIs across the LexisNexis product ecosystem.
LexisNexis will incorporate OpenAI’s technology across its various products, including Lexis+ AI and the Protégé personalized AI assistant.
Through this direct collaboration, LexisNexis says, it will…
AffiniPay, Parent to LawPay, MyCase and Others, Announces Inaugural Conference for Legal and Accounting Professionals
AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, MyCase, and other platforms, today announced that it will hold its first-ever conference in the fall for legal and accounting professionals.
Called Kaleidoscope, the two-day event will take place Sept. 2-4, 2025, in Austin, Texas.
AffiniPay said the conference will be “packed with valuable insights and a variety…
ABA Working Group Publishes Guidelines for Responsible AI Use By State and Federal Courts
A panel of five judges and a professor of law and computer science, all members of the Working Group on AI and the Courts of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence, have published recommended guidelines for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in judicial settings.
The guidelines, “Navigating AI…
Federal Judge Sanctions Morgan & Morgan Attorneys for AI-Generated Fake Cases in Court Filing
You may have heard the news earlier this month that attorneys at plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan — the 42nd largest U.S. law firm by headcount — were facing sanctions over their submission of court filings containing fake legal cases generated by artificial intelligence.
Now, the Wyoming federal judge presiding over the case,…
On LawNext: Is Arbitrus.ai – ‘The First True AI Judge’ – The Future of Dispute Resolution?
Earlier this month, a legal tech startup called Fortuna Arbitration launched what it says is the first true AI judge – an automated arbitration system called Arbitrus.ai that the company claims can fully replace human arbitrators in resolving legal disputes. The system promises to cut the cost of arbitration from an average of…