https://www.lawnext.com/category/companies Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:56:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/descrybe-surpasses-700-new-paid-subscribers-in-six-weeks.html Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:56:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53595 Growth follows Descrybe’s collaboration with Anthropic on the Claude for the Legal Industry launch,  where the company served as one of 22 launch collaborators.  Boston, Mass — June 29, 2026 — Descrybe, a purpose-built legal AI company, today announced that it  has added more than 700 new paid subscribers in the six weeks following the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/thomson-reuters-ceo-steve-hasker-on-the-next-generation-of-cocounsel-the-future-of-professionals-report-and-why-tr-is-building-its-own-llm.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:39:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53548 Yesterday, Thomson Reuters made two announcements. It opened early access to the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired Casetext in 2023, and it released its Future of Professionals Report 2026, which warns of a widening gap between AI adoption and the value […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/deal-intelligence-platform-centari-adds-amendment-awareness-and-deal-maps-features-that-deepen-its-multi-document-analysis.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:28:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53542 Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched two capabilities, Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, that help attorneys understand how transactions change over time and how documents relate to one another. Both features further extend Centari’s platform beyond single-document review to reasoning across the multiple agreements, amendments, and ancillaries that make up a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/integreon-names-krishna-nacha-as-ceo-to-lead-ai-forward-growth-strategy.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53419 “We want to be the intentional multipliers which can deliver the predictable, purposeful and scalable solutions to our stakeholders.” That is the message Krishna Nacha is delivering to his employees as he steps into the role of chief executive officer of Integreon, a global provider of technology-enabled legal and business solutions. Integreon announced today that […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/lighthouse-marks-nine-years-of-industry-defining-dialogue-at-annual-illuminations-summit.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:38:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53311 150 Senior Legal Leaders Convene for Candid, Practitioner-Led Conversations on AI, Data Governance and the Future of Legal Practice SEATTLE—May 28, 2026 — Lighthouse, the leader in AI-powered eDiscovery and legal intelligence, today announced the conclusion of its 9th Annual Illuminations Summit, a two-day gathering of 150 senior legal professionals. The invitation-only event brought together […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/evenup-extends-beyond-software-with-launch-of-pre-litigation-as-a-service-offering-for-pi-law-firms.html Thu, 14 May 2026 17:51:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53185 EvenUp, the personal injury AI company that reached a $2 billion valuation last fall, is making a significant shift in its business model – one that extends it beyond software vendor to something closer to an outsourced operations partner for PI firms. The San Francisco-based company announced yesterday the launch of what it calls Pre-Litigation […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/legal-500-names-lighthouse-a-tier-1-ediscovery-provider-in-inaugural-dispute-services-rankings.html Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53174 SEATTLE, May 13, 2026–Lighthouse, a global leader in eDiscovery and information governance, is pleased to announce that it has been named a Tier 1 provider of eDiscovery services in Legal 500’s inaugural list of Dispute Services rankings. Lighthouse is one of only five providers to earn Tier 1 recognition.   “This recognition is especially meaningful […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/descrybe-collaborates-with-anthropic-in-launch-of-claude-for-the-legal-industry.html Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53171 The Descrybe Legal Engine gives Claude a verified legal data layer, making AI-assisted legal research and  reasoning more powerful, reliable, and accessible.  Boston, MA — May 12, 2026 — Descrybe today launched the Descrybe Legal Engine for Claude, a  connector that brings 300 million structured U.S. primary law records and the full Descrybe Legal  Research […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/descrybe-selected-as-nellco-e-resource-expanding-access-to-purpose-built-legal-ai-across-nearly-150-law-libraries.html Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:16:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52782 Boston, MA — March 25, 2026 — Descrybe, the purpose-built legal AI platform, has been selected as an approved e-resource by NELLCO Law Library Consortium, Inc. following a thorough committee review. The designation makes Descrybe available to NELLCO’s network of nearly 150 law libraries across 33 U.S. states, with international members in Australia, Canada, and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-built-for-law-outperforms-chatgpt-claude-and-gemini-on-legal-reasoning-benchmark.html Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:26:35 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52653 DescrybeLM answered all 200 multistate bar exam questions correctly. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini each missed between 13 and 23 questions — and scored lower on legal reasoning quality across the board. Methodology and scoring rubric published.   BOSTON, MA — March 15, 2026 When AI gets a legal question wrong, the most dangerous failure isn’t […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-legal-research-startup-descrybe-launches-legal-reasoning-tool-says-it-outperforms-chatgpt-claude-and-gemini-on-bar-exam-benchmark.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52584 The AI legal research startup Descrybe today launched a “legal reasoning” product, DescrybeLM, that it says outperforms leading general-purpose AI models on a standardized legal reasoning benchmark — and it is publishing the methodology and scoring data to invite scrutiny. The company also launched an all-new website that features the new product while also retaining […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/evenup-launches-ai-communication-agents-to-handle-routine-tasks-in-pi-cases-also-enhances-its-ai-drafting.html Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:45:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52300 EvenUp, a company that specializes in AI tools for personal injury law practices, today launched Communication Agents, AI-powered voice and text assistants designed to automate routine communications in PI case management. The company also announced enhancements to its AI drafting capabilities. The company announced the new features during a keynote by cofounder Saam Mashhad at […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/can-ai-agents-settle-pi-cases-mighty-says-they-can-and-have-as-it-launches-free-direct-to-consumer-platform-to-resolve-accident-claims.html Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:49:17 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52252 Joshua Schwadron is fed up with personal injury lawyers’ failure to pass on to their clients the savings they realize from technology. He is so fed up, in fact, that he is pivoting his legal technology company Mighty – which he originally launched to serve PI lawyers – to bypass those lawyers and go direct […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lighthouse-unveils-lighthouseiq-a-next-generation-legal-intelligence-platform-and-application-suite.html Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:06:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52236 Proven across 1.4 billion documents to help legal and compliance teams gain clarity faster, act smarter, and execute with confidence.  Seattle– January 21, 2026 — Lighthouse, a global leader in eDiscovery and information governance, today announced the launch of LighthouseIQ, a next-generation intelligence platform and AI application suite. Developed to eliminate the constraints of data […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-roommates-to-billionaires-harveys-founders-gabriel-pereyra-and-winston-weinberg-on-building-ai-infrastructure-for-law.html Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:03:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52207 Gabriel Pereyra and Winston Weinberg started legal AI company Harvey in 2022 as roommates in a San Francisco apartment. Pereyra had been working on AI research at Meta and Google, while Weinberg was a first-year litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers. Today, they still share that same apartment, but their company has grown into a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/harvey-announces-plan-to-develop-memory-enabling-users-to-retain-context-for-more-consistent-work.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:42:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52090 Legal AI company Harvey today announced plans to develop Memory, a product that will allow users to choose to retain and carry forward the context of their work, including matter details, relevant precedent, working preferences and approved best practices, with the goal of enabling users to achieve greater consistency, efficiency and connectedness. The company also […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/lighthouse-brings-ai-powered-search-to-uk-and-europe-accelerating-litigation-and-investigations.html Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:23:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51958 Dec. 10, 2025 – Lighthouse, a leader in human-centered technology and services for eDiscovery and information governance, today announced the availability of Lighthouse AI Search in the UK and Europe. Law firms and legal and compliance departments in those markets can now take advantage of the company’s AI-driven indexing, retrieval, and analysis technology.   Already […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/harvey-cofounders-answer-tough-questions-in-reddit-ama-valuation-competition-and-the-future-of-legal-ai.html Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:34:31 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51951 In a rare public forum appearance, Harvey co-founders Winston Weinberg, its CEO, and Gabriel Pereyra, its president, spent over two hours answering questions from the legal tech community in a Reddit AMA earlier today, addressing everything from their $8 billion valuation to how they compete with legal research giants and what the future holds for AI in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/lexisnexis-unveils-the-next-generation-of-its-protege-general-ai-callling-it-the-most-integrated-legal-ai-workflow-solution.html Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:12:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51931 Following the preview release in August and the commercial release in October of its Protégé General AI, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today rolled out what it is calling the product’s next generation, expanding its capabilities to unify authoritative legal content, customer documents and open web insights within a single secure AI workflow environment. LexisNexis developed […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/11/legal-and-operations-executive-amy-hinzmann-joins-lighthouse-as-head-of-information-governance.html Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:23:25 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51675 SEATTLE–Lighthouse, a leader in technology-enabled eDiscovery and information governance services, has announced that industry veteran Amy Hinzmann has joined the company as Head of Information Governance. Hinzmann, who brings decades of leadership experience and eDiscovery expertise to her work at Lighthouse, most recently served as executive vice president, corporate and commercial services, at UnitedLex.   […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/10/evenup-ai-platform-for-personal-injury-lawyers-raises-150m-at-2b-valuation.html Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:47:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51379 One of the hottest areas of development and growth in legal tech these days is personal injury law. Just last week, Eve, an AI platform for plaintiff-side firms, raised $103 million, and now today comes news that another AI platform for personal injury law, EvenUp, has raised a $150 million Series E round at a valuation […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/09/jus-mundi-launches-jus-ai-2-breakthrough-legal-ai-combines-agentic-reasoning-with-research-control.html Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:01:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51105 Calling it a breakthrough that “sets a new standard for AI-powered legal research quality,” Jus Mundi, the AI-powered research platform for international law and arbitration, today announced the launch of Jus AI 2, the second generation of the AI assistant it launched last year, saying it provides the solution to one of legal AI’s persistent challenges: […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/09/the-smart-screen-reader-how-ajax-is-automating-legal-timekeeping-with-ai-powered-activity-tracking.html Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:11:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51071 The problem of legal timekeeping is as old as the billable hour itself. Lawyers either interrupt their work to record time contemporaneously, breaking their flow and concentration, or they reconstruct their time retroactively, inevitably missing billable work and resulting in weaker narratives for clients.  Enter Ajax, an AI-powered time-tracking platform that aims to solve this […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/09/four-legal-tech-companies-make-the-forbes-cloud-100-and-two-others-are-rising-stars.html Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:31:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51074 Forbes is out this week with its 10th annual Cloud 100 list, tracking the top companies in cloud computing, and four legal tech companies made the list, while one dropped off from last year. Two other legal tech companies were highlighted as rising stars — “startups on track to be some of the best private […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/bench-iq-ai-startup-led-by-former-ross-cofounder-to-understand-judges-decision-patterns-raises-5-3m-seed.html Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:40:40 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50897 In February 2024, I wrote here about the launch of Bench IQ, a company that is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written rulings, but also their rulings from the bench and other data. At the time, the company had just closed a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/legal-analytics-platform-pre-dicta-expands-its-judicial-modeling-adding-appellate-forecasting-enhanced-biographical-analysis-and-comparative-predictions.html Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:17:04 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50820 Pre/Dicta, a legal analytics company that specializes in predictive modeling of judicial decision-making, today announced a significant expansion of its platform featuring new appellate forecasting capabilities, enhanced biographical intelligence tools, and comparative prediction features across judges, venues and law firms. The New York-based company, which claims an 85% accuracy rate in predicting the outcomes of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/lawtoolbox-and-profitsolv-announce-dynamic-integration-partnership.html Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:37:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50797 Denver, CO, Aug 14, 2025 – LawToolBox, the best-in-class provider of court rules that transform Microsoft 365 into a matter management platform for legal professionals, announces a strategic integration partnership with ProfitSolv, a leading provider of practice management software and payments for legal, accounting and professional services firms, which will be leveraged across multiple solutions […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/lexisnexis-introduces-protege-general-ai-and-expands-agentic-ai-leadership-bringing-secure-integrated-access-to-general-purpose-ai-for-legal-professionals.html Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:00:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50757  With the click of a toggle, customers can conduct Deep Research and more AI-powered work across both general and authoritative legal AI NEW YORK, AUGUST 11, 2025 – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the U.S. customer preview of Protégé™ General AI, expanding the personalized agentic AI capabilities of Protégé for secure access to general-purpose […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/descrybe-joins-group-of-leading-legal-research-tools-in-university-curriculum.html Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:00:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50707 With the legal research startup Casetext now kaput, having been killed off after its acquisition by Thomson Reuters, a newer legal research startup, Descrybe, has secured its spot in the widely used curriculum of the National Society for Legal Technology, joining established players including Lexis+, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law as one of six core research […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/reveal-launches-aji-gen-ai-review-platform-with-free-access-through-2025.html Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:38:33 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50691 The e-discovery company Reveal Data today announced that it will launch its new generative AI-powered document review platform, which it is calling “aji,” in late September. The company said it is offering full access to the platform at no cost through Dec. 31, in order to enable “the entire legal community to explore and master the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/08/thomson-reuters-launches-cocounsel-legal-with-agentic-ai-and-deep-research-capabilities-along-with-a-new-and-final-version-of-westlaw.html Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:01:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50665 Two months ago, at a media briefing in its New York City offices, Thomson Reuters teased the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company said would be a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/07/on-lawnext-cocounsels-next-generation-trs-emily-colbert-and-rawia-ashraf-on-agentic-ai-for-lawyers.html Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:29:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50523 If generative AI was the biggest story in legal tech in 2023 and 2024, agentic AI is proving to be the most talked-about topic of 2025. Spurring this, at least in part, has been Thomson Reuters’ announcement of its forthcoming release of a new agentic version of CoCounsel, its AI legal assistant, that will be able to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/07/on-lawnext-how-lexisnexis-and-harvey-are-partnering-to-reshape-legal-ai-with-lexisnexis-ceo-sean-fitzpatrick.html Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50273 When legal research giant LexisNexis and legal AI giant Harvey announced a strategic alliance last month, legal tech commentator Richard Tromans called it “possibly the most important legal tech move in a decade.” On today’s episode of LawNext, we go deep into the partnership and its implications with Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/free-legal-research-site-descrybe-ai-launches-a-paid-suite-of-legal-research-tools-including-its-own-citator.html Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:52:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50211 Even free legal research platforms need to make money at some point, and so as Descrybe.ai today launches a paid upgrade, it is making it worth your while, offering a “Legal Research Toolkit” with a suite of features, including its own AI-driven citator, which it calls the Cytator. As I wrote about Descrybe last year, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/lighthouse-earns-band-1-ranking-from-chambers-and-partners-for-the-fourth-year-in-a-row.html Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:10:29 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50201 SEATTLE, June 24, 2025-Lighthouse, a leader in technology-enabled eDiscovery and information governance services, today announced it has earned the prestigious Band 1 ranking from Chambers and Partners for the fourth consecutive year, further cementing its reputation as one of the leading eDiscovery technology and services companies in the United States. Along with Lighthouse being named […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/profitsolv-parent-to-multiple-law-practice-management-platforms-secures-substantial-strategic-investment.html Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:39:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=50208 ProfitSolv, the parent company to a group of practice management and payments products for legal, accounting and professional services firms, said today that it has secured a significant strategic investment co-led by private equity firms FTV Capital and Lightyear Capital. The company said that the investment will be used to drive product innovation, strengthen its […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/thomson-reuters-teases-upcoming-release-of-agentic-cocounsel-ai-for-legal-capable-of-complex-workflows.html Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:00:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49982 Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company describes as a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute complex multi-step workflows within professional environments. Update: Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel Legal with […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/legal-research-service-decisis-makes-inroads-against-fastcase-as-it-expands-to-20-bar-associations.html Fri, 09 May 2025 14:18:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49848 Decisis, the legal research service that LexisNexis parent RELX launched in 2021 to compete against Fastcase for a share of the bar association partnership business, has expanded over just the past year from 10 to 20 bar partnerships, including 14 state bar associations. In fact, two of those state bars have yet to publicly announce […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/persuit-acquires-apperio-to-provide-end-to-end-platform-for-corporate-legal-from-rfps-to-spend-management.html Mon, 05 May 2025 12:43:17 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49786 PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in outside counsel management for corporate legal departments, has acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal. The news comes as the CLOC Global Legal Institute, a conference devoted to legal operations professionals in corporate legal, kicks off today in Las Vegas. “This strategic acquisition reinforces PERSUIT’s unique ability […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/04/infotrack-launches-first-ai-powered-efiling-platform-transforming-court-filing-across-the-u-s.html Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:00:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49728 Legal professionals can now file court documents in seconds using AI that reads and understands legal filings, cutting risk, costs, and complexity.   New York, April 29, 2025: InfoTrack, a leading provider of legal technology solutions, today announced the launch of InfoTrack Intelligence, the first AI-powered court filing solution built specifically for U.S. law firms. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/ediscovery-assistant-rebrands-as-minerva26-a-new-era-of-strategic-discovery-begins.html Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:00:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49369 eDiscovery Assistant Rebrands as Minerva26: A New Era of Strategic Discovery Begins The trusted legal research platform evolves into a strategic command center for discovery, equipping litigators with foresight, clarity, and control over ESI. Boulder, CO – March 24, 2025 – eDiscovery Assistant, the leading knowledge platform for litigation professionals navigating Electronically Stored Information (ESI), […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/lexisnexis-announces-legal-industrys-first-voice-ai-assistant-to-simplify-legal-workflows-surface-insights-and-complete-legal-work-faster.html Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49332 LexisNexis Announces Legal Industry’s First Voice AI Assistant to Simplify Legal Workflows, Surface Insights, and Complete Legal Work Faster   LexisNexis Protégé in Lexis+ AI delivers advanced capabilities that help legal professionals work collaboratively with AI, be more productive, and amplify their strategic impact    NEW YORK, March 24, 2025, Legalweek Booth #2101 – LexisNexis® […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/exterro-and-integreon-form-strategic-partnership-for-managed-e-discovery-services.html Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:59:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49269 Exterro and Integreon today announced a strategic partnership to deliver managed e-discovery and document review services, combining Exterro’s data risk management software with Integreon’s document review expertise. The partnership aims to provide enterprise customers with an integrated solution for managing e-discovery processes while improving efficiency and reducing costs, the companies said. The partnership will enable […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/03/entegrata-raises-4-5m-to-further-its-mission-to-transform-law-firm-data-analytics-and-business-intelligence.html Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:30:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=49261 With $4.5 million in seed funding to date and the backing of several legal technology veterans, the legal technology company Entegrata aims to transform how law firms integrate and analyze data across disparate business systems in order to drive data-informed decision-making. The investment in the company, which was made public today, was led by Chicago […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/on-lawnext-upsolves-jonathan-petts-and-ben-jackson-on-building-the-turbotax-for-bankruptcy-and-fighting-upl-restrictions.html Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:21:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48960 When former Wall Street lawyer Jonathan Petts joined forces in 2016 with Rohan Pavuluri, then a research assistant in Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab, and Mark Hansen, a software engineer, to create Upsolve, they had a simple but powerful vision: make bankruptcy filing as accessible as online tax preparation for Americans crushed by debt. Today, their nonprofit […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/deposely-launches-free-gen-ai-tools-for-deposition-work-previews-comprehensive-ai-deposition-platform.html Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:41:00 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48939 Legal technology startup Deposely today announced the launch of Deposely Essentials, a free suite of AI-powered tools for analyzing deposition transcripts, while also previewing its broader platform that provides comprehensive AI assistance for the entire deposition lifecycle. The Bellevue, Wash., company’s Essentials program will initially offer an AI Narrative Summary Generator that automatically creates concise […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/in-ai-smackdown-law-librarians-compare-legal-ai-research-platforms-finding-distinct-strengths-and-limitations.html Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:30:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48923 How do AI-driven legal research platforms — specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions — stack up against each other? That was the question at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/managed-services-company-factor-acquires-legal-tech-design-firm-theory-and-principle-to-accelerate-its-push-into-ai-enabled-legal-services.html Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:00:04 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48907 Factor, a managed services company that describes itself as a provider of “integrated law” to corporate legal departments, has acquired Theory and Principle, a legal technology design and development agency, in a move intended to advance Factor’s strategic shift toward developing and delivering AI-first legal services. The acquisition, announced this morning, brings together Factor’s experience […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/australian-legal-tech-platform-lawpath-secures-10m-investment-as-use-of-its-legal-ai-expands.html Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:49:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48797 Australian legal technology company Lawpath has secured a $10 million strategic investment from Westpac, Australia’s oldest bank, while simultaneously announcing the achievement of 500,000 customers and significant advances in its artificial intelligence capabilities. Lawpath is a company in the vein of LegalZoom, providing legal, accounting and business support for startups and small-to-medium businesses across Australia. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/01/lexisnexis-launches-protege-ai-assistant-to-general-availability-promising-autonomous-completion-of-legal-tasks.html Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:00:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48642 Last August, LexisNexis Legal & Professional released the preview version of Protégé, its AI-powered legal assistant that incorporates both generative and agentic AI capabilities, describing it as a “substantial leap forward in personalized generative AI that will transform legal work.” Now, in what it says is a “step change” in its AI offerings, LexisNexis is […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/12/ai-ethics-essays-and-scandals-ranked-among-lawsites-40-most-popular-legal-tech-stories-of-2024.html Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:53 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48408 It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog’s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations. In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/12/nq-zebraworks-raises-additional-4-5m-to-drive-growth-of-its-cloud-invoices-to-cash-solution.html Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:24:10 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48375 nQ Zebraworks, a company whose “invoices-to-cash” solution automates the billing cycle for large and mid-sized law firms, has closed a $4.5 million funding round, bringing its total investment to $13.5 million. The investment was spearheaded by the company’s lead investor Reckon Limited and supported by key shareholders and will be used to drive growth of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/12/ngages-paul-henry-on-how-law-firms-can-use-behavioral-analytics-to-drive-tech-adoption.html Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:00:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48343 You cannot have innovation without adoption. That was a theme we heard repeatedly when we attended the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal conference in New York City in October. Our guest today, Paul Henry, would take that a step further and say you do not really have adoption without engagement.  Henry is the founder […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/11/lexis-releases-mobile-app-for-its-lexis-ai-legal-research-platform.html Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:47:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48216 A year after releasing Lexis+ AI, its generative AI legal research platform, to general availability, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the release of a companion app for the U.S. market, the Lexis+ AI Mobile App, which is now available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play. The app is intended […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/11/with-latest-additions-lex-machinas-legal-analytics-now-cover-every-federal-district-civil-case.html Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:32:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48145 The litigation analytics company Lex Machina has completed what it describes as a milestone expansion of its data set of court documents, adding another 500,000 federal district court cases so that it now has full coverage of virtually every civil case filed in federal district courts anywhere in the United States. The only civil cases […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/black-hills-ai-and-deepip-announce-integration-designed-to-enhance-patent-prosecution-and-ip-management.html Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:00:04 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47964 On Thursday, the American Intellectual Property Law Association will kick off its annual meeting, and that means you should expect several news announcements this week from providers of IP-related technology products. First out of the gate: News of an integration partnership between Black Hills AI and DeepIP that combines the automation and AI technologies of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/aiming-to-become-global-leader-in-contract-standards-law-insider-acquires-onenda-org.html Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:00:56 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47931 Law Insider, a company that provides what it says is the world’s largest public contracts database, has acquired oneNDA, developer of an open source contract standard for non-disclosure agreements that has been downloaded by thousands of organizations throughout the world. Through the acquisition, the oneNDA.org standards library — which includes oneNDA, oneNDA Playbook, oneNDA M&A, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/10/free-legal-research-platform-descrybe-ai-rolls-out-major-upgrade-including-spanish-search-and-simplified-summaries.html Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:16:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47927 descrybe.ai, a free legal research platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide enhanced access to the law, today rolled out a major upgrade that includes a redesign of its platform, more nuanced and accurate search results, summaries of judicial opinions in Spanish as well as English, and simplified, plain-language summaries in both English and Spanish. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/federal-court-dismisses-ross-intelligences-remaining-antitrust-claim-against-thomson-reuters.html Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:41:05 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47817 A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms. The ruling brings an end to ROSS’s […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/with-acquisition-of-delaware-based-elm-company-doelegal-france-based-dilitrust-moves-to-bring-its-corporate-legal-software-suite-to-u-s-market.html Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:00:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47789 DiliTrust, a company headquartered in Paris, France, that provides an all-in-one corporate governance suite for in-house legal teams, has acquired the U.S.-based enterprise legal management company doeLEGAL, which provides software for matter management, e-billing and e-discovery to corporate and law firm customers. DiliTrust says the strategic acquisition accelerates its entry in the U.S. market while […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/in-notable-e-discovery-news-alsp-elevate-acquires-consulting-company-redgrave-data.html Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:22:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47775 In notable news for the e-discovery industry, the legal software and services provider Elevate has acquired Redgrave Data, a consulting firm that provides services and software for e-discovery and data analytics. Redgrave’s founders Mollie Nichols, Scott Culbertson, Dave Lewis, Mark Noel, and Lindsey Worth will all join Elevate’s management team. Redgrave Data was formed in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-3-of-4-future-development-and-market-opportunities.html Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:42:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47606 In the first two posts in this series, I have talked about the consolidation of ownership that has occurred in recent years for law practice management technology. Whereas this market was once characterized by a variety of competing companies, virtually all of the major products are now owned by one of six ownership groups. Part […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/09/the-shrinking-ownership-of-law-practice-management-technology-part-2-of-4-a-scorecard-of-who-owns-what.html Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:35:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47550 “You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” yelled the hawkers of olden days at major league baseball stadiums. In the modern days of law practice management, that may still be true. As I wrote yesterday in part one of this four-part series, the law practice management market has undergone dramatic consolidation, from what was […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/caret-says-its-ceo-left-of-her-own-accord-remains-on-companys-board.html Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:10:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47531 The chief executive officer of law practice management company CARET left that role on her accord and remains a member of the company’s board of directors, the company says. Earlier this week, Law.com reported that Keri Gohman, the former Bain Capital Ventures partner who had been CARET’s CEO since 2022, was laid off, along with […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/breaking-trial-continued-in-thomas-reuters-lawsuit-against-ross-intelligence.html Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:45:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47525 As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product. But today the judge overseeing the trial, 3rd […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/08/davinci-rebrands-as-deepip-and-announces-general-availability-of-its-ai-copilot-for-patent-prosecution.html Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:45:10 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47433 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 works directly […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/just-launched-quench-uses-gen-ai-to-bring-greater-speed-and-accuracy-to-medico-legal-records-review.html Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:01:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47107 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 to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/a-slow-year-for-legal-tech-funding-over-400-million-invested-in-legal-tech-in-the-last-30-days.html Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:41:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47004 Investments in legal tech got off to a slow start in 2024. A Crunchbase report just last week said that legal tech startups had raised only $356 million this year, compared to $871 million last year. But in the last 30 days, according to my tracking, legal tech companies have raised at least $414 million […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/new-president-of-thomson-reuters-legal-segment-says-industry-needs-open-benchmarking-on-gen-ai.html Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:18:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46958 Raghu Ramanathan, who in February was named president of the Legal Professionals segment within Thomson Reuters, overseeing all its products for the legal profession, believes there should be open benchmarking on legal AI products, he told me during an interview earlier this week. “I do believe the industry needs open benchmarks on AI performance in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/06/startup-lexiq-an-ai-copilot-for-contracts-backed-by-techstars-and-j-p-morgan-launches-waitlist-today.html Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:00:33 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46621 LexIQ, an early-stage startup focused on using artificial intelligence to draft and review contracts in Microsoft Word, is today launching its waitlist for corporate legal departments and law firms interested in joining is beta program. Founded by Samarth Gupta, a computer engineer and data scientist who most recently worked at EY as a senior data […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/05/stanford-will-augment-its-study-finding-that-ai-legal-research-tools-hallucinate-in-17-of-queries-as-some-raise-questions-about-the-results.html Tue, 28 May 2024 16:29:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46679 Stanford University will augment the study it released last week of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it found that they deliver hallucinated results more often than the companies say, as others have raised questions about the study’s methodology and fairness. The preprint study by Stanford’s RegLab and its […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/05/harvey-ai-to-move-out-of-early-access-phase-release-more-affordable-versions-of-its-custom-ai-models.html Wed, 01 May 2024 17:43:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46579 It has been a whirlwind year for the Open AI-backed, generative AI legal tech startup Harvey, which went from a $5 million seed round in November 2022 to a $21 million Series A in April 2023 to an $80 million Series B in December 2023 at a valuation of $715 million. It was a year […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/upsolve-launches-tool-to-help-pro-se-bankruptcy-filers-get-relief-from-student-loans.html Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:42:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46545 According to Upsolve, a nonprofit company whose technology helps low-income individuals file for bankruptcy for free, Americans owe $1.77 trillion in student loan debt — 93% of it to the federal government. Since 2017, Upsolve’s debt relief tools have helped more than 13,000 individuals erase more than $750 million in debt. But, due to the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/true-to-its-name-lexisnexis-unveils-new-ai-capabilities-for-both-its-lexis-legal-service-and-its-nexis-news-service.html Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:52:50 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46539 In a pair of AI announcements this week, LexisNexis said that it has significantly enhanced the speed and capabilities of its Lexis+ AI legal AI Assistant, and also that it has launched the commercial preview of Nexis+ AI within its Nexis news and business information research service. LexisNexis first released Lexis+ AI for general availability […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/lawnext-podcast-how-the-contract-network-is-changing-contracts-for-good-with-founder-and-ceo-jim-wagner.html Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:56:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46526 Almost exactly one year ago, a new legal tech startup, The Contract Network, came out of stealth, with a mission to “radically accelerate the time for contract negotiations” through an AI-powered contract collaboration platform where all parties to a deal engage in a secure and neutral environment. The company’s cofounder and CEO, Jim Wagner, is a legal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/guest-post-my-thoughts-one-week-after-selling-my-legaltech-company-to-bloomberg.html Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:00:56 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46461 Four years. No institutional capital. An incredible co-founder. Tenacious execution. Lucky timing. And a belief that what we were doing was important. Simply put, it was as rollercoaster. Dashboard Legal was born from a need I remember sitting on the 45th floor of Bank of America Tower, 7 years into a corporate biglaw career, and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/claimscore-startup-using-ai-to-target-fraud-in-class-action-claims-raises-3-15m-in-oversubscribed-round.html Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:00:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46439 ClaimScore, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help detect fraudulent claims in class action lawsuits, has closed a $3.15 million seed funding round led by ROC Venture Group, a private investment firm based in Naples, Fla. Founded in 2022, ClaimScore says it is the only software product dedicated to resolving the problem of claims […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/thomson-reuters-lays-out-plan-to-provide-cocounsel-ai-assistant-across-every-professional-vertical-it-serves.html Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:00:53 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46419 Thomson Reuters, continuing to build on its acquisition last June of Casetext and its CoCounsel generative AI legal assistant for a whopping $650 million cash, today disclosed plans to deploy CoCounsel as a single and continuous AI assistant across its entire portfolio of products spanning every professional its serves in legal, tax, risk and fraud, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-lawnext-all-about-kl3m-the-first-llm-built-from-scratch-for-legal-with-273-ventures-jillian-bommarito.html Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:26:31 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46424 With so much focus on the use of large language models in law practice, the Kelvin Large Language Model – or KL3M (pronounced CLEM) for short – stands out as distinct for two reasons. For one, it is the first LLM built entirely from scratch specifically for the legal market. In addition, it is the first LLM […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/of-all-this-years-webby-awards-honorees-just-one-is-a-legal-tech-company-you-can-vote-for-it-by-april-18.html Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:06:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46411 Every year, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) hands out its Webby Awards, which honor excellence on the internet and recognize influential creators and brands. There are actually two awards — The Webby Award selected by IADAS and The Webby People’s Voice Award, voted on by the online community of people like […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/thomson-reuters-launches-developer-portal-giving-access-to-over-100-apis-for-legal-tax-risk-and-fraud.html Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:38:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46385 Thomson Reuters has launched a global Developer Portal giving access to over 100 APIs, providing tax, legal, risk and fraud professionals with tools to more easily integrate their workflows with the company’s technology, data, content and insights. TR says that, by providing developers with API access to its data and insights, the portal should serve as […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/are-you-a-dictator-then-philips-new-integration-with-nuance-dragons-ai-speech-recognition-may-be-for-you.html Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:05:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46358 I am not a dictator (although some in my family may at times disagree). But I know that, for many lawyers and legal professionals, dictation is the only way to go. If you are one of them, you may want to check out the integration announced today by Philips Dictation of Nuance Dragon’s AI-powered speech […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-lawnext-how-maptician-is-helping-law-firms-optimize-hybrid-office-space-with-ceo-alaa-pasha.html Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:25:38 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46348 Timing is everything, it is said, and so it was either ironic or fateful that Maptician — developed as a hoteling platform to help law firms and businesses manage office space — launched in 2019, just before the pandemic and a period in which offices once bustling with people turned into downtown ghost towns. But the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/as-it-continues-to-expand-beyond-legal-research-bloomberg-law-acquires-legal-project-management-platform-dashboard-legal.html Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:00:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46327 Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal, a project management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the legal market. The acquisition builds on the company’s launch last year of Bloomberg Law Contract Solutions, an AI-powered solution for storing, searching, drafting, and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/legal-tech-investment-news-this-week-luminance-for-contracts-scrut-for-grc-tre-for-crm-vxt-for-voip.html Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:18:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46292 It is only Wednesday, but already this week has brought news of four notable investment deals in legal tech. Luminance Luminance, a UK-based company that uses artificial intelligence to automate the generation, negotiation and analysis of contracts, and whose product is also used for e-discovery, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/powered-by-an-added-18m-cases-lex-machinas-new-litigation-footprint-visually-maps-parties-litigation-historys.html Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:35:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46183 A new tool from the litigation analytics company Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, allows attorneys to view visual maps of a party’s litigation history in order to help illuminate the party’s relationships and litigation trends that might not otherwise be obvious but that could be a factor in crafting a litigation strategy or […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/legal-tech-startup-ai-law-can-now-draft-the-complaint-for-your-lawsuit.html Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:31:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46168 Ai.law, a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. While Ai.law already had modules for litigation tasks such as answering a lawsuit, responding to discovery, and pulling summaries from medical records, this new module allows a user […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/fast-companys-list-of-worlds-606-most-innovative-companies-includes-four-from-legal-tech.html Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:11:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46164 Fast Company is out with its annual ranking of the world’s most innovative companies, and of the 606 companies that made the list, just four are from legal tech. “The 606 organizations that we honor as Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024 have met our high bar for demonstrating innovation and the impact of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/on-lawnext-infotracks-mission-to-revolutionize-litigation-services-such-as-e-filing-and-process-serving-with-ceo-ed-watts.html Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:15:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46113 InfoTrack may be one of the fastest growing yet least known legal technology companies in the United States. You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process servers, One Legal for California court filing, LawToolBox for court calendaring, and the Legal Talk Network group of legal podcasts.  On the latest LawNext […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/aiming-to-be-the-stripe-of-corporate-compliance-filing-singlefile-raises-6-5m-for-total-funding-of-15-1m.html Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:42:10 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46148 SingleFile, a company that aims to automate outdated corporate compliance filing processes by leveraging AI technology, has raised $6.5 million, on top of three previous funding rounds totaling $8.6 million, bringing its total funding to date to $15.1 million. Led by the VC firm Foundry Group, this round, an extension of the company’s seed round, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/free-legal-research-startup-descrybe-ai-now-has-ai-summaries-of-all-state-supreme-and-appellate-opinions.html Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:06:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46088 descrybe.ai, a year-old legal research startup focused on using artificial intelligence to provide free and easy access to court opinions, has completed its goal of creating AI-generated summaries of all available state supreme and appellate court opinions from throughout the United States. descrybe.ai describes its mission as democratizing access to legal information and leveling the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/india-based-alsp-proxiio-expands-into-u-s-legal-market-to-deliver-litigation-and-corporate-services.html Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:03:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46057 Proxiio Global Solutions, an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States. Proxiio says that it offers customers legal services delivered by a team of skilled lawyers with deep knowledge and experience in areas such as managed review, litigation and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/four-month-after-launching-traact-forms-strategic-partnership-with-belgium-based-klea-to-serve-corporate-and-law-firm-clients-globally.html Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:00:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=46017 Launched just four months ago by engineers who previously worked for Uber, Google and Amazon, Traact, a SaaS platform that integrates a range of corporate functions in an all-in-one platform, today said it has entered into a strategic partnership with Klea, a Belgium-based provider of AI-enabled legal entity management. The partnership will enable the companies […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/new-report-synthesizes-the-data-to-identify-key-legal-tech-trends-and-action-items-for-solos-and-small-firms.html Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:26:00 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45982 For solo and small law firms, the current state of legal technology offers both promises and pitfalls. Technology such as generative AI poses traps for the unwary, but for those who understand and embrace technology, there are opportunities to run more profitable and efficient practices, provide better customer experiences, and improve work-life balance. In light […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/ross-cofounder-returns-to-legal-tech-with-startup-using-ai-to-surface-judges-decision-making-patterns.html Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:00:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45926 Jimoh Ovbiagele, cofounder in 2014 of the now-shuttered AI legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, is returning to legal tech as chief executive officer of a new startup, Bench IQ, that says it is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written rulings, but […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/lawnext-thomson-reuters-ai-strategy-for-legal-with-mike-dahn-head-of-westlaw-and-joel-hron-head-of-ai.html Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:48:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45895 On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and implementation.  In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role. It started in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/as-thomson-reuters-expands-the-casetext-cocounsel-ai-legal-assistant-to-canada-and-australia-it-provides-details-on-u-s-growth.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:00:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45834 Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. Now, as it expands into new markets, we get details on its adoption to date. It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel, a product developed in partnership with OpenAI that […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/thomson-reuters-is-shutting-down-its-firm-central-law-practice-management-software.html Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:18:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45795 Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. 30, 2024. Thomson Reuters launched Firm Central in 2013 at a media event in its then-headquarters in Eagan, Minn., as its answer to a then-growing crop of cloud-based practice management software such as Clio, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/ip-tech-company-maxval-enters-partnership-with-relecura-to-integrate-ai-analytics-within-its-platform.html Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:00:27 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45783 MaxVal Group, a company that provides intellectual property management software for law firms and corporations, has entered into a strategic partnership with Relecura, a developer of AI-enabled patent analytics and insights, through which MaxVal will become a reseller of Relecura’s services and will integrate Relecura’s analytics into Symphony, its flagship IP management platform. With this […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/promising-cruelty-free-e-discovery-beagle-raises-3m-seed-funding-round.html Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:38:29 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45733 Beagle, a company that says it is harnessing the power of native AI to make e-discovery “cruelty free,” has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by ML Capital and supported by other investors including Davidovs Venture Collective (DVC) fund and Hugging Face’s co-founder Thomas Wolf. Beagle says that, by […]]]>