Companies

With four different legal tech companies announcing executive appointments over the last week, including two to top sales spots, the timing leads me to wonder whether this is because companies are staffing up for the Legalweek conference that is just around the corner. Whatever the reason, here is a roundup of the newest additions…

Remember Pan Am? It was the world’s largest international airline for much of the 20th century and an innovative pioneer in the modern airline industry. But when its management failed to appreciate the dramatic changes underway in the industry, it suffered a series of economic blows, and management’s last-ditch efforts to save it came…

For legal professionals, finding high-quality, timely and relevant educational content is essential to maintaining and developing professional competence.

For companies and organizations that develop CLE and other legal-learning materials, developing high-quality content is challenge enough. But even trickier can be keeping that content current.

“High-quality content of course is a baseline,” writes Argentina-based legal technologist…

Today on LawNext, we feature two brief, back-to-back interviews with the founders of two separate legal tech startups, both recorded live during the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City. 

First up is Nicole Clark

Call me lucky. Every week, I get to sit down at the mic for my LawNext podcast and have a conversation with the leading “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.”

For me, each and every one of these conversations is fun and fascinating. But I am equally fascinated to add up the…

Look over this list of my blog posts that were most popular this year, and there is no doubt about the topic that most captivated the legal industry. Of my 40 most-read posts of 2023, 30 directly involved generative AI and others implicated it.

Of course, there is a chicken-or-egg aspect to this. Were so…

[This post is by Pablo Arredondo, cofounder of Casetext and vice president, CoCounsel, at Thomson Reuters. Pablo notes that any views expressed in this post are entirely his own.]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK  December 21, 2024 Genesis Technology v. Obsidian Dynamics

Transcript…

The online legal services provider Rocket Lawyer today released a generative AI feature, Rocket Copilot, built in collaboration with Google Cloud. 

The company says that Rocket Copilot is an “intuitive, conversational new customer experience” that “combines powerful generative AI with professional human expertise to give customers a simple and fast way…

In October, LexisNexis released its generative AI research tool, Lexis+ AI, for general availability for U.S. customers, along with limited release in law schools to select faculty, librarians and students. Now, the company is further expanding access to the tool, making it available to 100,000 second- and third-year law students starting in the spring…

Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of AutoNDA, a free software platform developed by SimpleDocs to automate the creation and management of non-disclosure agreements under the open-source oneNDA standard.

AutoNDA is designed for inhouse legal and business teams that need to streamline and centralize the NDA process.…

Dru Armstrong was named CEO of AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, in July 2021. Less than a year later, AffiniPay shook up the legal tech landscape by acquiring MyCase, one of the leading law practice management platforms, in a deal that also included four other practice management products: CASEPeer for personal injury firms, Docketwise for immigration…

There in the bar, it suddenly struck me that I was in a moment that summed up the very essence of what made this conference so unique.

It was nearly 11 p.m. on the second night of the TLTF Summit outside Miami. A group of us were in the hotel bar, stridently debating whether…