Companies

This week’s news of the lawyers whose reliance on ChatGPT led them to file fabricated cases in federal court only underscores the fact that it sometimes feels like the Wild West out there as generative AI gallops onto the legal landscape. For law firms — indeed, for any organization — that poses the challenge…

Spellbook, a company formerly known as Rally Legal, and whose product uses GPT-4 and other generative AI models to speed contract drafting and review directly within Microsoft Word, has raised $10.9 million to drive hiring, development and expansion.

The funding was led by Moxxie Ventures, with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Inovia…

As other legal technology companies have rushed to release products using generative AI, one of the largest, Thomson Reuters, has been unusually silent. It broke that silence slightly two weeks ago, when it announced plans to invest some $100 million a year in AI, including incorporating generative AI across its flagship products in the second…

Clearview Social, an application for law firms to help their lawyers share content on social media, has launched a new feature, Social Shuffle, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that automatically generates variations of a firm’s social media posts to “shuffle” the content the lawyers are posting.

The basic idea of Clearview Social is to allow…

It is an all-too-common scenario in legal tech: A law firm deploys a new legal tech product, hoping to enhance the productivity and efficiency of its legal professionals, only to see it sit idle and underutilized by the very professionals it was intended to benefit.

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How can a law firm…

The CLOC Global Institute, the conference of legal operations professionals now underway now in Las Vegas, has become a leading venue for legal technology companies to announce product news — particularly when that news relates to products that serve corporate legal departments and legal ops. This year has brought a slew of announcements of…

A new company coming out of stealth today, The Contract Network, aims to “radically accelerate the time for contract negotiations” by providing an AI-powered collaboration platform that can be used by all parties to a transaction to more quickly “get to the point” in their negotiations.

It is led by CEO Jim Wagner,…

A new product out today from the legal department management platform LexisNexis CounselLink could change the paradigm for how legal departments pay outside counsel, enabling law firms to receive payments within two days of initial invoice approval, while allowing corporations up to 90 days to more thoroughly review, process and fund the invoices.

CounselLink…

LexisNexis today announced the preview launch of Lexis Connect, a legal intake and matter management product that works within Microsoft Teams and uses conversational AI assistants to help deliver answers more quickly.

The product is being developed in partnership with Microsoft, and Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) department has signed on as the…

Tonkean, a Palo Alto-based company that describes itself as the first-of-its-kind process experience platform, has launched a matter lifecycle management product for corporate legal teams, LegalWorks, that it says enables them to harness the potential of AI-powered process automation technology safely — in a way that will not only increase process adoption, improve…

It was just over a year ago that I wrote about the launch of Tangibly, the first platform devoted to helping companies systematically identify and catalog their trade secrets.

Now, Tangibly is introducing Patent X-Ray, a tool powered by large language model artificial intelligence to help companies identify possibly undocumented trade secrets…

Rocket Matter, a cloud-based law practice management platform, now has an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence, providing its users with quick access to ChatGPT from anywhere within the Rocket Matter application.

The integration allows Rocket Matter users to leverage ChatGPT for purposes such as drafting a message or summarizing a document, without the…