Companies

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…