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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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