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Breaking: LexisNexis to Discontinue Sales of Its Firm Manager Practice Management Platform

By Robert Ambrogi
on January 30, 2017

LexisNexis is discontinuing sales and suspending development of its Firm Manager practice management platform.

The company sent an email yesterday to consultants and others in its partner network notifying them of the news. The email said:

Wanted to share a recent choice we’ve made to increase investment in a number of key BLSS

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Lex Machina’s New Analytics Apps Explore Damages and Parties

By Robert Ambrogi
on January 27, 2017

Lex Machina released new apps yesterday targeted to provide legal analytics around two key litigation topics, damages and parties. The new apps, Damages Explorer and Parties Comparator, are designed to make it easier for users to explore and analyze data around these two topics.

Over the last year, Lex Machina has rolled out…

Blue Hill Gives More Details on ROSS Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Report

By Robert Ambrogi
on January 20, 2017

Following my post earlier this week about the benchmark report published by Blue Hill Research that assessed the ROSS Intelligence legal research platform, I had several questions about the report and many readers contacted me with questions of their own. The author of the report, David Houlihan, principal analyst at Blue…

By Popular Demand, I Am Changing The Headline On My Recent ROSS Post

By Robert Ambrogi
on January 19, 2017

I cannot remember the last time I changed a headline on a blog post or even whether I ever did. But by popular demand, I am changing the headline on my recent post about a study that compared the ROSS artificial intelligence platform against Westlaw and LexisNexis.

My headline said:

ROSS Artificial Intelligence

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ROSS AI Plus Wexis Outperforms Either Westlaw or LexisNexis Alone, Study Finds

By Robert Ambrogi
on January 17, 2017

ROSS Intelligence, the artificial intelligence legal research platform, outperforms Westlaw and LexisNexis in finding relevant authorities, in user satisfaction and confidence, and in research efficiency, and is virtually certain to deliver a positive return on investment.

These are among the findings of benchmark report being released today by the technology…

Podcast: How Small and Solo Law Firms View Success

By Robert Ambrogi
on January 6, 2017

I’ve written a number of times here about the findings of a Thomson Reuters survey, The State of the U.S. Small Law Firms Study, in which solo and small firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve success.

Recently, I joined

It's Last Rites for Lexis.com, As LexisNexis Sets Date for Shutdown

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 21, 2016

Prepare last rites for Lexis.com. The legacy legal research service will be leaving this world at the end of 2017.

This week, LexisNexis began notifying Lexis.com customers that it will be shutting down the service over the next 12 months and moving them to the newer Lexis Advance research platform.

“By kicking…

LexisNexis and Lex Machina Launch Silicon Valley Legal Tech Accelerator

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 9, 2016

Aiming to help give legal tech startups a leg up, LexisNexis today announced the launch of a legal tech accelerator. It will be located in the Menlo Park, Calif., offices of its legal analytics unit, Lex Machina, and will be led by Lex Machina’s CEO Josh Becker.

Josh Becker

“The…

Happy 14th Birthday to this Blog!

By Robert Ambrogi
on November 19, 2016

It was 14 years ago today that I started this blog. Here was my first post, on Nov. 19, 2002. As I’ve noted before, this blog is so old it’s in a Hall of Fame.

Let me extend a very warm thank you to everyone who has read this blog over the…

Lex Machina Adds Third Practice Area to its Legal Analytics: Antitrust

By Robert Ambrogi
on November 15, 2016

This is a screencap taking during a demo I was given last week by Brian Howard, Lex Machina’s legal data scientist.

The legal analytics company Lex Machina is announcing today its expansion into a third practice area, antitrust law. This follows its expansion in July to add securities law.

Until its…

Two New Podcasts — And A Notable Podcast Anniversary

By Robert Ambrogi
on October 24, 2016

The good folks at the Legal Talk Network — who host my two podcasts — have launched two new podcasts worth your listening time.

The newest, launched earlier this month, is Down the Hall with Practical Law. Presented by Thomson Reuters Practical Law, and hosted by Renee Karibi-Whyte, a director with the legal…

Lex Machina Unveils New Comparator Apps to Simplify Use of Analytics

By Robert Ambrogi
on September 20, 2016

Lex Machina today unveiled two “comparator apps” designed to make it simpler to access specific types of analytics insights. One, the Courts & Judges Comparator, allows up to four federal judges and courts to be compared for caseloads, case timelines, and other analytics. The other, the Law Firms Comparator, allows the same…

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Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists' roundtable, Legaltech Week.

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