https://www.lawnext.com/category/lawnext-products/ironclad Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:41:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2024/07/the-25-largest-legal-tech-investments-of-all-time.html Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:58:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47227 In reporting yesterday on the record-setting $900 million investment in law practice management company Clio, I included a list of the 10 largest previous investments in legal tech. It did not take long for me to learn that the list was incomplete. So I set about trying to come up with a more accurate list. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/my-40-most-read-blog-posts-this-year-tell-a-story-of-a-legal-industry-consumed-with-generative-ai.html Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:51:25 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=45365 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 […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/09/ironclad-opens-a-window-into-the-black-box-of-ai-with-new-chat-interface-for-complex-contract-analysis.html Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:09:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=44494 The contract management company Ironclad today announced plans to launch a chat interface for complex contract analysis that it says will open a window into the black box of artificial intelligence by showing users the steps it took to come to a conclusion. Ironclad also today introduced an open-source visual programming environment for building with […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/05/on-lawnext-live-from-the-cloc-global-institute-interviews-with-22-of-the-legal-tech-exhibitors.html Wed, 31 May 2023 14:43:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43779  On this episode of LawNext, we take you to the conference floor of the CLOC Global Institute, the annual conference of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium that was held May 15-18 in Las Vegas, for a series of brief interviews with 22 of the legal tech companies that exhibited there. Since the first CLOC […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/04/ironclads-ai-contract-redlining-tool-ai-assist-comes-out-of-beta-new-using-gpt-4.html Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:16:17 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=43341 As the contract lifecycle management company Ironclad is today releasing its AI redlining tool AI Assist out of beta, is has revealed that the tool is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, making it what Ironclad says is the first contract redlining application powered by the latest version of Open AI’s generative AI.  “The results with AI Assist […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2023/02/contracts-company-ironclad-taps-into-gpt-3-for-instant-document-redlining-based-on-a-companys-playbook.html Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:03:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=42765 The contract lifecycle management company Ironclad has tapped into the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3 to introduce AI Assist, a beta feature that instantly redlines contracts based on a company’s playbook of approved clauses and language. The redlines, made using GPT-3’s generative artificial intelligence, appear as tracked changes in Microsoft Word, where a user can then […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2022/01/ironclad-raises-150m-at-3-2b-valuation.html Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:47:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=39556 It was barely more than a year ago that Ironclad raised a $100 million Series D round at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, and now the San Francisco-based company has raised a $150 million Series E at a $3.2 billion valuation. That brings total investment in the company, whose product is a digital contracting […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/12/the-top-15-lawnext-podcast-episodes-of-2021.html Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:08:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=38771 In my LawNext podcast, I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice,  from developing new technology to driving greater diversity. These are among the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/12/ironclad-introduces-features-to-provide-corporate-legal-with-greater-visibility-into-in-flight-contracts.html Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:16:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=38498 For many in corporate legal, the principal tool for managing in-flight contracts — those in the process of negotiation — is Outlook, and the back-and-forth of emails and redlines serves as the primary notification of what needs to be done next. Today, during its State of Digital Contracting event, the contract management company Ironclad unveiled […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/07/legal-ops-pioneer-mary-shen-ocarroll-on-moving-from-google-to-ironclad.html Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:50:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=37036 Mary Shen O’Carroll helped pioneer the field of legal operations during her 13 years as director of operations, technology and strategy at Google. She was also instrumental in forming the influential organization CLOC – the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium – and was elected its president in 2019.  In April, she walked away from both of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/how-it-works-ironclads-contract-lifecycle-management-platform.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/how-it-works-ironclads-contract-lifecycle-management-platform.html#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:17:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=36316 In today’s episode of How It Works, we look at Ironclad, the contract lifecycle management platform used by innovative companies such as L’Oréal, Staples and Mastercard to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. To introduce the product and demonstrate how it […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/how-it-works-ironclads-contract-lifecycle-management-platform.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/on-lawnext-digital-contracting-and-the-future-of-clm-with-ironclad-ceo-jason-boehmig.html https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/on-lawnext-digital-contracting-and-the-future-of-clm-with-ironclad-ceo-jason-boehmig.html#respond Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:59:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=36175 Possibly the hottest market in legal tech today is contract lifecycle management, and one of the most talked-about companies in that market is Ironclad, a six-year-old startup that recently raised a $100 million Series D – at a reported valuation of $1 billion – and that just made its first acquisition, of the clickwrap transaction platform […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2021/04/on-lawnext-digital-contracting-and-the-future-of-clm-with-ironclad-ceo-jason-boehmig.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2020/12/report-ironclad-gets-at-least-100m-funding-at-nearly-1b-valuation.html https://www.lawnext.com/2020/12/report-ironclad-gets-at-least-100m-funding-at-nearly-1b-valuation.html#respond Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:01:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=35003 A report this afternoon says that Ironclad, the San Francisco-based digital contracting platform for legal departments, has raised at least $100 million in a Series D funding round at a post-investment valuation of more than $950 million. The website The Information reports that the round was led by the venture capital firm Bond, which was […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2020/12/report-ironclad-gets-at-least-100m-funding-at-nearly-1b-valuation.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2019/09/another-day-another-50m-invested-in-a-legal-tech-company.html https://www.lawnext.com/2019/09/another-day-another-50m-invested-in-a-legal-tech-company.html#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:00:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=30387 The digital ink is barely dry on my post yesterday recapping a record year in legal tech investments, and today there is news of another — in fact a further investment in a company already on my list for an investment earlier this year. San Francisco-based Ironclad, a digital contracting platform for legal departments, said […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2019/09/another-day-another-50m-invested-in-a-legal-tech-company.html/feed 0 https://www.lawnext.com/2019/09/at-1-1-billion-2019-is-a-record-year-for-legal-tech-investments-and-its-only-september.html https://www.lawnext.com/2019/09/at-1-1-billion-2019-is-a-record-year-for-legal-tech-investments-and-its-only-september.html#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:32:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=30364 For the first time last year, annual investment in legal technology companies reached $1 billion. This year, legal tech investments have already surpassed that, totaling at least $1.2 billion to date — a record for annual investment in legal technology, and with three months still to go before year end. I surveyed investments in legal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2019/09/at-1-1-billion-2019-is-a-record-year-for-legal-tech-investments-and-its-only-september.html/feed 0