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The jury of popular opinion is divided on the writing style of the newest justice on the Supreme Court. Slate pronounced Neil M. Gorsuch a terrible writer. But a forthcoming quantitative study of his published opinions concludes that he “does exceedingly well according to the standards of good writing that legal writing authorities…

A first-of-its kind study of legaltech companies and their founders finds that women and people of color are significantly underrepresented among legaltech founders, accounting for just 13.6 percent and 26.5 percent respectively. Black and Latinx founders account for a staggeringly low proportion of legaltech entrepreneurs, at just 2.3 percent and 3.1 percent respectively,…

Casetext today is rolling out three major updates to its legal research platform. One is an updated design and architecture to make the site faster, cleaner and easier to use. But it is the other two updates that I want to focus on, because, in combination, they dramatically enhance the results you receive when…

At the annual meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute on April 20, I moderated a plenary panel, “Artificial Intelligence: Why It Matters To Your Future Bankruptcy Practice.” In advance of the panel, the ABI recorded a series of video interviews I conducted with some of the panelists. Here is…

At the annual meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute on April 20, I moderated a plenary panel, “Artificial Intelligence: Why It Matters To Your Future Bankruptcy Practice.” In advance of the panel, the ABI recorded a series of video interviews I conducted with some of the panelists. Here is…

In recent months, the cloud-based practice management platform MyCase has introduced a variety of enhancements that share a single theme – they were all inspired by listening to customers.

That is what Kim Coalson, senior vice president for MyCase at AppFolio, its parent company, told me when I sat down with her…

A legal research tool that uses artificial intelligence to help legal researchers quickly find key language critical to a court’s reasoning has been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries as winner of its 2018 New Product Award.

AALL cited Points of Law, a tool developed by Bloomberg Law, for its…

In news that should bring solace to all lawyers who fear losing ground to AI robot overlords, an artificial intelligence contract-review company has announced the addition to its board of advisors of a distinctly non-artificial intelligence in the area of legal contracts.

LegalSifter, whose product uses AI to review contracts and identify critical or…

With the May 25 deadline fast approaching for companies to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, many smaller companies have yet to take action, stymied in part by the high cost of compliance. A recent survey by the law firm Paul Hastings said that Fortune 500 companies will…

The practice management platform CosmoLex has been approved by the Law Society of Alberta as a software vendor for its Electronic Trust Transaction Reporting Program.

The approval means that the Law Society has certified CosmoLex as compatible and in compliance with its requirements for uploading trust transaction data. The Law Society requires…

Raza Hasan is a proselytizer for fixed-fee billing. Which may seem odd, given that his company, TimeSolv, sells a product for lawyers to track their time by the hour. But what is not so obvious is that the same product can be used to bill on a fixed-price basis – and to…

The judicial analytics platform Gavelytics is today announcing that it has closed a $3.2 million funding round that will support the development of new features and the platform’s expansion into new jurisdictions. The company had previously raised $2.5 million in funding.

As I reported here when it launched last September, Gavelytics…