Voting is now open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW, which is Feb. 14-17,…
On the LawNext PR Podcast: Legal Tech Startup Lawmato Relaunches with Immediate Consultation Feature
On the latest LawNext PR podcast, we feature news breaking today from legal tech startup Lawmato, which is relaunching its virtual legal consultation platform app with new and improved features.
Watch the video here. Listen to the podcast here.As you will see in the podcast, one of the new features is…
MyCase Releases Public API For Easier Integration with Third-Party Software; Adds LawPay Reconciliation
The law practice management company MyCase this week introduced a public API for easier integration with third-party software, as well as two new payments features that more tightly integrate LawPay within the MyCase platform.
By releasing a public API (application programming interface), MyCase is making it easier for customers to integrate the platform…
Docket Alarm Founder Michael Sander Leaves After vLex Acquisition; Former Gavelytics Exec Joins to Lead Product Line
Michael Sander, the founder of Docket Alarm, a product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case analytics, has left the company, seven months after its acquisition by legal research company vLex in April.
Docket Alarm was part of legal research company Fastcase, which had…
How It Works: ShareFile for Legal, To Securely Streamline Document Workflows and Collaboration
Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of ShareFile for Legal, a secure, digital solution designed to simplify document workflows and improve collaboration for legal professionals.
Joining me in this episode to tell us about ShareFile for Legal and show us how it works is Sara Hoeg,…
The $650M Casetext Story: Coloring Book Edition
Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext.
Their original idea was…
Josef Q, Tool That Uses GPT To Turn Policies Into Q&As, Comes Out Of Beta Today; Watch Livestream of Launch
Last March, I reported on the imminent launch by Josef of the beta version of Josef Q, its new product that uses advanced AI to transform policies and regulations — such as those pertaining to privacy, data security, HR and procurement — into digital Q&A tools, so that employees or clients can easily get…
Generative AI, Having Already Passed the Bar Exam, Now Passes the Legal Ethics Exam
Well, it’s happened again: Generative AI has passed a critical test used to measure candidate’s fitness to be licensed as a lawyer.
Back in March, OpenAI’s GPT-4 took the bar exam and passed with flying colors, scoring around the top 10% of test takers.
Now, two of the leading large language models (LLMs) have…
Clio Double Header: Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Watson and Chief Product Officer Hemant Kashyap
On today’sLawNext, it’s a Clio double header, featuring two separate interviews with two of Clio’s top product-focused executives – one with Jonathan Watson, its chief technology officer, and the other with Hemant Kashyap, chief product officer –…
Now Available: First Two Episodes of the New ‘LawNext PR’ Podcast, Featuring Law Insider and PracticePanther
The first two episodes of my new podcast, LawNext PR, have now been posted:
Law Insider Announces Clause Finder. A Deeper Dive into PracticePanther’s 2024 Small & Midsized Law Firm Report.As I explained in a recent post, LawNext PR is a sponsored podcast series focusing exclusively on the latest news announcements…
Live Today on Legaltech Week: Colin Levy Joins Us to Discuss His New Book, The Legal Tech Ecosystem
Live today at 3 p.m. ET on Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and innovation, we’ll be joined by “legal technology maven” Colin Levy to hear more about his new book, The Legal Tech Ecosystem.
Other stories on tap:…
Is the Future Already Here? A Look At Wolters Kluwer’s 2023 Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report
“The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
No doubt, you’ve seen that William Gibson quote countless times. But it seems particularly pertinent to the 2023 Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report published this week by Wolters Kluwer, the fifth edition of this annual report.
After all, the very premise of…