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When it was founded in 2011, Kira pioneered the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for contract review and analysis. Now Kira, which was acquired in 2021 by Litera, is employing the newest wave of generative AI to help legal professionals accelerate the process of due diligence and other forms of…

I’ll be part of a webinar tomorrow that will cover the basics of AI and how it can be applied in the legal field.

The webinar, which is eligible for CLE credit in multiple jurisdictions, is Thursday, Aug. 10, at 2 p.m. ET, and registration is free.

My copanelist is Jordan Turk, attorney…

Law firms’ use of APIs — or application programming interfaces — is proliferating, as they access data from external sources for a range of purposes, from building analytics, to gathering intelligence on their clients and competitors, to developing proprietary AI tools, and more.

But with the proliferating use of APIs comes a proliferation of legal…

Today at 1 p.m. ET, I am moderating panel, “Demystifying AI for Legal Contract Review,” that will take a concrete look at how one organization incorporated AI into its contract management processes — and how your organization can do the same.

Presented by LexCheck and Above the Law, the panel…

In its fourth acquisition, Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing software company, has acquired the docketing business and customers TM Cloud, a competing provider of trademark and IP docketing software. 

With TM Cloud having customers both throughout the United States and globally in Europe, Africa and Australia, the acquisition enables Alt Legal to…

Do you really know how profitable your firm is and which timekeepers, clients and practice areas are driving that profitability?

Centerbase, a Dallas-based company providing cloud legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, says its new profitability reporting capability, launching today, will enable firms to analyze their profitability more precisely than traditional reporting…

LawCatch, Inc., developer of the BriefCatch legal editing software, has raised $3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

Lead investor in the round is TIA Ventures, which will take a seat on the LawCatch board. Other participants included RiverPark Ventures, C2 Ventures, and Wilson Sonsini Investments Co.

BriefCatch founder Ross Guberman said that the…

On July 18, 2023, the top legal officers of three Boston-area technology companies came together for a live panel discussion about the city’s unique contributions to the legal tech landscape, which I moderated The panelists graciously agreed to allow LawNext to record the conversation, and this episode is that recording. The three panelists…

The cloud-based e-discovery company Nextpoint has received a growth capital investment from RF Investment Partners, a company that provides structured growth capital.

The amount of the investment was not disclosed.

Nextpoint and RF say that the investment will be used to accelerate Nextpoint’s growth through movement into new markets, operational advancements, and product…

When a company says its product is designed to overcome writer’s block and combat hallucinations, it might sound as if it was custom made for gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

In fact, however, it is a new generative AI assistant being released today by e-discovery company Everlaw to help lawyers quickly summarize complex documents…

Consider this scenario: You are an immigration lawyer representing a hospital seeking to bring a talented surgeon to the United States under an O-1 nonimmigrant visa — a visa for individuals with extraordinary abilities in the sciences, arts and other fields. You have collected a series of letters of support attesting to the doctor’s abilities…

Since 2011, Fastcase has released an annual list of the Fastcase 50, honoring 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” Fortunately, even though Fastcase merged earlier this year with vLex, that tradition continues, as Fastcase has now announced the 2023 honorees. 

I say “fortunately” because, as I…