In-house legal departments often struggle with a common challenge: how to efficiently review and negotiate the constant flow of routine contracts without sacrificing quality or consistency.
Aiming to help them tackle that challenge, SimpleDocs, known for its AutoNDA contract automation software, has launched SimpleAI, a Microsoft Word-integrated tool that enables in-house legal teams…
Legal research startup Midpage has reached a critical threshold in its commercialization, its founder believes, as it achieves full data coverage of key U.S. case law and prepares to launch its own citator in the coming weeks.
The company, which has spent two years building its own comprehensive case law database, is positioning itself…
Last year was a big one for the company formerly known as ZERO. Not only did it rebrand under the new name Hercules AI, but it also raised $26 million in Series B funding and launched a new AI-powered pre-bill review platform, Verify, that it says can detect up to 50% of billing…
To this day, one of my most popular and viral posts ever involved the 2017 launch of LegalBoard, a keyboard designed for lawyers by lawyer Brian Potts, who is now a partner at Husch Blackwell. Hits to that post went through the roof, far exceeding any post I’d ever before published.
Now,…
Paxton, an artificial intelligence platform serving the legal industry, has raised $22 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $28 million, it said today. The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from Kyber Knight, 25Madison, and WVV Capital.
The Oregon-based company offers AI-powered legal assistant tools for legal research,…
The American Arbitration Association today released the first in a planned series of free AI-driven handbooks, which the AAA calls AAAi Chat Books, that allow users to ask questions and get answers about various aspects of arbitration.
The first of these chat books, released today, AAAi Chat Book Case Preparation and Presentation, is based on…
The L Suite, a community for in-house legal executives, has acquired Luminate+, an e-learning platform that aggregates continuing legal education content from major law firms into a Netflix-style streaming service.
The L Suite said that the acquisition, announced today, will enable it to address a longstanding need for practical learning tailored for modern…
Elite, the financial and business management platform for large law firms that Thomson Reuters sold to private equity firm TPG Inc. in 2023, said today that it has acquired Tranch, an invoice automation and payments platform providing invoice management and payment options for law…
Lawyers who are members of the Maryland State Bar Association can now get free access to trust accounting and billing software, through a partnership between the bar and the law practice management company Smokeball.
Under the partnership, all 18,000 members of the MSBA, which is a voluntary state bar, can sign up for…
SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and practical business use.
Phase 1…
A year after releasing Lexis+ AI, its generative AI legal research platform, to general availability, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the release of a companion app for the U.S. market, the Lexis+ AI Mobile App, which is now available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play.…
The litigation analytics company Lex Machina has completed what it describes as a milestone expansion of its data set of court documents, adding another 500,000 federal district court cases so that it now has full coverage of virtually every civil case filed in federal district courts anywhere in the United States.
The only civil…
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