A Texas jury in a civil case has found that Consilio, which describes itself as “the global leader” in e-discovery, violated a Texas computer security criminal statute when it accessed the plaintiff’s computer without effective consent.
The jury also found Consilio negligent in downloading and destroying 10 years’ worth of emails and awarded $50,000…
At the Knowledge Management and Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City, Legal Services NYC was named as the inaugural winner of the LexPrize award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the…
On Thursday, the American Intellectual Property Law Association will kick off its annual meeting, and that means you should expect several news announcements this week from providers of IP-related technology products. First out of the gate: News of an integration partnership between Black Hills AI and DeepIP that combines the automation and…
At its Inspire customer conference today in Atlanta, NetDocuments said it is using artificial intelligence to transform from a content management platform to an “intelligent document management system” that will enable it to be the cornerstone of an organization’s AI strategy.
“Building on the foundation of its industry-leading cloud platform, the NetDocuments intelligent DMS delivers…
descrybe.ai, a free legal research platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide enhanced access to the law, today rolled out a major upgrade that includes a redesign of its platform, more nuanced and accurate search results, summaries of judicial opinions in Spanish as well as English, and simplified, plain-language summaries in both English and…
A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.
The ruling brings an end to…
Wolters Kluwer today brought generative AI to its VitalLaw legal research platform, launching new capabilities for users to locate and chat with legal information and get answers to legal questions, as well as to generate summaries and first drafts of compliance checklists or other key documents.
This development combines these generative AI capabilities with…
In notable news for the e-discovery industry, the legal software and services provider Elevate has acquired Redgrave Data, a consulting firm that provides services and software for e-discovery and data analytics.
Redgrave’s founders Mollie Nichols, Scott Culbertson, Dave Lewis, Mark Noel, and Lindsey Worth will all join Elevate’s management team.
Redgrave Data was…
What if you could have an invisible guardian angel sitting on your shoulder during a deposition, whispering in your ear to point out questions you’ve asked awkwardly, inconsistencies in the witness’s testimony, and points needing follow-up or explication?
In effect, that is what a new product introduced this week by Filevine can do for…
It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their products.
Thomson Reuters, which last year acquired the CoCounsel legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, and which later announced plans to deploy it throughout its product lines, today…
Earlier this year, I wrote about the beta launch of davinci, an AI tool to assist intellectual property practitioners throughout the patent prosecution process. Today, that tool emerges from beta for general availability under a new name, DeepIP, and with a new direct integration within Microsoft Word.
DeepIP is an AI copilot that…
For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its legal research service, particularly its headnotes and Key Number System.
The validity of those copyrights will be a central issue later this month when the…
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