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…
Legau, a comprehensive legal document drafting platform launched in Portugal in 2021, will make its formal launch in the U.S. market at ILTACON this week, where it has been selected as one of 26 companies to participate in the conference’s Startup Hub.
Designed to streamline the legal drafting process for attorneys, Legau hopes to…
With hallucinations continuing to haunt applications of generative AI in the legal field, Paxton AI, a startup for contract review, document drafting and legal research, today released results of a benchmarking study that showed its product achieved 93.82% average accuracy on legal research tasks.
Paxton also today released a new Confidence Indicator feature that…
The law practice management company Clio today unveiled Clio Accounting, providing legal-specific bookkeeping and accounting as an add-on to U.S. customers of its Clio Manage platform.
I have not had an opportunity to see a demonstration of it, but Clio said in an announcement that it includes features to sync information from Clio Manage…
In a further expansion of the CoCounsel AI legal assistant it acquired last year through its purchase of Casetext, Thomson Reuters today unveiled CoCounsel Drafting, a document drafting tool that works within Microsoft Word and that leverages both the generative AI capabilities of CoCounsel and the practical content of Practical Law.
Launching today in…
The American Arbitration Association today announced the launch of a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to enable parties with multiple arbitration cases to streamline their case administration.
The APIs will allow parties to send and receive documents, file new cases, and track case-related activities.
For firms that may not have robust technology…
A cardiologist with a background in medical technology, computer science and artificial intelligence has launched a product for legal professionals and physician expert witnesses that targets the tedious task of reviewing and analyzing thousands of pages of medical records.
The product, Quench SmartChart, uses generative AI to streamline the medico-legal review process, enabling users…
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