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Last October, during its annual Clio Cloud Conference, the law practice management company Clio announced its plan to roll out an e-filing service, called Clio File, during 2024, starting with Texas, which would make it the first law practice management platform with built-in e-filing. Today, it delivered on that promise, launching Clio File for e-filing…

This recent Reuters story caught my attention: “More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI,” it said, citing a new survey conducted by the American Bar Association. Other reports in the news and on LinkedIn sounded a similar takeaway.

Indeed, the survey, AI and Legal Education Survey Results 2024, recently…

Law.com Radar, a service that delivers AI-enhanced alerts of new lawsuits filed in more than 2,400 U.S. federal and state courts, is now tagging all new civil filings using the taxonomy developed by the SALI Alliance, a group working to standardize legal data across the industry. 

By labeling filings using SALI’s taxonomy, Law.com…

Raghu Ramanathan, who in February was named president of the Legal Professionals segment within Thomson Reuters, overseeing all its products for the legal profession, believes there should be open benchmarking on legal AI products, he told me during an interview earlier this week.

“I do believe the industry needs open benchmarks on AI performance…

LexIQ, an early-stage startup focused on using artificial intelligence to draft and review contracts in Microsoft Word, is today launching its waitlist for corporate legal departments and law firms interested in joining is beta program.

Founded by Samarth Gupta, a computer engineer and data scientist who most recently worked at EY as a…

Last week, I reported here that researchers at Stanford University planned to augment a study they released of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it found that they deliver hallucinated results more often than the companies say in their marketing of the products.

The study came under criticism…

LexisNexis Legal & Professional said today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Henchman, a Belgium-based contract drafting legal technology company.

LexisNexis said it is acquiring the company for its document management system that enable faster document drafting. It say its technology enriches a law firm’s internal work product,…

Legal editing software company BriefCatch has expanded its management team with the hiring of three legal technology veterans to key positions.

The hires follow the company’s raise last year of $3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

At the time of the raise, founder and CEO Ross Guberman said the company would…

In a move designed to expand its products for online dispute resolution, the American Arbitration Association has acquired ODR.com, a company that builds ODR systems, and its parent company, Resourceful Internet Solutions Inc. (RIS), which also owns Mediate.com, Arbitrate.com and Ombuds.org.

The companies said that the immediate focus of…

Document management company iManage and legal research company vLex now have something else in common besides brand names that start with lower-case letters.

The two companies today announced a partnership that will combine the artificial intelligence and docket-monitoring tools of vLex with the knowledge assets and client and matter folders that a law…

Stanford University will augment the study it released last week of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it found that they deliver hallucinated results more often than the companies say, as others have raised questions about the study’s methodology and fairness.

The preprint study by Stanford’s RegLab…

A new award announced today is intended to recognize and celebrate the visionary contributions shaping the future of knowledge management and innovation in the legal profession.

Called the LexPrize Innovation Award, it will be presented at the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal (KM&I) conference taking place in New York City in October.

Conference…