In what has become a distressingly familiar pattern in courtrooms across America, two more cases have emerged of lawyers submitting briefs containing non-existent legal citations generated by AI tools.
At this point, one wonders if the legal profession needs a mandatory continuing legal education course titled, “How to Avoid Becoming the Next AI Hallucination Headline.”…
John Foreman, who has served as chief product officer at two major SaaS companies, has joined law practice management company Clio as its new chief product officer, the company said today.
The company said he will lead its product strategy and delivery across its expanding platform of products, guiding the company’s long-term innovation…
In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Trellis, a legal technology company that provides state trial court data and insights, is partnering with the international labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips to integrate its AI-generated case strategy reports directly into the daily case alerts received by the firm’s attorneys whenever their clients are named in a…
Aderant, a global provider of legal business management software, said today that it has signed a multi-year renewal of its partnership with LawPay to provide its users with integrated access to LawPay’s electronic payments solution.
The Aderant and LawPay integration fully automates and extends payment enablement options for customers of Aderant Expert and…
Paladin, a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, today launched a province-wide pro bono portal for Ontario, developed in partnership with the Ontario Bar Association.
While Paladin has launched pro bono portals in 13 U.S. states, this is its first outside the U.S. The company says it…
Legal technology company FirmPilot announced today that it has raised $11.7 million in total funding, with Thomson Reuters Ventures and HubSpot Ventures joining as strategic investors in its latest round.
The AI marketing platform for law firms secured $4.7 million in this strategic investment round from the two new backers. This follows $7 million…
Vals AI has put out an open call for legal technology vendors to participate in its legal AI benchmarking studies, including its upcoming evaluation of U.S. legal research tools.
Readers may recall that, in February, Vals AI issued the first-of-its-kind benchmark study of legal AI tools. The Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) was the first…
PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in outside counsel management for corporate legal departments, has acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal.
The news comes as the CLOC Global Legal Institute, a conference devoted to legal operations professionals in corporate legal, kicks off today in Las Vegas.
“This strategic acquisition reinforces…
One of the best-known idioms about lawyers is the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln, “A lawyer’s time and advice are his stock in trade.” But I doubt you have ever heard this one: “A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows where the law keeps its spare keys.”
Last week, social media…
Seattle-based legal technology startup Supio has secured $60 million in Series B funding to accelerate the development and adoption of its AI-powered platform for personal injury law firms. The funding round was led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures, bringing Supio’s total funding to $91 million.
Sapphire Ventures is…
Hence Technologies has unveiled Hence Global, an AI-powered platform designed to help businesses and their legal counsel manage geopolitical uncertainties by providing customized risk analysis and insights tailored to specific business roles and needs.
Launched last week, the platform aims to address what the company describes as “the unruly collision of politics, technology, and…
Coheso, an AI-powered intake and work management platform that describes itself as a “legal front door” for corporate legal and compliance teams, today announced a significant enhancement to its platform with the addition of a universal contract lifecycle management (CLM) connector, which it says enables seamless integration and granular data mapping with organizations’ CLM…
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