Home now from ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. It is five frenetic days of seminars, exhibitors and networking by legal technologists and vendors from all over the world. Here are some of my somewhat-random thoughts about the event.
Let’s start with what many were thinking: Orlando in August?…
Tomorrow I am moderating a webinar in which attendees will get an exclusive first look at a new product for solo and small firms being introduced by the PWC New Ventures group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC).
The free webinar, How Successful Small Law Firms Get Ahead of the Game, is being sponsored by…
I wrote here last week about the rollout by CloudNine of new versions and enhancements for its suite of e-discovery products. Now at ILTACON, the company is announcing a partnership with the legal technology company Oasis Discovery to offer access to its products through a managed private cloud.
Law firms will…
Being announced today at ILTACON is a client-facing app and cloud platform designed to provide law firm clients with intuitive access to legal documents, automated legal forms and agreements, secure messaging, and digital billing and payment.
Called ConnectIVITY, the app is being developed by Connective Counsel, a startup technology company that spun off in 2018…
If there is one category of legal technology products where it is difficult to separate the hype from the reality, it is artificial intelligence. Seemingly every new product to come on the market claims to use AI in some way, shape or form.
Given that, the new Legal AI Efficacy Report, being announced tomorrow…
As I wrote here earlier, Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired Doxly, a four-year-old company founded by a former biglaw partner to manage the legal transactions process. I have just had a phone call with the CEOs of the two companies and can provide more details.
First, to sum up the news. the document technology…
So much legal technology news, I can barely keep up with it all, thanks in part to the fact that Sunday is the start of ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Here are some of the week’s headlines.
Litera acquires Doxly. Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired…
Software company Levit & James, Inc. today announced the formal release of a pay-per-document licensing option for the latest version 5.0 of its Best Authority, a Microsoft Word add-in that automatically finds and marks all the legal citations in a brief and generates a table of authorities.
Formerly, law firms could purchase Best…
If you are attending ILTACON 2019, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, next week, consider joining me and other legal technology journalists for a panel discussion on the state of the industry.
Moderating the panel is Gina Passarella, editor-in-chief, ALM Media. In addition to myself, panelists will be:…
The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, its policy-making body, voted this week to approve a resolution urging courts and lawyers to address the emerging ethical and legal issues related to the usage of artificial intelligence in the practice of law.
Among the AI-related issues the profession should address, the ABA said, are bias, explainability, and…
Prepare for an onslaught of legal technology announcements, as ILTACON 19, the massive annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, is set to begin Sunday in Orlando.
First up: CloudNine, which today is announcing new versions, features and performance upgrades to its suite of e-discovery products, which is composed of its on-premise…
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is today unveiling a major reengineering of its CourtLink federal and state docket research product that moves it to the Lexis Advance platform and that gives users more options for searching dockets while reducing the steps involved in doing so.
The move also means that users will be able…
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