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When Zach Posner was last on this podcast, it was 2021 and he was less than a year into having cofounded The LegalTech Fund, the first venture capital firm to be laser-focused on law and legal technology. Since then, his firm, of which he is managing director, has gone on to build up a…

In a coincidence of timing that reflects how legal professionals are wrestling with issues around generative artificial intelligence, the supreme courts of Delaware and Georgia issued orders within a day of each other last week relating to the use of AI in the courts and by legal professionals.

On Oct. 21, the Delaware Supreme Court…

Alt Legal, a company that provides software for automated trademark docketing, is expanding into providing trademark paralegal services through the acquisition of WeberMark.

Alt Legal will now offer paralegal services under the brand Alt Legal Assist, to supplement its flagship docketing and monitoring products.

“WeberMark’s commitment to client success aligns perfectly with our mission…

Ever since Startup Alley first launched in 2017, the pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW.

I am thrilled to say that the competition is returning for its ninth year, and applications officially open today…

At the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco last week, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, founder and CEO AJ Shankar delivered a keynote address in which he announced the general availability of three generative AI features the company first introduced last year and had been developing in beta ever…

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the AI for Justice Legal Aid program, a two-pronged initiative that will provide select legal aid organizations with free access to and training on its CoCounsel generative AI software, while also providing other legal nonprofits access to CoCounsel at a steeply reduced price.

Spearheaded by Laura…

Seventy-six percent of legal professionals in corporate legal departments and 68% in law firms are using generative AI at least once a week, with a third of those professionals using it daily.

That is among the findings of the 2024 Future Ready Lawyer Survey from Wolters Kluwer, the sixth edition of a report that offers…

Following on the heels of its $11 million Series A raise last June, Alexi, a company that uses generative AI to produce detailed legal research memos for litigators, today announced a significant expansion of its platform with new tools for case management, document analysis and summarization, and more.

In addition, it announced plans…

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…

When Avaneesh Marwaha stepped down as CEO of legal tech company Litera in 2022, becoming chairman of the company’s board of directors, it was a surprise to many in the legal technology community. 

Now Marwaha and Litera have another surprise: He has returned as CEO “to lead the company through the next chapter…

When UnitedLex this week announced the sudden departure of James Schellhase from his position as chief executive officer, it seemed a mystery, since he had just celebrated his one-year anniversary in that role and had even just been on my LawNext podcast to reflect on that year — an interview suggested by the…

“Momentum is the driving force that turns short bursts of energy into sustained success.”

With those words during his opening keynote that has been become a signature event of the Clio Cloud Conference, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton explained why the conference chose “momentum” as its theme this year.

It is an apt description,…