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When it comes to big names in legal operations and legal innovation, it is hard to think of one bigger than David Cambria, who has long been described as the godfather of legal operations, including for his trailblazing work as COO and head of global operations for Fortune 50 company Archer Daniels Midland and…

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another Legaltech Week, the live show where a panel of journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.  Among the stories on tap for today:…

For a law firm, choosing and deploying software raises many questions. How do I protect client confidentiality? Where does artificial intelligence fit in? What is the best software for my firm’s needs? How do I drive staff training and adoption? 

In this post, experts from ShareFile and LawSites have collaborated to…

I recently wrote here about an American Bar Association survey of law schools that offer AI classes. The survey found that 55% of responding law schools offer such classes. A Reuters news story picked up on that and reported, “More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI.” 

The problem…

Technology that helps people do their own legal work should be against the law.

That at least is the view of some bar authorities, and the implication of regulatory proposals. Many lawyers think that any form of legal assistance not provided by a licensed attorney is unlawful. One notices the same instinct among law students.…

In its first major pronouncement on the ethics of using generative AI in law practice, the American Bar Association has issued an opinion saying that lawyers need not become experts in the technology, but must have a reasonable understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the specific generative AI technology the lawyer might use.

In…

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 global legal technology company Litera said today that it has acquired FileTrail, a leading provider of information governance and records management software for law firms, corporations and highly regulated industries.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

With the acquisition of the 24-year-old company, Litera expands its offerings in the areas of…

In reporting yesterday on the record-setting $900 million investment in law practice management company Clio, I included a list of the 10 largest previous investments in legal tech. It did not take long for me to learn that the list was incomplete.

So I set about trying to come up with a more accurate…

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 law practice management company LEAP Legal Software is today introducing three artificial intelligence features built directly into its all-in-one practice management platform – including one with a unique human-in-the-loop twist.

“LEAP’s AI solutions are not here to replace lawyers or the work they do, but support and complement their expertise by allowing…