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By Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer, Litera
Eighteen months ago, I walked out of an Hg conference…
The University of Chicago Law School yesterday released a comprehensive AI Strategy Statement that will reshape how it teaches first-year students, how it assesses upper-level writing, and how it integrates AI tools across its curriculum — including a pilot program that will prohibit laptops, tablets and phones in all core 1L classes starting this fall.…
Two years ago, the law practice management company Smokeball gave me an exclusive preview of its plans for an AI ecosystem spanning the full client lifecycle, anchored by an AI matter assistant called Archie, which it formally launched in July 2024.
Now the company has released the next generation of Archie AI,…
Norm Ai, the New York-based legal and compliance AI company, today announced a $120 million Series C round at a $1.2 billion valuation, crossing the unicorn threshold and joining a growing but still select club of legal AI companies valued at $1 billion or more.
Khosla Ventures led the round, in its first investment…
When Anthropic launched Claude for Legal in May – more than 20 MCP connectors and a dozen practice-area plugins built specifically for legal work – it marked the company’s biggest and most explicit commitment yet to the legal industry. It also reignited a debate that’s been simmering since Anthropic’s first legal plugin…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., will hear arguments this week in a case that could help define the rules of the road for legal AI companies that rely on licensed caselaw data.
The case, Fastcase Inc. v. Alexi Technologies Inc., pending before Judge Richard J. Leon in the U.S. District Court for the…
The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a critical benefit that helps to alleviate food insecurity for vulnerable populations, supporting over 40 million low-income individuals, nearly three quarters of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.
But recent changes to the program enacted as part of H.R. 1 (aka the Big…
Last month, when Anthropic, developer of the popular AI assistant Claude, announced a major push into legal, much of the coverage in the media and the buzz on social media focused on what the announcement meant for law firms, in-house legal teams, and the legal tech ecosystem.
But the less talked about side…
When I wrote last week about BARBRI’s acquisition of Lega, I had not yet had the chance to speak with Lega founder Christian Lang, who was traveling. So I closed that post with what was admittedly conjecture on my part – that the large-language-model governance product that defined Lega when it launched in…
Perplexity, the AI search engine known for delivering sourced answers to user queries, is making an explicit move into the legal market, rolling out legal-specific features within its agentic platform, Perplexity Computer, and positioning the product as what it calls “Computer for Counsel.”
The company highlighted the legal push yesterday at an
Recently I sat through a demo of a product unlike anything I’d seen before, aimed at a segment of the legal profession that legal tech companies have largely ignored – the fractional general counsel, lawyers who serve as outside in-house counsel for multiple companies too small to have their own legal departments.
The product is…
When I wrote about Abstract in April, I reported on how the New York-based startup was making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, alerting law firms and corporate legal teams to the bills and rules that matter to a client, even when they never mention that client’s industry by name.…
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