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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,…

See this update: UnitedLex CEO’s Sudden Departure Appears to Be Due to Personal Allegations Unrelated to Work. 

Hope it wasn’t something he said on my podcast.

A week after appearing on my LawNext podcast to discuss his one-year anniversary as chief executive officer at UnitedLex, James Schellhase is out of that…

Usage of artificial intelligence by legal professionals has skyrocketed from 19% in 2023 to 79% this year, according to the ninth edition of the Legal Trends Report, released today by Clio during its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin.

The report further finds that up to 74% of hourly billable tasks – such as information gathering…

Calling it a major first step in its wider AI product roadmap, the law practice management company Clio today released Clio Duo, a generative AI product built directly into the Clio Manage law practice management platform.

Clio released the product today at its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, after first announcing its plans to…

If you are going to the Clio Cloud Conference in Austin starting Monday (or watching it virtually), do not miss our live-on-stage version of Legaltech Week, with a full panel of our regulars plus a special guest.

Many of you are regulars for our weekly Friday live show, where we discuss the week’s top…