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One of my most-read stories last year was The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It was about the jarring juxtaposition I experienced…
Generative AI presents a generational opportunity for legal aid organizations to address the justice gap, keynote speaker Laura Safdie told the roughly 350 people who convened in Phoenix on Sunday for the inaugural AI for Legal Aid Summit.
Noting data showing that more than 90% of civil legal needs go unrepresented, Safdie (pictured above), former…
If context switching is the bane of AI adoption in law firms, legal technology company Syntheia may just have the balm.
Recognizing that lawyers spend much of their days in email, it has developed an AI-powered document analysis tool that allows lawyers to obtain summaries and insights from legal documents by simply forwarding them…
Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, has raised $47 million in Series A funding, in a round led by major venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures. The company says the investment will support its rapid market growth and drive its product development and…
The contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today said it has acquired Screens, developer of a generative AI contract review and redlining product that uses expert-created and auto-generated playbooks to “screen” and redline contracts.
“This strategic acquisition will enhance Agiloft’s data-first Agreement Platform and contract management capabilities, by standardizing the contract review process, promoting…
Epiq Global announced today the launch of Epiq AI Discovery Assistant, an artificial intelligence-powered platform that aims to automate significant portions of the document review process, along with the formation of Epiq AI Labs, a research initiative focused on developing advanced AI technologies for legal applications.
To lead the new lab, Epiq has hired AI…
Anastasia Boyko likes to say that she’s Goldilocks-ed her way through her career. True, it’s been a varied career, as she’s tried out different roles, but it is a career that has taken her full circle, from Yale Law School, where she graduated, and then eventually back to Yale Law to create a…
With this post, voting is now officially open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the ninth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, April 2-5, 2025. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW…
In their annual report on the state of the U.S. legal market, Thomson Reuters and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law say that 2024 was a pivotal year for law firms, marking the beginning of the end for the traditional law firm business model and perhaps also of the…
Elite, the financial and business management platform for large law firms that Thomson Reuters sold to private equity firm TPG Inc. in 2023, said today that it has acquired Tranch, an invoice automation and payments platform providing invoice management and payment options for law…
What were the most important stories of 2024 for legal technology and innovation? In a special edition of Legaltech Week today, our panel of journalists and bloggers will share their picks of the trends and developments that mattered most.
The show is live today at 3 p.m. ET. It is free to attend, but you…
It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog’s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations.
In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way.…
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