After a week away for Thanksgiving, we are back live today at 3 p.m. with another episode of Legaltech Week, the 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 us to discuss today:…
Michael Sander, the founder of Docket Alarm, a product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case analytics, has left the company, seven months after its acquisition by legal research company vLex in April.
Docket Alarm was part of legal research company Fastcase, which had…
Seven times since 2016, Thomson Reuters has conducted a survey on the state of small law firms in the U.S., and every time, it found that small firms had made virtually no progress on one of their greatest challenges, which is that they spend too much time on administrative tasks to the exclusion of practicing…
In what it appears would be a first for a federal circuit court, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering adoption of a rule change that would require lawyers and unrepresented litigants to provide a certification regarding their use of artificial intelligence in preparing court filings.
Lawyers and other filers would be…
Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of ShareFile for Legal, a secure, digital solution designed to simplify document workflows and improve collaboration for legal professionals.
Joining me in this episode to tell us about ShareFile for Legal and show us how it works is Sara Hoeg,…
Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext.
Their original idea was…
A few weeks ago, I posted about memorial services planned for Monica Bay, the longtime editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, one in San Mateo, Calif. on Nov. 30, and another in New York City on Dec. 7.
I now have additional details on the New York memorial from Sean La Roque-Doherty, Monica’s close friend…
In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay.
In March, the Illinois law firm, MillerKing brought the putative class action against DoNotPay on behalf of “all law firms in the…
On this episode of LawNext: An interview recorded live with Erika Harold, executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, an organization charged with working to enhance civility and professionalism and to eliminate bias within the legal profession.
A former litigator, Harold was named executive director…
Well, it’s happened again: Generative AI has passed a critical test used to measure candidate’s fitness to be licensed as a lawyer.
Back in March, OpenAI’s GPT-4 took the bar exam and passed with flying colors, scoring around the top 10% of test takers.
Now, two of the leading large language models (LLMs) have…
Thomson Reuters today delivered on its promise to integrate generative AI within its flagship legal research platform, introducing AI Assisted Research in Westlaw Precision, available immediately to all U.S. Precision customers at no extra cost.
It also previewed its coming integration of Casetext CoCounsel as an AI legal assistant across multiple TR products, including Westlaw…
Pre/Dicta, a litigation analytics platform that predicts how federal court judges will rule, is expanding to cover new motion types and also to predict litigation timelines.
Until now, the product, which launched in July 2022, covered only motions to dismiss, claiming to predict how a judge will rule with an accuracy rate of…
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