SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and practical business use.
Phase 1…
I am very pleased to announce a new addition, starting today, to our line-up of regular panelists for Legaltech Week: Julie Sobowale, a Canada-based freelance journalist and lawyer who writes about legal tech and legal affairs for publications such as Canadian Lawyer, The Walrus, and others. Julie has been a guest…
As the disaffected disembark from X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, they are landing in throngs on Bluesky, the X competitor that has seen its daily traffic grow 500% since the election and that shot to the top of the App Store last week. As of this week, Bluesky…
It was 22 years ago yesterday that I launched this blog. For its continued existence, I owe four debts of gratitude:…
A Texas jury in a civil case has found that Consilio, which describes itself as “the global leader” in e-discovery, violated a Texas computer security criminal statute when it accessed the plaintiff’s computer without effective consent.
The jury also found Consilio negligent in downloading and destroying 10 years’ worth of emails and awarded $50,000…
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The ability of a lawyer to maintain their professional independence is critical to protecting and serving the public effectively. To this…
I am in search of diverse founders of legal tech startups and seeking your help in reaching them with this message.
Specifically, I want to encourage them to apply to compete for a spot in the 9th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2025, which will be April 2-5 in Chicago.
Over the course…
The Canadian Legal Information Institute, a nonprofit organization that is a major provider of free legal research in Canada, has sued a recently launched AI-powered legal research site called Caseway, alleging that it has unlawfully taken CanLII’s cases in order to build its own system.
But the founder of Caseway, Alistair Vigier,…
Nicholas (Nik) Reed has been named chief executive officer of contracts analytics and management company Knowable, after having been the company’s senior vice president, product and research development since 2019.
Mark Harris, who had been Knowable’s CEO ever since the company was spun off from alternative legal services provider Axiom in…
When Zach Posner was last on this podcast, it was 2021 and he was less than a year into having cofounded The LegalTech Fund, the first venture capital firm to be laser-focused on law and legal technology. Since then, his firm, of which he is managing director, has gone on to build up a…
In a coincidence of timing that reflects how legal professionals are wrestling with issues around generative artificial intelligence, the supreme courts of Delaware and Georgia issued orders within a day of each other last week relating to the use of AI in the courts and by legal professionals.
On Oct. 21, the Delaware Supreme Court…
Alt Legal, a company that provides software for automated trademark docketing, is expanding into providing trademark paralegal services through the acquisition of WeberMark.
Alt Legal will now offer paralegal services under the brand Alt Legal Assist, to supplement its flagship docketing and monitoring products.
“WeberMark’s commitment to client success aligns perfectly with our mission…
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