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When LexisNexis launched its Lexis+ premium legal research service in 2020, the service included Brief Analysis, its answer to a line of products pioneered by legal research company Casetext with its CARA brief analysis tool and followed by companies such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Law. Last year, LexisNexis expanded that to add…

In what appears to be a first for a state bar association, The Florida Bar is providing each of its 110,000 members with free access to legal trust accounting software – a move its new president believes will help attorneys better comply with trust accounting requirements and better protect the public from trust violations.…

A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for legal research.

In the case of Mata v. Avianca, the judge ordered the lawyers, Peter LoDuca and Steven A. Schwartz, as well as the law…

“This episode is one for the record books.” – Stephanie Wilkins, editor-in-chief of Legaltech News.

“This has been a honey pot of a session!” – Michelle Spencer, lead product marketing manager, NetDocuments. 

Between skewering the poor lawyer who filed bogus cases in court that he found on ChatGPT and pondering the grizzly question of…

A new generative AI product for immigration lawyers announced today is designed to help them conduct research, draft and summarize complex legal documents, and engage with potential clients through a chat interface.

Called Visalaw.ai Gen, the product has been developed as a collaboration between the company Visalaw.ai, the technology affiliate of the immigration law…

The legal technology company Casetext celebrates its 10th anniversary today. In a blog post the company published today, it describes itself as “a ten-year overnight success.” That sums it up well. Like many startups, its path to success has taken it on detours along the way. The company it started as in 2013…

Derek Miller, a veteran legal technology executive who, as president and CEO of inData Corporation, oversaw Trial Director, one of the most widely used trial-presentation software products ever, has joined Lit Software, the developer of a suite of litigation apps for iPad and Mac, as a strategic advisor and director of…

EvenUp, a company that uses AI to turn medical documents and case files into demand packages for personal injury lawyers, has raised $50.5 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Behance founder Scott Belsky, and Clio Ventures, the investment…

A recent survey of the legal profession confirms what may already be obvious to many, which is that the use of ChatGPT and other large language models by lawyers continues to grow, even as many remain concerned about the rate at which it is being adopted.

Not so obvious, however, is that one group that…

In what appears to be the first use of generative AI directly within a legal CRM product, the cloud-based CRM platform Lawmatics is today launching a feature that allows lawyers to use AI to create and edit client emails and email marketing campaigns.

Called LM[AI], the feature is powered by the latest commercial version…

The data management company Onna said today that its entire solution is now available to purchase directly through Google Cloud Marketplace, making it the first e-discovery product to be available there, other than Google’s own Vault, which can be used only with data from Google Workspace.

“This move reinforces Onna’s commitment to making…

A legal innovation lab launching today seeks to answer the question of how to approach the training and development of new lawyers in an age of generative AI.

The Legal Innovation Lab is being launched by SkillBurst Interactive, a 10-year-old company that provides on-demand training to larger law firms and their corporate clients.…