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LegalOn, a company that was already one of Japan’s largest providers of AI contract review technology when it launched into the U.S. market last December, today is announcing its expansion into contract drafting with the release of LegalOn Templates, a collection of more than 100 market-standard templates created and kept current by attorneys…

Yesterday, I attended the Harvard Law AI Summit organized by the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School. It was a fairly intimate, invitation-only gathering of roughly 65 people, held under the Chatham House Rule, meaning that participants were free to use the information we received, but we agreed not to disclose the…

Mark Smolik, chief legal officer at DHL Supply Chain Americas, will be the keynote speaker on the second day of the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference taking place in New York City Oct. 12 and 13.

In his talk, “Winning Strategies for Winning New Business: Insights on Innovation from a Chief Legal…

Way back in the early days of the pandemic, when we were all still adjusting to a world of working from home and meeting via Zoom, we launched Legaltech Week, a weekly show in which a panel of journalists and bloggers gets together and discusses the top stories in legal tech and innovation.

Tomorrow, we…

Jack Rives, who stepped down as executive director of the American Bar Association last February after 12 years in that role, has joined the legal services company Rocket Lawyer as president of a new business unit, Rocket Legal Professional Services, where he is now leading the company’s expansion of its delivery of more-affordable…

The tag line on the website of Overture Law says, “Unlock hidden revenue in your practice.” But I think this actually undersells what Overture does. It is not so much that it helps you find revenue hidden in your practice, as that it helps you capture revenue you would never have had in the…

Finalists have been named for the 2023 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology.

Winners will be announced at a gala dinner at Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville on Oct. 8, the night before the Clio Cloud Conference starts at the same venue.

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The American Legal Technology Awards launched in 2020 with a mission to honor those innovating in the legal space. It was founded by three friends (a lawyer, a law professor, and a legal tech entrepreneur) and is truly a grassroots effort with a big heart. The Awards also boasts 28 world-class judges and 10…

Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

Had you listened to my LawNext podcast last week, you would have already known this, as I interviewed CiteRight cofounder Ariel Nacson…

Businesses spend significant time, money and effort negotiating that most-common of contracts – the non-disclosure agreement. With the goal of simplifying and standardizing those business dealings, the non-profit organization oneNDA developed an open-source NDA that, since its launch in 2021, has been adopted by more than 1,000 companies, including American Express, Google, Novartis and…

Actionstep, a cloud-based law practice management platform, has acquired the Australian practice management company FilePro and its 4,000 law firm customers in Australia.

While both companies primarily serve mid-sized law firms, FilePro was developed as an on-premises product and has been exploring the development of a cloud product.

This deal will accelerate the…

The e-discovery landscape will be needing a new map after the global e-discovery company Reveal said today that it has acquired two other leading e-discovery companies, Logikcull and IPRO.

The combination of the three companies, Reveal said, will create the first end-to-end e-discovery platform that addresses matters of all sizes and for…