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There were two notable moves in the legal tech world announced today, both to newly created positions, as the law firm Crowell & Moring announced that it has named Alma Asay as its first chief innovation and value officer, and Relativity said that it has named Laurie Usewicz as its first chief partner…

Nominations are now open for the 2023 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology.

Winners will be feted 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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In February, as a way to provide a gamified incentive for authors to contribute articles to the resources library on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, we announced an opportunity for authors to win gift cards for the articles that got the most views.

Now, we are announcing the winners of that first round —…

The generative AI legal tech startup Harvey has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. 

When I first wrote about Harvey in November, the previously stealth startup had just emerged with news that it had raised $5 million in funding led by the startup fund of OpenAI, the company…

With AI-driven tools for founders, attorneys and investors, a company called Dori is today launching out of stealth, offering a generative AI platform for private market transactions.

The company is also announcing $2 million in seed funding, which it closed last year, with participation from Counterpart Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and a…

Last December, LegalOn, one of Japan’s largest providers of AI contract review technology to corporations and law firms, announced its expansion into the U.S. market, offering limited early access to its product to select users and organizations. 

Today, LegalOn is making its platform commercially available to all customers in the U.S., and as…

Legal technology company Litera today officially announced its acquisition of Upper Sigma, a London-based CRM and marketing platform for law firms that is built on the Salesforce CRM platform.

Litera says that by integrating Upper Sigma with the firm intelligence platform Foundation, which it acquired in 2021, it will be able to…

The American Bar Association said last night that an unauthorized hacker gained access to the ABA network and may have acquired usernames and salted and hashed passwords that members would have used to access a prior version of the website. 

In a statement, the ABA said:

“On March 17, 2023, the ABA observed unusual activity

Want to be as smart as Google’s BERT or Facebook’s LLaMA? Well then, you should keep reading this blog, as it was used to help train them.

With so much attention being paid to the current generation of AI trained on large language models, such as ChatGPT, most of us know little about the text…

Aderant, the company that provides business management software for law firms, said today that it will soon release an AI-powered product that will automate law firms’ compliance with outside counsel guidelines.

It will launch the product, which it calls Onyx, at its Momentum user conference in Denver May 8-11.

“Law firms have been…

Let’s face it, hourly billing is cursed in so many ways. But for the lawyers who bill by the hour, perhaps the greatest curse is simply have to keep track of their time. That is why several companies in recent years have developed passive timekeeping tools for lawyers — tools that keep track of a…

A few days ago, The New York Times declared, “A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers.” With GPT-4 having passed the bar exam and legal tech companies launching AI-based legal assistants, it sometimes seems that the potential for AI in law is limitless. But what about that most basic of a lawyer’s tasks —…