Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. 2024-10-29T13:10:30Z https://www.lawnext.com/feed/atom WordPress Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48036 2024-10-29T13:10:30Z 2024-10-29T13:10:30Z

Ever since Startup Alley first launched in 2017, the pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW. I am thrilled to say that the competition is returning for its ninth year, and applications officially open today for legal […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48045 2024-10-29T12:48:36Z 2024-10-29T12:30:19Z

At the recent Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, Clio released its ninth annual Legal Trends Report, a report that uses both survey responses and anonymized data from Clio users to paint a picture of key trends in law practice and legal technology. This year’s report has some intriguing findings on lawyers’ adoption of AI […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48021 2024-10-28T15:20:45Z 2024-10-28T15:20:45Z

At the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco last week, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, founder and CEO AJ Shankar delivered a keynote address in which he announced the general availability of three generative AI features the company first introduced last year and had been developing in beta ever since. In the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48011 2024-10-24T17:28:51Z 2024-10-24T13:00:34Z

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the AI for Justice Legal Aid program, a two-pronged initiative that will provide select legal aid organizations with free access to and training on its CoCounsel generative AI software, while also providing other legal nonprofits access to CoCounsel at a steeply reduced price. Spearheaded by Laura Safdie, a […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=48005 2024-10-23T21:12:20Z 2024-10-24T12:00:56Z

Seventy-six percent of legal professionals in corporate legal departments and 68% in law firms are using generative AI at least once a week, with a third of those professionals using it daily. That is among the findings of the 2024 Future Ready Lawyer Survey from Wolters Kluwer, the sixth edition of a report that offers […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47999 2024-10-23T16:11:48Z 2024-10-23T16:11:48Z

In the latest episode of our video series How It Works, we feature Expert Radar, an expert witness research platform developed by Expert Institute. Expert Radar is an AI-driven research tool designed to help attorneys with due diligence on expert witnesses – both their own, and those of opposing counsel. It collects hard-to-access data, including […]]]>

Beau Wysong, Opus 2 [Sponsored Post] https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47989 2024-10-22T17:01:59Z 2024-10-22T15:08:11Z

While the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) for legal has been present for years, many law firms and litigation departments are still in the early stages of assessing, adopting, and implementing AI solutions. As legal teams explore ways to incorporate AI, approaches and results vary. However, early indications from industry leaders and research suggest that […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47961 2024-10-28T20:13:13Z 2024-10-22T14:00:00Z

This has been a significant year for the law practice management company Clio, which in July raised a record-setting $900 million financing round – the largest ever for a legal tech company, and which recently wrapped up its 12th annual Clio Cloud Conference, its largest ever with some 2,600 attendees in person in Austin, Texas, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47975 2024-10-22T13:38:55Z 2024-10-22T13:30:50Z

Following on the heels of its $11 million Series A raise last June, Alexi, a company that uses generative AI to produce detailed legal research memos for litigators, today announced a significant expansion of its platform with new tools for case management, document analysis and summarization, and more. In addition, it announced plans for further […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47964 2024-10-21T23:25:50Z 2024-10-22T13:00:04Z

On Thursday, the American Intellectual Property Law Association will kick off its annual meeting, and that means you should expect several news announcements this week from providers of IP-related technology products. First out of the gate: News of an integration partnership between Black Hills AI and DeepIP that combines the automation and AI technologies of […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47966 2024-10-21T17:26:17Z 2024-10-21T17:26:17Z

At its Inspire customer conference today in Atlanta, NetDocuments said it is using artificial intelligence to transform from a content management platform to an “intelligent document management system” that will enable it to be the cornerstone of an organization’s AI strategy. “Building on the foundation of its industry-leading cloud platform, the NetDocuments intelligent DMS delivers […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47970 2024-10-21T13:37:49Z 2024-10-21T16:00:51Z

When Avaneesh Marwaha stepped down as CEO of legal tech company Litera in 2022, becoming chairman of the company’s board of directors, it was a surprise to many in the legal technology community.  Now Marwaha and Litera have another surprise: He has returned as CEO “to lead the company through the next chapter of integration and […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47931 2024-10-16T00:42:11Z 2024-10-16T09:00:56Z

Law Insider, a company that provides what it says is the world’s largest public contracts database, has acquired oneNDA, developer of an open source contract standard for non-disclosure agreements that has been downloaded by thousands of organizations throughout the world. Through the acquisition, the oneNDA.org standards library — which includes oneNDA, oneNDA Playbook, oneNDA M&A, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47927 2024-10-15T20:26:21Z 2024-10-15T19:16:59Z

descrybe.ai, a free legal research platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide enhanced access to the law, today rolled out a major upgrade that includes a redesign of its platform, more nuanced and accurate search results, summaries of judicial opinions in Spanish as well as English, and simplified, plain-language summaries in both English and Spanish. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47953 2024-10-15T17:18:59Z 2024-10-15T17:18:59Z

We’ve just returned from the Clio Cloud Conference, held this year in Austin, Texas, where, in what has become an annual tradition, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton for a live interview.  At the conference, Clio launched Clio Duo, the generative AI legal assistant integrated into Clio’s flagship […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47934 2024-10-23T16:08:28Z 2024-10-15T15:57:44Z

In the latest episode of our video series How It Works, we bring you a demonstration of Briefpoint, a solution that uses artificial intelligence to draft discovery responses and discovery requests in litigation. With Briefpoint, a lawyer simply uploads a PDF document and it generates the appropriate discovery requests or response. It can generate responses […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47912 2024-10-13T16:44:22Z 2024-10-13T16:44:22Z

When UnitedLex this week announced the sudden departure of James Schellhase from his position as chief executive officer, it seemed a mystery, since he had just celebrated his one-year anniversary in that role and had even just been on my LawNext podcast to reflect on that year — an interview suggested by the company. Even […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47899 2024-10-11T12:58:53Z 2024-10-11T12:58:53Z

Clio’s choice of Austin, Texas, for its Clio Cloud Conference this year was a foray into enemy territory, and the enemy responded strategically with guerilla tactics of its own. Austin, as it happens, is the home base of AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay, CASEPeer and Docketwise, all of which are competitors to Clio. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47886 2024-10-10T18:05:45Z 2024-10-10T17:57:04Z

“Momentum is the driving force that turns short bursts of energy into sustained success.” With those words during his opening keynote that has been become a signature event of the Clio Cloud Conference, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton explained why the conference chose “momentum” as its theme this year. It is an apt description, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47882 2024-10-13T16:46:23Z 2024-10-10T15:55:36Z

See this update: UnitedLex CEO’s Sudden Departure Appears to Be Due to Personal Allegations Unrelated to Work.  Hope it wasn’t something he said on my podcast. A week after appearing on my LawNext podcast to discuss his one-year anniversary as chief executive officer at UnitedLex, James Schellhase is out of that job, replaced by the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47878 2024-10-07T19:04:23Z 2024-10-07T19:04:23Z

Usage of artificial intelligence by legal professionals has skyrocketed from 19% in 2023 to 79% this year, according to the ninth edition of the Legal Trends Report, released today by Clio during its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin. The report further finds that up to 74% of hourly billable tasks – such as information gathering […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47870 2024-10-07T15:23:16Z 2024-10-07T15:30:10Z

Calling it a major first step in its wider AI product roadmap, the law practice management company Clio today released Clio Duo, a generative AI product built directly into the Clio Manage law practice management platform. Clio released the product today at its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, after first announcing its plans to […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47865 2024-10-04T15:05:46Z 2024-10-04T15:05:46Z

If you are going to the Clio Cloud Conference in Austin starting Monday (or watching it virtually), do not miss our live-on-stage version of Legaltech Week, with a full panel of our regulars plus a special guest. Many of you are regulars for our weekly Friday live show, where we discuss the week’s top news […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47862 2024-10-04T13:42:01Z 2024-10-04T13:42:01Z

 Legalpioneer, a website that lists law-related companies in areas such as legal tech, justice tech and governance, has donated its entire data set of more than 13,000 companies to GitHub, a platform that allows developers to store, share and collaborate on code.  The entire data set is now available under the Open Database License (ODbl) […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47859 2024-10-04T00:00:26Z 2024-10-04T13:00:12Z

Stephanie Wilkins, who has been editor-in-chief of Legaltech News at ALM since 2022, today moves to Legaltech Hub, where she will be director of content. In her new role, Wilkins will be responsible for helping to develop a drive the content strategy for Legaltech Hub and for developing resources for law firms, corporate legal departments […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47852 2024-10-03T19:27:08Z 2024-10-03T19:15:01Z

Monday marks the start of the 12th Clio Cloud Conference, and as the company that produces it, Clio, continues to grow and expand, so too does the conference, with its largest-ever number of attendees and its move from a single host hotel to the Austin, Texas, convention center with attendees spread across a number of […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47848 2024-10-03T14:56:56Z 2024-10-03T14:56:56Z

Nominations are now open for the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which recognizes an innovator who has made significant impacts early in their career toward making the American legal system work better for everyone. That describes the person for whom the award is named, Alli Gerkman, who died of breast cancer in 2019 at the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47824 2024-10-01T13:34:05Z 2024-10-01T16:30:46Z

The law practice management platform MyCase rolled out three product updates today that include MyCaseIQ, an AI conversational interface; enhancements to its accounting module; and an immigration add-on. It also announced the beta release of Smart Spend, a product that marries a business credit card to expense tracking within MyCase. Generative AI Enhancements Last January, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47839 2024-10-28T20:17:11Z 2024-10-01T15:54:39Z

 Important update: Just after this podcast was posted, James Schellhase was abruptly replaced as CEO of UnitedLex. Soon after that, it came out that his departure appeared to have been related to allegations concerning his personal conduct. One year ago, in September 2023, James Schellhase was named chief executive officer of the alternative legal services provider UnitedLex. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47828 2024-09-30T19:08:22Z 2024-09-30T19:08:22Z

Several of our regular Legaltech Week panelists were in Chicago for RelativityFest last week, so we took the opportunity to get together and broadcast our show live from the same room (instead of Zoom squares). If you missed it Friday, here’s the video recording. A huge thanks to the public relations staff at Relativity for […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47817 2024-09-30T12:46:17Z 2024-09-30T12:41:05Z

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms. The ruling brings an end to ROSS’s […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47815 2024-09-27T13:38:18Z 2024-09-27T13:38:18Z

Several of our Legaltech Week panelists are in Chicago for RelativityFest, so we’re going to (attempt to?) broadcast live from there. If you are in Chicago or attending RelativityFest, come watch us live at 2 CT/3 ET. We will be in the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Room Grand Hall MN. For anyone else, you can watch […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47804 2024-09-26T12:48:31Z 2024-09-26T13:00:46Z

Wolters Kluwer today brought generative AI to its VitalLaw legal research platform, launching new capabilities for users to locate and chat with legal information and get answers to legal questions, as well as to generate summaries and first drafts of compliance checklists or other key documents. This development combines these generative AI capabilities with the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47789 2024-09-25T16:55:44Z 2024-09-25T14:00:09Z

DiliTrust, a company headquartered in Paris, France, that provides an all-in-one corporate governance suite for in-house legal teams, has acquired the U.S.-based enterprise legal management company doeLEGAL, which provides software for matter management, e-billing and e-discovery to corporate and law firm customers. DiliTrust says the strategic acquisition accelerates its entry in the U.S. market while […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47783 2024-09-25T11:42:29Z 2024-09-25T11:42:29Z

Since 2019, LexLab, an innovation lab at UC Law San Francisco, has run an annual legal tech startup accelerator program, but last year, the program shifted gears slightly to focus on justice tech — startups that are developing technologies that positively impact individuals and communities affected by the justice system  and the gap in access […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47778 2024-09-24T17:13:29Z 2024-09-24T17:13:29Z

At its recent customer conference in Salt Lake City, called LEX Summit, the case management company Filevine unveiled a number of product releases and updates. Among them were several products for litigators driven by generative AI, including a first-of-its-kind tool, Depo CoPilot, that helps guide a lawyer during a deposition, and another, DemandsAI, that generates settlement demand […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47775 2024-09-24T15:22:49Z 2024-09-24T15:22:49Z

In notable news for the e-discovery industry, the legal software and services provider Elevate has acquired Redgrave Data, a consulting firm that provides services and software for e-discovery and data analytics. Redgrave’s founders Mollie Nichols, Scott Culbertson, Dave Lewis, Mark Noel, and Lindsey Worth will all join Elevate’s management team. Redgrave Data was formed in […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47617 2024-09-19T14:13:54Z 2024-09-19T14:13:54Z

Over the first three posts in this series, I’ve talked about the shrinking ownership of law practice management technology for solo and small firms — how most of the major contenders in the market have all come to be owned by just six overarching ownership groups. I’ve shown you who those groups are and which […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47758 2024-09-19T13:02:10Z 2024-09-19T13:02:10Z

In a hire designed to further accelerate its growth, Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, has named Prabhdeep Singh, who has held executive roles in technology companies such as Clover, WeWork and Uber, as chief operating officer. Singh was most recently operating partner at Armory Square Ventures, where he was a board […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47750 2024-09-18T17:06:59Z 2024-09-18T17:06:59Z

BARBRI, one of the leading companies in the field of legal education, has acquired SkillBurst Interactive, a company that provides on-demand learning programs for law firms and corporations.  “The integration of SkillBurst Interactive will introduce innovative multilingual, interactive learning solutions that align with the evolving demands of law firms and legal professionals,” BARBRI said in […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47606 2024-09-19T14:20:15Z 2024-09-18T13:42:43Z

In the first two posts in this series, I have talked about the consolidation of ownership that has occurred in recent years for law practice management technology. Whereas this market was once characterized by a variety of competing companies, virtually all of the major products are now owned by one of six ownership groups. Part […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47739 2024-09-17T19:02:56Z 2024-09-17T19:02:56Z

In today’s episode, we feature three impromptu conversations with leaders of the case management company Filevine. Last week, I was in Salt Lake City to attend LEX Summit, the Filevine customer conference. While there, I snagged three of the company’s top executives for brief, impromptu conversations about the company, its products, and the conference.  In […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47550 2024-09-19T14:21:25Z 2024-09-17T14:35:14Z

“You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” yelled the hawkers of olden days at major league baseball stadiums. In the modern days of law practice management, that may still be true. As I wrote yesterday in part one of this four-part series, the law practice management market has undergone dramatic consolidation, from what was […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47727 2024-09-17T18:57:17Z 2024-09-17T12:49:53Z

The three finalists have been announced for the 2024 KM&I LexPrize Innovation Award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the legal industry. As I noted when I first wrote about the LexPrize award in May, this is the first year of the award, which will be presented at […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47708 2024-09-16T20:45:58Z 2024-09-16T20:45:58Z

Finalists have been named for the 2024 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology, and this year, there is a twist for me: I’m honored to say I’m one of them.  The awards recognize achievement in various categories related to legal technology, such as by a law firm, an […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47675 2024-09-16T14:27:34Z 2024-09-16T14:27:34Z

Zuva, the company that spun off from AI contract review pioneer Kira when it was acquired by Litera in 2021, today released its own AI contract review tool, Zuva Analyze, which it says will enable in-house legal teams to review contracts 2-3 times faster than reviewing them manually. Developed by the same team that originally […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47547 2024-09-19T14:20:48Z 2024-09-16T12:52:41Z

Sixteen years ago marked the beginning of a sea change in law practice management technology for solo and small law firms. On March 1, 2008, a virtually unknown company out of Canada called Themis Solutions launched the first cloud-based software product for managing a law practice, called Clio. Coincidentally, just a week earlier, another company, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47704 2024-09-13T14:26:41Z 2024-09-13T14:26:41Z

Live today on the weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, we’ll get a briefing on the major upgrade to Vincent AI, the vLex AI assistant, from Robin Chesterman, global head of product, and Ed Walters, chief strategy officer, following yesterday’s announcement of major enhancements to the legal workflow assistant.  Of course, the panel will also talk about […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47699 2024-09-12T16:48:55Z 2024-09-12T16:48:55Z

Matt Rasmussen had worked for some 20 years in litigation technology and support at major law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and litigation services providers, when he wondered why mobile collections had to be so time-consuming, inefficient and invasively overbroad.  As he looked into it, he realized there was a better way to manage mobile collections. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47692 2024-09-19T20:05:27Z 2024-09-12T16:36:43Z

What if you could have an invisible guardian angel sitting on your shoulder during a deposition, whispering in your ear to point out questions you’ve asked awkwardly, inconsistencies in the witness’s testimony, and points needing follow-up or explication? In effect, that is what a new product introduced this week by Filevine can do for you. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47680 2024-09-11T22:45:39Z 2024-09-12T12:45:54Z

 Ever since Casetext released CoCounsel on March 1, 2023, the race has been on among legal tech companies to develop the most capable generative AI assistant for legal professionals. Today, vLex is releasing a major upgrade to its Vincent AI that puts it firmly in the running for that honor. I might be even more […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47670 2024-09-09T18:05:36Z 2024-09-09T18:05:36Z

In his keynote speech opening LEX Summit in Salt Lake City, Filevine founder and CEO Ryan Anderson emphasized platforms as the future of technology for law firms, criticizing the legal technology landscape as a fragmented and inefficient array of point solutions, and promising that Filevine will deliver firms a better way by bringing together everything […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47648 2024-09-04T14:09:22Z 2024-09-04T14:09:22Z

Multiple lawyers who are using the payments app Venmo in their law practices are exposing client information to the public — and they may not even know it. These accounts expose client names and sometimes other details, such as payment amounts, the nature of the representation, or even the client’s financial straits. Model Rule 1.6 […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47640 2024-09-04T12:56:22Z 2024-09-04T12:56:22Z

On Oct. 17 and 18, 2024, two of the legal industry’s leading experts on knowledge management and innovation, Patrick DiDomenico, founder and CEO of InspireKM Consulting, and Joshua Fireman, president of Fireman & Company, which is owned by Epiq, the global provider of technology-enabled legal services, will present the second-annual KM&I for Legal Conference in […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47621 2024-09-03T12:59:25Z 2024-09-03T12:59:25Z

For some lawyers, tracking time is so tedious and onerous that they leave their law firms for jobs where hourly billing is not required, such as working inhouse at a corporation. Even apart from the tedium, time tracking is often incomplete and inaccurate, failing to record all billable hours and resulting in time leakage that can […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47601 2024-08-28T17:10:55Z 2024-08-28T17:10:55Z

Assembly Software recently announced the launch of NeosAI, a set of generative AI-powered features integrated directly into the Neos case management platform, with the goal of transforming how legal professionals operate and streamlining their daily tasks. By automating a wide range of tasks, including document summarization, document generation, data extraction, OCR, and dynamic form creation, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47579 2024-08-27T17:33:35Z 2024-08-27T17:33:35Z

In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate would. This is the same company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47540 2024-08-26T13:52:28Z 2024-08-26T13:52:28Z

On Sept. 19, The Resolution Center celebrates its 30th anniversary. Long formerly known as the North Shore Community Mediation Center, it is an organization that provides conflict resolution and training services to a broad swath of communities north of Boston. I am on The Resolution Center’s board of directors, and I am writing this to […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47531 2024-08-22T18:10:43Z 2024-08-22T18:10:43Z

The chief executive officer of law practice management company CARET left that role on her accord and remains a member of the company’s board of directors, the company says. Earlier this week, Law.com reported that Keri Gohman, the former Bain Capital Ventures partner who had been CARET’s CEO since 2022, was laid off, along with […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47525 2024-08-22T16:48:04Z 2024-08-22T16:45:57Z

As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product. But today the judge overseeing the trial, 3rd […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47513 2024-08-22T15:11:42Z 2024-08-22T12:44:38Z

Spellbook, the company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review in 2022, today launched what it says is the first AI agent for law, capable of planning and executing complex, multi-step workflows. Called Spellbook Associate, the agent can plan, execute and check its work, and adapt to accomplish larger scope […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47506 2024-08-21T13:06:34Z 2024-08-21T13:06:34Z

The document automation company Gavel has launched pre-built workflows — sets of automated forms for document generation that are tailored to specific practice areas and jurisdictions, and that are free for any lawyer to test without a Gavel subscription. The new feature is launching today with three workflows for California lawyers for for divorce, probate […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47502 2024-08-20T13:02:16Z 2024-08-20T13:02:16Z

Two veterans of legal media have partnered to launch a communications firm to represent to represent legal and business clients in marketing, media relations, crisis management and more. Called LIMELIGHT, the new firm has been launched by Kenneth Gary and Erin Harrison, both former legal journalists who worked at ALM and both of whom have […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47498 2024-08-16T15:41:02Z 2024-08-16T15:41:02Z

Today on the weekly Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable, we’ll be discussing the just-concluded ILTACON, as well as some of the stories and announcements that came out of it. The show is live at 3 p.m. E.T. If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47495 2024-08-16T12:52:37Z 2024-08-16T12:52:37Z

When Eric Friedrichsen stepped into the role of chief executive officer of e-discovery company DISCO four months ago, he was taking the helm of an enterprise that had faced turbulent waters in recent years. Its founder and longtime CEO Kiwi Camara had left under a cloud of sexual harassment allegations, and its 2021 public offering […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47485 2024-08-15T17:52:38Z 2024-08-15T17:52:38Z

Imagine, if you will, a small backwater town into which one day a large shiny object falls from the sky and lands dead center on the main street of the town’s modest commercial center. The object is egg shaped, suggesting its potential for something to hatch from it, and appears to be metallic, but of […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47474 2024-08-13T14:56:20Z 2024-08-13T19:00:25Z

Last year, just ahead of ILTACON, NetDocuments introduced ndMAX, a generative AI tool built directly into the NetDocuments platform to enhance various document-related workflows, starting with PatternBuilder MAX, a “turbocharged” version of its PatternBuilder document assembly software designed to enable firms to create custom AI automations tailored to the needs of their specific practices. Now, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47467 2024-08-12T14:19:01Z 2024-08-12T14:00:09Z

UniCourt, a company that provides access to litigation data and analytics, today launched into beta a first-of-its-kind product that combines LLMs and APIs to allow its customers – which include law firms, insurers, legal tech companies, and others – to extract any data points they need from UniCourt’s collection of over 1 billion dockets and […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47463 2024-08-12T13:05:36Z 2024-08-12T13:05:36Z

It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their products. Thomson Reuters, which last year acquired the CoCounsel legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, and which later announced plans to deploy it throughout its product lines, today unveiled what […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47453 2024-08-12T12:48:06Z 2024-08-12T12:48:06Z

Aderant, a provider of business management software to larger law firms, today introduced a product designed to help law firms better allocate work among their associates.  Called viAllocate, the product helps law firms maximize billable utilization, balance associate workloads, and improve operational efficiency and profitability, Aderant says. It is designed to address the challenges many […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47445 2024-08-09T12:55:09Z 2024-08-08T14:38:37Z

The Supreme Court of Texas this week gave preliminary approval to rules that would allow the delivery of legal services in certain circumstances by licensed legal paraprofessionals and licensed court-access assistants who are not lawyers. “For years, the Court has made combating this ‘justice gap’ a top priority, and it has become clear that we […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47433 2024-08-08T12:21:55Z 2024-08-08T12:45:10Z

Earlier this year, I wrote about the beta launch of davinci, an AI tool to assist intellectual property practitioners throughout the patent prosecution process. Today, that tool emerges from beta for general availability under a new name, DeepIP, and with a new direct integration within Microsoft Word. DeepIP is an AI copilot that works directly […]]]>

Universal Migrator, [Sponsored Post] https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47422 2024-08-07T19:04:18Z 2024-08-07T18:58:28Z

Universal Migrator has added two new extractors for helping law firms migrate their data from one platform to another, bringing its total number of migration extractors to 114. It has also enhanced several of its existing extractors with additional backup options. Universal Migrator is a tool that helps law firms and legal organizations migrate their […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47420 2024-08-07T18:44:12Z 2024-08-07T16:37:11Z

For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its legal research service, particularly its headnotes and Key Number System. The validity of those copyrights will be a central issue later this month when the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47416 2024-08-07T12:30:49Z 2024-08-07T12:30:49Z

For at least two decades, artificial intelligence has been used in e-discovery to help surface and prioritize review of potentially responsive documents from large document collections. But while technology-assisted review (TAR) has traditionally been driven by AI in the form of supervised machine learning, some vendors and e-discovery professionals are starting to experiment with the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47408 2024-08-06T19:46:18Z 2024-08-06T19:46:18Z

Among the world’s top 100 private cloud computing companies are two in the legal tech sector, according to Forbes Cloud 100 2024. Included on this year’s list are Icertis, a company that provides contract intelligence software, which is ranked 39th, and Clio, a provider of law practice management software, which ranked at 56th. This is […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47389 2024-08-06T17:32:24Z 2024-08-06T16:08:41Z

Law practice management company LEAP recently announced the launch of three major AI features built directly into the platform, including LawY, a new legal AI assistant backed by human verification. In this latest installment in the LawSites video series How It Works, you get to see LEAP’s new AI assistant in action. In this video, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47394 2024-08-06T15:32:03Z 2024-08-06T14:38:03Z

Legau, a comprehensive legal document drafting platform launched in Portugal in 2021, will make its formal launch in the U.S. market at ILTACON this week, where it has been selected as one of 26 companies to participate in the conference’s Startup Hub. Designed to streamline the legal drafting process for attorneys, Legau hopes to stand […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47385 2024-08-05T16:21:02Z 2024-08-05T16:21:02Z

Ever wonder how much coffee gets consumed at a week-long legal tech conference? Well, with ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, set to convene this weekend in Nashville, organizers plan to serve some 1,500 gallons of the caffeinated brew. Organizers hope this year’s ILTACON will set an attendance record, with 3,906 […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47357 2024-08-05T14:19:21Z 2024-08-05T14:19:21Z

Within the span of five days recently in Chicago, I attended two somewhat different conferences, and at each, I found evidence that we are moving the ball forward on developing and implementing practical applications for generative AI in law. You may wonder why I even needed evidence. After all, for the last year and a […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47353 2024-08-05T13:00:28Z 2024-08-05T13:00:28Z

When it comes to big names in legal operations and legal innovation, it is hard to think of one bigger than David Cambria, who has long been described as the godfather of legal operations, including for his trailblazing work as COO and head of global operations for Fortune 50 company Archer Daniels Midland and then […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47350 2024-08-02T16:10:47Z 2024-08-02T16:10:47Z

Last week, as the law practice management company Clio announced a record $900 million funding round, the largest ever for a legal technology company, I published an exclusive LawNext podcast interview with Jack Newton, Clio’s founder and CEO, recorded a few days ahead of the announcement.  With so much interest in that story and that interview, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47348 2024-08-02T15:29:15Z 2024-08-02T15:29:15Z

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another Legaltech Week, the live 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 today: The ABA issues an opinion on the legal ethics of using generative AI. Paxton AI’s new Confidence Indicator […]]]>

Stacy Shrader, ShareFile [Sponsored Post] https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47300 2024-08-01T16:26:26Z 2024-08-01T15:22:12Z

For a law firm, choosing and deploying software raises many questions. How do I protect client confidentiality? Where does artificial intelligence fit in? What is the best software for my firm’s needs? How do I drive staff training and adoption?  In this post, experts from ShareFile and LawSites have collaborated to answer five common questions […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47324 2024-08-01T15:04:16Z 2024-08-01T15:04:16Z

I recently wrote here about an American Bar Association survey of law schools that offer AI classes. The survey found that 55% of responding law schools offer such classes. A Reuters news story picked up on that and reported, “More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI.”  The problem with that Reuters […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47246 2024-07-31T17:34:59Z 2024-07-31T17:34:59Z

Last month, KKR, a major global investment firm, announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Agiloft, the contract lifecycle management company. As part of the deal, the growth equity firm FTV Capital, already an Agiloft investor, is making an additional investment, and another growth equity firm, JMI Equity, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47291 2024-07-31T14:59:23Z 2024-07-31T14:52:37Z

Mark O’Brien, who cofounded the innovative access-to-justice organization Pro Bono Net together with Michael Hertz 25 years ago, and who has been its executive director since 2005, is stepping down from the organization Sept. 1.  In an email this morning to Pro Bono Net supporters, O’Brien said he is leaving “to embark on a long-planned […]]]>

Marc Lauritsen https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47269 2024-07-31T13:06:22Z 2024-07-31T13:06:22Z

Technology that helps people do their own legal work should be against the law. That at least is the view of some bar authorities, and the implication of regulatory proposals. Many lawyers think that any form of legal assistance not provided by a licensed attorney is unlawful. One notices the same instinct among law students. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47277 2024-07-30T13:22:25Z 2024-07-30T13:22:25Z

In its first major pronouncement on the ethics of using generative AI in law practice, the American Bar Association has issued an opinion saying that lawyers need not become experts in the technology, but must have a reasonable understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the specific generative AI technology the lawyer might use. In […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47258 2024-07-30T13:02:52Z 2024-07-30T13:02:52Z

With hallucinations continuing to haunt applications of generative AI in the legal field, Paxton AI, a startup for contract review, document drafting and legal research, today released results of a benchmarking study that showed its product achieved 93.82% average accuracy on legal research tasks.  Paxton also today released a new Confidence Indicator feature that will […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47250 2024-07-29T14:08:26Z 2024-07-29T14:06:22Z

The global legal technology company Litera said today that it has acquired FileTrail, a leading provider of information governance and records management software for law firms, corporations and highly regulated industries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. With the acquisition of the 24-year-old company, Litera expands its offerings in the areas of governance, risk […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47237 2024-07-24T14:46:51Z 2024-07-24T14:45:24Z

You have been hearing about it in the news, now see how it works. Last month, Henchman, a generative AI-driven platform that promises to deliver “the fastest contract drafting experience ever made,” announced that it was to be acquired by LexisNexis Legal & Professional. Just this week, LexisNexis said it had closed the deal.  So what […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47227 2024-07-24T21:41:04Z 2024-07-24T12:58:41Z

In reporting yesterday on the record-setting $900 million investment in law practice management company Clio, I included a list of the 10 largest previous investments in legal tech. It did not take long for me to learn that the list was incomplete. So I set about trying to come up with a more accurate list. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47219 2024-07-23T12:18:13Z 2024-07-23T12:18:13Z

As the law practice management company Clio today announced a record $900 million funding round, the largest ever for a cloud legal technology company, at a whopping $3 billion valuation, Clio’s founder and CEO Jack Newton joins LawNext for an exclusive podcast interview.  In a conversation recorded last week, ahead of today’s announcement, Newton and […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47207 2024-07-24T13:03:35Z 2024-07-23T12:00:58Z

The law practice management company Clio today announced a record-setting raise of $900 million, at a valuation of a whopping $3 billion, in an oversubscribed Series F investment round that the company says will accelerate its ability to continue to build and develop its multi-product platform and expand its market both to larger firms and […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47199 2024-07-18T13:17:59Z 2024-07-18T13:17:59Z

The law practice management platform Rocket Matter this week rolled out the next generation of its software, a “reimagined” version of the product that emphasizes flexibility and customization to meet the varying needs of different law firms and different practice areas. When it launched in 2008, Rocket Matter was one of the first of a […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47192 2024-07-16T14:45:59Z 2024-07-16T14:45:59Z

The law practice management company Clio today unveiled Clio Accounting, providing legal-specific bookkeeping and accounting as an add-on to U.S. customers of its Clio Manage platform. I have not had an opportunity to see a demonstration of it, but Clio said in an announcement that it includes features to sync information from Clio Manage to […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47169 2024-07-15T13:33:25Z 2024-07-15T13:33:25Z

In a further expansion of the CoCounsel AI legal assistant it acquired last year through its purchase of Casetext, Thomson Reuters today unveiled CoCounsel Drafting, a document drafting tool that works within Microsoft Word and that leverages both the generative AI capabilities of CoCounsel and the practical content of Practical Law. Launching today in the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47181 2024-07-15T00:36:47Z 2024-07-15T13:00:22Z

The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software is today introducing three artificial intelligence features built directly into its all-in-one practice management platform – including one with a unique human-in-the-loop twist. “LEAP’s AI solutions are not here to replace lawyers or the work they do, but support and complement their expertise by allowing them to […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=47151 2024-07-12T14:22:15Z 2024-07-12T14:22:15Z

Citators — tools that validate whether a case or statute is still good law — have always been an essential component of a full-featured legal research platform. But in this age of AI-generated hallucinations, they may be more important than ever before. Just two products have long dominated the legal research market as the gold […]]]>