Earlier this month, a legal tech startup called Fortuna Arbitration launched what it says is the first true AI judge – an automated arbitration system called Arbitrus.ai that the company claims can fully replace human arbitrators in resolving legal disputes. The system promises to cut the cost of arbitration from an average of…

Baretz+Brunelle, which describes itself as a growth advisory firm to elite businesses in the legal industry, has acquired LexFusion, a company that provides go-to-market sales representation of a portfolio of companies acr0ss major categories of legal technology.

LexFusion was founded in 2020 by two well-known veterans of the legal industry, Joe…

Recently, I wrote here about the AI Smackdown presented at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered by three leading platforms – Lexis+AI, Westlaw Precision AI, and vLex’s Vincent AI.

Having been…

Patlytics, an AI-powered patent workflow platform founded just last year, said today that it has closed a $14 million Series A round, on top of a $4.5 million seed round last April, bringing its total funding to $21 million, all within a nine-month span.

This latest round was led by global…

When legal intelligence company vLex released a major upgrade to its Vincent AI last September, I wrote that it might just be the most capable generative AI assistant in the legal market. Now, vLex is releasing another major upgrade to Vincent AI that pushes it further beyond traditional legal research and document…

Last March, I wrote here about SingleFile, a company whose mission is to help businesses navigate complex regulatory environments effortlessly by automating outdated filing processes and leveraging AI technology in a unified cloud platform.

Today, it took a major step in driving that mission forward with news that it has raised $9…

When former Wall Street lawyer Jonathan Petts joined forces in 2016 with Rohan Pavuluri, then a research assistant in Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab, and Mark Hansen, a software engineer, to create Upsolve, they had a simple but powerful vision: make bankruptcy filing as accessible as online tax preparation for Americans crushed by…

Legal technology startup Deposely today announced the launch of Deposely Essentials, a free suite of AI-powered tools for analyzing deposition transcripts, while also previewing its broader platform that provides comprehensive AI assistance for the entire deposition lifecycle.

The Bellevue, Wash., company’s Essentials program will initially offer an AI Narrative Summary Generator that automatically…

ContractPodAi, a contract lifecycle management provider, has launched Leah Marketplace, a platform that enables enterprises to access and deploy specialized artificial intelligence applications for legal use cases. The marketplace features applications developed in collaboration with major professional services firms and alternative legal service providers.

The platform includes domain-specific solutions from PwC and KPMG,…

E-discovery company Exterro today announced the forthcoming launch of a remote mobile device collection capability that aims to streamline the process of gathering mobile data for e-discovery and digital forensics investigations.

The company’s Remote Mobile Discovery product, set for general availability next month, allows legal teams to remotely collect and review mobile device data…

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How do AI-driven legal research platforms — specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions — stack up against each other?

That was the question at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers…