This Friday, Feb. 13, is the deadline to vote. Your votes determine the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW.
Below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Which of these companies will end up lucky on Friday the 13th?
Remember, your votes…
Calling it “the industry’s first scaled agentic AI tool for fact investigation and e-discovery,” DISCO today announced an agentic AI enhancement to its Cecilia Q&A tool, which the company says is designed to handle large-scale e-discovery matters with millions of documents and terabytes of data.
The Austin-based legal technology company’s new tool adds what…
As I wrote earlier this week, it was the shot heard ’round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. Meanwhile, AI agents now have their own social network, Moltbook, while another new site is enabling them to rent humans to…
When Anthropic announced legal skills inside its Cowork environment this week, shares of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer tanked. Investors appeared to price in a new competitive threat from Claude.
But Ken Crutchfield believes the market got it wrong.
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“I feel the market reaction does not reflect the reality…
The Masters Conference, which just two months ago announced new leadership and plans to launch a new division, Masters AI Legal, today announced that it has partnered with Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, and former chief growth officer at Reveal.
Casey will anchor…
To read today’s news, you’d think it was the shot heard ’round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least.
“Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,” reports The Guardian. “Anthropic’s Move Into Legal, Data Services Sinks Software Stocks,” says Bloomberg. “A selloff in … stocks…
In 2013, the Legal Services Corporation published the landmark study, Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice. The report forcefully made the case that technology could be a powerful – indeed, essential – tool in narrowing the justice gap, and its recommendations helped shape the last…
In video remarks that opened the second day of the Legal Services Corporation’s annual Innovations in Technology Conference in San Antonio last week, Bridget Mary McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, urged attendees to engage in “radical collaboration.”
“AI alone won’t…
With just two weeks left to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received.
Remember, your votes determine the 15 companies that get the opportunity to face off in a live pitch competition on…
Where does all the pressure building in legal tech concentrate? On unauthorized practice of law (UPL), says Ken Crutchfield — and something’s got to give.
In Part 1 of his series on “The New Physics of Legal Tech,” Crutchfield examined the macro forces shaping the industry. Now, in Part 2, he zeroes in on…
In this episode of LawNext, we talk with Ryan Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Filevine, and Sona Sulakian, former CEO and co-founder of Pincites, about Filevine’s acquisition of the AI-powered contract redlining company. The deal, which closed in December, marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of the year. Even more notably for this traditionally litigation-focused…
A new study examining bias in AI-generated video reveals that the leading AI video creation tools significantly underrepresent women in the legal profession, depicting female lawyers at rates far below their actual numbers in the workforce.
AI videos also underrepresent lawyers of color, although by a lesser percentage.
According to research published by Kapwing,…
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