Backstory: How Ted Turner Reshaped Legal Media (and My Career)

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Ted Turner died yesterday at 87, and the obituaries are appropriately full of CNN, the Braves, the America’s Cup, the bison, and the billion-dollar pledge to the U.N.

But there is a small, largely forgotten chapter of his story that is notable for its impact on shaping legal media as we know it today. It…

LexisNexis Expands Lexis+ with Protégé, Adding Agentic Skills, Collaboration Workrooms, and Customer-Held Encryption Keys

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Less than three months after replacing Lexis+ AI with Lexis+ with Protégé as its flagship legal AI platform, LexisNexis today is announcing a substantial expansion of that platform – what the company is calling its “next evolution,” combining significant build-outs of existing capabilities with several completely new ones.

The expansion, announced today, layers six…

California Bar Proposes Rule Requiring Lawyers to Verify Every AI Output — and Five Other AI-Focused Ethics Changes

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When using any technology — including AI — a lawyer “must independently review, verify, and exercise professional judgment regarding any output generated by the technology that is used in connection with representing a client.”

That language appears in a new comment to Rule 1.1 on competence proposed by the State Bar of California’s Standing Committee…

Everlaw and Legora Announce Integration to Connect Discovery and Drafting

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Everlaw and Legora have announced a technology partnership that will allow litigation teams to access documents stored in Everlaw directly within Legora’s drafting and collaboration environment.

The integration is designed to close the gap between the discovery and drafting phases of litigation. Under the arrangement, attorneys working in Legora — whether on witness statements, deposition…

Legal Marketing Association President Rachel Shields Williams On AI, Innovation, and Why People Still Come First

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Recorded live at the annual meeting of the Legal Marketing Association in New Orleans, this episode features my conversation with Rachel Shields Williams, president of the LMA and director of client intelligence at Sidley Austin, where she has spent 17 years building out roles at the intersection of marketing, business development, knowledge management and data.…

8am Now Guarantees Next-Day Payments To Its LawPay Customers

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8am, the parent company of a suite of practice and business management products for lawyers and accountants, is now guaranteeing next-day payments for customers of its LawPay and CPACharge payments platforms, it said today.

The company also announced new capabilities that it says streamline billing and improve visibility into financial performance for its customers.

The…

The Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 1 — How Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis Helped Support America’s Immigration Surveillance Machine

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[Note: Since first publishing this post, I have made several edits and updates based on information provided by Thomson Reuters and other sources. In most cases, I have indicated where I have changed or added information.]

For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools…

Questel Launches QaECTER, a New AI Model Claiming State-of-the-Art Performance in Patent Search

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Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval.

The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are significantly larger, across every query type, technology domain and jurisdiction tested.

QaECTER is the product of Questel’s…