New From Fastcase: Instantly Add Public Hyperlinks to Case Citations in Legal Documents
A brief before and after using Cloud Linking.
The legal research company Fastcase is introducing a new feature today, Cloud Linking, that automatically converts case citations in legal documents into hyperlinks to the full-text cases.
Cloud Linking is notable because the links it creates are public and free — anyone can…
Podcast: How Axiom is Using AI to Modernize Legal Services
Recently, the tech-enabled legal services company Axiom announced its first AI offering, AxiomAI. Paul Carr, president of global strategic projects at Axiom, believes this technology and AI in general could be transformative for the legal industry.
In the latest episode of Law Technology Now, I have a conversation with Carr about how Axiom…
Judicata Readies Release of Powerful Tool to Analyze Briefs, Like Moneyball for Motions
The legal research platform Judicata will soon roll out a powerful tool that uses statistical insights to provide detailed analysis and grading of the strengths, weaknesses, thoroughness and drafting of briefs.
Judicata founder Itai Gurari describes the new tool, called Clerk, as moneyball for motions. “Just as different batters have different…
Pondering the Clio Cloud Conference: What Makes a Legal Tech Conference Great?
Led by CEO Jack Newton, Clio staff celebrate the wrap of the fifth Clio Cloud Conference.
What makes a legal technology conference great? I’ve been thinking a lot about this since leaving the fifth Clio Cloud Conference earlier this week. I’ve attended all five and uniformly praised each one. After the…
My Podcast Interview with CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Future Course
At the Clio Cloud Conference in New Orleans on Monday, I sat down with Clio cofounder and CEO Jack Newton to discuss the announcements he made during his opening keynote. We talk about Clio’s ground-up reengineering and redesign of its practice management platform, Clio’s new goals and directions as it starts its…
Bloomberg Law Launches AI Research Tool to Find Key Points of Law
Bloomberg Law today rolled out to its subscribers new tool, Points of Law, that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help legal researchers quickly find language critical to a court’s reasoning and to support their legal arguments.
As a researcher scrolls through a court opinion, Points of Law highlights the essential language in the…
New Judicial Analytics Platform Focuses on Los Angeles But Plans to Expand Nationally
Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about…
At Its Annual Conference, Clio Unveils New Design, New Direction
Nine years after it launched as the first commercial, cloud-based practice management platform, Clio has been teasing the legal community with promises of major news, symbolized by the hashtag #newclio. Earlier this month, I was given a preview of the news during a media day visit to Clio’s headquarters in Vancouver, B.C. But,…
New Hate Crime App Helps Victims Find Help and Resources
Last March, I participated in a day-long design sprint held with the goal of developing a web application to assist hate-crime victims. Now, that app has been released.
The design event was held at Suffolk University Law School in Boston and was sponsored by Suffolk and the ABA Center for Innovation, along…
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Launches Podcast
Here’s another show to add to your podcast-listening list — a new podcast by Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who President Trump fired last March, called Stay Tuned With Preet.
In the weekly podcast, Bharara plans to speak with prominent judges, justice department officials,…
More Details on the Partnership Between Evolve Law and Above the Law
Two years ago this week, I reported on the launch of Evolve Law, a for-profit membership organization aimed at driving technology innovation and adoption in the legal industry. Cofounders Jules Miller and Mary Juetten told me at the time that they hoped to attract innovative, early-stage companies as members and…