Last July, I reviewed PDF+, a PDF tool for trial lawyers from ExhibitView Solutions, a company that has developed several products for trial preparation and presentation. As I noted then, PDF+ is designed to be a more agile alternative to full-featured PDF programs such as Adobe Pro DC or Nuance Power…

What matters most to clients in choosing a lawyer?

Most practicing lawyers will have an opinion about that, but even better than an opinion is hard-and-fast data. And that is what is provided in the 2017 Legal Trends Report, compiled by practice management company Clio.

As part of its report, released last…

The second part of my two-part column on “The Innovation Gap” is now posted at Above the Law. (Actually, it was posted a week ago, but I was so busy with Legalweek in New York that I did not get to mentioning it here.)

If you missed the first part, my…

At Legalweek in New York, I caught up with Josh Becker, CEO of legal analytics company Lex Machina. Had no idea until we finished talking that he was running off moments later to deliver a keynote on legal analytics and the future of data-driven law.

Becker talked about developments with Lex…

Daniel Lewis was just in his second year at Stanford Law School when he had an idea for a different way to do legal research, as I recounted in this 2014 ABA Journal article. His idea was to display search results visually, along a cluster map that shows the relationships among cases and…

In this interview recorded at Legalweek, I speak with Jonah Paransky, executive vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, which offers technology for enterprise management of legal matters and legal spend.

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At Legalweek in New York, I sat down with Bahar Ansari, founder and CEO of practice management company Case.one, to learn more about the company and discuss several features announced at the show, including Alexa integration, a chatbot for client intake, document assembly, and AI-powered file search.

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On Monday, I blogged about the launch by ROSS Intelligence, the AI-based legal research platform, of EVA, a free product that analyzes briefs and performs various functions, including determining whether the cases they cite are still good law.

After hearing about EVA, the folks at Casetext — who have their own brief analyzer,

The folks at ROSS Intelligence are sometimes secretive about their artificial intelligence-based legal research platform, limiting access to and even demonstrations of the platform to paying customers. The rest of us have been left to wonder what all the buzz is about, and we’ve been wondering all the more since October, when…

I’ve written on this blog about Tali, a productivity assistant that allows lawyers and other professionals to track time using voice commands through the Amazon Echo or other Alexa-enabled device, and also about Workspace Assistant, a tool from Thomson Reuters Elite that similarly allows lawyers to perform time management functions via Alexa-enabled devices.

Now comes…

The e-discovery technology company Logikcull has raised $25 million in Series B funding, its CEO and founder Andy Wilson announced this morning in a LinkedIn post.

New Enterprise Associates, a global venture capital firm specializing in technology and healthcare, led the round, with participation from previous investors OpenView Venture Partners and

Two years ago yesterday, at a briefing for journalists and bloggers, Thomson Reuters let drop a tantalizing tidbit about a product it was developing based on IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence platform. TR offered only crumbs of details, saying the product would help corporate legal and corporate compliance users untangle the sometimes-confusing…