One of the hottest areas of development and growth in legal tech these days is personal injury law. Just last week, Eve, an AI platform for plaintiff-side firms, raised $103 million, and now today comes news that another AI platform for personal injury law, EvenUp, has raised a $150 million…

For the second time in a month, I attended a first-time conference. And, once again, the inaugural conference exceeded my expectations.

Several weeks ago, I wrote about Kaleidoscope, the debut conference produced by 8am. This time, I found myself at the Client Experience Summit, the inaugural conference of the legal technology company

Utah has joined the growing movement to rethink attorney licensure in the United States, as the Utah Supreme Court approved Rule 14-703A, establishing an alternate pathway to becoming a licensed attorney that emphasizes hands-on legal training over traditional standardized testing.

The new route, approved Sept. 24 and which will be open to applications…

The legal technology company Altorney today announced the general availability of MARC, a generative AI-powered document review system designed to automate first-pass review decisions before documents enter traditional review platforms.

After first announcing MARC last March and going through a pilot period with corporate legal departments, the company is now releasing the product…

Nearly two years ago on this podcast, we discussed the American Arbitration Association’s innovation initiatives – and specifically its embrace of generative AI – with Bridget Mary McCormack, who became its president and CEO in 2023 after having been chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and Diana Didia, its chief information and innovation officer.…

Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, has raised $103 million in Series B funding at over a $1 billion valuation, it said today. The round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Menlo Ventures.

This follows the company Series…

Content is the raw material of generative AI, so it only makes sense that an AI-driven contract automation platform would want to acquire what is said to be the world’s largest database of contracts and clauses.

That is exactly what happened today as SimpleDocs, a company with an AI contract drafting, redlining and review…

A Reddit post last week ignited a firestorm of speculation across the legal industry about the long-term prospects of legal AI company Harvey, with some dismissing it as little more than a ChatGPT wrapper. But is that criticism missing the point?

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The legal technology company Case Status today unveiled Client Intelligence, an AI-driven platform that the company says represents a significant shift from reactive client management to predictive client engagement.

The company announced the launch earlier today at its inaugural Client Experience Summit in Charleston, S.C., positioning the platform as a “system of action”…

A study examining artificial intelligence adoption in legal aid organizations has revealed that these resource-constrained nonprofits are embracing AI technology at nearly double the rate of the broader legal profession, driven by the urgent need to serve millions of underserved Americans.

The survey, The AI Advantage: How Technology Can Help Bridge the Justice Gap,…

Will AI create a golden age for lawyers — or make them obsolete? In her latest column for LawNext, AI strategist Jennifer Case explores a fascinating paradox: As AI tools lower barriers to legal services, they are simultaneously creating more legal work and potentially eliminating the need for lawyers altogether.

Jennifer…

Briefpoint, a legal technology company that uses AI to automate much of the drudgework of propounding and responding to discovery requests in litigation, today introduced Autodoc, a new AI-powered feature that automates the process of responding to document-production requests — finding and assembling the responsive documents in seconds and drafting the fully formatted…