OpenAI this week announced improvements to its ChatGPT that will allow it to remember more about your earlier chats and build on those to deliver more tailored results. As a teaser to demonstrate this new capability, it is offering users the opportunity to have it describe what it knows about you. Needless to say, I…

Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists discusses the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation, is back today, live at 3 p.m. E.T.

If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for all future sessions. You can…

For the second time in the long and winding road of the copyright lawsuit brought by Thomson Reuters against the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, the trial has been postponed on the eve of its start date.

Although a pretrial conference had been set for yesterday and the trial scheduled for the week of…

Universal Migrator has announced that its data migration platform now integrates with SimpleLaw, a practice management solution for small- and mid-sized law firms. The new connector enables seamless migration of firm data into SimpleLaw’s platform, dramatically reducing the time required for law firms to make the transition.

The announcement marks another milestone in Universal…

In a newly released report with implications for legal technology and access to justice, Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession and Legal Design Lab, in partnership with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County (LASC), the largest trial court in the United States, offer a comprehensive analysis…

In January, a merciless firestorm swept through the Pacific Palisades and surrounding areas of Los Angeles, becoming the most destructive wildfire in the city’s history. Driven by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds and fueled by record-dry conditions, the Palisades Fire destroyed over 6,800 structures, burned nearly 24,000 acres, and dramatically altered the lives of thousands…

This week on How it Works, we take a fresh look at the LINK App from Mobile Helix, a tool designed to enable lawyers to securely access documents and email from their tablets and smartphones. To demonstrate how it works, I am joined by Seth Hallem, CEO, cofounder and chief architect, who shows us…

For the first time in its nine-year history, the Startup Alley pitch competition ended in a tie.

The pitch competition is the opening event of Techshow, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference. Fifteen legal tech startups competed, with the winner selected by a vote of the live audience.

Those 15 were selected…

“April is the cruellist month,” T.S. Eliot wrote in his classic poem, “The Waste Land,” and the same might have been said for the attendees navigating a waste land of a different sort last week – the vast empty waste land of the McCormick Convention Center in Chicago, where the American Bar Association’s Techshow moved…

When I speak with leaders at large law firms, the conversation often turns to the unique challenges they face in today’s complex legal landscape. These firms, managing massive litigation portfolios and handling intricate, high-stakes cases, are under increasing pressure to deliver faster results while maintaining exceptional quality and meeting stringent security and compliance…

As I reported yesterday in an exclusive at this blog, two leading international legal transformation organizations, the Digital Legal Exchange (DLEx) and the Liquid Legal Institute (LLI), have joined forces in a strategic union that brings together more than 1,500 members representing…

If you are attending ABA TECHSHOW this week, do not miss the Startup Alley pitch competition that kicks off the conference at 5 p.m. Central time tomorrow (April 2). This is the 40th anniversary of TECHSHOW and the ninth annual Startup Alley, and this year’s pitch competition promises to be epic.

Not only…