Calling it a breakthrough that “sets a new standard for AI-powered legal research quality,” Jus Mundi, the AI-powered research platform for international law and arbitration, today announced the launch of Jus AI 2, the second generation of the AI assistant it launched last year, saying it provides the solution to one of legal AI’s…

The problem of legal timekeeping is as old as the billable hour itself. Lawyers either interrupt their work to record time contemporaneously, breaking their flow and concentration, or they reconstruct their time retroactively, inevitably missing billable work and resulting in weaker narratives for clients. 

Enter Ajax, an AI-powered time-tracking platform that aims to solve…

Forbes is out this week with its 10th annual Cloud 100 list, tracking the top companies in cloud computing, and four legal tech companies made the list, while one dropped off from last year.

Two other legal tech companies were highlighted as rising stars — “startups on track to be some of the…

Daniel Lewis has witnessed legal technology’s evolution from multiple vantage points that few others can claim. As a Stanford law student in 2012, he and classmate Nik Reed co-founded the legal research startup Ravel Law with the audacious goal of taking on LexisNexis and Westlaw using machine learning and data analytics – at a…

I took advantage of my flight home from Austin to write my review of 8am’s inaugural Kaleidoscope conference, which I’d just attended there. I published that review earlier today, and you can see it in full here.

Once done with that, I pulled out my Kindle and returned to reading Travels with Charley,…

Attending the inaugural Kaleidoscope conference in Austin last week, I couldn’t shake a strange feeling: I’d been here before. That was impossible, of course, as this was 8am’s very first customer conference. But the energy, the setup, the vibe all felt uncannily familiar. It was, as Yogi Berra might have said, déjà vu all over…

Two weeks after the company formerly known as AffiniPay unveiled its rebranding as 8am, it convened its inaugural Kaleidoscope customer conference in Austin today, where its chief product officer, Leslie Witt, took to the stage to deliver a keynote address in which she announced key platform integrations, new AI-powered tools, and expanded financial services…

Red Panda Systems, a provider of IT and cybersecurity services for law firms, has selected Universal Migrator to accelerate document migrations into the popular LPMS Clio. The collaboration is based on Universal Migrator’s continued role as a trusted solution for technology partners tasked with helping law firms modernize their technology stacks.

As a Clio Certified…

Twenty years ago today, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the city of New Orleans and surrounding parishes. Eighty percent of the city was flooded, many people died, and many others lost their homes.

For many of us, the images from those awful days are seared into our collective memory – the…

As I continue to play catch up on some of the news announced during ILTACON, the e-discovery company Everlaw made two notable announcements there: The expansion from private to open beta of its AI Deep Dive, a tool that can answer complex questions about large document collections, and its having secured FedRAMP certification for its…

In February 2024, I wrote here about the launch of Bench IQ, a company that is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written rulings, but also their rulings from the bench and other data.

At the time, the company had just…

I am often asked about the best legal tech conferences for solo and small firm lawyers. Having previously attended and spoken at the State  Bar of Georgia’s law practice management conference, which is slated for Sept. 18-19, I can strongly recommend you check it out if you are in the vicinity.

The theme of this…