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Using Litigation Analytics Is Now ‘Table Stakes,’ Lex Machina Survey Finds

Using Litigation Analytics Is Now ‘Table Stakes,’ Lex Machina Survey Finds

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 22, 2023

Way back in 2018, as an increasing number of legal technology companies were launching litigation analytics products, I wrote about the trend in a post on Above the Law, where I posited that it could someday be malpractice for a lawyer not to use analytics.

Now, a survey out today from Lex…

Law.com Radar Expands with Coverage of State Court Lawsuits and More Granular New-Suit Alerts

Law.com Radar Expands with Coverage of State Court Lawsuits and More Granular New-Suit Alerts

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM, publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar, a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

It later added transactional news…

On LawNext: Casetext’s Three Top Execs On CoCounsel, GPT-4 and ‘A New Age in the Practice of Law’ 

On LawNext: Casetext’s Three Top Execs On CoCounsel, GPT-4 and ‘A New Age in the Practice of Law’ 

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 21, 2023

Now in its 10th year in business, Casetext has introduced a series of unique products over the years that have cemented its reputation as a leading innovator in legal technology and AI. Now, at time when seemingly every legal tech developer is rushing to incorporate the GPT…

LeanLaw, Cloud-Based Legal Financial System for Law Firms, Raises $4M Series A Round

LeanLaw, Cloud-Based Legal Financial System for Law Firms, Raises $4M Series A Round

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 21, 2023

LeanLaw, a company that provides a financial operating system for small and mid-sized law firms, said today it has raised $4 million in a Series A financing round led by FINTOP Capital.

Based in Boise, Id., LeanLaw’s cloud-based product provides IOLTA trust accounting, time and expense tracking, billing, matter management, electronic payments, and…

Few Legal Professionals Using Or Planning to Use Generative AI So Far, LexisNexis Survey Finds

Few Legal Professionals Using Or Planning to Use Generative AI So Far, LexisNexis Survey Finds

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 21, 2023

Few legal professionals are using or planning to use generative AI tools in their legal work, according to a survey conducted March 15-16 and published this week by LexisNexis Legal & Professional.

The survey finds that legal professionals — the survey polled 1,176 U.S. lawyers and 1,239 law students — are generally more aware…

On the St. Paddy’s Day Edition of Legaltech Week Live At 3 ET: PR Pet Peeves in Advance of Legalweek and, BTW, that Whole GPT-4 Thing

On the St. Paddy’s Day Edition of Legaltech Week Live At 3 ET: PR Pet Peeves in Advance of Legalweek and, BTW, that Whole GPT-4 Thing

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 17, 2023

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, so bring your green beer and join us live at 3 p.m. ET for Legaltech Week, where our regular group of panelists come together to discuss the top stories of the week in legal tech and innovation.

With Legalweek starting Monday and all our panelists getting deluged with PR pitches,…

On LawNext Podcast: As He Steps Down As Dean, Gordon Smith Reflects On His Mission To Make BYU Law ‘One Of The Most Innovative Law Schools in the Country’

On LawNext Podcast: As He Steps Down As Dean, Gordon Smith Reflects On His Mission To Make BYU Law ‘One Of The Most Innovative Law Schools in the Country’

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 15, 2023

In 2018, two years after D. Gordon Smith became dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, he told an audience of law school advisors, “I want BYU to be known as, if not the most innovative law school in the country, then one of the most innovative law schools…

GPT Takes the Bar Exam Again; This Time It Scores Among Top 10% of Test Takers

GPT Takes the Bar Exam Again; This Time It Scores Among Top 10% of Test Takers

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 14, 2023

Remember earlier this year when two legal scholars and scientists had GPT 3.5 take the multiple-choice portion of the bar exam and it failed to pass? Well, the second time’s a charm, as GPT has now passed not only the multiple-choice portion, but also the essay portion, and scored around the top 10% of…

New Product, Josef Q, Uses OpenAI’s Tech To Transform Policies and Regulations Into Digital Q&A Tools

New Product, Josef Q, Uses OpenAI’s Tech To Transform Policies and Regulations Into Digital Q&A Tools

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 14, 2023

Josef, the Australia-based no-code automation platform for legal professionals, is next week launching the beta version of a new product, Josef Q, that uses advanced AI to transform policies and regulations — such as those pertaining to privacy, data security, HR and procurement — into digital Q&A tools.

For businesses, the tool will allow…

Nexl, A No-Data-Entry CRM Platform for Law Firms, Raises $4M

Nexl, A No-Data-Entry CRM Platform for Law Firms, Raises $4M

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 13, 2023

Nexl, a no-data-entry CRM platform for lawyers, has raised $4 million in a financing round led by Australian-based B2B venture capital firm EVP with follow-on participation from The Legal Tech Fund, Vulpes and Saniel Ventures.

Nexl said it will use the investment to accelerate the development of its core product,…

How AI Has Become Increasingly Practical In Law and Where We Are Heading

How AI Has Become Increasingly Practical In Law and Where We Are Heading

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 13, 2023

[Editor’s note: This is the introduction to an article published in the free resource directory on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. It is written by Marc Lauritsen, president of Capstone Practice Systems.]

You probably haven’t heard enough yet about ChatGPT and related developments. Let me bring you up to speed. Just kidding! We’ve been drowning…

Today on Legaltech Week: Our Review of ABA TECHSHOW, More GPT in Law, and More DoNotPay

Today on Legaltech Week: Our Review of ABA TECHSHOW, More GPT in Law, and More DoNotPay

By Bob Ambrogi
on March 10, 2023

It’s Friday, so it’s time again for Legaltech Week, where our regular group of panelists come together to discuss the top stories of the week in legal tech and innovation. This week, we’ll do a post-mortem on ABA TECHSHOW, and also talk about other legal tech stories in the news this week.

Join us…

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Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists' roundtable, Legaltech Week.

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