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In a pair of AI announcements this week, LexisNexis said that it has significantly enhanced the speed and capabilities of its Lexis+ AI legal AI Assistant, and also that it has launched the comme...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/true-to-its-name-lexisnexis-unveils-new-ai-capabilities-for-both-its-lexis-legal-service-and-its-nexis-news-service.html

You may have noticed of late that many of your video meetings have an unfamiliar attendee — a meeting bot, invited by one of the human participants, that produces a recording or transcript when...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/launching-today-the-first-meeting-bot-specifically-for-legal-professionals-for-use-in-depositions-hearings-and-more.html

Almost exactly one year ago, a new legal tech startup, The Contract Network, came out of stealth, with a mission to “radically accelerate the time for contract negotiations” through an AI-po...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/lawnext-podcast-how-the-contract-network-is-changing-contracts-for-good-with-founder-and-ceo-jim-wagner.html

Live today on Legaltech Week, the panel will be joined by special guest Jake Heller, cofounder of Casetext and now head of product, CoCounsel, at Thomson Reuters, to discuss the news announced ea...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-todays-legaltech-week-special-guest-jake-heller-casetext-cofounder-joins-to-discuss-the-latest-cocounsel-news.html

Four years. No institutional capital. An incredible co-founder. Tenacious execution. Lucky timing. And a belief that what we were doing was important. Simply put, it was as rollercoaster. Dashboa...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/guest-post-my-thoughts-one-week-after-selling-my-legaltech-company-to-bloomberg.html

Debuting today is a new product, KLapper, that is a DIY legal virtual assistant builder, powered by generative AI, and designed specifically for law firm knowledge management and innovation teams...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/launching-today-a-gen-ai-no-code-virtual-assistant-builder-for-law-firm-km-and-innovation-teams.html

ClaimScore, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help detect fraudulent claims in class action lawsuits, has closed a $3.15 million seed funding round led by ROC Venture Group, a privat...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/claimscore-startup-using-ai-to-target-fraud-in-class-action-claims-raises-3-15m-in-oversubscribed-round.html

Thomson Reuters, continuing to build on its acquisition last June of Casetext and its CoCounsel generative AI legal assistant for a whopping $650 million cash, today disclosed plans to deploy CoC...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/thomson-reuters-lays-out-plan-to-provide-cocounsel-ai-assistant-across-every-professional-vertical-it-serves.html

With so much focus on the use of large language models in law practice, the Kelvin Large Language Model – or KL3M (pronounced CLEM) for short – stands out as distinct for two reasons. For o...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-lawnext-all-about-kl3m-the-first-llm-built-from-scratch-for-legal-with-273-ventures-jillian-bommarito.html

Every year, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) hands out its Webby Awards, which honor excellence on the internet and recognize influential creators and brands. There ar...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/of-all-this-years-webby-awards-honorees-just-one-is-a-legal-tech-company-you-can-vote-for-it-by-april-18.html

The global legal research company vLex today announced the launch of Vincent AI Document Analyze, a new tool in its suite of generative AI features that enables legal professionals to analyze lit...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/two-launches-today-from-vlex-a-gen-ai-document-analyzer-for-litigation-and-transactions-and-a-co-development-lab-to-help-customers-adapt-ai.html

Thomson Reuters has launched a global Developer Portal giving access to over 100 APIs, providing tax, legal, risk and fraud professionals with tools to more easily integrate their workflows with ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/thomson-reuters-launches-developer-portal-giving-access-to-over-100-apis-for-legal-tax-risk-and-fraud.html

Two teams of law students, as part of their education at Brigham Young University Law School, have developed applications targeting issues of access to justice, and today, on the last day of clas...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/law-students-in-byu-laws-lawx-program-develop-two-applications-targeting-access-to-justice.html

While the last few years have brought an abundance of new and innovative legal tech products to market, the fact of the matter is that not every new product will succeed. Inevitably, for whatever...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/the-five-most-momentous-legal-tech-fails.html

If you missed it last Friday, here is Legaltech Week for April 5, 2024. Among our topics: Banning “nonlawyer,” updates from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, lawyer chas...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/miss-last-fridays-legaltech-week-heres-the-video-among-our-topics-should-we-ban-nonlawyer.html

The e-discovery company CS Disco today announced that its board of directors has named Eric Friedrichsen as president and chief executive officer, filling the slot vacated when the company’s co...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/following-departure-of-its-founder-e-discovery-company-disco-names-new-ceo.html

Litera today released a new product that uses generative artificial intelligence to create a database of corporate deal terms from a law firm’s own documents, in order to give legal teams easy ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/new-product-from-litera-uses-gen-ai-to-create-database-of-corporate-deal-terms-from-a-firms-own-documents.html

I am not a dictator (although some in my family may at times disagree). But I know that, for many lawyers and legal professionals, dictation is the only way to go. If you are one of them, you may...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/are-you-a-dictator-then-philips-new-integration-with-nuance-dragons-ai-speech-recognition-may-be-for-you.html

Timing is everything, it is said, and so it was either ironic or fateful that Maptician — developed as a hoteling platform to help law firms and businesses manage office space — launched in ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-lawnext-how-maptician-is-helping-law-firms-optimize-hybrid-office-space-with-ceo-alaa-pasha.html

Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal, a project management a...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/as-it-continues-to-expand-beyond-legal-research-bloomberg-law-acquires-legal-project-management-platform-dashboard-legal.html

I realized today that my LawNext podcast recently hit a milestone — its 25oth episode. In fact, with the latest episode posted this week, we are up to 254 episodes. All 254 are shown in the ima...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/the-lawnext-podcast-surpasses-250-episodes-of-chronicling-the-innovators-and-entrepreneurs-who-are-driving-whats-next-in-law.html

With the goal of making legal scholarship freely available outside of “proprietary and predatory frameworks,” Yale Law School has launched Law Archive, a free and open archive for publishing ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/with-goal-of-promoting-open-access-to-legal-scholarship-yale-law-school-launches-law-archive.html

With the tagline “Making Knowledge Work,” the document management company iManage is enormously successful within the legal industry, with more than 4,000 customers across six continents, inc...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/on-lawnext-how-imanage-is-making-knowledge-work-for-legal-professionals-with-ceo-neil-araujo.html

It is only Wednesday, but already this week has brought news of four notable investment deals in legal tech. Luminance Luminance, a UK-based company that uses artificial intelligence to automate ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/legal-tech-investment-news-this-week-luminance-for-contracts-scrut-for-grc-tre-for-crm-vxt-for-voip.html

In news that is perhaps an indicator of the legal industry’s interest in generative AI, the document management company NetDocuments said today that its launch of PatternBuilder MAX AI was its ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/netdocuments-says-its-patternbuilder-max-ai-is-its-most-successful-product-launch-by-a-factor-of-10.html

As a cloud-based CRM and marketing platform for law firms, Lawmatics has always featured a standard dashboard where users can get an at-a-glance overview of their activity and metrics. But now, ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/lawmatics-new-custom-dashboards-let-your-law-firm-track-and-visualize-the-data-that-matters-to-you.html

A new tool from the litigation analytics company Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, allows attorneys to view visual maps of a party’s litigation history in order to help illuminate the ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/powered-by-an-added-18m-cases-lex-machinas-new-litigation-footprint-visually-maps-parties-litigation-historys.html

A remote-controlled race car that redlines documents? A slingshot for launching litigation? A “Yes, But …” button for testing out your legal theories? These are just some of the products av...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/04/this-new-catalog-for-corporate-legal-teams-or-any-legal-professional-brings-the-comical-to-contracts.html

In Los Angeles, the legal services organization Bet Tzedek has long run regular in-person legal clinics designed to help self-represented individuals better understand and navigate the sometimes ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/in-los-angeles-bet-tzedeks-new-online-legal-clinic-helps-pro-se-people-with-conservatorships.html

I am speaking tomorrow on a CLE webinar on the state of legal technology, but the last day to register is today at 3 p.m. ET. In a program presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, I am joi...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/last-day-to-register-cle-webinar-tomorrow-on-the-state-of-legal-tech-in-law-practice.html

Yesterday, I reported here on a lawsuit filed March 20 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/dueling-legal-tech-lawsuits-turns-out-exec-who-sued-former-company-in-ny-had-herself-been-sued-by-them-a-week-earlier-in-dallas.html

Update: Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas. In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhatta...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/lawsuit-by-former-legal-tech-exec-says-she-is-owed-over-1m-in-stock-and-was-sexually-harassed.html

March 1 marked the culmination of an ambitious and audacious project to digitize and provide free and open access to all official court decisions ever published in the United States. Called the...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/on-lawnext-the-inside-story-of-the-caselaw-access-project-with-three-of-the-people-who-made-it-happen.html

As technology continues to transform our economy and culture, businesses need a new breed of lawyers who understand the legal and commercial aspects of technology. There is a specific need for la...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/getting-a-tech-llm-is-it-worth-it.html

Join us live today at 3 p.m. E.T. for the weekly Legaltech Week roundtable panel, where we discuss — irreverently at times — the tops stories in legal tech and innovation. If you haven’t al...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/here-are-some-of-the-stories-well-discuss-on-legaltech-week-live-today-at-3-join-us.html

A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/ilta-honors-five-influential-women-of-legal-tech.html

Ai.law, a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. While Ai.law alr...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/legal-tech-startup-ai-law-can-now-draft-the-complaint-for-your-lawsuit.html

Fast Company is out with its annual ranking of the world’s most innovative companies, and of the 606 companies that made the list, just four are from legal tech. “The 606 organizations that w...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/fast-companys-list-of-worlds-606-most-innovative-companies-includes-four-from-legal-tech.html

InfoTrack may be one of the fastest growing yet least known legal technology companies in the United States. You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process server...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/on-lawnext-infotracks-mission-to-revolutionize-litigation-services-such-as-e-filing-and-process-serving-with-ceo-ed-watts.html

SingleFile, a company that aims to automate outdated corporate compliance filing processes by leveraging AI technology, has raised $6.5 million, on top of three previous funding rounds totaling $...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/aiming-to-be-the-stripe-of-corporate-compliance-filing-singlefile-raises-6-5m-for-total-funding-of-15-1m.html

On my left: the edge of the off-ramp, a modest guardrail, and a fifty-foot drop. On my right, inching closer: a tractor-trailer determined to occupy my lane. I hit the brakes. The truck kept roll...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/guest-post-the-caselaw-access-project-then-now-tomorrow.html

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about two more cases of AI-hallucinated citations in court filings leading to sanctions, and now comes the case of a Florida lawyer suspended from practice after fil...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/federal-court-suspends-florida-attorney-over-filing-fabricated-cases-hallucinated-by-ai.html

Possibly the best deal in legal tech conferences is LIT Con, the annual legal tech conference produced by Suffolk Law School’s Legal Innovation and Technology Lab and its Legal Innovation and T...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/join-me-at-lit-con-april-8-live-in-boston-or-streaming-early-bird-pricing-ends-tomorrow.html

You probably use several legal technology products every day. Maybe you love some, maybe you despise others. Why not share your experiences so that other legal professionals can make better buyin...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/two-ways-you-can-contribute-product-reviews-and-ratings-to-the-lawnext-legal-tech-directory.html

descrybe.ai, a year-old legal research startup focused on using artificial intelligence to provide free and easy access to court opinions, has completed its goal of creating AI-generated summarie...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/free-legal-research-startup-descrybe-ai-now-has-ai-summaries-of-all-state-supreme-and-appellate-opinions.html

Training kicked off last month in Arizona for a new class of legal advocates who will work at community-based organizations throughout the state to provide free limited-scope legal help to client...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/new-training-for-lay-legal-advocates-in-arizona-aims-to-expand-access-to-justice-statewide.html

Among the most enduring yet dramatic success stories in legal tech is that of iManage, the document and email management company. Founded in 1995, its collaborative approach to content management...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/exclusive-imanage-reveals-details-on-its-growth-lays-out-plans-to-further-leverage-gen-ai-partnerships.html

The arrival of 2024 brought a new reporting requirement for more than 32 million smaller companies in the United States. The new requirement, which came about as part of the federal Corporate Tra...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/on-lawnext-the-new-beneficial-ownership-reporting-requirement-and-how-legal-tech-can-help-companies-comply.html

Proxiio Global Solutions, an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States. Prox...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/india-based-alsp-proxiio-expands-into-u-s-legal-market-to-deliver-litigation-and-corporate-services.html

Thomson Reuters today brings its generative AI legal assistant CoCounsel Core to the United Kingdom, following its initial rollout in the United States and expansion last month into Australia and...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/the-uk-gets-access-to-thomson-reuters-gen-ai-product-cocounsel-core-and-soon-to-its-ai-assisted-research-on-westlaw-edge.html

If you are a company looking to target your advertising to an audience of those interested in legal tech, you would be hard-pressed to do better than this blog and our related media properties. B...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/new-sponsorship-and-content-opportunities-available-on-our-lawsites-and-lawnext-group-of-properties.html

Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S. legal system. One is the gaping lack of access to justice. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal proble...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/access-to-justice-requires-access-to-law-so-why-arent-the-advocates-of-each-more-closely-aligned.html

Launched just four months ago by engineers who previously worked for Uber, Google and Amazon, Traact, a SaaS platform that integrates a range of corporate functions in an all-in-one platform, tod...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/four-month-after-launching-traact-forms-strategic-partnership-with-belgium-based-klea-to-serve-corporate-and-law-firm-clients-globally.html

Back in 2018, something remarkable happened. The Caselaw Access Project, part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law �...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/event-tomorrow-marks-the-end-of-commercial-restrictions-on-the-caselaw-access-project-that-digitized-all-u-s-case-law.html

Can AI help law firms stem revenue leakage and more efficiently turn their invoices into collected cash? That is the premise behind Oddr, a legal tech startup that recently launched what it says...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/lawnext-oddr-ceo-milan-bobde-on-how-ai-can-help-law-firms-stem-revenue-leakage-and-turn-invoices-into-cash.html

Hotshot, a learning platform for legal professionals, today released the first five courses in a planned series designed to teach lawyers and other legal professionals about artificial intelligen...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/hotshot-the-legal-learning-platform-releases-first-five-in-planned-series-of-ai-training-videos-for-lawyers.html

Henchman, a legal tech startup that provides legal teams with quick access to their previously written contract clauses and definitions directly within Microsoft Word, today released what it says...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/ai-contract-drafting-startup-henchman-unveils-microsoft-copilot-integration-calling-it-first-of-its-kind.html

For solo and small law firms, the current state of legal technology offers both promises and pitfalls. Technology such as generative AI poses traps for the unwary, but for those who understand an...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/new-report-synthesizes-the-data-to-identify-key-legal-tech-trends-and-action-items-for-solos-and-small-firms.html

 By Ari Kaplan, Ari Kaplan Advisors In collaboration with Affinity Consulting, iManage, and SurePoint Technologies, I was fortunate to interview 18 chief operating officers, 10 executive dire...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/leadership-growth-and-profitability-in-a-post-pandemic-era-new-report-focuses-on-how-modern-law-firms-are-navigating-digital-transformation.html

Two years ago, Clio, the law practice management company, made an offer that some law firms might have found difficult to refuse. It offered to buy them out of up to six months of their contract...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/stuck-in-a-long-term-contract-with-a-practice-management-vendor-clio-offers-to-buy-you-out.html

One of the most talked-about legal technologies of the last few years is contract lifecycle management software. But a survey released today finds that the majority of companies do not use CLM so...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/despite-all-the-hype-over-clm-software-most-companies-dont-use-it-to-manage-their-contracts-survey-finds.html

One of the challenges of e-discovery for smaller law firms is that so many of the e-discovery products on the market are designed for large cases handled by large law firms, putting them out of r...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/03/just-published-a-practical-guide-for-small-firms-to-e-discovery-practices-and-products.html

Jimoh Ovbiagele, cofounder in 2014 of the now-shuttered AI legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, is returning to legal tech as chief executive officer of a new startup, Bench IQ, that says it...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/ross-cofounder-returns-to-legal-tech-with-startup-using-ai-to-surface-judges-decision-making-patterns.html

On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/lawnext-thomson-reuters-ai-strategy-for-legal-with-mike-dahn-head-of-westlaw-and-joel-hron-head-of-ai.html

If you read my review last October of the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference (or KM&I for short), you will understand why I look forward to returning to New York C...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/this-friday-feb-29-is-the-super-early-bird-deadline-to-register-for-the-2024-kmi-conference.html

The contract review company LegalOn Technologies today released LegalOn Assistant, a generative AI chat interface that can answer questions about your contracts, draft clauses, summarize contract...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/contract-review-company-legalon-releases-generative-ai-assistant-to-shortcut-key-tasks.html

A common pain point for law firms is failing to track and invoice all reimbursable client expenses, resulting in losses to firm profits. A first-of-its-kind product being unveiled today by Affini...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/first-of-its-kind-credit-card-software-combo-from-lawpay-and-mycase-lets-law-firms-track-expenses-directly-to-matters-and-invoicing.html

I was greatly honored to be interviewed by Luke Campbell, CEO of VXT, the New Zealand-based VoIP system for lawyers, for his podcast File Notes. It was a lot of fun, and Luke — a great intervie...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/the-evolution-of-law-and-journalism-in-the-age-of-the-internet-the-file-notes-podcast-interviews-me.html

Does page speed matter to the search engine ranking of your law firm website? Turns out it does. Page speed is an important ranking factor for Google and other search engines. It can make the dif...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/understanding-the-importance-of-page-speed-for-law-firm-websites.html

Editor’s note: The following guest post is a response to my recent post, The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It is written by Mark Chandler, f...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/guest-post-building-better-civil-justice-systems-isnt-just-about-the-funding.html

I was deeply saddened to learn this week of the death of Lew Rose, a visionary in the early days of the internet who was one of the very first lawyers to create a website and who went on to an il...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/rip-lew-rose-early-internet-pioneer-who-went-on-to-lead-major-law-firm.html

Live today at 3 p.m. E.T., the Legaltech Week panel is back, with a special guest sitting in. We will share our impressions of last week’s ABA Techshow, and also discuss stories this week of ne...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/live-today-on-legaltech-week-techshow-post-mortem-lawyers-in-trouble-over-chatgpt-ai-surveillance-writing-good-prompts-and-more.html

For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers. By now, in the wake of several cases in w...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/not-again-two-more-cases-just-this-week-of-hallucinated-citations-in-court-filings-leading-to-sanctions.html

The Belgium document automation company ClauseBase has launched a major expansion of its product to add new capabilities for clause extraction, AI-powered document review, and automated proofread...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/clausebase-expands-to-provide-all-in-one-legal-drafting-and-reviewing-within-word.html

Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. Now, as it expands into new markets, we get details ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/as-thomson-reuters-expands-the-casetext-cocounsel-ai-legal-assistant-to-canada-and-australia-it-provides-details-on-u-s-growth.html

During ABA Techshow last week in Chicago, I had the opportunity to sit down for a brief conversation with Jack Newton, founder and CEO of law practice technology company Clio, who provided additi...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/updates-from-ceo-jack-newton-on-recent-clio-news-midsized-firms-gen-ai-legal-aid-and-clio-draft.html

This week brought the eighth annual Startup Alley pitch competition, the opening night event of ABA Techshow at which 15 startups competed for top honors by delivering their pitches live to an au...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/here-are-the-winners-of-aba-techshows-8th-annual-startup-alley-pitch-competition.html

Law practice management company Clio said today that Lawyaw, the document automation software it acquired in 2021, will now be called Clio Draft. The new name reflects a deepened integration of p...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/clio-rebrands-lawyaw-the-document-assembly-software-it-acquired-in-2021-as-clio-draft.html

At the American Bar Association’s Techshow this week in Chicago, the law practice management platform Smokeball will unveil its plan to deploy generative artificial intelligence within its plat...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/exclusive-practice-management-company-smokeball-unveils-plans-for-an-ai-ecosystem-spanning-the-full-client-lifecycle.html

In November, the organization Frontline Justice launched with the mission of addressing the escalating access to justice crisis by empowering a new category of legal helper, the justice worker....

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/on-lawnext-how-a-new-kind-of-justice-worker-could-narrow-the-justice-gap-with-nikole-nelson-ceo-of-frontline-justice.html

Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. 30, 2024. Thomson Reuters launched Firm Central in 2013...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/thomson-reuters-is-shutting-down-its-firm-central-law-practice-management-software.html

This was just passed along to me from someone at the Washington State Bar Association. If you are interested, act fast. The deadline is tomorrow. I am posting the notice verbatim. In March 2024, ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/washington-state-bar-seeks-chair-to-helm-technology-task-force.html

MaxVal Group, a company that provides intellectual property management software for law firms and corporations, has entered into a strategic partnership with Relecura, a developer of AI-enabled p...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/ip-tech-company-maxval-enters-partnership-with-relecura-to-integrate-ai-analytics-within-its-platform.html

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal, a 3L at The George Washington University Law School, to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and br...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/law-students-gen-ai-product-lexplug-makes-briefing-cases-a-breeze.html

We are just a week away from the Startup Alley pitch competition that is the opening night event of ABA TECHSHOW, and I recently had the opportunity to catch up with last year’s winner, Tony Va...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/its-been-a-very-good-year-says-the-winner-of-last-years-techshow-startup-alley-universal-migrator.html

Best Lawyers, the oldest lawyer ranking and peer review company, has named Kevin Vermeulen, a veteran legal advertising and marketing executive, as senior vice president of business development. ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/best-lawyers-names-kevin-vermeulen-as-senior-vice-president-of-business-development.html

At a time when some 92% of the civil legal problems of low-income Americans receive no or inadequate legal help, innovative measures are needed to close the justice gap. Recognizing that, Legal ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/on-lawnext-how-one-legal-aid-program-is-creating-a-culture-of-innovation-to-enhance-access-to-justice.html

In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. After starting the week in New York at the glitzy celebration of big l...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/the-justice-gap-in-legal-tech-a-tale-of-two-conferences-and-the-implications-for-a2j.html

Starting this year, many companies will be required to report information about their beneficial owners — the individuals who ultimately control the company. With that new requirement come new ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/wolters-kluwer-adds-beneficial-ownership-information-to-its-legisway-product-for-corporate-legal.html

Beagle, a company that says it is harnessing the power of native AI to make e-discovery “cruelty free,” has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by ML Capital and supp...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/promising-cruelty-free-e-discovery-beagle-raises-3m-seed-funding-round.html

Today on Legaltech Week, live at 3 p.m., the panelists will share their impressions of Legaltech Week, which wrapped up yesterday. I’ll also talk about another legal tech conference I attended ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/today-on-legaltech-week-the-panels-post-mortem-on-legaltech-week-and-the-weeks-other-top-news.html

The legal technology company Clio, which started 16 years ago as a law practice management platform tailored to solos and small firms, said this week that it will now heighten its focus and inves...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/practice-management-company-clio-says-it-will-heighten-its-focus-on-mid-sized-law-firms.html

TermScout, an AI contract review company, has launched a first-of-its-kind AI marketplace where lawyers and other contracting experts can build and sell their own contract review AIs, developed b...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/termscout-launches-screens-first-of-its-kind-marketplace-for-lawyers-to-build-and-sell-contract-review-ais.html

One year ago, Bridget Mary McCormack, the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, took over the helm of the American Arbitration Association, the largest private provider of alternati...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/on-lawnext-how-the-american-arbitration-association-embraced-generative-ai-with-ceo-bridget-mccormack-and-cio-diana-didia.html

The AI-driven legal drafting tool Clearbrief has entered into a partnership with legal research company LexisNexis Legal & Professional that provides its customers who are also Lexis subscribers ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/clearbrief-partners-with-lexisnexis-enabling-access-to-lexis-legal-content-while-using-clearbrief-in-word.html

Courtroom Insight, a platform for law firms and legal organizations that, until now, tracked information on judges, arbitrators and expert witnesses, is expanding to add a comprehensive lawyer di...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/courtroom-insight-launches-comprehensive-lawyer-directory-with-detailed-data-on-work-schools-and-more.html

The International Legal Technology Association, whose ILTACON conference in the United States and ILTACON Europe in London are must-attend events for many in the legal technology industry, announ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/ilta-announces-a-new-two-day-conference-in-april-ilta-evolve-focused-on-gen-ai-and-cybersecurity.html

This week brought notable funding rounds for two legal technology companies, Proof and Spellbook, and a much-smaller seed round for a newer legal tech startup. Proof Raises $30M Series B Proof Te...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/money-for-legal-tech-two-big-financings-this-week-and-one-little-one.html

A new ethics opinion from The Florida Bar says that lawyers may ethically use generative AI technologies, provided they are careful to adhere to their ethical obligations. The opinion also urges ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/florida-bar-ethics-opinion-oks-lawyers-use-of-generative-ai-but-with-cautions.html

A new intellectual property tool debuting today uses artificial intelligence to draft patents and office action answers in order to deliver — as its website puts it — “better patents in hal...

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/01/new-ai-tool-for-patent-lawyers-davinci-promises-better-patents-in-half-the-time.html