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Australian-headquartered CRM and revenue operations platform Nexl has successfully raised $4m, with participation from leading Australian-based B2B venture capital firm EVP with follow-on participation from Vulpes, Saniel Ventures and The …
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Most people don’t have $100 million severance clauses, but they should figure out what they do have.
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Zuva, the company that spun off from Kira Systems after Kira was acquired by Litera in 2021, is offering a completely free version of its AI-powered contract review technology, which can be used by anyone just by uploading contracts to Zuva’s website.
“Contracts AI is typically pretty expensive,” Noah Waisberg, Zuva’s CEO and cofounder and the original cofounder
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On this episode of LawNext, we take a closer look at Smokeball, the law practice management company whose roots are in Australia but that is firmly entrenched in the United States. In fact, after Smokeball was founded in 2010, its very first customer was a law firm in Chicago. 
Appropriately, then, it was in Chicago last week, during ABA
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ABA TECHSHOW kicked off in Chicago last week with its traditional opening event, the Startup Alley pitch competition, in which 15 legal tech startups present three-minute pitches in pursuit of top honors.
The winners of the competition (which I organize and emcee) are selected by popular vote of those in attendance in the audience, which votes registered via an app.
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Merlin Search Technologies has introduced a “first-of-its-kind hourly pricing program and the first Green Computing Initiative,” according to the press release, by allowing users to pay hourly for hosting when sites are active, and turn off sites when they are not in use, saving costs.
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Aiming to help law firms capture more client leads and streamline client intake, the law practice management company Smokeball is introducing Smokeball Intake, an intake workflow system integrated within its platform that is intended to provide potential clients with the kind of digital experience they expect from a modern law firm.
The new feature is currently being tested in beta
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Legal Tech insiders knew that something big was “cooking” at Casetext. Yesterday Casetext announced the Launch of Co-Counsel, which is described as the first AI Legal Assistant. The launch included some notable media appearances : a live demo on tv and a video interview Product Briefing with Nikki Shaver of Legal TechHub.

In another first, Casetext CoFounders, CEO, Jake Heller,
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In a major win for the law practice management platform CosmoLex, it has entered into an agreement with the 36,000-member Canadian Bar Association to be the CBA’s exclusive preferred practice management software for members.
In a country known for having strict regulatory requirements for legal accounting, the CBA said that CosmoLex “checks all the boxes” for providing compliant accounting and
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With the legal industry consumed with interest in generative AI and legal tech companies scrambling to incorporate the technology into their products, it was a sure bet that, sooner rather than later, Casetext would come out with a product of its own.
After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and
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US legal research provider Casetext today (1 March) unveils a legal assistant powered by OpenAI’s “most advanced” large language model, which it has customised for the legal sector. We’re told …
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Building on its acquisition last year of the contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform Parley Pro, LexisNexis is today announcing the integration of Parley Pro’s CLM capabilities to its cloud-based CounselLink enterprise legal management solution for corporate legal departments.
CounselLink is also today introducing work intake features designed to facilitate the submission and management of legal requests coming in to
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“Our AI legal assistant is the first of its kind,” said Jake Heller, co-founder and CEO of Casetext. “It creates a momentous opportunity for attorneys to delegate tasks like legal research, document review, and contract analysis to an AI, freeing them to focus on the most impactful aspects of their practice.”
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