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Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, has raised $47 million in Series A funding, in a round led by major venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures. The company says the investment will support its rapid market growth and drive its product development and expansion.
Eve’s platform is designed…
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Eve, a California-founded large language model-based case lifecycle management platform for plaintiffs, today (16 January) announced it has secured $47m Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from […]
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The Toronto-based company Alexi, whose platform provides AI-driven tools for litigators, said today that it has launched an “advanced legal reasoning” capability that will “elevate litigators’ capacity to analyze and understand the full complexities of issues and facts of any given litigation file.”
In a press release announcing the news, Alexi claims that this is the “first-ever” advanced legal…
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It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog’s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations.
In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way. Whether they were stories about…
Continue Reading AI, Ethics, Essays and Scandals Ranked Among LawSites’ 40 Most Popular Legal Tech Stories of 2024

nQ Zebraworks, a company whose “invoices-to-cash” solution automates the billing cycle for large and mid-sized law firms, has closed a $4.5 million funding round, bringing its total investment to $13.5 million.
The investment was spearheaded by the company’s lead investor Reckon Limited and supported by key shareholders and will be used to drive growth of its cloud-based platform.
“This…
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Dave Lewis, a data scientist whose four-decade career has established him as a pioneer in artificial intelligence and data analytics in law, has joined the e-discovery and litigation management company Nextpoint as chief scientific officer, where he will lead efforts to develop the next generation of machine learning and generative AI tools throughout the Nextpoint software platform.
Lewis was…
Continue Reading In Notable E-Discovery News, Leading AI Scientist Dave Lewis Joins Nextpoint to Lead AI Development

Recently, the Everlaw Summit, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, convened in San Francisco. In his keynote address there, cofounder and CEO AJ Shankar announced the general availability, after a year of beta testing, of a suite of generative AI features for reviewing, coding and analyzing documents in discovery and litigation prep.
I was at…
Continue Reading LawNext: How Gen AI Can Be A Game-Changer for Discovery and Litigation, with Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar

A Texas jury in a civil case has found that Consilio, which describes itself as “the global leader” in e-discovery, violated a Texas computer security criminal statute when it accessed the plaintiff’s computer without effective consent.
The jury also found Consilio negligent in downloading and destroying 10 years’ worth of emails and awarded $50,000 in damages to the plaintiff,…
Continue Reading Jury Finds Global E-Discovery Company Violated Criminal Computer Security Law when It Accessed Woman’s Emails