Earlier today, I wrote about the latest iteration of CoCounsel, the AI product originally developed by Casetext before it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023 for a whopping $650 million in cash. But well before Casetext was acquired, and well before it introduced CoCounsel as one of the very first legal AI assistants to use OpenAI’s GPT large
Continue Reading Legal Research Startup Midpage Raises $4M, Launches Proposition Search Feature, Channeling the Spirit of Casetext
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company describes as a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute complex multi-step workflows within professional environments.
Today’s announcement centered on the immediate availability of CoCounsel for tax, audit
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Cornell Winston, president of the American Association of Law Libraries, brings a unique perspective to law librarianship, having spent 45 years in libraries across diverse settings — from a hospital library where he started as a student worker; to the former Whittier Law School; to prominent law firms Munger, Tolles & Olson and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; and,
Continue Reading LawNext: AALL President Cornell Winston on Why Law Librarians Should ‘Be Bold’
LexCheck has launched version 3.0 of its AI-powered contract review software, introducing capabilities that automatically generate custom playbooks from clients’ historical redlines and provide precedent checking against past agreements.
The New York-based legal technology company says the release is a significant advancement in contract review accuracy and enterprise scalability.
This follows its January release of its version 2.0, called
Continue Reading Exclusive: LexCheck Unveils Version 3.0 Of Its AI-Powered Tool for Reviewing Complex Agreements and Auto-Generating Custom Playbooks
The judge presiding over the long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and Ross Intelligence today issued a memorandum opinion explaining his April 10 issuance of an 11th-hour order postponing the scheduled trial to allow Ross to file an interlocutory appeal of the judge’s partial grant of summary judgment.
“Though I am still confident in my February 2025 summary-judgment opinion, the
Continue Reading ‘The Questions Here Are Hard’: Judge Explains Postponement of Trial In Thomson Reuters-Ross Litigation
Monica Zent is a true pioneer in legal innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the founder of ZentLaw, an award-winning alternative legal services provider that broke the traditional law firm mold when she founded it in 2002. ZentLaw has since grown into a nationwide legal services provider, serving global brands and major corporations with a unique subscription-based model and flexible
Continue Reading LawNext: Lawyer and Serial Legal Entrepreneur Monica Zent on Building the Future of Legal Services
In the latest installment of our How It Works series, we explore EvenUp, a legal technology company leveraging AI to transform personal injury law. This 15-minute product demo focuses on a few of EvenUp’s just-released features, including their AI Drafts Suite, Smart Workflows, and the Medical Bills Summary.
Joining me to tell us about EvenUp and demo the platform’s
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Document automation company Gavel today released Gavel Exec, an AI assistant embedded in Microsoft Word that it says can perform at a senior-level capacity for small law firms.
Lawyers can use the AI assistant to perform a range of activities, including contract analysis and redlining, negotiation based on firm precedents, and running playbooks with pre-defined rules.
Gavel says it has
Continue Reading Gavel Says Its New AI Assistant, Gavel Exec, Performs At Senior-Level Capacity for Small Law Firms
At its Momentum Global conference in Dallas today, legal technology company Aderant unveiled four new cloud-based financial management applications, marking a significant expansion of the company’s AI-powered offerings for law firms.
The new applications — Cloud Accounts Receivable (AR), Cloud General Ledger (GL), Stridyn Analytics, and askMADDI — were officially launched during this morning’s keynote address at the annual user
Continue Reading At Its Momentum Conference in Dallas, Aderant Launches Next-Gen Cloud Financial Applications Aimed At Transforming Law Firm Operations
A legal information website launched this week is designed to help people in Arkansas handle legal problems on their own confidently and affordably.
Called ArkansasLegalNow (ALN), the site was developed by Brandon Haubert, a civil and family lawyer and the CEO of WH Law, a Little Rock law firm.
“We believe legal help shouldn’t be a luxury,” Haubert said
Continue Reading Lawyer Launches Site to Help Pro Se People In Arkansas Navigate Legal Issues
As many of you know, I’ve long followed and reported on the evolving intersection of law, technology, and access to justice.
That’s why I’m proud to partner with Everlaw for Good, the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, and Paladin on a new survey launched this week at the Equal Justice Conference in San Francisco.
We’re asking legal
Continue Reading Inviting You to Take this Important New Survey: Can AI Help Close the Justice Gap?
On May 5, 2025, PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in helping corporate legal departments select and manage outside counsel, announced that it had acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal, in a move designed to create an end-to-end workflow solution spanning everything from matter intake to invoice payment.
“This acquisition accelerates our ability to connect every
Continue Reading LawNext: Turning Legal Spend Into Performance: PERSUIT Founder Jim Delkousis On His Company’s Acquisition of Apperio
I am thrilled to announce a new regular contributor to our site, Jennifer Case, and tell you about her inaugural column, which was published today. She will be writing each month about AI in legal practice, with a focus on solo and small-firm lawyers.
Jennifer is a California attorney, entrepreneur and AI strategist who helps lawyers adopt generative AI safely,
Continue Reading Introducing A New LawNext AI Columnist, Jennifer Case, and Her Inaugural Column
In what has become a distressingly familiar pattern in courtrooms across America, two more cases have emerged of lawyers submitting briefs containing non-existent legal citations generated by AI tools.
At this point, one wonders if the legal profession needs a mandatory continuing legal education course titled, “How to Avoid Becoming the Next AI Hallucination Headline.”
Even more distressing, perhaps, is
Continue Reading AI Hallucinations Strike Again: Two More Cases Where Lawyers Face Judicial Wrath for Fake Citations
John Foreman, who has served as chief product officer at two major SaaS companies, has joined law practice management company Clio as its new chief product officer, the company said today.
The company said he will lead its product strategy and delivery across its expanding platform of products, guiding the company’s long-term innovation roadmap.
Foreman comes to Clio from
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In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Trellis, a legal technology company that provides state trial court data and insights, is partnering with the international labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips to integrate its AI-generated case strategy reports directly into the daily case alerts received by the firm’s attorneys whenever their clients are named in a state court case.
While Fisher
Continue Reading Trellis Partners with Fisher Phillips to Deliver AI-Powered Case Strategy Reports through Automated Alerts