Last year, this blog broke the news that the payroll and human resources company PayChex had acquired the employment law compliance and documentation company SixFifty, which had previously been owned by the Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a technology subsidiary, as well as by SixFifty’s CEO Kimball Dean Parker, the Utah lawyer who

Following this week’s ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright battle against the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence,  ROSS says it will seek review in the Supreme Court. Yar Chaikovsky, partner at White & Case, issued a statement on behalf of ROSS disagreeing with the ruling and promising

Five years ago, Noah Waisberg sold Kira Systems, the pioneering AI contract-analysis company he co-founded, to Litera. Even though the deal itself went well, the experience of going through the sale was hard, Waisberg now says. But that experience provided the fuel that turned into his next business. As part of the sale, he kept a copy of the

I am thrilled to announce that I will be serving as emcee for the Masters AI conference in Dallas on Oct. 7, as well as for subsequent dates in Philadelphia on Nov. 11 and Miami on Dec. 8.This is an AI conference that is designed to be hands-on. As the organizers say, “Less hype, more application.” There will be practitioners,

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an opinion in the long-running copyright battle between Thomson Reuters and the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence, but the opinion is, at least for now, sealed and not viewable by the public.The court issued the opinion under seal together with an order stating only as follows:“The opinion in this