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Assembly Software recently announced the launch of NeosAI, a set of generative AI-powered features integrated directly into the Neos case management platform, with the goal of transforming how legal professionals operate and streamlining their daily tasks.
By automating a wide range of tasks, including document summarization, document generation, data extraction, OCR, and dynamic form creation, NeosAI is designed…
Continue Reading How It Works: A Demo of NeosAI, Integrating Generative AI Directly within the Neos Case Management Platform

In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate would. This is the same company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review back in 2022,…
Continue Reading On LawNext: All About Spellbook’s New AI Agent, Capable of Performing Complex Legal Tasks, with CEO Scott Stevenson

On Sept. 19, The Resolution Center celebrates its 30th anniversary. Long formerly known as the North Shore Community Mediation Center, it is an organization that provides conflict resolution and training services to a broad swath of communities north of Boston.
I am on The Resolution Center’s board of directors, and I am writing this to ask a favor: Help celebrate…
Continue Reading A Favor To Ask: Help Support and Celebrate Community Mediation

The chief executive officer of law practice management company CARET left that role on her accord and remains a member of the company’s board of directors, the company says.
Earlier this week, Law.com reported that Keri Gohman, the former Bain Capital Ventures partner who had been CARET’s CEO since 2022, was laid off, along with two other executives, Joanna …
Continue Reading CARET Says Its CEO Left Of Her Own Accord, Remains on Company’s Board

As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product.
But today the judge overseeing the trial, 3rd U.S. Circuit Court…
Continue Reading Breaking: Continuance Ordered On Eve of Trial In Thomas Reuters Lawsuit Against ROSS Intelligence

Spellbook, the company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review in 2022, today launched what it says is the first AI agent for law, capable of planning and executing complex, multi-step workflows.
Called Spellbook Associate, the agent can plan, execute and check its work, and adapt to accomplish larger scope assignments, much as…
Continue Reading Spellbook Launches Gen AI Agent that Can Plan and Execute Complex Transactional Workflows

The document automation company Gavel has launched pre-built workflows — sets of automated forms for document generation that are tailored to specific practice areas and jurisdictions, and that are free for any lawyer to test without a Gavel subscription.
The new feature is launching today with three workflows for California lawyers for for divorce, probate and estate planning. Gavel founder…
Continue Reading Gavel Launches Pre-Built Workflows for Document Automation, Starting with Three for California that Are Free to Use

Two veterans of legal media have partnered to launch a communications firm to represent to represent legal and business clients in marketing, media relations, crisis management and more.
Called LIMELIGHT, the new firm has been launched by Kenneth Gary and Erin Harrison, both former legal journalists who worked at ALM and both of whom have since worked in…
Continue Reading Two Legal Media Veterans Launch Communications Consultancy

Today on the weekly Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable, we’ll be discussing the just-concluded ILTACON, as well as some of the stories and announcements that came out of it.
The show is live at 3 p.m. E.T. If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for all future sessions.
Continue Reading Today on Legaltech Week (Live at 3 ET): Our ILTACON Post-Mortem, As We Discuss the Conference and the News that Came Out Of It

When Eric Friedrichsen stepped into the role of chief executive officer of e-discovery company DISCO four months ago, he was taking the helm of an enterprise that had faced turbulent waters in recent years. Its founder and longtime CEO Kiwi Camara had left under a cloud of sexual harassment allegations, and its 2021 public offering had seen its stock quickly…
Continue Reading DISCO’s New CEO Says Company Is Overcoming Challenges and Getting Back to Growth

Last year, just ahead of ILTACON, NetDocuments introduced ndMAX, a generative AI tool built directly into the NetDocuments platform to enhance various document-related workflows, starting with PatternBuilder MAX, a “turbocharged” version of its PatternBuilder document assembly software designed to enable firms to create custom AI automations tailored to the needs of their specific practices.
Now, at this years ILTACON,…
Continue Reading NetDocuments Expands ndMAX with Launch of ndMAX Assist, An AI-Powered Assistant Integrated within the Company’s Platform

UniCourt, a company that provides access to litigation data and analytics, today launched into beta a first-of-its-kind product that combines LLMs and APIs to allow its customers – which include law firms, insurers, legal tech companies, and others – to extract any data points they need from UniCourt’s collection of over 1 billion dockets and documents and deliver the…
Continue Reading UniCourt’s New Product Combines LLMs with APIs to Let You Go DEEP Into Customizing Court Docket Data and Delivering It Where You Need It

It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their products.
Thomson Reuters, which last year acquired the CoCounsel legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, and which later announced plans to deploy it throughout its product lines, today unveiled what it says is the…
Continue Reading It’s the Battle of the AI Legal Assistants, As LexisNexis Unveils Its New Protégé and Thomson Reuters Rolls Out CoCounsel 2.0

Aderant, a provider of business management software to larger law firms, today introduced a product designed to help law firms better allocate work among their associates. 
Called viAllocate, the product helps law firms maximize billable utilization, balance associate workloads, and improve operational efficiency and profitability, Aderant says.
It is designed to address the challenges many firms face in efficiently…
Continue Reading Aderant Introduces viAllocate, A Product Designed to Solve Work Allocation Issues for Law Firms

The Supreme Court of Texas this week gave preliminary approval to rules that would allow the delivery of legal services in certain circumstances by licensed legal paraprofessionals and licensed court-access assistants who are not lawyers.
“For years, the Court has made combating this ‘justice gap’ a top priority, and it has become clear that we must think beyond traditional efforts…
Continue Reading Texas Supreme Court Preliminarily Approves Delivery of Legal Services by Licensed Paraprofessionals