Document automation software is a key tool for any law firm looking to streamline its creation of legal documents and better manage client-intake data. But with a number of products to choose from, picking the right document automation software for your firm can be difficult.
In this review of Gavel, previously known as Documate, software developer and consultant Ashutosh
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In recent months, Epiq, a global company providing technology-enabled legal services, has announced new artificial intelligence and analytics features built using the AI capabilities of Amazon Web Services. These new features include a framework for building, training and deploying bespoke machine learning models as secure APIs for customers; integration of Amazon Bedrock for custom copilot development using a range
Continue Reading On LawNext: Epiq’s Global Legal Solutions Leader Roger Pilc on How AI Is Transforming Legal Services
A first-of-its-kind product launching today aims to “revolutionize how attorneys interact with transcripts” by using artificial intelligence to allow them to semantically search across libraries of transcripts and then dynamically interact with and interrogate individual transcripts to find relevant information.
Called Transcript Genius, it was developed by Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services.
Continue Reading Steno Launches Transcript Genius, Aiming to ‘Revolutionize How Attorneys Interact with Transcripts’; Also Announces $46M In New Financing
After being away last Friday, we are back live today at 3 p.m. ET with our weekly Legaltech Week roundtable panel — where we offer our expert and sometimes irreverent takes on the week’s legal tech news.
If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for all future
Continue Reading Today on Legaltech Week: It’s the Post-ILTA Evolve, Post-CLOC, and Post Jazz Fest Edition
When the American Bar Association’s ethics panel finally got around to issuing an opinion on lawyer blogging in 2018 — a full two decades after lawyers had started blogging — it conjured for me the image of Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep in 1769 and awoke 20 years later, having slept through the Revolution. (See, In New Ethics Ruling
Continue Reading ABA Issues Ethics Opinion on 30-Year-Old Technology whose Use Is Waning. My Question: Why Now?
As this episode is released, Aderant, a technology company that provides business and practice management software for mid- to large-sized law firms worldwide, is in the midst of its Global Momentum user conference, taking place in Nashville. At the conference, the company made a major news announcement – the launch of Stridyn, a new cloud platform that will
Continue Reading Aderant CEO Chris Cartrett on the Company’s Cloud-First Strategy and New Cloud Platform Stridyn
When Chris Cartrett took over two years ago as CEO of Aderant, a provider of business management software to larger law firms, he promised to “take aggressive steps to further the company’s cloud-first strategy throughout its broad suite of solutions.”
At Aderant’s Global Momentum user conference today in Nashville, he announced a major step in advancing that strategy, with
Continue Reading Advancing Its Cloud-First Strategy, Aderant Launches Stridyn, A Single Cloud Platform To Unify All Its Products; Hear Exclusive Interview with Its CEO
It has been a whirlwind year for the Open AI-backed, generative AI legal tech startup Harvey, which went from a $5 million seed round in November 2022 to a $21 million Series A in April 2023 to an $80 million Series B in December 2023 at a valuation of $715 million.
It was a year that included some big
Continue Reading Harvey AI To Move Out Of Early Access Phase, Release More Affordable Versions Of Its Custom AI Models
A new award announced today is intended to recognize and celebrate the visionary contributions shaping the future of knowledge management and innovation in the legal profession.
Called the LexPrize Innovation Award, it will be presented at the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal (KM&I) conference taking place in New York City in October.
Conference organizer Patrick DiDomenico, founder and
Continue Reading New LexPrize Award Honors Legal Innovation At A Law Firm or Legal Department; Applications Open Today
Courtroom Insight today launched Matter Connector, a product that delivers normalized docket data from multiple sources to the knowledge management platform Litera Foundation and to other law firm systems.
Matter Connector enables law firms to centralize docket data from major providers, such as LexisNexis, Lex Machina and vLex Docket Alarm, through one unified connector.
Using unique identifiers, Matter Connector
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According to Upsolve, a nonprofit company whose technology helps low-income individuals file for bankruptcy for free, Americans owe $1.77 trillion in student loan debt — 93% of it to the federal government.
Since 2017, Upsolve’s debt relief tools have helped more than 13,000 individuals erase more than $750 million in debt. But, due to the vagaries of bankruptcy law,
Continue Reading Upsolve Launches Tool To Help Pro Se Bankruptcy Filers Get Relief from Student Loans
In a pair of AI announcements this week, LexisNexis said that it has significantly enhanced the speed and capabilities of its Lexis+ AI legal AI Assistant, and also that it has launched the commercial preview of Nexis+ AI within its Nexis news and business information research service.
LexisNexis first released Lexis+ AI for general availability last October. It uses large
Continue Reading True To Its Name, LexisNexis Unveils New AI Capabilities For Both Its Lexis Legal Service and Its Nexis News Service
You may have noticed of late that many of your video meetings have an unfamiliar attendee — a meeting bot, invited by one of the human participants, that produces a recording or transcript when the meeting is over. But while there are several such products on the market, none have been developed to meet the specific needs of legal professionals.
Continue Reading Exclusive: Launching Today Is The First Meeting Bot Specifically for Legal Professionals, for Use In Depositions, Hearings, and More
Almost exactly one year ago, a new legal tech startup, The Contract Network, came out of stealth, with a mission to “radically accelerate the time for contract negotiations” through an AI-powered contract collaboration platform where all parties to a deal engage in a secure and neutral environment.
The company’s cofounder and CEO, Jim Wagner, is a legal
Continue Reading LawNext Podcast: How The Contract Network Is ‘Changing Contracts for Good,’ with Founder and CEO Jim Wagner
Live today on Legaltech Week, the panel will be joined by special guest Jake Heller, cofounder of Casetext and now head of product, CoCounsel, at Thomson Reuters, to discuss the news announced earlier this week that Thomson Reuters will deploy the CoCounsel AI assistant as a single app across its entire portfolio of products spanning every professional vertical it
Continue Reading On Today’s Legaltech Week: Special Guest Jake Heller, Casetext CoFounder, Joins to Discuss the Latest CoCounsel News
Four years. No institutional capital. An incredible co-founder. Tenacious execution. Lucky timing. And a belief that what we were doing was important. Simply put, it was as rollercoaster.
Dashboard Legal was born from a need
I remember sitting on the 45th floor of Bank of America Tower, 7 years into a corporate biglaw career, and asking myself the question: Am
Continue Reading Guest Post: My Thoughts One Week After Selling My Legaltech Company to Bloomberg