Editor’s note: The following guest post is a response to my recent post, The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It is written by Mark Chandler, former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and a fellow
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RIP Lew Rose, Early Internet Pioneer Who Went On To Lead Major Law Firm
I was deeply saddened to learn this week of the death of Lew Rose, a visionary in the early days of the internet who was one of the very first lawyers to create a website and who went on to an illustrious career in advertising and consumer law, capped by his six-year tenure as managing partner of the law
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Live Today on Legaltech Week: Techshow Post-Mortem, Lawyers in Trouble over ChatGPT, AI Surveillance, Writing Good Prompts, and More
Live today at 3 p.m. E.T., the Legaltech Week panel is back, with a special guest sitting in.
We will share our impressions of last week’s ABA Techshow, and also discuss stories this week of new legal shenanigans involving ChatGPT, AI surveillance, how to write good search prompts, a company’s attempt to dissociate its chatbot, and more.
Sitting in as
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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions
For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers.
By now, in the wake of several cases in which lawyers have found themselves in hot water by citing hallucinated cases generated by ChatGPT, most notoriously Mata v. Avianca, and in the
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ClauseBase Expands to Provide All-in-One Legal Drafting and Reviewing Within Word
The Belgium document automation company ClauseBase has launched a major expansion of its product to add new capabilities for clause extraction, AI-powered document review, and automated proofreading, all with the goal of providing an all-in-one platform, within Microsoft Word, for contract drafting, reviewing and negotiating.
ClauseBase launched in 2018 as a contract drafting platform that allows lawyers to turn their
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As Thomson Reuters Expands Casetext CoCounsel, the AI Legal Assistant, to Canada and Australia, It Provides Details on U.S. Growth
Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. Now, as it expands into new markets, we get details on its adoption to date.
It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel, a product developed in partnership with OpenAI that uses the GPT-4 large
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Updates from CEO Jack Newton On Recent Clio News: Midsized Firms, Gen AI, Legal Aid, and Clio Draft
During ABA Techshow last week in Chicago, I had the opportunity to sit down for a brief conversation with Jack Newton, founder and CEO of law practice technology company Clio, who provided additional details on some of the company’s recent news.
We discussed Clio’s greater focus on midsized law firms, its impending launch of generative AI, its roll-out
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Here Are the Winners of ABA Techshow’s 8th Annual Startup Alley Pitch Competition
This week brought the eighth annual Startup Alley pitch competition, the opening night event of ABA Techshow at which 15 startups competed for top honors by delivering their pitches live to an audience of Techshow attendees.
Now on my way home from Techshow, I finally have a chance to post the winners. Here were the companies that won the top
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Clio Rebrands Lawyaw, the Document Assembly Software It Acquired In 2021, As Clio Draft
Law practice management company Clio said today that Lawyaw, the document automation software it acquired in 2021, will now be called Clio Draft.
The new name reflects a deepened integration of products and services since the acquisition, Clio says.
“Uniting under the Clio banner gives us a clear focus on delivering value to our customers,” said Clio founder and
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Exclusive: Practice Management Company Smokeball Unveils Plans for an AI Ecosystem Spanning the Full Client Lifecycle
At the American Bar Association’s Techshow this week in Chicago, the law practice management platform Smokeball will unveil its plan to deploy generative artificial intelligence within its platform across the client lifecycle, from intaking new clients to handling their matters to billing them for the work.
It will launch the first set of these Smokeball AI features in beta in
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On LawNext: How A New Kind of Justice Worker Could Narrow the Justice Gap, with Nikole Nelson, CEO of Frontline Justice
In November, the organization Frontline Justice launched with the mission of addressing the escalating access to justice crisis by empowering a new category of legal helper, the justice worker. The organization has an ambitious mission: To clear the way for justice workers to exist in all 50 states by 2035.
In pursuit of that mission, it is backed by an
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Thomson Reuters Is Shutting Down Its Firm Central Law Practice Management Software
Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. 30, 2024.
Thomson Reuters launched Firm Central in 2013 at a media event in its then-headquarters in Eagan, Minn., as its answer to a then-growing crop of cloud-based practice management software such as Clio, which launched in 2008,
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Washington State Bar Seeks Chair to Helm Technology Task Force
This was just passed along to me from someone at the Washington State Bar Association. If you are interested, act fast. The deadline is tomorrow. I am posting the notice verbatim.
In March 2024, the WSBA Board of Governors (BOG) will consider the formation of a Technology Task Force. If approved, the Task Force will 1) assess the legal technology
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IP Tech Company MaxVal Enters Partnership with Relecura to Integrate AI Analytics within Its Platform
MaxVal Group, a company that provides intellectual property management software for law firms and corporations, has entered into a strategic partnership with Relecura, a developer of AI-enabled patent analytics and insights, through which MaxVal will become a reseller of Relecura’s services and will integrate Relecura’s analytics into Symphony, its flagship IP management platform.
With this partnership, Symphony, a
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Law Student’s Gen AI Product, Lexplug, Makes Briefing Cases A Breeze
It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal, a 3L at The George Washington University Law School, to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases.
Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the professor was discussing. He had
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‘It’s Been A Very Good Year,’ Says the Winner of Last Year’s TECHSHOW Startup Alley, Universal Migrator
We are just a week away from the Startup Alley pitch competition that is the opening night event of ABA TECHSHOW, and I recently had the opportunity to catch up with last year’s winner, Tony Valenti, founder and CEO of Universal Migrator, who told me that, since Startup Alley, “it’s been a very good year.”
“It definitely
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