The Wednesday ILTA sessions kicked off with a Keynote from Reena SenGupta, Founder of RSGI Limited. The topic “Helping the Legal Industry to Create a Sustainable Future” bravely tackled the topic AI’s impact on the transformation of law firms.
Gupta identified seven transitions in the practice of law required for a sustainable future. Many of the
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LexisNexis® Legal & Professional has announced the U.S. customer preview of Protégé™ Protege General AI which compliments the functionality of Protégé Legal AI which launched in August 2024. Lexis will be demonstrating this new suite of tools this week at the Annual ILTACON conference in National Harbor, Md. The launch gives lawyers increased control and the ability to personalize the agentic
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Today Thomson Reuters announced the launch of CoCounsel Legal which features both Deep Research and agentic workflows. I attended a recent press briefing where Raghu Ramanathan, president of Legal Professionals, Laura Clayton McDonnnell, President of Corporate Business Rawia Ashraf, Head of Product, CoCounsel Transactional and GCO, and Mike Dahn Head of Product Management Westlaw demonstrated a raft of new
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As someone who worked in the KM trenches for years, I have repeatedly watched legal tech companies promise to tame the wild west of documents residing in law firm Document Management Systems (DMS). Over the years I implemented or worked with a variety of KM solutions from Lexis, West and smaller software companies. Recently the dominant DMS providers iManage and
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Today Wolters Kluwer is entering the Generative AI race with the launch of new generative AI (GenAI) functionality for VitalLaw. VitalLaw is the company’s comprehensive legal research platform which covers 25 practice areas including tax, securities, privacy, and labor and employment. VitalLaw AI is available across all VitalLaw practice areas.
Interative chat features will allow researchers query VitalLaw content
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vLex (Fastcase) is releasing a major upgrade to Vincent AI. This new release increases the number of workflows from 4 to 12. This includes expansion of both litigation and transactional tools and the addition of AI tools for additional jurisdictions including France Portugal and Brazil. vLex is the first generative AI platform to receive the American Association of Law
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LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, has announced the US Commercial Preview program for LexisNexis® Protégé™ Legal AI Assistant. Protégé is the third-generation of Lexis+ AI and according to the press release “marks a substantial leap forward in personalized generative AI that will transform legal work, with personalization choices controlled by the customer. This development is closely ties to the recent acquisition
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The American Association of Law libraries, Annual Meeting & Conference brought several harbingers of good news on the job market for law librarians and knowledge management professionals.
I don’t need to remind anybody that the “death of the law librarian” has been repeatedly predicted over the past 20 years. Many law firm administrators and legal tech writers mistakenly believed that
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LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, announced over a dozen new Lexis+ AI features during the American Association of Law Libraries Meeting & Conference this week.
Lexis+ AI offers conversational search, insightful summarization, intelligent legal drafting, and document upload and analysis capabilities in a seamless user experience. The new features highlighted in the press release were developed based on customer
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LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Henchman, a legal tech company that enriches data from Document Management Systems (DMS) for faster document drafting. Belgium-based Henchman has 170+ legal and corporate customers globally including top U.S. and European law firms and companies.
The Henchman acquisition was previously announced on June 3, 2024. Law
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Thomson Reuters Has announced the release of Claims Explorer, a new generative AI skill available in Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel. The new feature enables lawyers to enter facts in to the tool and retrieve applicable claims or counterclaims.
This new generative AI feature simplifies claims research, when lawyers are filing a lawsuit, defending a lawsuit, or advising clients
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I am looking forward to reconnecting with my colleagues in Chicago this Saturday at the American Association Law Libraries Meeting and Conference.
Facilitator, Writing Agendas and Scholarship Portfolios: From Ideation to Publication AALL Annual Meeting & Conference Chicago,Il. July 20, 2024 Moderator, Unleashing Innovation: A Rollercoaster Ride to Implement, Plan, and Fund Your GenAI Toolkit AALL Annual Meeting & Conference Chicago,Il.
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Will Generative AI awaken the need for serious focus legal research education?
The introduction of Generative AI to the practice of law has been anything but smooth. First there was the unfortunate case of Mr. Schwartz who used Chat GPT-3 to write a brief complete with hallucinated cases which he submitted to a federal court in New York. Judge castell
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It was only a year ago that the US based Fastcase was merged with a European legal information and technology company vLex. In what I have to assume is a move to compete with Casetext and Lexis + AI, Harvey would be positioning itself to take on the Generative AI strategies of Thomson Reuters and Lexis Nexis. Both companies
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This checklist assumes that the reader has a basic understanding of key concepts related to Generative AI (GAI) including Large Language Models (LLM), Machine Learning, neural networks, deep learning and retrieval augmented generation [Editor’s note: . Many vendors and legal tech related organizations including the American Association of Law Libraries offer webinars and resources to their members or customers.
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