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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…
Continue Reading The Evolution of Document Drafting: A Conversation with Jeff Pfeifer about LSA, Henchman and Lexis Generative AI Solutions

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…
Continue Reading Wolters Kluwer Enters the Gen AI Market with the Launch of VitalLaw AI

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…
Continue Reading vLex Vincent AI Upgrade: 12 Skills, 12 Countries + the EU, Transactional Skills and VIDA AI for Dockets

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…
Continue Reading LexisNexis Announces Commercial Preview of Protégé Personalized AI Assistant

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…
Continue Reading GAI Driving a Hot Job Market for Library and KM Professionals

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…
Continue Reading LexisNexis Enhances Lexis+ AI with New Features, AI Models, and Graphing

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…
Continue Reading LexisNexis Completes Acquisition of Henchman

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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…
Continue Reading Thomson Reuters Launches Claims Explorer Skill in Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel

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.
Continue Reading Join Me in Chicago at the AALL Annual Meeting & Conference  July 20 -23, 2024

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…
Continue Reading Generative AI Risk in Legal Research: Is the Fault in the Technology or in Ourselves? Answer is Both

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…
Continue Reading Breaking Rumor: Harvey Seeking to Buy vLex? A Move for Global Dominance?

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.

In…
Continue Reading Checklist for Developing a Research / Library Generative AI Procurement Plan

Acquisition will combine Henchman’s Document Management System data enrichment with trusted LexisNexis drafting guidance content to deliver personalized generative AI experience

NEW YORK, June 3, 2024 – LexisNexis Legal & Professional®, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced it has agreed to acquire Henchman, a legal tech company that enriches data from Document Management Systems (DMS) for faster document…
Continue Reading Breaking News: Press Release – LexisNexis to Acquire Document Drafting Tech Provider Henchman

Today vlex and iManage,  are announcing a new partnership which will integrate and enhance their customer’s workflows and access to firm’s knowledge base. Subscribers to the two services will be able to simultaneously query their firm “know how” in their iManage DMS and the vLex public law library and generate an answer. In addition, the firm’s state and federal…
Continue Reading vLex and iManage Announce Workflow Integrations to Enhance Law Firm Knowledge and insights.

Today Thomson Reuters announced the “Buy Now Program” which will enable law firms and legal departments to lock in pricing before the official rollout of their new CoCounsel Drafting solution.

 Rawia Ashraf, VP, Product, Legal Technology at Thomson Reuters provided a product walkthrough. She described the product as an end-to-end workflow solution for both transactional lawyers and litigators. The beta…
Continue Reading Thomson Reuters announces the “Buy Now Program” for New CoCounsel Drafting end-to-end Solution.