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Wednesday morning’s keynote session at ILTACON this year opened with a sobering and moving 25th anniversary tribute to 9/11. ILTA showed a 30-minute film it produced with interviews of ILTA members and friends who were in Manhattan that day, followed by an extended moment of silence as the names of everyone who lost their lives scrolled across the screen.I was


Continue Reading ILTACON Included A Sobering Memorial to 9/11, with Video Interviews Of Some Who Were There (Including Me). Now, ILTA Has Posted the Full Interviews

The legal AI company Harvey said today that it has raised another $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed.By my calculations, that puts the total amount Harvey has raised since its 2022 launch at north of $1.5 billion.Other investors participating in this round were Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, Coatue, Conviction, Elad Gil, Evantic, GIC, Goldman Sachs


Continue Reading Harvey Raises Another $550M At A $15.5B Valuation

Bridget M. McCormack, the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court who joined the American Arbitration Association in 2023 as its president and CEO, helping to spearhead the AAA’s innovation efforts, particularly with regard to its adoption of generative AI, has announced she is stepping down from that role.Steve Errick, the AAA’s chief development officer, will move into


Continue Reading Bridget McCormack, the Former Jurist Who Led Innovation at the American Arbitration Association As Its CEO, To Step Down for New Opportunity

Calling it the “intelligence foundation” of its platform, Casepoint today launched Casepoint IQ, a suite of tools within a single AI framework that spans the company’s products for e-discovery, legal holds, FOIA and investigations.The company says that Casepoint IQ pulls together all of its AI capabilities – including new semi- and fully autonomous agents, its generative AI assistants, its pre-existing


Continue Reading Casepoint Launches Casepoint IQ, An AI Framework Spanning Its Full Platform, from New Autonomous Agents and Assistive AI to Legacy Predictive Coding

Chronologies have become one of legal tech’s hottest categories, with a wave of AI startups promising to turn a messy evidentiary record into a structured timeline in minutes. Jeff Kerr and his company Casefleet were more than a decade ahead of the pack.Kerr finished law school in 2010 and made what he calls the crazy decision to start a law


Continue Reading On LawNext: Casefleet Founder Jeff Kerr on Fact Management in the Age of AI

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal


Continue Reading ILTACON News Round-Up Part 4, The Business of Law: Litera, Aderant, Oddr, TRĒ AI, Intapp

Last week, our Legaltech Week crew presented a live panel at ILTACON discussing our takeaways from the week and the top stories and trends we observed. I recorded it on my iPhone and that recording is now posted, and it’s pasted below.[embedded content]Meanwhile, we’re back again today, live on Zoom at our usual time of 3 p.m. ET. We will


Continue Reading Legaltech Week: Here’s the Video Of Our ILTACON Panel Last Week, And We’re Back Live on Zoom Today At 3ET

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal


Continue Reading ILTACON News Round-Up Part 3, Documents, Data and AI: iManage, NetDocuments, Entegrata, Wolters Kluwer, Thomson Reuters, Clio, Avvoka

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal


Continue Reading ILTACON News Round-Up Part 2, Litigation: LawToolBox, Opus 2, Clarra, Eve

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.I have already covered the conference and several of the week’s biggest stories – including LexisNexis’s Legal


Continue Reading ILTACON News Round-Up Part 1, E-Discovery: DISCO, Everlaw, Nuix, Relativity, Reveal

The legal technology company Filevine has launched an AI-native citator and a companion brief-checking tool inside LOIS, its Legal Operating Intelligence System AI platform, that its CEO says perform as well as or better than the leading legal citators from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters.The citator has two core features. One checks a filed or draft brief for hallucinated citations, altered


Continue Reading Filevine Takes On Shepard’s and KeyCite With Its Own AI Case Law Citator and Hallucination Checker

Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts. In this episode of LawNext, recorded just ahead of the announcement, Arredondo tells me why he is


Continue Reading On LawNext: Why Legal AI Pioneer Pablo Arredondo Is Joining Clio to Build Technology for the Courts

Newcode, an Oslo-based legal AI company that sells law firms a configurable AI harness rather than a finished assistant, has raised a Series A led by OnDean Forward, the investment firm founded by Relativity founder Andrew Sieja.The round brings the company’s total capital raised this year to $20 million and will fund its expansion into the United States, the


Continue Reading Series A Round for Newcode, An AI Harness for Legal, Brings Its Funding To $20M and Fuels U.S. Expansion

“We’ve reached peak legal tech.”That was the takeaway of a veteran legal tech CEO while attending this week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association.The conference was in Nashville, but it should have been in Texas, because everything was bigger this year. Consider:
  • It was the largest ILTACON attendance ever. As of Wednesday, registrations had reached 5,700,


Continue Reading Have We Reached ‘Peak Legal Tech?’ Sure Felt That Way At ILTACON this Week

Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts.The hiring marks Clio’s first dedicated move into the judiciary, an expansion the company describes as the


Continue Reading Pablo Arredondo, Casetext Cofounder and Legal AI Pioneer, Joins Clio to Lead Its Expansion into the Judiciary