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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

The legal AI company Harvey and the court data company PacerPro have announced an integration partnership that gives litigation teams working in Harvey access to their firm’s complete litigation record, including the filings and case context from matters the firm has previously handled and those currently on the docket.PacerPro captures state and federal court filings and their underlying documents as


Continue Reading Harvey and PacerPro Announce Partnership To Connect Docket Data with AI Litigation Workflows

It certainly has been no secret that Thomson Reuters has been building its own proprietary large language model. In fact, in my June interview with TR’s CEO Steve Hasker, he talked openly about it, and just a few weeks ago, I reported on TR’s release of preliminary benchmarking data that showed impressive results comparable to the best general-purpose AI


Continue Reading Thomson Reuters Launches Thomson, Its Own Proprietary LLM Trained on Westlaw and Practical Law Content

LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced what it is calling the next generation of Lexis+ with Protégé, its generative AI legal assistant, unveiling new agentic capabilities designed to enable legal professionals to move from an initial idea to review-ready work product in one intuitive AI experience.Branding it the LexisNexis Legal Intelligence Engine, the release centers on a new orchestration layer,


Continue Reading LexisNexis Unveils ‘Legal Intelligence Engine,’ Rebuilding Protégé Around Dynamic Agentic Orchestration

Law practice company Clio said today that it is bringing AI to Clio Grow, its client intake and relationship management product.Clio describes the new Grow AI as a set of features within Grow “that work around the clock to turn inquiries into clients.”The product targets a problem documented by Clio’s Legal Trends Report. Even though 79% of prospective clients expect


Continue Reading Clio Grows Clio Grow with Launch of Grow AI, Providing 24/7 Intake Agents

The document management company NetDocuments today announced two additions to its platform’s AI capabilities. One, Tabular Review, is a tool that lets users analyze collections of documents in a structured table. The other, Legal Authorities, automatically extracts case citations from documents as they are saved to the platform and links them to the full case text on CourtListener.The company


Continue Reading NetDocuments Adds Tabular Review and Automatic Extraction of Legal Authorities to Its Platform