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Wolters Kluwer today brought generative AI to its VitalLaw legal research platform, launching new capabilities for users to locate and chat with legal information and get answers to legal questions, as well as to generate summaries and first drafts of compliance checklists or other key documents.
This development combines these generative AI capabilities with the VitalLaw library of legal resources…
Continue Reading Wolters Kluwer Brings Gen AI To Its VitalLaw Legal Research Platform, to Answer Questions and More

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DiliTrust, a company headquartered in Paris, France, that provides an all-in-one corporate governance suite for in-house legal teams, has acquired the U.S.-based enterprise legal management company doeLEGAL, which provides software for matter management, e-billing and e-discovery to corporate and law firm customers.
DiliTrust says the strategic acquisition accelerates its entry in the U.S. market while also strengthening its…
Continue Reading With Acquisition of Delaware-Based ELM Company doeLEGAL, France-Based DiliTrust Moves to Bring Its Corporate Legal Software Suite to U.S. Market

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Since 2019, LexLab, an innovation lab at UC Law San Francisco, has run an annual legal tech startup accelerator program, but last year, the program shifted gears slightly to focus on justice tech — startups that are developing technologies that positively impact individuals and communities affected by the justice system  and the gap in access to justice.
To do…
Continue Reading LexLab, at UC Law San Francisco, Announces Second Cohort of its Justice Technology Accelerator Program

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At its recent customer conference in Salt Lake City, called LEX Summit, the case management company Filevine unveiled a number of product releases and updates. Among them were several products for litigators driven by generative AI, including a first-of-its-kind tool, Depo CoPilot, that helps guide a lawyer during a deposition, and another, DemandsAI, that generates settlement demand letters in the…
Continue Reading LawNext Podcast: A Deep Dive Into Filevine’s New Gen AI Tools for Litigators, with Product Leads Michael Anderson and Alex McLaughlin

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In notable news for the e-discovery industry, the legal software and services provider Elevate has acquired Redgrave Data, a consulting firm that provides services and software for e-discovery and data analytics.
Redgrave’s founders Mollie Nichols, Scott Culbertson, Dave Lewis, Mark Noel, and Lindsey Worth will all join Elevate’s management team.
Redgrave Data was formed in 2022 as a spin-off…
Continue Reading In Notable E-Discovery News, ALSP Elevate Acquires Consulting Company Redgrave Data

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Over the first three posts in this series, I’ve talked about the shrinking ownership of law practice management technology for solo and small firms — how most of the major contenders in the market have all come to be owned by just six overarching ownership groups.
I’ve shown you who those groups are and which products they own. I’ve covered…
Continue Reading The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 4 of 4): Wrapping It All Up

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In a hire designed to further accelerate its growth, Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, has named Prabhdeep Singh, who has held executive roles in technology companies such as Clover, WeWork and Uber, as chief operating officer.
Singh was most recently operating partner at Armory Square Ventures, where he was a board member,…
Continue Reading Steno Names Prabhdeep Singh, Former Clover, WeWork and Uber Exec, as COO to Help Accelerate Growth

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BARBRI, one of the leading companies in the field of legal education, has acquired SkillBurst Interactive, a company that provides on-demand learning programs for law firms and corporations. 
“The integration of SkillBurst Interactive will introduce innovative multilingual, interactive learning solutions that align with the evolving demands of law firms and legal professionals,” BARBRI said in a press release.
Continue Reading In A Marriage of Legal Education Companies, BARBRI Acquires SkillBurst Interactive

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In the first two posts in this series, I have talked about the consolidation of ownership that has occurred in recent years for law practice management technology. Whereas this market was once characterized by a variety of competing companies, virtually all of the major products are now owned by one of six ownership groups. Part 2 provided a “scorecard” of…
Continue Reading The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 3 of 4): Future Development and Market Opportunities

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In today’s episode, we feature three impromptu conversations with leaders of the case management company Filevine. Last week, I was in Salt Lake City to attend LEX Summit, the Filevine customer conference. While there, I snagged three of the company’s top executives for brief, impromptu conversations about the company, its products, and the conference.
 In today’s show, you…
Continue Reading On LawNext: Live from Filevine’s LEX Summit: Interviews with Three of Its Leaders

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“You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” yelled the hawkers of olden days at major league baseball stadiums. In the modern days of law practice management, that may still be true.
As I wrote yesterday in part one of this four-part series, the law practice management market has undergone dramatic consolidation, from what was once a robust marketplace…
Continue Reading The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 2 of 4): A Scorecard of Who Owns What

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The three finalists have been announced for the 2024 KM&I LexPrize Innovation Award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the legal industry.
As I noted when I first wrote about the LexPrize award in May, this is the first year of the award, which will be presented at the Knowledge Management & Innovation …
Continue Reading Finalists Named for Inaugural KM&I LexPrize Innovation Award; Winner to Be Voted At October Event in NYC

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Finalists have been named for the 2024 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology, and this year, there is a twist for me: I’m honored to say I’m one of them. 
The awards recognize achievement in various categories related to legal technology, such as by a law firm, an individual, or an…
Continue Reading Finalists Named for American Legal Technology Awards (And Guess Who’s One of Them)

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Zuva, the company that spun off from AI contract review pioneer Kira when it was acquired by Litera in 2021, today released its own AI contract review tool, Zuva Analyze, which it says will enable in-house legal teams to review contracts 2-3 times faster than reviewing them manually.
Developed by the same team that originally created Kira, Zuva…
Continue Reading Kira Spin-off Zuva Unveils New Contract Review AI For In-house Legal Teams, Zuva Analyze

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Sixteen years ago marked the beginning of a sea change in law practice management technology for solo and small law firms. On March 1, 2008, a virtually unknown company out of Canada called Themis Solutions launched the first cloud-based software product for managing a law practice, called Clio. Coincidentally, just a week earlier, another company, Rocket Matter,…
Continue Reading The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 1 of 4): A Market Dominated by Just Six Ownership Groups

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Live today on the weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, we’ll get a briefing on the major upgrade to Vincent AI, the vLex AI assistant, from Robin Chesterman, global head of product, and Ed Walters, chief strategy officer, following yesterday’s announcement of major enhancements to the legal workflow assistant. 
Of course, the panel will also talk about the week’s…
Continue Reading Today on Legaltech Week: Guests Ed Walters and Robin Chesterman from vLex Discuss the New Vincent AI; Plus, the Week’s Top News