At the Knowledge Management and Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City, Legal Services NYC was named as the inaugural winner of the LexPrize award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the legal industry. It won for its development of the Legal Services NYC KM Portal, a custom-built knowledge management
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The ability of a lawyer to maintain their professional independence is critical to protecting and serving the public effectively. To this end, the American Bar Association passed Model Rule 5.4 in 1983, restricting an attorney’s
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I am in search of diverse founders of legal tech startups and seeking your help in reaching them with this message.
Specifically, I want to encourage them to apply to compete for a spot in the 9th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2025, which will be April 2-5 in Chicago.
Over the course of the eight previous years of
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The Canadian Legal Information Institute, a nonprofit organization that is a major provider of free legal research in Canada, has sued a recently launched AI-powered legal research site called Caseway, alleging that it has unlawfully taken CanLII’s cases in order to build its own system.
But the founder of Caseway, Alistair Vigier, says the allegations are patently
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Recently, the law practice management company Clio launched Clio Duo, its generative AI legal assistant. On today’s LawNext, Jonathan Watson, Clio’s chief technology officer, joins the show to discuss Duo’s development, capabilities and future direction.He also talks about some of the other products Clio recently launched, including native accounting and custom reporting.
Watson and LawNext host Bob Ambrogi recorded
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Nicholas (Nik) Reed has been named chief executive officer of contracts analytics and management company Knowable, after having been the company’s senior vice president, product and research development since 2019.
Mark Harris, who had been Knowable’s CEO ever since the company was spun off from alternative legal services provider Axiom in 2019, will assume the rule of chairman
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It was a year ago last month that I wrote here about the launch of Clarra, a cloud-based case management platform designed to be optimized for docket-driven litigation practices. Now, Clarra is out with a a major update that provides a suite of new features, including generative AI and analytics capabilities, enhanced client-communications capabilities, no-code customization, and more.
“This
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When Zach Posner was last on this podcast, it was 2021 and he was less than a year into having cofounded The LegalTech Fund, the first venture capital firm to be laser-focused on law and legal technology. Since then, his firm, of which he is managing director, has gone on to build up a portfolio of more than
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In a coincidence of timing that reflects how legal professionals are wrestling with issues around generative artificial intelligence, the supreme courts of Delaware and Georgia issued orders within a day of each other last week relating to the use of AI in the courts and by legal professionals.
On Oct. 21, the Delaware Supreme Court adopted an interim policy providing
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In this week’s episode of our video series How it Works, I received a demonstration of Casemark, a legal document summarizer intended to improve deposition summaries, trial summaries, and more.
In the founders’ words: CaseMark has strived to build the “easy button” for AI-in-legal that won’t get attorneys in trouble. We have focused on building an easy-to-use platform that takes
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Alt Legal, a company that provides software for automated trademark docketing, is expanding into providing trademark paralegal services through the acquisition of WeberMark.
Alt Legal will now offer paralegal services under the brand Alt Legal Assist, to supplement its flagship docketing and monitoring products.
“WeberMark’s commitment to client success aligns perfectly with our mission to make the lives of
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Ever since Startup Alley first launched in 2017, the pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW.
I am thrilled to say that the competition is returning for its ninth year, and applications officially open today for legal tech startups
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At the recent Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, Clio released its ninth annual Legal Trends Report, a report that uses both survey responses and anonymized data from Clio users to paint a picture of key trends in law practice and legal technology.
This year’s report has some intriguing findings on lawyers’ adoption of AI and the types of
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At the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco last week, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, founder and CEO AJ Shankar delivered a keynote address in which he announced the general availability of three generative AI features the company first introduced last year and had been developing in beta ever since.
In the course of delivering that
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Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the AI for Justice Legal Aid program, a two-pronged initiative that will provide select legal aid organizations with free access to and training on its CoCounsel generative AI software, while also providing other legal nonprofits access to CoCounsel at a steeply reduced price.
Spearheaded by Laura Safdie, a cofounder of Casetext, the
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Seventy-six percent of legal professionals in corporate legal departments and 68% in law firms are using generative AI at least once a week, with a third of those professionals using it daily.
That is among the findings of the 2024 Future Ready Lawyer Survey from Wolters Kluwer, the sixth edition of a report that offers an annual view of the
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