Fast Company is out with its annual ranking of the world’s most innovative companies, and of the 606 companies that made the list, just four are from legal tech.
“The 606 organizations that we honor as Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024 have met our high bar for demonstrating innovation and the impact of those innovations on business
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InfoTrack may be one of the fastest growing yet least known legal technology companies in the United States. You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process servers, One Legal for California court filing, LawToolBox for court calendaring, and the Legal Talk Network group of legal podcasts.
On the latest LawNext podcast, our guest Ed Watts
Continue Reading On LawNext: InfoTrack’s Mission to Revolutionize Litigation Services Such as E-filing and Process Serving, with CEO Ed Watts
SingleFile, a company that aims to automate outdated corporate compliance filing processes by leveraging AI technology, has raised $6.5 million, on top of three previous funding rounds totaling $8.6 million, bringing its total funding to date to $15.1 million.
Led by the VC firm Foundry Group, this round, an extension of the company’s seed round, included participation from
Continue Reading Aiming to Be the Stripe of Corporate Compliance Filing, SingleFile Raises $6.5M, For Total Funding of $15.1M
On my left: the edge of the off-ramp, a modest guardrail, and a fifty-foot drop. On my right, inching closer: a tractor-trailer determined to occupy my lane. I hit the brakes. The truck kept rolling. Its wheels pressed into my car as it wedged me against the curb and carved a tail-to-nose dent in my poor Toyota.
This was early
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Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about two more cases of AI-hallucinated citations in court filings leading to sanctions, and now comes the case of a Florida lawyer suspended from practice after filing cases that were “completely fabricated.”
On March 8, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida suspended attorney Thomas Grant Neusom from practicing
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Possibly the best deal in legal tech conferences is LIT Con, the annual legal tech conference produced by Suffolk Law School’s Legal Innovation and Technology Lab and its Legal Innovation and Technology Institute.
Even at full price, it is just $50. But you can sign up by tomorrow for just half that.
For that, you get a day-long
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You probably use several legal technology products every day. Maybe you love some, maybe you despise others. Why not share your experiences so that other legal professionals can make better buying decisions?
On the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, there are actually two different ways you can contribute reviews.
And one way even earns you gift cards!
The quickest and
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descrybe.ai, a year-old legal research startup focused on using artificial intelligence to provide free and easy access to court opinions, has completed its goal of creating AI-generated summaries of all available state supreme and appellate court opinions from throughout the United States.
descrybe.ai describes its mission as democratizing access to legal information and leveling the playing field in legal
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Training kicked off last month in Arizona for a new class of legal advocates who will work at community-based organizations throughout the state to provide free limited-scope legal help to clients in domestic violence and housing matters.
The training program, a partnership between the Arizona Supreme Court and Innovation for Justice (i4J), a program jointly housed at the James E.
Continue Reading New Training for Lay Legal Advocates in Arizona Aims to Expand Access to Justice Statewide
Among the most enduring yet dramatic success stories in legal tech is that of iManage, the document and email management company. Founded in 1995, its collaborative approach to content management made it popular among among law firms virtually out of the gate, and it was acquired eight years later for $171 million by Interwoven.
But after Autonomy gobbled up
Continue Reading Exclusive: iManage Reveals Details On Its Growth, Lays Out Plans to Further Leverage Gen AI, Partnerships
Proxiio Global Solutions, an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States.
Proxiio says that it offers customers legal services delivered by a team of skilled lawyers with deep knowledge and experience in areas such as managed review, litigation and investigation, e-discovery, witness preparation,
Continue Reading India-based ALSP Proxiio Expands Into U.S. Legal Market to Deliver Litigation and Corporate Services
The arrival of 2024 brought a new reporting requirement for more than 32 million smaller companies in the United States. The new requirement, which came about as part of the federal Corporate Transparency Act of 2021, means that many companies will now have to report information about their beneficial owners — the individuals who ultimately control the company.
With new
Continue Reading On LawNext: The New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirement and How Legal Tech Can Help Companies Comply
Thomson Reuters today brings its generative AI legal assistant CoCounsel Core to the United Kingdom, following its initial rollout in the United States and expansion last month into Australia and Canada.
The company also said that its AI-Assisted Research product, launched in November within Westlaw Edge for the U.S., would be available on Westlaw Edge UK within weeks.
CoCounsel Core
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If you are a company looking to target your advertising to an audience of those interested in legal tech, you would be hard-pressed to do better than this blog and our related media properties.
By definition, our audience is composed almost entirely of readers and listeners who are interested in legal tech news, ideas and trends. These are precisely the
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Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S. legal system.
One is the gaping lack of access to justice. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. Reasonable minds can quibble over that number – some say it is exaggerated
Continue Reading Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?
Launched just four months ago by engineers who previously worked for Uber, Google and Amazon, Traact, a SaaS platform that integrates a range of corporate functions in an all-in-one platform, today said it has entered into a strategic partnership with Klea, a Belgium-based provider of AI-enabled legal entity management.
The partnership will enable the companies to more effectively
Continue Reading Four Month After Launching, Traact Forms Strategic Partnership with Belgium-Based Klea to Serve Corporate and Law Firm Clients Globally