In August, the Silicon Valley-based international law firm Gunderson Dettmer became one of the first U.S.-based firms — if not the first — to develop and launch a “homegrown” internal generative AI tool, which it calls ChatGD.
As Joe Green, the firm’s chief innovation officer, told me at the time, “Given our position as a firm that focuses
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On LawNext: Two KM Keynotes – Andrea Alliston, KM Leader At Fasken, and Mark Smolik, GC at DHL, On Disruption and Innovation in Legal
Today’s episode features two interviews on disruption and innovation in legal, with the two keynote speakers from the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City: Andrea Alliston, partner and leader of knowledge and practice innovation programs at Fasken, Canada’s largest law firm, and Mark Smolik, chief legal officer at DHL Supply
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Here Are the Standings So Far, As 25 Startups Vie for A Spot In Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW
With just two weeks left in the voting to pick the 15 startups that will go to Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW in February, here are the standings so far.
As a reminder, you get to pick the 15 startups out of 25 semifinalists. The 15 startups selected will face off in a live pitch competition that is the opening
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Free Law Project Seeks to Develop Open Access System to Disrupt Court E-Filing; Seeks Court Partners
Federal, state and local court e-filing systems are a Tower of Babel-like mishmash of proprietary technologies and paywalls that inhibit public access to court documents.
Now, the Free Law Project, a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, has received a grant to design and prototype an open access and open source court e-filing system, aiming
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How It Works: AutoNDA, A Free Platform to Automate NDAs Under the Open Source oneNDA Standard
Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of AutoNDA, a free software platform developed by SimpleDocs to automate the creation and management of non-disclosure agreements under the open-source oneNDA standard.
AutoNDA is designed for inhouse legal and business teams that need to streamline and centralize the NDA process. It enables self-serve access for your
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On LawNext: AffiniPay CEO Dru Armstrong on the Intersection of Fintech, Legal Tech and AI
Dru Armstrong was named CEO of AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, in July 2021. Less than a year later, AffiniPay shook up the legal tech landscape by acquiring MyCase, one of the leading law practice management platforms, in a deal that also included four other practice management products: CASEPeer for personal injury firms, Docketwise for immigration
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With Launch of New AI Features, LawToolBox Is First Legal App Approved for Use with Copilot for Microsoft 365
The deadline calendaring and matter management company LawToolBox has added new artificial intelligence features through its integrations with Microsoft Outlook and Teams that automate the calendaring of court dates and contractual deadlines.
With the new features, LawToolBox can read emails and attachments in Outlook, such as court orders and contracts, and extract deadlines and meetings. It then presents those deadlines
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At The TLTF Summit, It Was All About Making ‘Who Luck’ Happen, To Drive the Future of Legal Tech
There in the bar, it suddenly struck me that I was in a moment that summed up the very essence of what made this conference so unique.
It was nearly 11 p.m. on the second night of the TLTF Summit outside Miami. A group of us were in the hotel bar, stridently debating whether an alternative business structure, licensed under
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New Resource Catalogs and Makes Searchable Nearly 600 GPTs Related to Law, Tax and Regulatory Issues
On Nov. 6, OpenAI introduced the ability for any user with a ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise account to create their own custom versions of ChatGPT, which OpenAI calls GPTs. “GPTs are a new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be more helpful in their daily life, at specific tasks, at work, or at home—and then
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Guest Post: The Year in Justice Tech: 2023 Report and News Roundup
[This guest post is by Maya Markovich, executive director of the Justice Technology Association, an organization formed to support companies in the justice tech sector. She is also executive in residence for justice tech at Village Capital, the largest organization in the world supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups.]
Justice tech entered mainstream industry consciousness in 2022 as the social impact
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How It Works: VerifAI from SpotDraft, Using AI in Word To Help Lawyers Review Contracts Faster
Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of VerifAI, a Microsoft Word add-in from the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft that uses generative AI to help lawyers review contracts up to 15 times faster.
VerifAI uses generative AI to review contracts against your personal guidelines, and answer your open-ended questions. It is available to
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Clearbrief Adds Another AI Feature, ‘Verified Facts,’ to Create Statements of Facts — Plus A Wearable AI Brooch
In August, I wrote here about a new feature in Clearbrief that uses generative AI to create hyperlinked timelines, enabling users to create case chronologies directly in Word, complete with hyperlinks to the source documents in the case record that support the dates and events shown in the timeline.
Today, Clearbrief is extending that feature, allowing a user, with the
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On LawNext: The Law Students Working to End Racism in the Legal System
Each year for the past three years, the LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship has awarded fellowships to promising law students to participate in research projects related to eliminating racism in the legal system. This year, 15 students received fellowships of $10,000 each to spend nine months working in teams to research one of five “cluster
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Voting Is Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024 in February
Voting is now open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW, which is Feb. 14-17, 2024, in Chicago. They also get
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On the LawNext PR Podcast: Legal Tech Startup Lawmato Relaunches with Immediate Consultation Feature
On the latest LawNext PR podcast, we feature news breaking today from legal tech startup Lawmato, which is relaunching its virtual legal consultation platform app with new and improved features.
As you will see in the podcast, one of the new features is the availability of immediate consultation. “We suspected, and our customers have spoken, that they value the
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Back Today After A Thanksgiving Hiatus: The Legaltech Week Panel Takes On The Week’s Top News
After a week away for Thanksgiving, we are back live today at 3 p.m. with another episode of Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.
Among the stories on tap for us to discuss today:
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