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On July 27, June Hsiao Liebert took office as president of the American Association of Law Libraries, the association that represents more than 3,600 law librarians and legal information professionals throughout the world. The first Asian-American president of AALL, Liebert takes office at a time when some are saying that advances in artificial intelligence could endanger the future of…
Continue Reading LawNext: June Hsiao Liebert, President of the American Association of Law Libraries, On AI and the Future of Law Librarians

Two legal companies that are leaders in document and contracts technology, Zuva and Litera, revealed today that they have developed a multi-level document classification taxonomy for use by legal professionals and companies, and that they have contributed the taxonomy to the SALI Alliance, a group working to standardize legal data, to make it available on an open-source basis.
Continue Reading Zuva and Litera Jointly Develop Classification Taxonomy for Legal Documents and Make It Open Source through the SALI Alliance

Eleven prominent international law firms have formed a first-of-its-kind consortium to build a series of on-demand and interactive training programs in generative AI for lawyers and legal professionals, and the courses are now being offered to other firms on a subscription basis as they are released over the coming months.
The series of courses, called Generative AI Fundamentals for Law …
Continue Reading Major Law Firms Form Consortium to Develop AI Training through SkillBurst Interactive; Subscription Access Available to Other Firms

When San Francisco lawyer Todd Schneider’s litigation firm, Schneider Wallace, became frustrated with its options for case management software — finding existing products to be antiquated, inflexible, and better suited to transactional practices — the firm decided to build its own. From those roots was developed Clarra, a cloud-based case management platform that spun off from the firm…
Continue Reading Launching Today: Clarra, A Cloud Case Management Platform Designed for Docket-Driven Litigation Firms

Since the very first Startup Alley in 2017, the legal tech pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW.
Now the competition is returning for its eighth year, and applications officially open today for legal tech startups to enter to compete for…
Continue Reading Calling All Legal Tech Startups: Applications Are Open for the ABA TECHSHOW 2024 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition

Today on Legaltech Week, live at 3 p.m. ET, we’ll be joined by guest panelist David Horrigan, discovery counsel and legal education director at Relativity, for a post-mortem on the Relativity Fest conference that wrapped up yesterday in Chicago. Several of us were there, and we’ll share our thoughts.
We will also discuss other top stories from the week’s…
Continue Reading On Today’s Legaltech Week Live Panel: Post-Mortem on Relativity Fest, Plus All the Week’s Top Stories

At its Relativity Fest user conference in Chicago today, the e-discovery company Relativity announced the forthcoming release of Relativity aiR for Review, the first of a planned series of products that will use generative artificial intelligence to help legal professionals in their work.
Built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Services, aiR for Review will enable user to more quickly locate data…
Continue Reading Relativity Announces aiR for Review, Its Generative AI Review Product, Plus Other AI Products for E-Discovery and Data Management

As generative AI sweeps through the legal profession, lawyers face challenges in learning to use it responsibly and properly. This summer, one of the world’s largest law firms, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, began to address that challenge by partnering with the legal skills training company AltaClaro to develop a training program for its summer associates on prompt engineering and…
Continue Reading On LawNext Podcast: Training Lawyers to Use Generative AI, with AltaClaro Founder Abdi Shayesteh

It has been a while since I have written about the copyright lawsuit by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against the no-shuttered legal research startup Ross Intelligence, in which TR alleges that Ross stole copyright content from Westlaw to build its own completing legal research product.
But today, the judge overseeing the case, 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge…
Continue Reading Breaking: Judge Rules Ross Intelligence Copied Westlaw’s Headnotes, But Leaves for Jury to Decide if It Violated Thomson Reuters’ Copyright

As law firms navigate a world where innovation and technological advancements are reshaping the legal profession, what are the top pain points they face and how can they address them?
This will be the focus of a LinkedIn Live event tomorrow, Sept. 26, at 1 p.m. E.T., The New Legal Paradigm: Challenges, Trends, and Strategies for Success.
It will…
Continue Reading Tomorrow: David Lat and I In A Live LinkedIn Event On the New Innovation and Tech Paradigm for Law Firms

AffiniPay, the parent company of law practice management company MyCase, has sold off the legal accounting software Soluno to another law practice management company, Actionstep, in what the New Zealand-based Actionstep says is an important milestone for its expansion into the U.S. and Canadian markets.
MyCase acquired the cloud-based Soluno in 2021, saying at the time that…
Continue Reading In A Law Practice Management Deal, MyCase Sells Off Accounting Software Soluno to Actionstep

eDiscovery Assistant, a legal research platform for e-discovery case law and resources, is today introducing AI-generated case law summaries.
The feature uses ChatGPT to deliver one-paragraph summaries of court decisions, with the goal of enabling legal professionals to more quickly gauge the relevance and implications of a decision.
“By incorporating AI-generated summaries, we’re providing our users with immediate insights,…
Continue Reading eDiscovery Assistant, Legal Research Platform for E-Discovery, Adds AI-Generated Case Law Summaries

LegalOn, a company that was already one of Japan’s largest providers of AI contract review technology when it launched into the U.S. market last December, today is announcing its expansion into contract drafting with the release of LegalOn Templates, a collection of more than 100 market-standard templates created and kept current by attorneys experienced in the applicable area of…
Continue Reading LegalOn Expands from Contract Review to Drafting with Addition of 100+ Lawyer-Drafted Contract Templates

Yesterday, I attended the Harvard Law AI Summit organized by the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School. It was a fairly intimate, invitation-only gathering of roughly 65 people, held under the Chatham House Rule, meaning that participants were free to use the information we received, but we agreed not to disclose the identity or affiliation of the speakers or…
Continue Reading Thoughts on Promises and Challenges of AI in Legal after Yesterday’s AI Summit at Harvard Law School

Stories are increasingly common of lawyers who leave law practice to start legal technology companies, but few achieve the level of success as an entrepreneur of Matt Spiegel. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase, one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies. In 2012, he sold MyCase to AppFolio, and…
Continue Reading On LawNext Podcast: Lawmatics Founder Matt Spiegel On Automating CRM for Law Firms

Mark Smolik, chief legal officer at DHL Supply Chain Americas, will be the keynote speaker on the second day of the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference taking place in New York City Oct. 12 and 13.
In his talk, “Winning Strategies for Winning New Business: Insights on Innovation from a Chief Legal Officer,” he will share his insights…
Continue Reading Mark Smolik, CLO at DHL, Announced As Friday Keynote Speaker at Upcoming KM & Innovation for Legal Conference Oct. 12-13 in NYC