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Recently, Silicon Valley-based Gunderson Dettmer, an international law firm of more than 400 lawyers that exclusively represents clients in the innovation economy, launched ChatGD, a generative AI chat app for its lawyers and legal professionals that the firm designed and built itself. The launch appeared to make the firm the first in the U.S. to develop a proprietary…
Continue Reading On LawNext: The Story Behind Gunderson Dettmer’s Launch of ChatGD, Its ‘Homegrown’ Generative AI App, with Joe Green and John Scrudato

It has been the legal story of the summer. In June, Thomson Reuters announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire the legal research and AI company Casetext for a jaw-dropping $650 million.
The deal, it said at the time, was subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions and was expected to close in the second half of…
Continue Reading Thomson Reuters Completes Its $650M Acquisition of Casetext

A new two-day conference devoted to knowledge management and innovation in the legal profession will debut in October in New York, organized by two of the leading consultants in the field.
Described as “focusing on value, innovation, and knowledge management for legal professionals,” the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference aims to become the premiere event of its type.
Continue Reading New Knowledge Management and Innovation Conference for Legal to Debut in October in NYC

In 2016, I wrote a review of ShareFile in which I called it one of the best products on the market for secure document storage and sharing by law firms. But then there came a period when ShareFile seemed to go quiet, at least in the legal market, with little outward evidence that it was making any effort to market…
Continue Reading Sharefile Makes Renewed Push Into Legal Market, With New Features Designed For Law Firms

One of the challenges of using artificial intelligence software for contract review is training the AI to conform to a company’s unique preferences regarding clauses and key terms. A new product from the contract lifecycle management company Agiloft aims to help companies overcome that challenge by enabling non-technical legal and business professionals to train its AI to identify key terms…
Continue Reading Agiloft’s New ‘AI Trainer’ Is Designed To Empower Non-Technical Users To Create Custom AI Models

In the competitive world of legal marketing, Google’s Core Web Vitals can be a critical factor in your law firm’s ranking. But how do you optimize your website to meet these standards?
In her article, Optimizing Law Firm Websites: Google’s Core Web Vitals Explained, digital marketing expert Annette Choti explains what law firms need to know about Core Web…
Continue Reading How To Optimize Your Law Firm Website For Google’s Core Web Vitals: What You Need To Know

The Seattle-based legal tech startup Clearbrief already uses artificial intelligence to strengthen your legal writing by finding the best evidence in the record to support your arguments (or debunk your opponent’s). But today the company is introducing two AI-powered features that further enhance the product by enabling legal professionals to instantly create hyperlinked timelines and ask questions of their documents.
Continue Reading Exclusive: New AI Features In Clearbrief Create Hyperlinked Timelines And Allow Users To Query Their Documents

When it was founded in 2000, Kira pioneered the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for contract review and analysis. Now Kira, which was acquired in 2021 by Litera, is employing the newest wave of generative AI to help legal professionals accelerate the process of due diligence and other forms of contract reviews.
Litera today is announcing the…
Continue Reading Kira, Litera’s Contract Review Software, Gets ‘Smart Summaries’ Feature Driven By Generative AI

Join us today live at 3 E.T. for our weekly Legaltech Week discussion of the top stories in legal tech and innovation. Today, we will be joined by guest panelist Julie Sobowale, freelance journalist, former director of communications for the Law Society of Saskatchewan, and now membership research consultant for LION (Local Independent Online News Publishers).
Among the stories…
Continue Reading Today on Legaltech Week: Guest Panelist Julie Sobowale Joins Us to Discuss the Week’s Top News

A huge thanks to the folks at legal tech company Lawrina, which has just published its selections of the best legal tech blogs and resources by experts in the field, and given me triple honors: top blog, top podcast, and top influencer.
According to the post, they compiled the list by asking opinion leaders and legal tech professionals…
Continue Reading It’s A Triple Crown, As We’re Named Best Legal Tech Blog, Best Legal Tech Podcast, and Top Legal Tech Opinion Leader

I’ll be part of a webinar tomorrow that will cover the basics of AI and how it can be applied in the legal field.
The webinar, which is eligible for CLE credit in multiple jurisdictions, is Thursday, Aug. 10, at 2 p.m. ET, and registration is free.
My copanelist is Jordan Turk, attorney and legal technology advisor at…
Continue Reading Free CLE-Eligible Webinar Tomorrow: AI for Attorneys, ChatGPT and Beyond

As the American Association of Law Libraries wrapped up its annual conference in Boston last month, I checked out of my hotel and made my way through the Prudential Center shopping mall that connects the Hynes Convention Center to the various hotels that hosted the conference’s attendees.
As I passed a food court, a woman wearing a conference badge stopped…
Continue Reading Law Librarians’ Conference Reflected Legal Industry’s Uncertainty about AI and the Future

Silicon Valley-based Gunderson Dettmer, an international law firm of more than 400 lawyers that represents many clients in the field of artificial intelligence, today launched an artificial intelligence application of its own making — an internal generative AI chat app called ChatGD.
The launch appears to make Gunderson Dettmer the first U.S.-based firm to develop a proprietary internal tool…
Continue Reading Gunderson Dettmer Launches ChatGD; First U.S.-Based Firm To Develop Proprietary Internal Generative AI App

Law firms’ use of APIs — or application programming interfaces — is proliferating, as they access data from external sources for a range of purposes, from building analytics, to gathering intelligence on their clients and competitors, to developing proprietary AI tools, and more.
But with the proliferating use of APIs comes a proliferation of legal data vendors offering APIs. How…
Continue Reading How to Choose the Right Legal Data Vendor: An API Checklist for Law Firms

Today’s episode offers a different perspective on the DoNotPay controversy – and ended up having an unexpected twist.
Earlier this year, DoNotPay, which described itself as the world’s first robot lawyer, and its founder Joshua Browder became the subject of harsh criticism after paralegal Kathryn Tewson tested several of DoNotPay’s self-help legal apps and concluded they were little more…
Continue Reading On LawNext Podcast: DoNotPay, Legal Regulatory Reform, and the Op-Ed the ABA Wouldn’t Publish, with Maya Markovich and Tom Gordon

We are back live today at 3 E.T. for our weekly Legaltech Week discussion of the top stories in legal tech and innovation. Today, we have two guest panelists sitting in: Jeffrey Brandt, editor of Law Technology Digest from Pinhawk, and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today.
Among the stories on the agenda today:

If you haven’t already,…
Continue Reading Today on Legaltech Week: Jeff Brandt of Pinhawk and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today Sit In As Guest Panelists