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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

Today at 1 p.m. ET, I am moderating panel, “Demystifying AI for Legal Contract Review,” that will take a concrete look at how one organization incorporated AI into its contract management processes — and how your organization can do the same.
Presented by LexCheck and Above the Law, the panel will cover:

  • How to decode and contextualize AI

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Continue Reading Free Webinar Today: Demystifying AI for Legal Contract Review

In its fourth acquisition, Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing software company, has acquired the docketing business and customers TM Cloud, a competing provider of trademark and IP docketing software. 
With TM Cloud having customers both throughout the United States and globally in Europe, Africa and Australia, the acquisition enables Alt Legal to grow its base of customers.
Continue Reading Trademark Docketing Software Company Alt Legal Acquires Customers Of Competitor TM Cloud

Citing “political challenges” within the American Bar Association, and reportedly out of fear of budget cuts or even its own shutdown, the ABA’s Center for Innovation canceled publication of an op-ed arguing in favor of regulatory reform, only notifying its authors on the day it was to have been published this week.
This comes as the ABA convenes its 2023 …
Continue Reading Citing ‘Political Challenges,’ ABA Innovation Center Cancels Op-Ed Advocating Regulatory Reform; In An Exclusive, We Have the Piece They Wouldn’t Publish

Do you really know how profitable your firm is and which timekeepers, clients and practice areas are driving that profitability?
Centerbase, a Dallas-based company providing cloud legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, says its new profitability reporting capability, launching today, will enable firms to analyze their profitability more precisely than traditional reporting platforms. 
It does this by…
Continue Reading Practice Management Company Centerbase Says Its New Reporting Capability Precisely Analyzes Profitability for Mid-Sized Law Firms