Most Law Firms Use Just Five or Fewer Unique Software Products, Smokeball Study Says
The majority of law firms use just five or fewer unique software products, according to a legal industry study published today by the law practice manageme...
Roundup Of Legal Tech News from CLOC Institute: with News From Agiloft, Casepoint, ContractPodAI, Evisort, LinkSquares, LiquidText, Ontra, PERSUIT
The CLOC Global Institute, the conference of legal operations professionals now underway now in Las Vegas, has become a leading venue for legal technology ...
How To Turbocharge Legal Tech Adoption Within Your Law Firm By Identifying Your ‘Champions’
It is an all-too-common scenario in legal tech: A law firm deploys a new legal tech product, hoping to enhance the productivity and efficiency of its legal...
A Guide to Transforming Into A Virtual Law Firm
Transforming your law practice to go fully virtual requires careful planning and the right tools, says Annette Choti, a lawyer for more than two decades wh...
First-of-its-Kind App and Companion Website Provide Foster Youth Information on their Legal Rights
A new first-of-its-kind app and companion website, called FosterPower, provide foster youth with comprehensive but easy-to-understand information about the...
Steno Raises $15M Series B As It Aims To Revolutionize Depositions and Litigation Support Services
Steno, a tech-enabled provider of litigation support services, whose flagship product, DelayPay, enables law firms to defer service costs until their case ...
New Clearview Social Feature Uses ChatGPT to Help Law Firms ‘Shuffle’ A Variety of Social Media Posts
Clearview Social, an application for law firms to help their lawyers share content on social media, has launched a new feature, Social Shuffle, powered by ...
Thomson Reuters Previews Its Plans for Generative AI, Announces Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot
As other legal technology companies have rushed to release products using generative AI, one of the largest, Thomson Reuters, has been unusually silent. It...
LawNext Podcast: Logikcull Cofounder Andy Wilson on 10 Years of Disrupting and Democratizing E-Discovery
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Logikcull, the company that CEO Andy Wilson and CTO Sheng Yang founded with the goal of automating and democratizi...
Spellbook, An ‘AI Copilot’ for Contract Drafting in Word, Raises $10.9M from Moxxie, Thomson Reuters, Others
Spellbook, a company formerly known as Rally Legal, and whose product uses GPT-4 and other generative AI models to speed contract drafting and review direc...
On the Agenda for Today’s Legaltech Week: CLOC Post-Mortem, Thomson Reuters AI, Casetext Acquisition Rumors, and More
Our panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers returns live today at 3 p.m. ET for another episode of Legaltech Week, where we discuss the top stories in...
Exclusive: In A First For E-Discovery, Tech Company Nextpoint Is Launching A ‘Data-Driven’ Law Firm Under Arizona’s Liberalized Ownership Rules
In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practi...
Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence
It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. But is this a story a...
Former Reynen Court President Launches Governance Platform for Law Firms to Safely Explore Generative AI
This week’s news of the lawyers whose reliance on ChatGPT led them to file fabricated cases in federal court only underscores the fact that it sometimes fe...
On LawNext: Live from the CLOC Global Institute: Interviews with 22 of the Legal Tech Exhibitors
On this episode of LawNext, we take you to the conference floor of the CLOC Global Institute, the annual conference of the Corporate Legal Operations Con...
E-Discovery Company Casepoint Investigates Data Breach After Files Found On Dark Web
The e-discovery company Casepoint is investigating a data breach after a ransomware gang claimed to have over two terabytes of its data, including attorney...
On Today’s Legaltech Week, You Know We’re Going To Be Talking About Those ChatGPT Bogus Cases
Thanks to his reliance on ChatGPT for legal research and his filing “bogus judicial decisions” in federal court, lawyer Steven A. Schwartz has become the “...
Clio Names Its First Chief Product Officer to Oversee Product Strategy and Development
The legal technology and law practice management company Clio has named Hemant Kashyap as its first chief product officer, a role in which he will oversee ...
What Does Lawyer Development Mean in the Age of Generative AI? New Innovation Lab Will Seek Answers
A legal innovation lab launching today seeks to answer the question of how to approach the training and development of new lawyers in an age of generative ...
Onna Becomes First Non-Google E-Discovery Solution Available Through Google Cloud Marketplace
The data management company Onna said today that its entire solution is now available to purchase directly through Google Cloud Marketplace, making it the ...
Lawmatics Launches LM[AI], A GPT-Driven AI Feature to Generate and Inspire Client Emails and Templates
In what appears to be the first use of generative AI directly within a legal CRM product, the cloud-based CRM platform Lawmatics is today launching a featu...
On LawNext: Rasa Legal Founder Noella Sudbury On Simplifying Criminal Records Expungement
Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. Over and ...
Law Students Are Reluctant To Use ChatGPT, Survey Finds. The Question Is, Why?
A recent survey of the legal profession confirms what may already be obvious to many, which is that the use of ChatGPT and other large language models by l...
With Mission to Level the Playing Field in PI Cases through Generative AI, EvenUp Raises $50.5M Series B and Launches AI Legal Assistant
EvenUp, a company that uses AI to turn medical documents and case files into demand packages for personal injury lawyers, has raised $50.5 million in a Ser...
On LawNext: Checkbox CEO Evan Wong on Why Workflow Automation Beats CLM for Many Legal Departments
One of the hottest sectors of the legal tech market these days is contract lifecycle management, or CLM. But Evan Wong believes that, for many inhouse leg...
Legal Tech Veteran Derek Miller, Former inData CEO Who Oversaw Trial Director, Joins Lit Software to Help Drive Enterprise Growth of Its Litigation Suite
Derek Miller, a veteran legal technology executive who, as president and CEO of inData Corporation, oversaw Trial Director, one of the most widely used tri...
LawToolBox-NetDocuments Integration Unifies Lawyers’ Calendars Across Outlook, Teams and NetDocuments
Time and advice, Abraham Lincoln famously said, are a lawyer’s stock in trade. If so, then the two most important tools in a law practice may just be the c...
On LawNext: Novus Law Cofounder Ray Bayley On Using Process Management And Tech To Find The Story In Legal Matters
Every great trial lawyer will tell you that the key to success in litigation is finding the story in a case. But when a case involves mountains of digital...
How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts
The legal technology company Casetext celebrates its 10th anniversary today. In a blog post the company published today, it describes itself as “a ten-year...
ECFX, Platform for Distributing and Managing Electronic Court Notices, Raises $7 Million Growth Investment
ECFX, a company that automates the downloading and distribution of filings in federal and state court cases, has taken a $7 million minority growth investm...
New Visalaw.ai/AILA Product Uses GPT-4 for Immigration Law Research, Drafting and Summarization
A new generative AI product for immigration lawyers announced today is designed to help them conduct research, draft and summarize complex legal documents,...
Between Bogus Cases and Bears, Was This The Funniest Legaltech Week Ever? Plus, the Full Chat Transcript
“This episode is one for the record books.” – Stephanie Wilkins, editor-in-chief of Legaltech News. “This has been a honey pot of a session!” – Michelle Sp...
Court Imposes Sanctions On Lawyers Who Filed Bogus Cases After Relying On ChatGPT For Legal Research
A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied o...
In A First For A State Bar, Florida To Provide All Members With Free Trust Accounting Software To Help Ensure Compliance And Protect The Public
In what appears to be a first for a state bar association, The Florida Bar is providing each of its 110,000 members with free access to legal trust account...
The Rumors Were True: Thomson Reuters Acquires Casetext for $650M Cash
Rumors had been swirling that Thomson Reuters was about to acquire Casetext, and they proved to be true. Just before 9 p.m. Eastern time today, TR said it ...
LexisNexis’s New ‘Agreement Analysis’ Uses AI To Help Transactional Lawyers Analyze And Revise Deal Clauses
When LexisNexis launched its Lexis+ premium legal research service in 2020, the service included Brief Analysis, its answer to a line of products pioneered...
As Thomson Reuters Explains Its Acquisition of Casetext, Some Investors Seem Uncertain
Compared to Thomson Reuters, Casetext is a relatively small company with relatively minimal revenue, and one that effectively refocused its product strateg...
An Interview with Casetext CEO Jake Heller on His Company’s Acquisition By Thomson Reuters
Yesterday afternoon, I had the chance to sit down for about 20 minutes via Zoom with Jake Heller, the founder and CEO of Casetext, to discuss his company’s...
In the Boston Area? Join Us July 18 For The Inaugural LegalTech Boston Panel Discussion with Three GCs
If you are in the Boston area, join us July 18, 5-7 p.m., for LegalTech Boston’s inaugural event — a panel discussion among three technology company chief ...
What Law Firms Need To Know About Building A Modern and Secure Data Infrastructure
Law firms are awash in data. Yet relatively few firms know how to responsibly protect and leverage that data — let alone have the data infrastructure neede...
Most Law Firms Use Just Five or Fewer Unique Software Products, Smokeball Study Says
The majority of law firms use just five or fewer unique software products, according to a legal industry study published today by ...
Roundup Of Legal Tech News from CLOC Institute: with News From Agiloft, Casepoint, ContractPodAI, Evisort, LinkSquares, LiquidText, Ontra, PERSUIT
The CLOC Global Institute, the conference of legal operations professionals now underway now in Las Vegas, has become a leading ve...
How To Turbocharge Legal Tech Adoption Within Your Law Firm By Identifying Your ‘Champions’
It is an all-too-common scenario in legal tech: A law firm deploys a new legal tech product, hoping to enhance the productivity an...
A Guide to Transforming Into A Virtual Law Firm
Transforming your law practice to go fully virtual requires careful planning and the right tools, says Annette Choti, a lawyer for...
First-of-its-Kind App and Companion Website Provide Foster Youth Information on their Legal Rights
A new first-of-its-kind app and companion website, called FosterPower, provide foster youth with comprehensive but easy-to-underst...
Steno Raises $15M Series B As It Aims To Revolutionize Depositions and Litigation Support Services
Steno, a tech-enabled provider of litigation support services, whose flagship product, DelayPay, enables law firms to defer servic...
New Clearview Social Feature Uses ChatGPT to Help Law Firms ‘Shuffle’ A Variety of Social Media Posts
Clearview Social, an application for law firms to help their lawyers share content on social media, has launched a new feature, So...
Thomson Reuters Previews Its Plans for Generative AI, Announces Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot
As other legal technology companies have rushed to release products using generative AI, one of the largest, Thomson Reuters, has ...
LawNext Podcast: Logikcull Cofounder Andy Wilson on 10 Years of Disrupting and Democratizing E-Discovery
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Logikcull, the company that CEO Andy Wilson and CTO Sheng Yang founded with the goal of a...
Spellbook, An ‘AI Copilot’ for Contract Drafting in Word, Raises $10.9M from Moxxie, Thomson Reuters, Others
Spellbook, a company formerly known as Rally Legal, and whose product uses GPT-4 and other generative AI models to speed contract ...
On the Agenda for Today’s Legaltech Week: CLOC Post-Mortem, Thomson Reuters AI, Casetext Acquisition Rumors, and More
Our panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers returns live today at 3 p.m. ET for another episode of Legaltech Week, where we d...
Exclusive: In A First For E-Discovery, Tech Company Nextpoint Is Launching A ‘Data-Driven’ Law Firm Under Arizona’s Liberalized Ownership Rules
In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state...
Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence
It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatG...
Former Reynen Court President Launches Governance Platform for Law Firms to Safely Explore Generative AI
This week’s news of the lawyers whose reliance on ChatGPT led them to file fabricated cases in federal court only underscores the ...
On LawNext: Live from the CLOC Global Institute: Interviews with 22 of the Legal Tech Exhibitors
On this episode of LawNext, we take you to the conference floor of the CLOC Global Institute, the annual conference of the Corpo...
E-Discovery Company Casepoint Investigates Data Breach After Files Found On Dark Web
The e-discovery company Casepoint is investigating a data breach after a ransomware gang claimed to have over two terabytes of its...
On Today’s Legaltech Week, You Know We’re Going To Be Talking About Those ChatGPT Bogus Cases
Thanks to his reliance on ChatGPT for legal research and his filing “bogus judicial decisions” in federal court, lawyer Steven A. ...
Clio Names Its First Chief Product Officer to Oversee Product Strategy and Development
The legal technology and law practice management company Clio has named Hemant Kashyap as its first chief product officer, a role ...
What Does Lawyer Development Mean in the Age of Generative AI? New Innovation Lab Will Seek Answers
A legal innovation lab launching today seeks to answer the question of how to approach the training and development of new lawyers...
Onna Becomes First Non-Google E-Discovery Solution Available Through Google Cloud Marketplace
The data management company Onna said today that its entire solution is now available to purchase directly through Google Cloud Ma...
Lawmatics Launches LM[AI], A GPT-Driven AI Feature to Generate and Inspire Client Emails and Templates
In what appears to be the first use of generative AI directly within a legal CRM product, the cloud-based CRM platform Lawmatics i...
On LawNext: Rasa Legal Founder Noella Sudbury On Simplifying Criminal Records Expungement
Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal ...
Law Students Are Reluctant To Use ChatGPT, Survey Finds. The Question Is, Why?
A recent survey of the legal profession confirms what may already be obvious to many, which is that the use of ChatGPT and other l...
With Mission to Level the Playing Field in PI Cases through Generative AI, EvenUp Raises $50.5M Series B and Launches AI Legal Assistant
EvenUp, a company that uses AI to turn medical documents and case files into demand packages for personal injury lawyers, has rais...
On LawNext: Checkbox CEO Evan Wong on Why Workflow Automation Beats CLM for Many Legal Departments
One of the hottest sectors of the legal tech market these days is contract lifecycle management, or CLM. But Evan Wong believes t...
Legal Tech Veteran Derek Miller, Former inData CEO Who Oversaw Trial Director, Joins Lit Software to Help Drive Enterprise Growth of Its Litigation Suite
Derek Miller, a veteran legal technology executive who, as president and CEO of inData Corporation, oversaw Trial Director, one of...
LawToolBox-NetDocuments Integration Unifies Lawyers’ Calendars Across Outlook, Teams and NetDocuments
Time and advice, Abraham Lincoln famously said, are a lawyer’s stock in trade. If so, then the two most important tools in a law p...
On LawNext: Novus Law Cofounder Ray Bayley On Using Process Management And Tech To Find The Story In Legal Matters
Every great trial lawyer will tell you that the key to success in litigation is finding the story in a case. But when a case invo...
How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts
The legal technology company Casetext celebrates its 10th anniversary today. In a blog post the company published today, it descri...
ECFX, Platform for Distributing and Managing Electronic Court Notices, Raises $7 Million Growth Investment
ECFX, a company that automates the downloading and distribution of filings in federal and state court cases, has taken a $7 millio...
New Visalaw.ai/AILA Product Uses GPT-4 for Immigration Law Research, Drafting and Summarization
A new generative AI product for immigration lawyers announced today is designed to help them conduct research, draft and summarize...
Between Bogus Cases and Bears, Was This The Funniest Legaltech Week Ever? Plus, the Full Chat Transcript
“This episode is one for the record books.” – Stephanie Wilkins, editor-in-chief of Legaltech News. “This has been a honey pot of ...
Court Imposes Sanctions On Lawyers Who Filed Bogus Cases After Relying On ChatGPT For Legal Research
A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they...
In A First For A State Bar, Florida To Provide All Members With Free Trust Accounting Software To Help Ensure Compliance And Protect The Public
In what appears to be a first for a state bar association, The Florida Bar is providing each of its 110,000 members with free acce...
The Rumors Were True: Thomson Reuters Acquires Casetext for $650M Cash
Rumors had been swirling that Thomson Reuters was about to acquire Casetext, and they proved to be true. Just before 9 p.m. Easter...
LexisNexis’s New ‘Agreement Analysis’ Uses AI To Help Transactional Lawyers Analyze And Revise Deal Clauses
When LexisNexis launched its Lexis+ premium legal research service in 2020, the service included Brief Analysis, its answer to a l...
As Thomson Reuters Explains Its Acquisition of Casetext, Some Investors Seem Uncertain
Compared to Thomson Reuters, Casetext is a relatively small company with relatively minimal revenue, and one that effectively refo...
An Interview with Casetext CEO Jake Heller on His Company’s Acquisition By Thomson Reuters
Yesterday afternoon, I had the chance to sit down for about 20 minutes via Zoom with Jake Heller, the founder and CEO of Casetext,...
In the Boston Area? Join Us July 18 For The Inaugural LegalTech Boston Panel Discussion with Three GCs
If you are in the Boston area, join us July 18, 5-7 p.m., for LegalTech Boston’s inaugural event — a panel discussion among three ...
What Law Firms Need To Know About Building A Modern and Secure Data Infrastructure
Law firms are awash in data. Yet relatively few firms know how to responsibly protect and leverage that data — let alone have the ...