A federal appeals court has handed a significant win to UpCodes, a legal tech startup that publishes building codes and technical standards online, ruling that its posting of copyrighted standards likely constitutes fair use — at least for now.
In a decision issued April 7, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a…
It is estimated that more than 75 percent of civil litigants in U.S. state courts have no legal representation. In eviction proceedings, the figure exceeds 90 percent. For decades, the primary response to this explosion of self-represented litigants has been to provide them with information, such as court websites, self-help centers and legal forms.
Unfortunately,…
Are courts the next frontier for legal AI? Shlomo Klapper, founder and CEO of the AI-driven judicial case-preparation platofrm Learned Hand, believes they are. A former litigator at Quinn Emanuel and law clerk for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Klapper is building what he calls a “reasoning engine” for judges — AI…
PracticePanther, the cloud-based legal practice management platform that is part of Paradigm’s suite of legal software products, today launched PantherAccounting Plus, a comprehensive trust and operating accounting feature set built natively into its platform.
The new capability enables law firms to manage the full lifecycle of their financial operations – from client retainers…
Josef, the Australia-based legal automation platform, has launched a new capability it is calling the Rapid Ingestion Engine, which uses AI to convert unstructured business inputs — such as email threads, meeting notes and term sheets — into the structured data that legal workflow templates require.
The idea, according to Josef CEO and cofounder…
Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into major practice management tools Clio, MyCase, Litify, and Lawmatics.
With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 144+ applications, spanning practice management, CRM, billing/accounting, and…
Clio today announced two notable updates to its AI product line: the addition of agentic capabilities to Clio Work, and the launch of a standalone Vincent by Clio mobile app for iOS and Android.
Agentic Clio WorkWhen Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled Clio Work at ClioCon last October — in a keynote that…
There was a time, not so long ago, when the most exciting sponsorship deal a legal technology company might land was having its logo on a tote bag at an ABA conference. Those days, it appears, are decidedly over.
Today, 8am — the company formerly known as AffiniPay and parent of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and…
Following its February news that it had entered into a brand partnership withj Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits, the legal AI company Harvey said today that it has entered into another such partnership involving another iconic Harvey — only this time it is using AI to make…
E-discovery platforms have gotten great at narrowing millions of documents down to manageable sets. But what happens next — the grueling work of extracting facts, organizing them, and building a reliable case narrative — has remained largely manual. In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi talks with Daniel Lord-Doyle
I have been meaning to write about the new Law Firm Research & Innovation Conference taking place April 28 in New York, and then I realized there is now some urgency to it, as ticket prices go up tomorrow, April 1.
The new conference is being organized by LegalTech Connect, the same team…
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