Clio rolled out a ton of news today, as founder and CEO Jack Newton delivered the opening keynote at the annual ClioCon conference in Boston — from major new products and features, to a new acquisition, and even new branding. While I am too busy here for the next two days to write a detailed…
LexisNexis Protégé Is Now Live In EvenUp, Letting PI Lawyers Query Case Law Using Facts From Their Case Records
On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform.
That integration is now live, and last week the two companies gave me a demo of…
Reports of the Billable Hour’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, 8am Data Finds
Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms.
With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely by the hour outnumber firms billing…
Harvey Now Connects to Legal Research Platform Midpage Through An MCP Connector
A new connector announced today enables Harvey customers to access the AI legal research platform Midpage.
The connector makes Midpage’s research library of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and agency materials accessible from directly within Harvey, so lawyers can find and cite authority on the same platform they use for drafting and analysis.
Midpage…
New MCP Makes Tax Research from Blue J Available from within Legora
Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today.
Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline citations linking back to sources in Blue J.…
Chariot Claims Raises $10M Series A To Fuel Mass Consumer Arbitrations
Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday.
Silverton Partners led the round, with General Partner Mike Dodd taking the lead. Indicator Ventures, Lightbank, Neon Fund, ZVC, Rosecliff…
Microsoft Launches Copilot for Legal, Becoming the Fourth AI Giant in Five Months to Build Out a Legal Vertical
Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners.
Microsoft now becomes the fourth major AI company in five months…
Control Risks To Spin Off Its Discovery, Data and Forensics Businesses Into A New Company
Control Risks, a global strategic intelligence and security firm, said today that it has entered into an agreement to spin off two of its businesses, Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics, into a new, stand-alone company that will operate initially under the name of Control Risks – Compliance, Investigations & eDiscovery.
The new company…
New SCOREalytics CEO Jennie Morawetz on Building Regulatory Intelligence Lawyers Can Rely On
Jennie Morawetz, who was named this week as CEO of regulatory intelligence company SCOREalytics, wants the company’s product to become the accepted standard for how lawyers keep up with regulatory change.
“I want using SCORE to be the standard for due diligence, or for a general counsel who’s tasked with staying on top of…
Legora and Laurel Partner to Enable Automatic Time Capture; Will Later Develop Measures of Legora’s Value to Firms
Legal professionals will now be able to automatically record the time they spend working in the legal AI platform Legora, as the result of a new partnership with the AI timekeeping platform Laurel.
With this partnership, the companies announced today, Laurel will turn every task a lawyer completes in Legora into a time entry, with…
Former Big Law M&A Lawyer Launches useABI, an AI ‘Associate’ That Produces Deal Docs Without Prompting
A former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at Greenberg Traurig today launched useABI, a legal AI platform for M&A lawyers that is designed to function not as just another AI assistant but as something closer to a working member of a deal team.
“With useABI, an M&A lawyer gets the purchase agreement markup, issues list, diligence report…
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