If you are a lawyer whose practice involves regularly working with PDF forms, such as those from courts and government agencies, a new generative AI feature from document automation company Gavel could help save you time.
The new feature, Gavel Blueprint for PDF, allows lawyers to automatically convert PDF forms into automated document-generation workflows,…
A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI.
The opinion, jointly issued by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia…
Investments in legal tech got off to a slow start in 2024. A Crunchbase report just last week said that legal tech startups had raised only $356 million this year, compared to $871 million last year.
But in the last 30 days, according to my tracking, legal tech companies have raised at least $414…
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Now, when you are reading a post, the sidebar provides direct links to related product listings in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.
The links are of two types:…
If you, like me, missed Legaltech Week last Friday, here is the recording.
I was away, as were several of our other regulars, but panelists Victor Li, Isha Marathe, Joe Patrice, and Stephanie Wilkins held down the fort.
Among the topics they covered:…
Eighteen months ago, the first-of-its-kind Judicial Innovation Fellowship launched with the mission of embedding experienced technologists and designers within state, local, and tribal courts to develop technology-based solutions to improve the public’s access to justice. Housed within the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, the program was designed to be…
On Friday, I spoke to a group of trial lawyers on the use of generative AI in litigation. Many in the room were that increasingly rare breed of lawyer who actually go into court and try cases. Of several that I spoke to before and after my talk, they were proud of their courtroom skills…
Every lawyer in Texas is now eligible for free access to trust accounting and billing software, thanks to an exclusive partnership announced today between the State Bar of Texas and the law practice management company Smokeball.
Under the partnership, all members of the State Bar of Texas — some 111,000 lawyers — can…
Raghu Ramanathan, who in February was named president of the Legal Professionals segment within Thomson Reuters, overseeing all its products for the legal profession, believes there should be open benchmarking on legal AI products, he told me during an interview earlier this week.
“I do believe the industry needs open benchmarks on AI performance…
LexIQ, an early-stage startup focused on using artificial intelligence to draft and review contracts in Microsoft Word, is today launching its waitlist for corporate legal departments and law firms interested in joining is beta program.
Founded by Samarth Gupta, a computer engineer and data scientist who most recently worked at EY as a…
Last week, KKR, a major global investment firm, announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Agiloft, the contract lifecycle management company. As part of the deal, the growth equity firm FTV Capital, already an Agiloft investor, is making an additional investment, and another growth equity firm,…
This has been a notable year for BriefCatch, a legal technology company devoted to helping legal professionals improve their legal writing. It started nine months ago, with the company’s raise of a $3.5 million seed round, continued with its roll outs of new products and features, and…
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