Monday marks the start of the 12th Clio Cloud Conference, and as the company that produces it, Clio, continues to grow and expand, so too does the conference, with its largest-ever number of attendees and its move from a single host hotel to the Austin, Texas, convention center with attendees spread across a number…
Nominations Are Now Open for the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award; Deadline is Nov. 1
Nominations are now open for the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which recognizes an innovator who has made significant impacts early in their career toward making the American legal system work better for everyone.
That describes the person for whom the award is named, Alli Gerkman, who died of breast cancer in 2019…
MyCase Announces New AI, Accounting and Immigration Features, Plus Update on Smart Spend
The law practice management platform MyCase rolled out three product updates today that include MyCaseIQ, an AI conversational interface; enhancements to its accounting module; and an immigration add-on. It also announced the beta release of Smart Spend, a product that marries a business credit card to expense tracking within MyCase.
Generative AI EnhancementsLast January,…
LawNext: A Year Into His Tenure, UnitedLex CEO James Schellhase on How the Company Is Embracing Innovation
Important update: Just after this podcast was posted, James Schellhase was abruptly replaced as CEO of UnitedLex. Soon after that, it came out that his departure appeared to have been related to allegations concerning his personal conduct.
One year ago,…
Here’s the Video of Our Legaltech Week Panel Recorded Live Friday at RelativityFest in Chicago
Several of our regular Legaltech Week panelists were in Chicago for RelativityFest last week, so we took the opportunity to get together and broadcast our show live from the same room (instead of Zoom squares).
If you missed it Friday, here’s the video recording. A huge thanks to the public relations staff at Relativity for…
Federal Court Dismisses ROSS Intelligence’s Remaining Antitrust Claim Against Thomson Reuters
A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.
The ruling brings an end to…
In Chicago? Come Watch the Legaltech Week Panel Live Today! (Or Watch Us on Zoom As Usual)
Several of our Legaltech Week panelists are in Chicago for RelativityFest, so we’re going to (attempt to?) broadcast live from there. If you are in Chicago or attending RelativityFest, come watch us live at 2 CT/3 ET. We will be in the Hyatt Regency Chicago, Room Grand Hall MN.
For anyone else, you can watch…
Wolters Kluwer Brings Gen AI To Its VitalLaw Legal Research Platform, to Answer Questions and More
Wolters Kluwer today brought generative AI to its VitalLaw legal research platform, launching new capabilities for users to locate and chat with legal information and get answers to legal questions, as well as to generate summaries and first drafts of compliance checklists or other key documents.
This development combines these generative AI capabilities with…
With Acquisition of Delaware-Based ELM Company doeLEGAL, France-Based DiliTrust Moves to Bring Its Corporate Legal Software Suite to U.S. Market
DiliTrust, a company headquartered in Paris, France, that provides an all-in-one corporate governance suite for in-house legal teams, has acquired the U.S.-based enterprise legal management company doeLEGAL, which provides software for matter management, e-billing and e-discovery to corporate and law firm customers.
DiliTrust says the strategic acquisition accelerates its entry in the U.S.…
LexLab, at UC Law San Francisco, Announces Second Cohort of its Justice Technology Accelerator Program
Since 2019, LexLab, an innovation lab at UC Law San Francisco, has run an annual legal tech startup accelerator program, but last year, the program shifted gears slightly to focus on justice tech — startups that are developing technologies that positively impact individuals and communities affected by the justice system and the gap in…
LawNext Podcast: A Deep Dive Into Filevine’s New Gen AI Tools for Litigators, with Product Leads Michael Anderson and Alex McLaughlin
At its recent customer conference in Salt Lake City, called LEX Summit, the case management company Filevine unveiled a number of product releases and updates. Among them were several products for litigators driven by generative AI, including a first-of-its-kind tool, Depo CoPilot, that helps guide a lawyer during a deposition, and another, DemandsAI, that…
In Notable E-Discovery News, ALSP Elevate Acquires Consulting Company Redgrave Data
In notable news for the e-discovery industry, the legal software and services provider Elevate has acquired Redgrave Data, a consulting firm that provides services and software for e-discovery and data analytics.
Redgrave’s founders Mollie Nichols, Scott Culbertson, Dave Lewis, Mark Noel, and Lindsey Worth will all join Elevate’s management team.
Redgrave Data was…