Bob Ambrogi

Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, was inspired to start the company based on her own experiences as a litigator and appellate advocate. A pivotal moment for her came in an asylum case she was handling pro bono, when her ability to…

A cardiologist with a background in medical technology, computer science and artificial intelligence has launched a product for legal professionals and physician expert witnesses that targets the tedious task of reviewing and analyzing thousands of pages of medical records.

The product, Quench SmartChart, uses generative AI to streamline the medico-legal review process, enabling users…

Last October, during its annual Clio Cloud Conference, the law practice management company Clio announced its plan to roll out an e-filing service, called Clio File, during 2024, starting with Texas, which would make it the first law practice management platform with built-in e-filing. Today, it delivered on that promise, launching Clio File for e-filing…

This recent Reuters story caught my attention: “More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI,” it said, citing a new survey conducted by the American Bar Association. Other reports in the news and on LinkedIn sounded a similar takeaway.

Indeed, the survey, AI and Legal Education Survey Results 2024, recently…

Law.com Radar, a service that delivers AI-enhanced alerts of new lawsuits filed in more than 2,400 U.S. federal and state courts, is now tagging all new civil filings using the taxonomy developed by the SALI Alliance, a group working to standardize legal data across the industry. 

By labeling filings using SALI’s taxonomy, Law.com…

Three weeks after the death of its executive director Craig W. Weinlein, The Sedona Conference has named its longtime deputy executive director to step into that role.

Kenneth J. Withers, who has been The Sedona Conference’s deputy executive director for 10 years and with the organization for nearly 19 years, was named Friday…

On today’s live Legaltech Week, we’ll be talking toilet paper — and what it signifies for life and legal tech. Also on the agenda: stories about legal ethics and AI, AI risk in legal research, surging billing rates, and more.

The show is live at 3 p.m. E.T. If you haven’t already, you can sign…

Clearbrief, a legal technology company that uses AI to help lawyers find and insert facts to support their legal writing, has raised an additional funding round of approximately $4 million. This brings the company’s total funding since its founding in 2021 to nearly $8 million.

This latest round was led by Authentic Ventures, How…

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…

We have just added a new feature to LawSites that enables readers to explore more about the products and product-categories I cover here.

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:…