Bob Ambrogi

It was 22 years ago yesterday that I launched this blog. For its continued existence, I owe four debts of gratitude:…

This week on How it Works, we have a walkthrough of MyCase Accounting software, presented to me by Sales Engineering Manager Lindsay Bushong.

MyCase Legal Accounting, in their words, “is easy-to-use accounting software built seamlessly into the MyCase practice management platform to meet the unique business needs of law firms. An…

Recently, the Everlaw Summit, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, convened in San Francisco. In his keynote address there, cofounder and CEO AJ Shankar announced the general availability, after a year of beta testing, of a suite of generative AI features for reviewing, coding and analyzing documents in discovery and…

A year after releasing Lexis+ AI, its generative AI legal research platform, to general availability, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the release of a companion app for the U.S. market, the Lexis+ AI Mobile App, which is now available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play.…

Knowable, a legal technology company specializing in helping organizations bring order and organization to their executed agreements, has announced Ask Knowable, a suite of generative AI-powered tools aimed at transforming how legal teams interact with and understand what is in their contracts.

Released today as a commercial preview and set to launch for…

In a move that marries a massive database of state litigation data with the generative capabilities of artificial intelligence, Trellis, a legal technology company known for its analytics tools and extensive collection of state trial court records, today released Trellis AI, a new set of generative AI tools aimed at simplifying litigation tasks.…

The litigation analytics company Lex Machina has completed what it describes as a milestone expansion of its data set of court documents, adding another 500,000 federal district court cases so that it now has full coverage of virtually every civil case filed in federal district courts anywhere in the United States.

The only civil…

This week on How it Works, we feature Transcript Genius, Steno’s new AI-powered transcript analysis tool.

Transcript Genius helps attorneys streamline workflows, extract insights, and build stronger cases at no extra cost. It automates transcript analysis, allowing attorneys to ask questions in a conversational format and receive specific answers with page and line…

A Texas jury in a civil case has found that Consilio, which describes itself as “the global leader” in e-discovery, violated a Texas computer security criminal statute when it accessed the plaintiff’s computer without effective consent.

The jury also found Consilio negligent in downloading and destroying 10 years’ worth of emails and awarded $50,000…

At the Knowledge Management and Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City, Legal Services NYC was named as the inaugural winner of the LexPrize award, which is designed to recognize groundbreaking ideas in knowledge management and innovation for the…

I am in search of diverse founders of legal tech startups and seeking your help in reaching them with this message.

Specifically, I want to encourage them to apply to compete for a spot in the 9th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2025, which will be April 2-5 in Chicago.

Over the course…

The Canadian Legal Information Institute, a nonprofit organization that is a major provider of free legal research in Canada, has sued a recently launched AI-powered legal research site called Caseway, alleging that it has unlawfully taken CanLII’s cases in order to build its own system.

But the founder of Caseway, Alistair Vigier,…