Bob Ambrogi

In July, NetDocuments announced the limited launch of PatternBuilder MAX, a generative AI-driven version of its PatternBuilder document assembly product that it said would enable firms to create custom generative AI automations tailored to the needs of their specific practice areas. At the time, I wrote about how one immigration lawyer had used…

This is a reminder that the deadline is fast approaching for legal tech startups to apply for a spot in the Startup Alley competition at the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW 2024, which takes place in Chicago Feb. 14-17, 2024.

Out of all the entries received, 15 startups will be selected to participate in a live pitch competition…

With more than 10,000 attorneys across the country, the U.S. Department of Justice describes itself as “the world’s largest law office.” Given that broad scope, it is particularly notable that the DOJ today announced a partnership with the justice tech company Paladin to provide every DOJ attorney with access to Paladin’s pro bono…

In this episode of the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of Sage Timeslips, a time-and-billing platform for law firms, legal professionals, and service-based businesses that offers a suite of features to streamline time tracking, invoicing and financial management.

To demonstrate the features of Sage Timeslips, our guest today is…

The contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft today launched a generative AI add-in for Microsoft Word that is designed to help lawyers streamline the process of reviewing contracts — and it is available for anyone to try for free through the end of December.

The new product, called VerifAI, uses generative AI to check…

Live today at 3 p.m., it’s another episode of Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists and bloggers discusses the week’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.

Guest panelist Kristin Calve, publisher and editor of Corporate Counsel Business Journal and the Pinhawk newsletters, will join us to share her experience attending…

The cloud-based law practice management company ZenCase has named Olivia Mockel, a lawyer and legal technology executive, as its president and chief operating officer. 

“I am driven to help legal professionals become more efficient through innovative legal technology,” Mockel said in a statement announcing her hire. “ZenCase is a platform that allows law…

When is a new conference not exactly a new conference? When it is the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference (or KM&I for short).

Let me explain.

Organizers Patrick DiDomenico and Joshua Fireman kick things off.

For years, the ARK Group’s annual KM conference in New York City was considered…

Attention all legal tech startups: We have made a change in the Startup Alley criteria that should now open applications to more companies.

We are eliminating the requirement that your company had never before exhibited at a national legal technology conference. Provided you meet the other criteria, you are now eligible to apply.

By way…



In his keynote address at the recently concluded 2023 Clio Cloud Conference, Jack Newton, the founder and CEO of Clio, said that we are at a time in the legal industry when leveraging technology is more important for lawyers than ever before. Technology,…

The law practice management platform Filevine today launched an enhancement to its Lead Docket lead intake tool that uses artificial intelligence to generate summaries of the key details of incoming leads and that help predict which leads are good matches for a law firm and which should be referred…

When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April, they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. By creating the world’s largest global legal research library, spanning more than 1 billion documents from more than 110 countries, they said,…