Robert Ambrogi

Bob Ambrogi

Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.

Wolters Kluwer’s Competitive Bidding Tool LegalCollaborator Gets Gen AI Summarization and Reverse Auctioning

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Wolters Kluwer today beefed up its LegalCollaborator product for corporate legal departments with the addition of new summarization functionality driven by generative artificial intelligence and the ability for legal departments to now leverage reverse auction capabilities to drive more competitive law firm bids.

The new summarization capabilities will help corporate legal departments assess…

LexisNexis Will Work More Closely with OpenAI To More Widely Deploy Its Models Across Products

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional and OpenAI today announced plans to work more closely with each other to integrate OpenAI’s large language models and APIs across the LexisNexis product ecosystem.

LexisNexis will incorporate OpenAI’s technology across its various products, including Lexis+ AI and the Protégé personalized AI assistant.

Through this direct collaboration, LexisNexis says, it will…

AffiniPay, Parent to LawPay, MyCase and Others, Announces Inaugural Conference for Legal and Accounting Professionals

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AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, MyCase, and other platforms, today announced that it will hold its first-ever conference in the fall for legal and accounting professionals.

Called Kaleidoscope, the two-day event will take place Sept. 2-4, 2025, in Austin, Texas. 

AffiniPay said the conference will be “packed with valuable insights and a variety

Exclusive: With Its Latest Release Out Today, vLex’s Vincent AI Adds Multi-Modal Capabilities, Litigation Workflows, and Coverage for Four New Countries

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When legal intelligence company vLex released a major upgrade to its Vincent AI last September, I wrote that it might just be the most capable generative AI assistant in the legal market. Now, vLex is releasing another major upgrade to Vincent AI that pushes it further beyond traditional legal research and document…

On LawNext: Upsolve’s Jonathan Petts and Ben Jackson on Building the TurboTax for Bankruptcy and Fighting UPL Restrictions

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When former Wall Street lawyer Jonathan Petts joined forces in 2016 with Rohan Pavuluri, then a research assistant in Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab, and Mark Hansen, a software engineer, to create Upsolve, they had a simple but powerful vision: make bankruptcy filing as accessible as online tax preparation for Americans crushed by…