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.
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Gunderson Dettmer Launches ChatGD; First U.S.-Based Firm To Develop Proprietary Internal Generative AI App

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Silicon Valley-based Gunderson Dettmer, an international law firm of more than 400 lawyers that represents many clients in the field of artificial intelligence, today launched an artificial intelligence application of its own making — an internal generative AI chat app called ChatGD.

The launch appears to make Gunderson Dettmer the first U.S.-based firm to…

How to Choose the Right Legal Data Vendor: An API Checklist for Law Firms

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Law firms’ use of APIs — or application programming interfaces — is proliferating, as they access data from external sources for a range of purposes, from building analytics, to gathering intelligence on their clients and competitors, to developing proprietary AI tools, and more.

But with the proliferating use of APIs comes a proliferation of legal…

On LawNext Podcast: DoNotPay, Legal Regulatory Reform, and the Op-Ed the ABA Wouldn’t Publish, with Maya Markovich and Tom Gordon

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Today’s episode offers a different perspective on the DoNotPay controversy – and ended up having an unexpected twist.

Earlier this year, DoNotPay, which described itself as the world’s first robot lawyer, and its founder Joshua Browder became the subject of harsh criticism after paralegal Kathryn Tewson tested several of DoNotPay’s self-help…

Citing ‘Political Challenges,’ ABA Innovation Center Cancels Op-Ed Advocating Regulatory Reform; In An Exclusive, We Have the Piece They Wouldn’t Publish

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Citing “political challenges” within the American Bar Association, and reportedly out of fear of budget cuts or even its own shutdown, the ABA’s Center for Innovation canceled publication of an op-ed arguing in favor of regulatory reform, only notifying its authors on the day it was to have been published this week.

This comes…

Practice Management Company Centerbase Says Its New Reporting Capability Precisely Analyzes Profitability for Mid-Sized Law Firms

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Do you really know how profitable your firm is and which timekeepers, clients and practice areas are driving that profitability?

Centerbase, a Dallas-based company providing cloud legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, says its new profitability reporting capability, launching today, will enable firms to analyze their profitability more precisely than traditional reporting…

LexisNexis Lays Out More Details On Its Collaboration with Microsoft to Roll Out Generative AI Products

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LexisNexis is providing new details today on its collaboration with Microsoft to offer legal professionals AI-powered products and capabilities directly within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem that is typically the center of their workflows.

In a briefing yesterday, Jeff Pfeifer, chief product officer, Canada, UK and USA, at LexisNexis, revealed new information about the products…