Bob Ambrogi

In October, LexisNexis released its generative AI research tool, Lexis+ AI, for general availability for U.S. customers, along with limited release in law schools to select faculty, librarians and students. Now, the company is further expanding access to the tool, making it available to 100,000 second- and third-year law students starting in the spring…

In August, the Silicon Valley-based international law firm Gunderson Dettmer became one of the first U.S.-based firms — if not the first — to develop and launch a “homegrown” internal generative AI tool, which it calls ChatGD. 

As Joe Green, the firm’s chief innovation officer, told me at the time, “Given our position…

Today’s episode features two interviews on disruption and innovation in legal, with the two keynote speakers from the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference held recently in New York City: Andrea Alliston, partner and leader of knowledge and practice innovation…

With just two weeks left in the voting to pick the 15 startups that will go to Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW in February, here are the standings so far.

As a reminder, you get to pick the 15 startups out of 25 semifinalists. The 15 startups selected will face off in a live…

Federal, state and local court e-filing systems are a Tower of Babel-like mishmash of proprietary technologies and paywalls that inhibit public access to court documents.

Now, the Free Law Project, a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, has received a grant to design and prototype an open access and open…

Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of AutoNDA, a free software platform developed by SimpleDocs to automate the creation and management of non-disclosure agreements under the open-source oneNDA standard.

AutoNDA is designed for inhouse legal and business teams that need to streamline and centralize the NDA process.…

Dru Armstrong was named CEO of AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, in July 2021. Less than a year later, AffiniPay shook up the legal tech landscape by acquiring MyCase, one of the leading law practice management platforms, in a deal that also included four other practice management products: CASEPeer for personal injury firms, Docketwise for immigration…

There in the bar, it suddenly struck me that I was in a moment that summed up the very essence of what made this conference so unique.

It was nearly 11 p.m. on the second night of the TLTF Summit outside Miami. A group of us were in the hotel bar, stridently debating whether…

The deadline calendaring and matter management company LawToolBox has added new artificial intelligence features through its integrations with Microsoft Outlook and Teams that automate the calendaring of court dates and contractual deadlines.

With the new features, LawToolBox can read emails and attachments in Outlook, such as court orders and contracts, and extract deadlines and…

On Nov. 6, OpenAI introduced the ability for any user with a ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise account to create their own custom versions of ChatGPT, which OpenAI calls GPTs. “GPTs are a new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be more helpful in their daily life, at specific tasks, at…

[This guest post is by Maya Markovich, executive director of the Justice Technology Association, an organization formed to support companies in the justice tech sector. She is also executive in residence for justice tech at Village Capital, the largest organization in the world supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups.]

Justice tech entered mainstream industry…

Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of VerifAI, a Microsoft Word add-in from the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft that uses generative AI to help lawyers review contracts up to 15 times faster.

VerifAI uses generative AI to review contracts against your personal guidelines, and answer your…