As the American Association of Law Libraries wrapped up its annual conference in Boston last month, I checked out of my hotel and made my way through the Prudential Center shopping mall that connects the Hynes Convention Center to the various hotels that hosted the conference’s attendees.
As I passed a food court, a…
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…
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…
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…
We are back live today at 3 E.T. for our weekly Legaltech Week discussion of the top stories in legal tech and innovation. Today, we have two guest panelists sitting in: Jeffrey Brandt, editor of Law Technology Digest from Pinhawk, and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today.
Among the stories on the…
Today at 1 p.m. ET, I am moderating panel, “Demystifying AI for Legal Contract Review,” that will take a concrete look at how one organization incorporated AI into its contract management processes — and how your organization can do the same.
Presented by LexCheck and Above the Law, the panel…
In its fourth acquisition, Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing software company, has acquired the docketing business and customers TM Cloud, a competing provider of trademark and IP docketing software.
With TM Cloud having customers both throughout the United States and globally in Europe, Africa and Australia, the acquisition enables Alt Legal to…
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…
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 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…
LawCatch, Inc., developer of the BriefCatch legal editing software, has raised $3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round.
Lead investor in the round is TIA Ventures, which will take a seat on the LawCatch board. Other participants included RiverPark Ventures, C2 Ventures, and Wilson Sonsini Investments Co.
BriefCatch founder Ross Guberman said that the…
Live today at 3 E.T., our Legaltech Week panelists will be joined by Dan Hauck, chief product officer at NetDocuments, to talk about the company’s announcement this week of ndMAX, a line of generative AI features available directly within the NetDocuments platform.
Dan Hauck
Other stories on the agenda…
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