A legal innovation lab launching today seeks to answer the question of how to approach the training and development of new lawyers in an age of generative AI.
The Legal Innovation Lab is being launched by SkillBurst Interactive, a 10-year-old company that provides on-demand training to larger law firms and their corporate clients.…
The legal technology and law practice management company Clio has named Hemant Kashyap as its first chief product officer, a role in which he will oversee product strategy, development and execution, including all features and integrations within Clio’s app integration ecosystem.
Kashyap joins Clio after having been vice president, product, at ServiceTitan,…
Thanks to his reliance on ChatGPT for legal research and his filing “bogus judicial decisions” in federal court, lawyer Steven A. Schwartz has become the “I am not a cat” of the generative AI era. And as we convene today at 3 p.m. ET for our weekly Legaltech Week roundtable on the week’s legal tech…
The e-discovery company Casepoint is investigating a data breach after a ransomware gang claimed to have over two terabytes of its data, including attorney files, visa details, information from the U.S. government, “and many other things that you have tried so hard to keep.”
The cybersecurity company FalconFeeds.io posted on Twitter that the…
On this episode of LawNext, we take you to the conference floor of the CLOC Global Institute, the annual conference of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium that was held May 15-18 in Las Vegas, for a series of brief interviews with…
This week’s news of the lawyers whose reliance on ChatGPT led them to file fabricated cases in federal court only underscores the fact that it sometimes feels like the Wild West out there as generative AI gallops onto the legal landscape. For law firms — indeed, for any organization — that poses the challenge…
It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. But is this a story about the failings of AI or is it about the failings of the lawyers?
We may know more after June 8, the date on which the…
In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices.
The law firm, Nextpoint Law Group (NLG), will provide discovery and litigation legal services to other law firms and to corporate…
Our panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers returns live today at 3 p.m. ET for another episode of Legaltech Week, where we discuss the top stories in legal tech and innovation.
Attendance is free, but, if you have not already done so, you need to register, which you can do here. Register once and…
Spellbook, a company formerly known as Rally Legal, and whose product uses GPT-4 and other generative AI models to speed contract drafting and review directly within Microsoft Word, has raised $10.9 million to drive hiring, development and expansion.
The funding was led by Moxxie Ventures, with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Inovia…
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Logikcull, the company that CEO Andy Wilson and CTO Sheng Yang founded with the goal of automating and democratizing e-discovery. But the company actually evolved out of an earlier company the pair founded in 2004, Logik Systems, to digitize archaic paper-based discovery workflows where lawyers would print emails…
As other legal technology companies have rushed to release products using generative AI, one of the largest, Thomson Reuters, has been unusually silent. It broke that silence slightly two weeks ago, when it announced plans to invest some $100 million a year in AI, including incorporating generative AI across its flagship products in the second…
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