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When Eric Friedrichsen stepped into the role of chief executive officer of e-discovery company DISCO four months ago, he was taking the helm of an enterprise that had faced turbulent waters in recent years. Its founder and longtime CEO Kiwi Camara had left under a cloud of sexual harassment allegations, and its…
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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At ILTACON, Anticipation for the Shiny Object
Imagine, if you will, a small backwater town into which one day a large shiny object falls from the sky and lands dead center on the main street of the town’s modest commercial center.
The object is egg shaped, suggesting its potential for something to hatch from it, and appears to be metallic, but of…
NetDocuments Expands ndMAX with Launch of ndMAX Assist, An AI-Powered Assistant Integrated within the Company’s Platform
Last year, just ahead of ILTACON, NetDocuments introduced ndMAX, a generative AI tool built directly into the NetDocuments platform to enhance various document-related workflows, starting with PatternBuilder MAX, a “turbocharged” version of its PatternBuilder document assembly software designed to enable firms to create custom AI automations tailored to the needs of their specific practices.…
UniCourt’s New Product Combines LLMs with APIs to Let You Go DEEP Into Customizing Court Docket Data and Delivering It Where You Need It
UniCourt, a company that provides access to litigation data and analytics, today launched into beta a first-of-its-kind product that combines LLMs and APIs to allow its customers – which include law firms, insurers, legal tech companies, and others – to extract any data points they need from UniCourt’s collection of over 1 billion dockets…
It’s the Battle of the AI Legal Assistants, As LexisNexis Unveils Its New Protégé and Thomson Reuters Rolls Out CoCounsel 2.0
It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their products.
Thomson Reuters, which last year acquired the CoCounsel legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, and which later announced plans to deploy it throughout its product lines, today…
Aderant Introduces viAllocate, A Product Designed to Solve Work Allocation Issues for Law Firms
Aderant, a provider of business management software to larger law firms, today introduced a product designed to help law firms better allocate work among their associates.
Called viAllocate, the product helps law firms maximize billable utilization, balance associate workloads, and improve operational efficiency and profitability, Aderant says.
It is designed to address the challenges…
Texas Supreme Court Preliminarily Approves Delivery of Legal Services by Licensed Paraprofessionals and Court-Access Assistants
The Supreme Court of Texas this week gave preliminary approval to rules that would allow the delivery of legal services in certain circumstances by licensed legal paraprofessionals and licensed court-access assistants who are not lawyers.
“For years, the Court has made combating this ‘justice gap’ a top priority, and it has become clear that we…
Davinci Rebrands As DeepIP and Announces General Availability of its AI Copilot for Patent Prosecution
Earlier this year, I wrote about the beta launch of davinci, an AI tool to assist intellectual property practitioners throughout the patent prosecution process. Today, that tool emerges from beta for general availability under a new name, DeepIP, and with a new direct integration within Microsoft Word.
DeepIP is an AI copilot that…
David v. Goliath Trial Begins this Month in Case that Challenges Thomson Reuter’s Longstanding Copyrights in Legal Research Materials
For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its legal research service, particularly its headnotes and Key Number System.
The validity of those copyrights will be a central issue later this month when the…
LawNext Podcast: Is Gen AI the New Paradigm for Technology Assisted Review in E-Discovery? Three Redgrave Scientists Discuss
For at least two decades, artificial intelligence has been used in e-discovery to help surface and prioritize review of potentially responsive documents from large document collections. But while technology-assisted review (TAR) has traditionally been driven by AI in the form of supervised machine learning, some vendors and e-discovery professionals are starting to…
Two Legal Tech Companies Make Forbes ‘Cloud 100’
Among the world’s top 100 private cloud computing companies are two in the legal tech sector, according to Forbes Cloud 100 2024.
Included on this year’s list are Icertis, a company that provides contract intelligence software, which is ranked 39th, and Clio, a provider of law practice management software, which ranked at…
How It Works: A Demo of the New AI Legal Assistant in Law Practice Management Platform LEAP
Law practice management company LEAP recently announced the launch of three major AI features built directly into the platform, including LawY, a new legal AI assistant backed by human verification. In this latest installment in the LawSites video series How It Works, you get to see LEAP’s new AI assistant in action.
In…