For some lawyers, tracking time is so tedious and onerous that they leave their law firms for jobs where hourly billing is not required, such as working inhouse at a corporation. Even apart from the tedium, time tracking is often incomplete and inaccurate, failing to record all billable hours and resulting in time leakage that can…
How It Works: A Demo of NeosAI, Integrating Generative AI Directly within the Neos Case Management Platform
Assembly Software recently announced the launch of NeosAI, a set of generative AI-powered features integrated directly into the Neos case management platform, with the goal of transforming how legal professionals operate and streamlining their daily tasks.
By automating a wide range of tasks, including document summarization, document generation, data extraction, OCR, and dynamic…
On LawNext: All About Spellbook’s New AI Agent, Capable of Performing Complex Legal Tasks, with CEO Scott Stevenson
In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate…
A Favor To Ask: Help Support and Celebrate Community Mediation
On Sept. 19, The Resolution Center celebrates its 30th anniversary. Long formerly known as the North Shore Community Mediation Center, it is an organization that provides conflict resolution and training services to a broad swath of communities north of Boston.
I am on The Resolution Center’s board of directors, and I am writing this…
CARET Says Its CEO Left Of Her Own Accord, Remains on Company’s Board
The chief executive officer of law practice management company CARET left that role on her accord and remains a member of the company’s board of directors, the company says.
Earlier this week, Law.com reported that Keri Gohman, the former Bain Capital Ventures partner who had been CARET’s CEO since 2022, was laid…
Breaking: Continuance Ordered On Eve of Trial In Thomas Reuters Lawsuit Against ROSS Intelligence
As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product.
But today the judge overseeing the…
Spellbook Launches Gen AI Agent that Can Plan and Execute Complex Transactional Workflows
Spellbook, the company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review in 2022, today launched what it says is the first AI agent for law, capable of planning and executing complex, multi-step workflows.
Called Spellbook Associate, the agent can plan, execute and check its work, and adapt to accomplish…
Gavel Launches Pre-Built Workflows for Document Automation, Starting with Three for California that Are Free to Use
The document automation company Gavel has launched pre-built workflows — sets of automated forms for document generation that are tailored to specific practice areas and jurisdictions, and that are free for any lawyer to test without a Gavel subscription.
The new feature is launching today with three workflows for California lawyers for for divorce,…
Two Legal Media Veterans Launch Communications Consultancy
Two veterans of legal media have partnered to launch a communications firm to represent to represent legal and business clients in marketing, media relations, crisis management and more.
Called LIMELIGHT, the new firm has been launched by Kenneth Gary and Erin Harrison, both former legal journalists who worked at ALM and…
Today on Legaltech Week (Live at 3 ET): Our ILTACON Post-Mortem, As We Discuss the Conference and the News that Came Out Of It
Today on the weekly Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable, we’ll be discussing the just-concluded ILTACON, as well as some of the stories and announcements that came out of it.
The show is live at 3 p.m. E.T. If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up…
DISCO’s New CEO Says Company Is Overcoming Challenges and Getting Back to Growth
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…
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…