Advances in generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, have the potential to disrupt the practice of law for many, many lawyers — especially junior lawyers. A 2023 Thomson Reuters report on the impact of AI on lawyers forecasts an “immense” impact on junior lawyers. This blog has recently reported on an AI tool that can…

Clearbrief, a legal technology company that uses AI to help lawyers find and insert facts to support their legal writing, has raised an additional funding round of approximately $4 million. This brings the company’s total funding since its founding in 2021 to nearly $8 million.

This latest round was led by Authentic Ventures, How…

If you are a lawyer whose practice involves regularly working with PDF forms, such as those from courts and government agencies, a new generative AI feature from document automation company Gavel could help save you time.

The new feature, Gavel Blueprint for PDF, allows lawyers to automatically convert PDF forms into automated document-generation workflows,…

A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI.

The opinion, jointly issued by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia…

Investments in legal tech got off to a slow start in 2024. A Crunchbase report just last week said that legal tech startups had raised only $356 million this year, compared to $871 million last year.

But in the last 30 days, according to my tracking, legal tech companies have raised at least $414…

We have just added a new feature to LawSites that enables readers to explore more about the products and product-categories I cover here.

Now, when you are reading a post, the sidebar provides direct links to related product listings in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

The links are of two types:…

If you, like me, missed Legaltech Week last Friday, here is the recording.

I was away, as were several of our other regulars, but panelists Victor Li, Isha Marathe, Joe Patrice, and Stephanie Wilkins held down the fort.

Among the topics they covered:…

Eighteen months ago, the first-of-its-kind Judicial Innovation Fellowship launched with the mission of embedding experienced technologists and designers within state, local, and tribal courts to develop technology-based solutions to improve the public’s access to justice. Housed within the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, the program was designed to be…

On Friday, I spoke to a group of trial lawyers on the use of generative AI in litigation. Many in the room were that increasingly rare breed of lawyer who actually go into court and try cases. Of several that I spoke to before and after my talk, they were proud of their courtroom skills…

Every lawyer in Texas is now eligible for free access to trust accounting and billing software, thanks to an exclusive partnership announced today between the State Bar of Texas and the law practice management company Smokeball.

Under the partnership, all members of the State Bar of Texas — some 111,000 lawyers — can…

Raghu Ramanathan, who in February was named president of the Legal Professionals segment within Thomson Reuters, overseeing all its products for the legal profession, believes there should be open benchmarking on legal AI products, he told me during an interview earlier this week.

“I do believe the industry needs open benchmarks on AI performance…

LexIQ, an early-stage startup focused on using artificial intelligence to draft and review contracts in Microsoft Word, is today launching its waitlist for corporate legal departments and law firms interested in joining is beta program.

Founded by Samarth Gupta, a computer engineer and data scientist who most recently worked at EY as a…