Among the most enduring yet dramatic success stories in legal tech is that of iManage, the document and email management company. Founded in 1995, its collaborative approach to content management made it popular among among law firms virtually out of the gate, and it was acquired eight years later for $171 million by Interwoven.…
On LawNext: The New Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirement and How Legal Tech Can Help Companies Comply
The arrival of 2024 brought a new reporting requirement for more than 32 million smaller companies in the United States. The new requirement, which came about as part of the federal Corporate Transparency Act of 2021, means that many companies will now have to report information about their beneficial owners — the individuals…
India-based ALSP Proxiio Expands Into U.S. Legal Market to Deliver Litigation and Corporate Services
Proxiio Global Solutions, an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States.
Proxiio says that it offers customers legal services delivered by a team of skilled lawyers with deep knowledge and experience in areas such as managed review, litigation…
The UK Gets Access To Thomson Reuters’ Gen AI Product CoCounsel Core and Soon To Its AI-Assisted Research on Westlaw Edge
Thomson Reuters today brings its generative AI legal assistant CoCounsel Core to the United Kingdom, following its initial rollout in the United States and expansion last month into Australia and Canada.
The company also said that its AI-Assisted Research product, launched in November within Westlaw Precision for the U.S., would be available on Westlaw…
New Sponsorship and Content Opportunities Available on Our LawSites and LawNext Group of Properties
If you are a company looking to target your advertising to an audience of those interested in legal tech, you would be hard-pressed to do better than this blog and our related media properties.
By definition, our audience is composed almost entirely of readers and listeners who are interested in legal tech news, ideas and…
Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?
Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S. legal system.
One is the gaping lack of access to justice. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. Reasonable minds can quibble over that…
Four Month After Launching, Traact Forms Strategic Partnership with Belgium-Based Klea to Serve Corporate and Law Firm Clients Globally
Launched just four months ago by engineers who previously worked for Uber, Google and Amazon, Traact, a SaaS platform that integrates a range of corporate functions in an all-in-one platform, today said it has entered into a strategic partnership with Klea, a Belgium-based provider of AI-enabled legal entity management.
The partnership will…
Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law
Back in 2018, something remarkable happened. The Caselaw Access Project, part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years.
It was a massive project that scanned 38.6 million…
LawNext: Oddr CEO Milan Bobde On How AI Can Help Law Firms Stem Revenue Leakage and Turn Invoices into Cash
Can AI help law firms stem revenue leakage and more efficiently turn their invoices into collected cash? That is the premise behind Oddr, a legal tech startup that recently launched what it says is the legal industry’s first AI-powered invoice to cash platform, centralizing law firm billing, collections, payments and reconciliation in a single…
Hotshot, the Legal Learning Platform, Releases First Five in Planned Series of AI Training Videos for Lawyers
Hotshot, a learning platform for legal professionals, today released the first five courses in a planned series designed to teach lawyers and other legal professionals about artificial intelligence and its impact on law practice.
The overall set of AI videos is designed to teach lawyers about the technology, its use cases for law…
AI Contract Drafting Startup Henchman Unveils Microsoft Copilot Integration, Calling It First of Its Kind
Henchman, a legal tech startup that provides legal teams with quick access to their previously written contract clauses and definitions directly within Microsoft Word, today released what it says is a first-of-its-kind integration with Microsoft Copilot through which Copilot users will be able to surface clauses and precedents from their document management systems that…
New Report Synthesizes the Data to Identify Key Legal Tech Trends and Action Items for Solos and Small Firms
For solo and small law firms, the current state of legal technology offers both promises and pitfalls. Technology such as generative AI poses traps for the unwary, but for those who understand and embrace technology, there are opportunities to run more profitable and efficient practices, provide better customer experiences, and improve work-life balance.
In light…