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.
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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…
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…
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, 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 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, 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…
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…
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…
Universal Migrator has added two new extractors for helping law firms migrate their data from one platform to another, bringing its total number of migration extractors to 114.
It has also enhanced several of its existing extractors with additional backup options.
Universal Migrator is a tool that helps law firms and legal organizations migrate their…
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…
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…
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