On Thursday, the American Intellectual Property Law Association will kick off its annual meeting, and that means you should expect several news announcements this week from providers of IP-related technology products. First out of the gate: News of an integration partnership between Black Hills AI and DeepIP that combines the automation and…

At its Inspire customer conference today in Atlanta, NetDocuments said it is using artificial intelligence to transform from a content management platform to an “intelligent document management system” that will enable it to be the cornerstone of an organization’s AI strategy.

“Building on the foundation of its industry-leading cloud platform, the NetDocuments intelligent DMS delivers…

When Avaneesh Marwaha stepped down as CEO of legal tech company Litera in 2022, becoming chairman of the company’s board of directors, it was a surprise to many in the legal technology community. 

Now Marwaha and Litera have another surprise: He has returned as CEO “to lead the company through the next chapter…

Law Insider, a company that provides what it says is the world’s largest public contracts database, has acquired oneNDA, developer of an open source contract standard for non-disclosure agreements that has been downloaded by thousands of organizations throughout the world.

Through the acquisition, the oneNDA.org standards library — which includes oneNDA, oneNDA Playbook,…

descrybe.ai, a free legal research platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide enhanced access to the law, today rolled out a major upgrade that includes a redesign of its platform, more nuanced and accurate search results, summaries of judicial opinions in Spanish as well as English, and simplified, plain-language summaries in both English and…

We’ve just returned from the Clio Cloud Conference, held this year in Austin, Texas, where, in what has become an annual tradition, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton for a live interview. 

At the conference, Clio launched Clio Duo, the generative AI legal…

In the latest episode of our video series How It Works, we bring you a demonstration of Briefpoint, a solution that uses artificial intelligence to draft discovery responses and discovery requests in litigation.

With Briefpoint, a lawyer simply uploads a PDF document and it generates the appropriate discovery requests or response. It can generate…

When UnitedLex this week announced the sudden departure of James Schellhase from his position as chief executive officer, it seemed a mystery, since he had just celebrated his one-year anniversary in that role and had even just been on my LawNext podcast to reflect on that year — an interview suggested by the…

Clio’s choice of Austin, Texas, for its Clio Cloud Conference this year was a foray into enemy territory, and the enemy responded strategically with guerilla tactics of its own.

Austin, as it happens, is the home base of AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay, CASEPeer and Docketwise, all of which are competitors to Clio.…

“Momentum is the driving force that turns short bursts of energy into sustained success.”

With those words during his opening keynote that has been become a signature event of the Clio Cloud Conference, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton explained why the conference chose “momentum” as its theme this year.

It is an apt description,…

See this update: UnitedLex CEO’s Sudden Departure Appears to Be Due to Personal Allegations Unrelated to Work. 

Hope it wasn’t something he said on my podcast.

A week after appearing on my LawNext podcast to discuss his one-year anniversary as chief executive officer at UnitedLex, James Schellhase is out of that…

Usage of artificial intelligence by legal professionals has skyrocketed from 19% in 2023 to 79% this year, according to the ninth edition of the Legal Trends Report, released today by Clio during its Clio Cloud Conference in Austin.

The report further finds that up to 74% of hourly billable tasks – such as information gathering…