Four Months After Launching Its ‘Homegrown’ GenAI Tool, Law Firm Gunderson Dettmer Reports On Results So Far, New Features, And A Surprise on Cost

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In August, the Silicon Valley-based international law firm Gunderson Dettmer became one of the first U.S.-based firms — if not the first — to develop and launch a “homegrown” internal generative AI tool, which it calls ChatGD. 

As Joe Green, the firm’s chief innovation officer, told me at the time, “Given our position…

On LawNext: AffiniPay CEO Dru Armstrong on the Intersection of Fintech, Legal Tech and AI

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Dru Armstrong was named CEO of AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, in July 2021. Less than a year later, AffiniPay shook up the legal tech landscape by acquiring MyCase, one of the leading law practice management platforms, in a deal that also included four other practice management products: CASEPeer for personal injury firms, Docketwise for immigration…

With Launch of New AI Features, LawToolBox Is First Legal App Approved for Use with Copilot for Microsoft 365

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The deadline calendaring and matter management company LawToolBox has added new artificial intelligence features through its integrations with Microsoft Outlook and Teams that automate the calendaring of court dates and contractual deadlines.

With the new features, LawToolBox can read emails and attachments in Outlook, such as court orders and contracts, and extract deadlines and…

Guest Post: The Year in Justice Tech: 2023 Report and News Roundup

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[This guest post is by Maya Markovich, executive director of the Justice Technology Association, an organization formed to support companies in the justice tech sector. She is also executive in residence for justice tech at Village Capital, the largest organization in the world supporting impact-driven, seed-stage startups.]

Justice tech entered mainstream industry…