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One of my most-read stories last year was The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It was about the jarring juxtaposition I experienced…

Generative AI presents a generational opportunity for legal aid organizations to address the justice gap, keynote speaker Laura Safdie told the roughly 350 people who convened in Phoenix on Sunday for the inaugural AI for Legal Aid Summit.

Noting data showing that more than 90% of civil legal needs go unrepresented, Safdie (pictured above), former…

If context switching is the bane of AI adoption in law firms, legal technology company Syntheia may just have the balm.

Recognizing that lawyers spend much of their days in email, it has developed an AI-powered document analysis tool that allows lawyers to obtain summaries and insights from legal documents by simply forwarding them…

Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, has raised $47 million in Series A funding, in a round led by major venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures. The company says the investment will support its rapid market growth and drive its product development and…

LexCheck, a legal technology company specializing in contract review, is launching a new AI-powered contract analysis tool that aims to solve two persistent challenges in contract technology: the ability to handle complex agreements beyond routine contracts such as NDAs, and the creation and maintenance of contract playbooks.

The company’s new product, LexCheck Insights, combines…

The contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today said it has acquired Screens, developer of a generative AI contract review and redlining product that uses expert-created and auto-generated playbooks to “screen” and redline contracts.

“This strategic acquisition will enhance Agiloft’s data-first Agreement Platform and contract management capabilities, by standardizing the contract review process, promoting…

The American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) and the legal technology company Clearbrief today announced a partnership by which AAA-ICDR will provide Clearbrief’s AI-powered writing and document analysis tools to its panel of 5,500 arbitrators and mediators.

The partnership follows a successful six-month pilot program and represents a continuation of AAA’s…

Epiq Global announced today the launch of Epiq AI Discovery Assistant, an artificial intelligence-powered platform that aims to automate significant portions of the document review process, along with the formation of Epiq AI Labs, a research initiative focused on developing advanced AI technologies for legal applications.

To lead the new lab, Epiq has hired AI…

Anastasia Boyko likes to say that she’s Goldilocks-ed her way through her career. True, it’s been a varied career, as she’s tried out different roles, but it is a career that has taken her full circle, from Yale Law School, where she graduated, and then eventually back to Yale Law to create a…

With this post, voting is now officially open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the ninth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, April 2-5, 2025. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW…

The Toronto-based company Alexi, whose platform provides AI-driven tools for litigators, said today that it has launched an “advanced legal reasoning” capability that will “elevate litigators’ capacity to analyze and understand the full complexities of issues and facts of any given litigation file.”

In a press release announcing the news, Alexi claims that…

Housing Court Answers, a nonprofit tenants’ rights organization in New York City, today launched Roxanne, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered tool created to help tenants navigate issues related to housing repairs.

Developed in partnership with New York University School of Law and the legal automation company Josef, the AI assistant helps renters in New…