If you read my review last October of the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference (or KM&I for short), you will understand why I look forward to returning to New York City for the 2024 edition on Oct. 17 and 18. 

Conference organizer Patrick DiDomenico, president and founder of InspireKM Consulting and…

The contract review company LegalOn Technologies today released LegalOn Assistant, a generative AI chat interface that can answer questions about your contracts, draft clauses, summarize contract terms, and more.

The assistant is available directly within LegalOn’s in-browser contract editing interface and it is available immediately to all customers at no extra cost.

The…

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A common pain point for law firms is failing to track and invoice all reimbursable client expenses, resulting…

I was greatly honored to be interviewed by Luke Campbell, CEO of VXT, the New Zealand-based VoIP system for lawyers, for his podcast File Notes. It was a lot of fun, and Luke — a great interviewer, by the way — dug deep into my entire career, and how both journalism and…

Does page speed matter to the search engine ranking of your law firm website?

Turns out it does. Page speed is an important ranking factor for Google and other search engines. It can make the difference between a ranking on page one of Google or somewhere lower.

But many law firm websites are more focused…

Editor’s note: The following guest post is a response to my recent post, The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It is written by Mark Chandler, former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford…

I was deeply saddened to learn this week of the death of Lew Rose, a visionary in the early days of the internet who was one of the very first lawyers to create a website and who went on to an illustrious career in advertising and consumer law, capped by his six-year tenure as…

Live today at 3 p.m. E.T., the Legaltech Week panel is back, with a special guest sitting in.

We will share our impressions of last week’s ABA Techshow, and also discuss stories this week of new legal shenanigans involving ChatGPT, AI surveillance, how to write good search prompts, a company’s attempt to dissociate its chatbot,…

For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers.

By now, in the wake of several cases in which lawyers have found themselves in hot water by citing hallucinated cases generated by ChatGPT, most notoriously Mata…

The Belgium document automation company ClauseBase has launched a major expansion of its product to add new capabilities for clause extraction, AI-powered document review, and automated proofreading, all with the goal of providing an all-in-one platform, within Microsoft Word, for contract drafting, reviewing and negotiating.

ClauseBase launched in 2018 as a contract drafting platform…

Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. Now, as it expands into new markets, we get details on its adoption to date.

It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel, a product developed in partnership with OpenAI…

During ABA Techshow last week in Chicago, I had the opportunity to sit down for a brief conversation with Jack Newton, founder and CEO of law practice technology company Clio, who provided additional details on some of the company’s recent news.

We discussed Clio’s greater focus on midsized law firms, its impending launch…