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
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Exclusive: Syntheia’s New Product Brings AI-Powered Document Analysis to Lawyers’ Email Workflows
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 from
Eve, ‘Intelligent Partner’ for PI Firms, Raises $47M in Round Led By Major VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz
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 expansion.
Agiloft Acquires Screens, AI Contract Review Technology Based On Expert-Built Playbooks
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 consistency, and
Epiq Global Launches AI-Powered E-Discovery Platform and AI Research Lab
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
AI, Ethics, Essays and Scandals Ranked Among LawSites’ 40 Most Popular Legal Tech Stories of 2024
It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog’s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations. In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way.
Illinois Supreme Court Releases Policy Authorizing Ethical Use of AI in the Courts
The Illinois Supreme Court today released a policy on the use of generative AI in the courts that authorizes its use by attorneys, judges, court staff and others, provided the use complies with legal and ethical standards. The Illinois Supreme Court AI Policy, which will take effect Jan. 1, emphasizes that attorneys, judges and self-represented
LawNext: In Which Gen AI Takes Over this Podcast to Discuss Law Practice Management Technology
On today’s LawNext: we hand over the podcast to NotebookLM to discuss the state of law practice management technology. If you haven’t heard of NotebookLM, it is a generative AI tool from Google that turns your documents into engaging audio discussions. Its output sounds a whole lot like, well, a podcast, with two hosts chatting
New Trellis AI Solution Leverages State Court Data to Automate Litigation Tasks for Legal Analytics
In today’s episode of the LawNext PR podcast, host Bob Ambrogi interviewed Nicole Clark, the founder and CEO of Trellis, about the company’s latest innovation: Trellis AI. This new suite of generative AI tools builds on Trellis’ comprehensive database of state trial court data to assist litigators in simplifying complex litigation tasks. You can read
Responding To Strong Market Interest In Its Gen AI Product, Josef Closes ‘Lightning-Fast’ Funding Round
Legal automation company Josef has closed what it is describing as a lightning-fast funding round in order to capitalize on market response to Josef Q, the AI-powered product it brought out of beta in November 2023 that enables legal and compliance teams to easily create self-service Q&A tools. Participants in the round were Josef’s existing