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How Lawyers Can Stay Necessary (and Employed) in the Age of Generative AI
Advances in generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, have the potential to disrupt the practice of law for many, many lawyers — especially junior lawyers. A 2023 Thomson Reuters report on the impact of AI on lawyers forecasts an “immense” impact on junior lawyers. This blog has recently reported on an AI tool that can draft
AI Legal Writing Tool Clearbrief Raises $4 Million to Fuel Expansion Among Larger Law Firms
Clearbrief, a legal technology company that uses AI to help lawyers find and insert facts to support their legal writing, has raised an additional funding round of approximately $4 million. This brings the company’s total funding since its founding in 2021 to nearly $8 million. This latest round was led by Authentic Ventures, How Women
New Gavel Feature Uses AI to Convert PDFs into Automated Document-Generation Workflows
If you are a lawyer whose practice involves regularly working with PDF forms, such as those from courts and government agencies, a new generative AI feature from document automation company Gavel could help save you time. The new feature, Gavel Blueprint for PDF, allows lawyers to automatically convert PDF forms into automated document-generation workflows, automatically
New Legal Ethics Opinion Cautions Lawyers: You ‘Must Be Proficient’ In the Use of Generative AI
A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI. The opinion, jointly issued by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, was
Is Gen AI Creating A Divide Among Law Firms Of Haves and Have Nots?
On Friday, I spoke to a group of trial lawyers on the use of generative AI in litigation. Many in the room were that increasingly rare breed of lawyer who actually go into court and try cases. Of several that I spoke to before and after my talk, they were proud of their courtroom skills
New President of Thomson Reuters Legal Segment Says Industry Needs Open Benchmarking on Gen AI
Raghu Ramanathan, who in February was named president of the Legal Professionals segment within Thomson Reuters, overseeing all its products for the legal profession, believes there should be open benchmarking on legal AI products, he told me during an interview earlier this week. “I do believe the industry needs open benchmarks on AI performance in
Startup LexIQ, An AI Copilot for Contracts Backed By Techstars and J.P. Morgan, Launches Waitlist Today
LexIQ, an early-stage startup focused on using artificial intelligence to draft and review contracts in Microsoft Word, is today launching its waitlist for corporate legal departments and law firms interested in joining is beta program. Founded by Samarth Gupta, a computer engineer and data scientist who most recently worked at EY as a senior data
LawNext PR: Assembly Software Launches NeosAI, AI Embedded in the Neos Case Management Platform
Today on the LawNext PR podcast, Assembly Software CEO Daniel Farrar joins Bob Ambrogi to discuss today’s launch of NeosAI, a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into the Neos case management platform. “NeosAI is designed to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and elevate productivity by embedding AI technology directly into Neos workflows,” the company said in
Building On Its Jurisage Merger, CiteRight Launches AI-Powered Tool For Litigators to Summarize and Synthesize Case Law
Last September, two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution. Now, in the first application to result from that merger, CiteRight is today launching AI Insights by Jurisage, an AI-powered tool embedded