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At Its Inaugural Kaleidoscope Conference, 8am’s CPO Announces AI Tools, Platform Integration and More
Two weeks after the company formerly known as AffiniPay unveiled its rebranding as 8am, it convened its inaugural Kaleidoscope customer conference in Austin today, where its chief product officer, Leslie Witt, took to the stage to deliver a keynote address in which she announced key platform integrations, new AI-powered tools, and expanded financial services offerings.…
Everlaw Expands AI Capabilities with Deep Dive Tool and Achieves FedRAMP Certification For Its AI
As I continue to play catch up on some of the news announced during ILTACON, the e-discovery company Everlaw made two notable announcements there: The expansion from private to open beta of its AI Deep Dive, a tool that can answer complex questions about large document collections, and its having secured FedRAMP certification for its…
Bench IQ, AI Startup Led By Former ROSS Cofounder to Understand Judges’ Decision Patterns, Raises $5.3M Seed
In February 2024, I wrote here about the launch of Bench IQ, a company that is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written rulings, but also their rulings from the bench and other data. At the time, the company had just closed a…
LexisNexis: Every Lawyer Will Have A Personalized AI Assistant
Even though ILTACON ended more than a week ago now, I am still digging out from the deluge of briefings and meetings I attended there. One of particular note was a media briefing with LexisNexis executives in which they provided further information on the company’s AI strategy. Just ahead of ILTACON, LexisNexis had announced the…
Live Today: The Legaltech Week Panel Breaks Down ILTACON; Plus, the Risks of Agentic AI and On-Premises Software
Join us live today at 3 p.m. E.T. for Legaltech Week — our weekly breakdown of the top stories in legal tech — as the panelists share their impressions and takeaways from the recently concluded ILTACON. Plus, to help us do that, we will be joined by a special guest: Jeffrey Brandt, editor of Law Technology…
Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on How Legal AI Innovators Can Get First-Mover Advantage On the Next Big Thing
First movers in legal tech often win the day, says Ken Crutchfield, but without also anticipating what’s ahead, an early move can be quickly outmoded. This is particularly true given the pace of development of major AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, Meta and others. But what if an AI innovator could know — or…
On LawNext: Reveal’s CEO and CTO Discuss the Company’s Launch of Gen AI for E-Discovery Review
The e-discovery company Reveal Data recently announced that it will launch its new generative AI-powered document review platform, called “aji,” in late September. Notably, the company said it is offering full access to the platform at no cost through Dec. 31, in order to enable “the entire legal community to explore and master the next…
Thomson Reuters CEO: Legal Profession Faces “Biggest Disruption in Its History” from AI
Thomson Reuters President and CEO Steve Hasker believes the legal profession is experiencing “the biggest disruption … in its history” due to generative and agentic artificial intelligence, fundamentally rewriting how legal work products are created for the first time in more than 300 years. Speaking to legal technology reporters during ILTACON, the International Legal Technology…
Watch: 15 Minute Demo of Midpage ChatGPT Plugin for Legal
On this episode of How it Works, I sit down with Midpage founder Otto Zastrow to demo Midpage GPT, a plugin within ChatGPT that allows lawyers to accurately and securely research case law. The Midpage ChatGPT Integration allows lawyers to conduct legal research on real case law directly in ChatGPT. By connecting the ChatGPT to the…