Thomson Reuters today brings its generative AI legal assistant CoCounsel Core to the United Kingdom, following its initial rollout in the United States and expansion last month into Australia and Canada.
The company also said that its AI-Assisted Research product, launched in November within Westlaw Edge for the U.S., would be available on Westlaw Edge
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If you are a company looking to target your advertising to an audience of those interested in legal tech, you would be hard-pressed to do better than this blog and our related media properties.
By definition, our audience is composed almost entirely of readers and listeners who are interested in legal tech news, ideas and
Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?
Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S. legal system.
One is the gaping lack of access to justice. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. Reasonable minds can quibble over that number –
Four Month After Launching, Traact Forms Strategic Partnership with Belgium-Based Klea to Serve Corporate and Law Firm Clients Globally
Launched just four months ago by engineers who previously worked for Uber, Google and Amazon, Traact, a SaaS platform that integrates a range of corporate functions in an all-in-one platform, today said it has entered into a strategic partnership with Klea, a Belgium-based provider of AI-enabled legal entity management.
The partnership will enable
Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law
Back in 2018, something remarkable happened. The Caselaw Access Project, part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years.
It was a massive project that scanned 38.6
LawNext: Oddr CEO Milan Bobde On How AI Can Help Law Firms Stem Revenue Leakage and Turn Invoices into Cash
Can AI help law firms stem revenue leakage and more efficiently turn their invoices into collected cash? That is the premise behind Oddr, a legal tech startup that recently launched what it says is the legal industry’s first AI-powered invoice to cash platform, centralizing law firm billing, collections, payments and reconciliation in a single
New Report Synthesizes the Data to Identify Key Legal Tech Trends and Action Items for Solos and Small Firms
For solo and small law firms, the current state of legal technology offers both promises and pitfalls. Technology such as generative AI poses traps for the unwary, but for those who understand and embrace technology, there are opportunities to run more profitable and efficient practices, provide better customer experiences, and improve work-life balance.
In light
AI Contract Drafting Startup Henchman Unveils Microsoft Copilot Integration, Calling It First of Its Kind
Henchman, a legal tech startup that provides legal teams with quick access to their previously written contract clauses and definitions directly within Microsoft Word, today released what it says is a first-of-its-kind integration with Microsoft Copilot through which Copilot users will be able to surface clauses and precedents from their document management systems that
Hotshot, the Legal Learning Platform, Releases First Five in Planned Series of AI Training Videos for Lawyers
Hotshot, a learning platform for legal professionals, today released the first five courses in a planned series designed to teach lawyers and other legal professionals about artificial intelligence and its impact on law practice.
The overall set of AI videos is designed to teach lawyers about the technology, its use cases for law practice,
Stuck In A Long-Term Contract with A Practice Management Vendor? Clio Offers to Buy You Out
Two years ago, Clio, the law practice management company, made an offer that some law firms might have found difficult to refuse. It offered to buy them out of up to six months of their contracts with competing practice management platforms if they switched to Clio’s platform.
Now Clio is reviving that offer, which it
Leadership, Growth, and Profitability in a Post-Pandemic Era: New Report Focuses on How Modern Law Firms Are Navigating Digital Transformation
By Ari Kaplan, Ari Kaplan Advisors [Sponsored Post]
In collaboration with Affinity Consulting, iManage, and SurePoint Technologies, I was fortunate to interview 18 chief operating officers, 10 executive directors, one chief executive officer, and one chief administrative officer at law firms, with a median of 140 professionals and 73 lawyers, between February 21,
Despite All the Hype Over CLM Software, Most Companies Don’t Use It to Manage their Contracts, Survey Finds
One of the most talked-about legal technologies of the last few years is contract lifecycle management software. But a survey released today finds that the majority of companies do not use CLM software at all, and of those that do have a dedicated CLM system, most use it only on a limited basis.
Instead of
Just Published: A Practical Guide for Small Firms to E-Discovery Practices and Products
One of the challenges of e-discovery for smaller law firms is that so many of the e-discovery products on the market are designed for large cases handled by large law firms, putting them out of range for smaller firms in both price and complexity.
For smaller law firms, the leading guide to e-discovery practices and
ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns
Jimoh Ovbiagele, cofounder in 2014 of the now-shuttered AI legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, is returning to legal tech as chief executive officer of a new startup, Bench IQ, that says it is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written
LawNext: Thomson Reuters’ AI Strategy for Legal, with Mike Dahn, Head of Westlaw, and Joel Hron, Head of AI
On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and implementation.
In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role. It started in
First-Of-Its-Kind Credit Card/Software Combo from LawPay and MyCase Lets Law Firms Track Expenses Directly to Matters and Invoicing
A common pain point for law firms is failing to track and invoice all reimbursable client expenses, resulting in losses to firm profits. A first-of-its-kind product being unveiled today by AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay and MyCase, aims to solve that problem for smaller firms by marrying a business credit card for