It certainly has been no secret that Thomson Reuters has been building its own proprietary large language model. In fact, in my June interview with TR’s CEO Steve Hasker, he talked openly about it, and just a few weeks ago, I reported on TR’s release of preliminary benchmarking data that showed impressive results comparable to
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced what it is calling the next generation of Lexis+ with Protégé, its generative AI legal assistant, unveiling new agentic capabilities designed to enable legal professionals to move from an initial idea to review-ready work product in one intuitive AI experience. Branding it the LexisNexis Legal Intelligence Engine, the release
Law practice company Clio said today that it is bringing AI to Clio Grow, its client intake and relationship management product. Clio describes the new Grow AI as a set of features within Grow “that work around the clock to turn inquiries into clients.” The product targets a problem documented by Clio’s Legal Trends Report.
The document management company NetDocuments today announced two additions to its platform’s AI capabilities. One, Tabular Review, is a tool that lets users analyze collections of documents in a structured table. The other, Legal Authorities, automatically extracts case citations from documents as they are saved to the platform and links them to the full case
Did you know that the law practice management company Smokeball is named for a famous court case — Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. — that stands for the proposition that a company has a duty to deliver on its promises? It is fitting, then, that Smokeball is today unveiling a new global brand that
When Clio acquired vLex in 2025, a key asset it gained was Docket Alarm, one of the world’s largest litigation databases containing more than 1 billion filings from federal and state courts. At the ClioCon user conference last year, Clio relaunched it as Clio Docket. Now, Clio is making Clio Docket available from within Clio
Trellis, a legal research company that provides state trial court data and insights, has expanded agentic AI access to its data with a new plugin for OpenAI’s ChatGPT and a native assistant called Trellis Chat, both of which are in addition to the Trellis MCP connector for Claude that the company launched in May. Trellis
Perform legal work in Harvey, get a draft time entry created automatically in Aderant’s iTimekeep. That is the upshot of a integration announced today by the two companies. With the integration, law firms that are customers of both Harvey and iTimekeep can connect the two products so that work done in Harvey is captured by
DeepJudge, the Zurich-based enterprise search company that describes itself as the institutional intelligence platform for legal AI, today introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol, an open protocol designed to let users move from one AI product into another – and, in some cases, back again – while retaining the full context of their work. Harvey has
This week, LexisNexis announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City — a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI companies such as OpenAI and Amazon Web Services sit in the same room and build legal AI together, in real time. The company is calling it a new model for how legal AI
Relativity today announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI interface that lets lawyers ask plain-language questions across an entire RelativityOne matter and get back answers with citations to the underlying record. Relativity CEO Phil Saunders calls it a fundamentally new way for lawyers to get straight to the answers in their most consequential legal data. “Conversational
We are rapidly approaching budget season and planning for contingencies in 2027. Perhaps open-weight models should be part of your fall planning. Last year, DeepSeek created a scare for the American AI industry when it created a model that cost a fraction to develop relative to its U.S. counterparts. OpenAI alleges DeepSeek used a process
For ambitious software startups, winning a new customer is only the beginning. The next challenge is getting that customer fully operational before delays, technical complications, or a difficult data migration undermine the relationship. Universal Migrator helps fast-moving startups accelerate onboarding by providing the tools and expertise needed to transfer customer data from legacy systems into
Howard Katzenberg’s idea for a trademark software company began with a trademark fight of his own. Today, he is formally launching that software, called GleanMark, a U.S. trademark research and workflow platform for lawyers. The platform combines free USPTO search with AI-driven clearance analysis, office-action response drafting, automated deadline tracking, and portfolio monitoring, all built
Rarely do law firms lose clients on merit, argues Cesar Tapia. They lose them before intake ever happens – to missed calls, slow follow-up and dead voicemail. Today, Tapia and his cofounder Eslam Odeh are launching their answer to that problem – Paravo, a startup emerging from stealth with what it describes as the first
SurePoint Technologies, a company that provides practice-management, finance and growth technology products for mid-sized law firms, named Jeff Steinberg its chief executive officer on July 23, elevating Eric Thurston, who had led the company since 2023, to executive chairman. Two weeks into the job, Steinberg joins LawNext to speak with host Bob Ambrogi about what