Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 2, 2023

She writes legal technology columns for Above the Law and ABA Journal and speaks regularly at conferences regarding the intersection of law and technology. Here is a recent Daily Record column. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikiblack or email her at niki.black@mycase.com.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 3, 2023

Whether they work in law firms or corporate legal, academia or government, law librarians play a central role in testing, recommending and deploying legal technology, according to the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2023 State of the Profession report, an exhaustive 252-page survey of the legal information landscape.

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TechLaw Crossroads

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I recently had a chance to hear Richard Susskind speak on AI in law and, as always, found his comments perceptive and spot on. Susskind spoke as part of a series of lectures entitled Legal Tech Essentials 2022. Susskind noted the evolution from early AI programs that could deliver simple decision trees.

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LawSites

AUGUST 10, 2021

Kira Systems , a 10-year-old Toronto company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in contract analysis, is to be acquired by the global legal technology company Litera , its 12th acquisition over the span of two years.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2023

2023: A Legal AI Odyssey Happy birthday ChatGPT! Altman Was Out, Until He Wasn’t: Legal Tech Reacts to OpenAI’s Leadership Shuffle. Our panelist lineup changes from week to week, but our regulars are: Nicole Black , legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase. Hope you will join us.

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Lawmatics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Yes, legal software typically includes AI tools that legal professionals can use to create legal documents. In fact, legal AI tools can be used in multiple ways in the legal industry – as long as they are leveraged correctly. How is AI Used in Legal Technology?

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 19, 2023

Mónica González Contró , Director, Institute of Legal Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dirk Hartung , Founder and Executive Director, Center for Legal Technology and Data Science at Bucerius Law School. Joshua Walker , CEO, System.Legal; Co-Founder, CodeX; Author, On Legal AI.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

While the future may be uncertain, there’s one thing you can be sure of — generative AI, a cutting-edge technology that automates content creation, will be unavoidable in 2024. This technology is rapidly transforming the legal profession by streamlining workflows and reshaping how legal professionals approach their practices.

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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

“​​We’ve been amazed by the explosive usage growth our platform has experienced, since launching Spellbook as the first generative AI contract drafting tool in 2022” shared Scott Stevenson , CEO and co-founder of Spellbook, “This raise marks a major milestone for our team, and is indicative of the market traction we saw in 2023.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Whether speaking with lawyers and law students who haven’t gotten around to trying ChatGPT or collaborating with post-doc explainable and legal AI experts with 20+ years of machine learning and Natural Language Processing experience, Colin Lachance , legal tech innovator and leader, is no closer to understanding in what way and precisely when permanent (..)

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LawSites

JANUARY 9, 2023

Katz is professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and academic director of both The Law Lab at Illinois Tech, Chicago-Kent College of Law and the Bucerius Center for Legal Technology & Data Science in Hamburg, Germany.

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Law Technology Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. She continues her Legal NLP research with Bristol’s Computer Science department as a Visiting Academic Research Associate. At Law School 2.0

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For somewhat of a time capsule of the past decade in legal technology, see my prior years’ lists of my most-popular posts: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 ). Thomson Reuters Unveils Next Generation of Westlaw, Aiming to Make Legal Research Results More Precise.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 16, 2024

1 Legalweek is the OG of legal tech conferences. Long called Legaltech New York, it was renamed Legalweek in 2017 , and is one of the largest, longest-running and most-anticipated conferences focused on legal technology and the business of law, last year drawing over 6,000 attendees and featuring more than 300 speakers.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Then on March 14, 2023, with the release of ChatGPT powered by GPT-4, the influx of rapid advancements began at a record pace as software companies worked at lightning-fast speed to integrate the power of GPT-4 technology into their products. It shouldn’t surprise you to learn that legal technology companies have joined the fray.

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Legal Tech Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Legal AI company Casetext unveiled CoCounsel, the company’s first AI legal assistant. CoCounsel leverages the latest, most advanced large language model from OpenAI , which Casetext has customized for legal practice, to expertly perform the skills most valuable to legal professionals.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Four stories about the generative AI legal startup Harvey made my top-stories list, starting from its initial fundraise last November to its firmwide deployment within Allen & Overy in February to its Series A raise in April to a quirky story about a second legal AI startup also called Harvey.

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MAY 4, 2023

“LexisNexis has been leveraging artificial intelligence technology, including natural language processing and large language models, in its legal solutions for years, and we’ve been using generative AI in our research and development labs for more than a year,” said Jeff Reihl, Chief Technology Officer, LexisNexis Legal & Professional. “As

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2024

This week brought notable funding rounds for two legal technology companies, Proof and Spellbook, and a much-smaller seed round for a newer legal tech startup. Proof Raises $30M Series B Proof Technology , whose platform facilitates on-demand service of process and electronic filing, has closed a $30.4

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Four stories about the generative AI legal startup Harvey made my top-stories list, starting from its initial fundraise last November to its firmwide deployment within Allen & Overy in February to its Series A raise in April to a quirky story about a second legal AI startup also called Harvey. esq’ (May 9, 2023).

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Dewey B Strategic

JANUARY 11, 2024

“LexisNexis has been leveraging artificial intelligence technology, including natural language processing and large language models, in our legal solutions for years, and we’ve been using generative AI in our research and development labs for more than two years,” said Jeff Reihl, Chief Technology Officer, LexisNexis Legal & Professional. “As

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 26, 2024

This week brought notable funding rounds for two legal technology companies, Proof and Spellbook, and a much-smaller seed round for a newer legal tech startup. Proof Raises $30M Series B Proof Technology , whose platform facilitates on-demand service of process and electronic filing, has closed a $30.4

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LawNext podcast

JANUARY 9, 2023

Katz is professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and academic director of both The Law Lab at Illinois Tech, Chicago-Kent College of Law and the Bucerius Center for Legal Technology & Data Science in Hamburg, Germany.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

In this episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer interview three guests from UK law firm Travers Smith about their work on AI: Chief Technology Officer Oliver Bethel , Director of Legal Technology Sean Curran , and AI Manager Sam Lansley. It’s just trying to make you happy.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

I learned this technique early in my legal career; see my 1990 article Software Makes Decision Analysis Easy ( Legal Technology Newsletter, December 1990; with David Post). Legal AI offers value, but I am glad that the market is no longer so fixated on it and seems to have developed a more nuanced view.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 4, 2023

“LexisNexis has been leveraging artificial intelligence technology, including natural language processing and large language models, in its legal solutions for years, and we’ve been using generative AI in our research and development labs for more than a year,” said Jeff Reihl, Chief Technology Officer, LexisNexis Legal & Professional. “As

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 19, 2023

Mónica González Contró , Director, Institute of Legal Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dirk Hartung , Founder and Executive Director, Center for Legal Technology and Data Science at Bucerius Law School. Joshua Walker , CEO, System.Legal; Co-Founder, CodeX; Author, On Legal AI.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Justis emphasized that focusing on user needs, ethics, and change management will be key for successfully implementing AI. Looking ahead, Justis anticipated continuing progress in legal AI, regulatory changes, a focus on ethics, growing demand for AI skills, and AI becoming a competitive advantage for some firms.

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Legal Tech Blog

AUGUST 6, 2023

LexisNexis is responsibly developing legal AI solutions with human oversight. LexisNexis, part of RELX, follows the RELX Responsible AI Principles , considering the real-world impact of its solutions on people and taking action to prevent the creation or reinforcement of unfair bias.

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Simple Legal

MARCH 22, 2023

Leveraging legal spend management tech to automate accruals management and enforce billing guidelines saves time and money. What experience do you have using legal technology? Following the previous bullet point, legal ops teams are ramping up their use of comprehensive legal tech to deliver greater business value.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2023

In this episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer interview three guests from UK law firm Travers Smith about their work on AI: Chief Technology Officer Oliver Bethel , Director of Legal Technology Sean Curran , and AI Manager Sam Lansley. It’s just trying to make you happy.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He highlights the synergy between CaseText’s innovative approach and Thomson Reuters’ extensive resources and market presence, which together aim to drive the next wave of advancements in legal technology and research tools. But we’re already you’re also going to start to see an assistant that can span multiple platforms.

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MatterSuite

MARCH 5, 2024

This not only ensures the ongoing resilience of your legal AI but also demonstrates a commitment to continuous improvement in data security. Embrace a culture of continuous improvement to keep your AI systems at the cutting edge of legal technology.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 3, 2023

Justis emphasized that focusing on user needs, ethics, and change management will be key for successfully implementing AI. Looking ahead, Justis anticipated continuing progress in legal AI, regulatory changes, a focus on ethics, growing demand for AI skills, and AI becoming a competitive advantage for some firms.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He highlights the synergy between CaseText’s innovative approach and Thomson Reuters’ extensive resources and market presence, which together aim to drive the next wave of advancements in legal technology and research tools. But we’re already you’re also going to start to see an assistant that can span multiple platforms.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It was a moment, I realized in the midst of it all, where the mix of people and the depth of their knowledge and the strength of their convictions had come together in a way that rarely does at legal technology conferences, but that was, by all accounts, par for the course at this conference.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The product found an early champion in the form of a corporate legal department interested in licensing it. Today, LegalMation serves large corporate legal departments, law firms, and insurance companies. Suh and Block discuss common roadblocks to adopting new legal technology like lack of trust and skepticism.

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