EvenUp today introduced its new Medical Management product designed to help personal injury law firms track their clients’ medical care in real time and prevent treatment interruptions that can undermine case value. The San Francisco-based company, which specializes in AI tools for personal injury practices, said the product addresses a widespread problem. According to EvenUp’s […] read more

Fewer than four months after the University of Chicago Law School announced it would be launching an AI Lab, a course designed to teach law students how to build generative AI tools to help people who cannot afford an attorney, the 10 students in the lab’s inaugural class have developed and launched their first product. […] read more

The Masters Conference, an education and thought leadership forum focused on e-discovery, litigation, information governance, AI and related disciplines for legal professionals, has named legal industry veteran Kevin Vermeulen as its new chief executive officer. Masters also announced that Mike Dalewitz, a veteran e-discovery entrepreneur and former advisor to The Masters Conference, is returning to […] read more

Legal research technology company Fastcase, which is now owned by Clio, has filed a federal lawsuit against AI-powered legal research platform Alexi, alleging breach of contract, trademark infringement and trade secret misappropriation, relating to its use of data licensed from Fastcase. The complaint, filed Nov. 26 in the U.S. District Court for the District of […] read more

Norm Ai, the New York-based legal and compliance AI company, said last week that it has secured an additional $50 million investment from asset management firm Blackstone and is launching Norm Law LLP, which it describes as an AI-native law firm initially focused on financial services clients. The investment, which comes through Blackstone Innovations Investments […] read more

Two former BigLaw M&A attorneys have launched a legal tech startup aimed at addressing one of the profession’s most persistent challenges — the gap between law school education and the practical skills needed to succeed in transactional practice. Rubi Legal Training, founded by co-CEOs Madison Keeble (pictured left above) and Geetika Jerath (pictured right), officially […] read more

As they adapt to rapid technological change, law libraries and legal information professionals are experiencing their highest staffing levels in nearly a decade, according to a comprehensive new industry survey released yesterday. But salaries for those in law libraries vary widely, depending on the type of library and career stage. While the highest base salary […] read more

Earlier today, I wrote about the brief filed by Thomson Reuters in its ongoing copyright litigation against the now-closed legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, which is now on an interlocutory appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Like many of the documents that have been filed in this case since it began in […] read more

In a redacted brief filed Nov. 19 with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Thomson Reuters urged the court to affirm the Delaware district court’s ruling that ROSS Intelligence infringed Westlaw’s copyrights by copying thousands of its attorney-written headnotes to train an AI-powered legal research tool. “Copying protectable expression to create a competing substitute […] read more

Last June, legal technology company Clio and legal marketing company Scorpion announced that they had formed a comprehensive strategic partnership aimed at giving law firms greater visibility into their marketing investments and outcomes, addressing what the companies described as a longstanding blind spot in how lawyers understand and optimize their client acquisition efforts. The partnership […] read more