As Leslie Witt took to the stage Sept. 3 to deliver the keynote at Kaleidoscope, 8am’s inaugural customer conference, it was the culmination of a whirlwind summer. It had been just four months since she had joined the company formerly known as AffiniPay as chief product officer, responsible for leading product transformation and strategy for […] read more

A new decision from the California Court of Appeals adds an intriguing dimension to the growing body of AI hallucination sanctions cases, raising the question of a lawyer’s duty to detect fabricated, AI-generated citations — not in the lawyer’s own filings, but in an opponent’s. While the court did impose a $10,000 sanction on the […] read more

In an unusual judicial response to the ongoing epidemic of AI-generated fictitious citations, Washoe County, Nev., District Court Judge David Hardy has crafted what he calls a “creative and unpredictable” solution that offers a different way for courts to address attorney misconduct involving artificial intelligence. The unusual order, first reported by Mark Robison at the […] read more

The problem of legal timekeeping is as old as the billable hour itself. Lawyers either interrupt their work to record time contemporaneously, breaking their flow and concentration, or they reconstruct their time retroactively, inevitably missing billable work and resulting in weaker narratives for clients.  Enter Ajax, an AI-powered time-tracking platform that aims to solve this […] read more

Daniel Lewis has witnessed legal technology’s evolution from multiple vantage points that few others can claim. As a Stanford law student in 2012, he and classmate Nik Reed co-founded the legal research startup Ravel Law with the audacious goal of taking on LexisNexis and Westlaw using machine learning and data analytics – at a time when […] read more

I took advantage of my flight home from Austin to write my review of 8am’s inaugural Kaleidoscope conference, which I’d just attended there. I published that review earlier today, and you can see it in full here. Once done with that, I pulled out my Kindle and returned to reading Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck’s […] read more

Attending the inaugural Kaleidoscope conference in Austin last week, I couldn’t shake a strange feeling: I’d been here before. That was impossible, of course, as this was 8am’s very first customer conference. But the energy, the setup, the vibe all felt uncannily familiar. It was, as Yogi Berra might have said, déjà vu all over […] read 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. […] read more

Twenty years ago today, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the city of New Orleans and surrounding parishes. Eighty percent of the city was flooded, many people died, and many others lost their homes. For many of us, the images from those awful days are seared into our collective memory – the […] read more

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 […] read more