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

Tradespace, the San Francisco-based AI-powered intellectual property management platform, has acquired Paragon, an AI patent-drafting startup founded by three Princeton University computer science students. The acquisition, Tradespace says, makes it the first AI-powered platform to support the complete IP lifecycle, from initial invention disclosure through patent drafting, prosecution, portfolio management and commercialization. The deal brings […] read more

God forbid a disaster had befallen Austin, Texas, last week, because it could have set back the evolution of legal tech by at least a decade. Assembled there were many of the best and the brightest of the legal tech world, who had all come together for the fourth edition of what has become the […] read more

Applications are now open for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, a competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference. Out of all the entries received, 15 startups will […] read more