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Jus Mundi, a France-based search engine that helps lawyers involved with international arbitration gather vital data quickly, announced Friday a new partnership with Stanford University's legal technology hub CodeX to operate a series of hackathons to drive artificial intelligence innovation.
Kristen Sonday, co-founder and chief executive at free legal assistance platform Paladin, is striving to streamline pro bono work to help close the U.S. justice gap. Here, she talks to Law360 Pulse about how she's working towards that aim.
The legal industry ended March with another action-packed week as firms elevated attorneys and President Donald Trump aimed another executive order at a prominent BigLaw shop. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
On the heels of ALM's Legalweek conference in New York, the legal technology industry is wrapping up another busy week.
Adopting advanced technology is only one piece of the innovation puzzle for law firms as several recruit and fill new specialist roles to transform daily operations, a group of law firm experts explained Thursday.
DeepIP, a patent drafting tool that uses generative artificial intelligence, announced Thursday the raising of $15 million in a Series A funding round to further expand its operations in the U.S. and Europe and the capabilities of its software assistant.
As a legal leader, Eugenia Bergantz hasn’t always had definitive plans when adding employees to her team. But now as general counsel at financial performance management platform Planful, she has a roadmap that includes relying on legal operations.
Future lawyers demand that their law firms value diversity, offer a work-life balance and embrace cutting-edge technology, a group of experts said during a panel discussion on Wednesday.
Philadelphia-based litigation support company Angeion Group said Thursday that it is merging with case data management solutions provider Case Works.
Federal rules of evidence should specifically cite generative artificial intelligence in addressing potentially compromised admissions during litigation, while determining the authentication of evidence should be left in the hands of judges, according to a report published Monday to the Social Science Research Network.
While the use of artificial intelligence in the legal industry "is here to stay," lawyers must still be mindful of its risks and take appropriate precautions, judges advised at a roundtable Wednesday.
General counsel are becoming more comfortable with generative artificial intelligence but are still more likely to turn to outside counsel for critical needs, the results of a new survey showed on Wednesday.
Soccer's international governing body pressed a Puerto Rico federal judge Tuesday to sanction attorneys accusing it and others of trying to block island rivals, arguing that in trying to rebut claims they used artificial intelligence that cited nonexistent cases, the lawyers introduced "new defective citations and nonexistent quotations."
A federal judge's judge shopping sanctions on lawyers challenging an Alabama transgender care ban were unusually harsh, legal experts said, and raise concerns about a chilling effect on advocates litigating similar cases in other jurisdictions.
A report on midsize law firms released Tuesday by legal technology company Clio found that use of artificial technology among midsized firms has more than quadrupled in two years to 93% and that such firms are also likely to be using alternative fee arrangements such as flat fees.
Virginia-based information governance platform Infinnium announced Monday that it has hired Elie Francis, the founder of legal technology companies Driven Inc. and One Discovery, as its CEO.
Chief legal officers' role in companies' cybersecurity strategy is growing, with many top legal executives saying their teams have cybersecurity responsibilities, according to a recently released report by the Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation.
Some of the main e-discovery takeaways from recent cases are that discovery has limits, requesting parties can't control the entire process of producing electronically stored information, and the use of new technologies does not automatically broaden the scope of discovery.
Transcription service Rev announced Monday the acquisition of SmartDepo, which provides deposition summary services using artificial intelligence.
As its headcount expands, remote law firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP has brought on a new director in charge of managing the firm's legal tech and external partnerships.
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has promoted the managing director of its e-data consulting group to be its first-ever head of innovation, artificial intelligence and e-data consulting, the firm said Monday.
Selecting the right artificial intelligence vendor is crucial, as astute legal teams follow a process of evaluating new tools and onboarding them, experts explained during a panel on Monday.
C-suite executives are demanding in-house attorneys incorporate artificial intelligence into their legal work in lieu of hiring, according to a report published Monday by contract management platform Juro.
Boulder, Colorado-based eDiscovery Assistant, which offers a case law database for litigators working with electronically stored information, announced on Monday a rebranding to Minerva26 over the coming weeks.
Sweden-based legal generative artificial intelligence platform Legora is making waves in the U.S., opening an office in New York City, while striking a partnership with American international law firm Goodwin Procter LLP, the company announced Monday.
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The Future Of Legal Ops: Time To Get Serious About DataMost corporate legal departments collect surface-level data around their operations, such as costs and time to resolution, but legal leaders should explore more in-depth data gathering to assess how effective an attorney was, how efficiently legal work was performed, and more, says Andy Krebs at Intel.
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.
Law firms considering machine learning and natural language processing to aid in contract reviews should keep several best practices in mind when procuring and deploying this nascent technology, starting with identifying their organization's needs and key requirements, says Ned Gannon at eBrevia.
Law firms need to shift their focus from solving the needs of their lawyers with siloed solutions to implementing collaboration technology, thereby enabling more seamless workflows and team experiences amid widespread embrace of hybrid and remote work models, says Kate Jasaitis at HBR Consulting.
Law firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.