‘The Questions Here Are Hard’: Judge Explains Postponement of Trial In Thomson Reuters-Ross Litigation

This post was originally published on this siteThe judge presiding over the long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and Ross Intelligence today issued a memorandum opinion explaining his April 10 issuance of an 11th-hour order postponing the scheduled trial to allow Ross to file an interlocutory appeal of the judge’s partial grant of summary judgment. […]

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LawNext: Lawyer and Serial Legal Entrepreneur Monica Zent on Building the Future of Legal Services

This post was originally published on this siteMonica Zent is a true pioneer in legal innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the founder of ZentLaw, an award-winning alternative legal services provider that broke the traditional law firm mold when she founded it in 2002. ZentLaw has since grown into a nationwide legal services provider, serving global […]

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Gavel Says Its New AI Assistant, Gavel Exec, Performs At Senior-Level Capacity for Small Law Firms

This post was originally published on this siteDocument automation company Gavel today released Gavel Exec, an AI assistant embedded in Microsoft Word that it says can perform at a senior-level capacity for small law firms. Lawyers can use the AI assistant to perform a range of activities, including contract analysis and redlining, negotiation based on […]

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At Its Momentum Conference in Dallas, Aderant Launches Next-Gen Cloud Financial Applications Aimed At Transforming Law Firm Operations

This post was originally published on this siteAt its Momentum Global conference in Dallas today, legal technology company Aderant unveiled four new cloud-based financial management applications, marking a significant expansion of the company’s AI-powered offerings for law firms. The new applications — Cloud Accounts Receivable (AR), Cloud General Ledger (GL), Stridyn Analytics, and askMADDI — […]

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LawNext: Turning Legal Spend Into Performance: PERSUIT Founder Jim Delkousis On His Company’s Acquisition of Apperio

This post was originally published on this siteOn May 5, 2025, PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in helping corporate legal departments select and manage outside counsel, announced that it had acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal, in a move designed to create an end-to-end workflow solution spanning everything from matter intake to […]

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AI Hallucinations Strike Again: Two More Cases Where Lawyers Face Judicial Wrath for Fake Citations

This post was originally published on this siteIn what has become a distressingly familiar pattern in courtrooms across America, two more cases have emerged of lawyers submitting briefs containing non-existent legal citations generated by AI tools. At this point, one wonders if the legal profession needs a mandatory continuing legal education course titled, “How to […]

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