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This post was originally published on this siteWithin the last 10 days, two major legal research companies have launched brief-analysis tools. On July 12, Thomson Reuters unveiled its Quick Check, a feature that will be available starting July 24 to all subscribers to Westlaw Edge, as I reported in this post. Then last week, Bloomberg Law previewed its forthcoming brief […]

This post was originally published on this site It was 20 years ago that two Covington & Burling associates, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal, made the audacious move of quitting their jobs and launching the legal research company Fastcase. Their goal was to democratize the law through affordable pricing and smarter technology. Two decades later, that once-scrappy company […]

This post was originally published on this siteIn this corner: CARA, the original AI-powered brief-analysis tool introduced in 2016 by the legal research company Casetext. In the other corner: Well, no one really, except empty seats behind name cards bearing the names of other brief-analysis products and an audience of curious onlookers. But its competitors’ […]

This post was originally published on this siteLexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced that it has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with Knowable, a company that uses machine-learning technology to help companies better understand their contracts. Knowable was just formed in February, as a spin-off from alternative legal services provider Axiom […]

This post was originally published on this siteThomson Reuters said today that it has acquired HighQ, a London-based enterprise collaboration and file-sharing platform for the legal industry. HighQ has more than 400 customers, including more than half of the Global 100 largest law firms, TR said in announcing the acquisition. It was just a year […]

This post was originally published on this siteJack Newton, cofounder and CEO of the legal practice management company Clio, has joined the board of directors of ROSS Intelligence, the AI-powered legal research service. “I’m honored to join ROSS Intelligence’s Board, and I look forward to playing a role in guiding the company’s growth in the […]

This post was originally published on this siteYesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of my podcast LawNext, focused on interviews with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Starting it was a bit of a gamble. As I explained in another post, Why I’m Signing Off the Podcast I’ve […]

This post was originally published on this site By any measure, the London-based legal AI startup Luminance has had spectacular success. Not yet three years old, it has raised $23 million in funding, has achieved a valuation of $100 million, is used by more than 150 organizations on six continents, and has won numerous technology […]

This post was originally published on this siteLast Friday, I wrote here about the launch by Thomson Reuters of Quick Check, its version of a growing array of brief-analysis products that let lawyers upload a brief and discover relevant cases the brief missed. Now comes another such product, as Bloomberg Law gave a preview of its […]

This post was originally published on this siteIn 2016, Casetext, the legal research startup, introduced CARA, a tool that uses artificial intelligence to analyze users’ uploaded briefs and memoranda and find relevant cases the document missed. Lawyers could use it to vet an opponent’s brief for omitted cases or to double-check their own research before submitting […]