Casetext today is rolling out three major updates to its legal research platform. One is an updated design and architecture to make the site faster, cleaner and easier to use. But it is the other two updates that I want to focus on, because, in combination, they dramatically enhance the results you receive when…
Legal Wellness Retreat Planned for Berkshires this Summer (and Registration Discount Ends Today)
Leave it to me to cover something on the afternoon of the last day of early-bird registration. So register fast if you’re interested.
This summer, July 18-20, in the bucolic Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, the practice management company Rocket Matter is hosting its first Legal Wellness Retreat, which they are describing…
Video: Interview with Thomas Hamilton of ROSS Intelligence at American Bankruptcy Institute
At the annual meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute on April 20, I moderated a plenary panel, “Artificial Intelligence: Why It Matters To Your Future Bankruptcy Practice.” In advance of the panel, the ABI recorded a series of video interviews I conducted with some of the panelists. Here is…
Video: Interview with Darby Green of Bloomberg Law at American Bankruptcy Institute
At the annual meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute on April 20, I moderated a plenary panel, “Artificial Intelligence: Why It Matters To Your Future Bankruptcy Practice.” In advance of the panel, the ABI recorded a series of video interviews I conducted with some of the panelists. Here is…
Video: Interview with Owen Byrd of Lex Machina at American Bankruptcy Institute
At the annual meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute on April 20, I moderated a plenary panel, “Artificial Intelligence: Why It Matters To Your Future Bankruptcy Practice.” In advance of the panel, the ABI recorded a series of video interviews I conducted with some of the panelists. Here is…
Video: Interview with Ed Walters of Fastcase at American Bankruptcy Institute
At the annual meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute on April 20, I moderated a plenary panel, “Artificial Intelligence: Why It Matters To Your Future Bankruptcy Practice.” In advance of the panel, the ABI recorded a series of video interviews I conducted with some of the panelists. Here is…
Podcast: An In-Depth Look At The 2018 Am Law 100
As I reported earlier this week, The American Lawyer is out with the Am Law 100, its 31st annual ranking of the 100 highest-grossing U.S. law firms. On the latest episode of our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer, we are joined by Gina Passarella, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, and Nicholas Bruch,…
MyCase Says Its Latest Enhancements All Driven By Customers
In recent months, the cloud-based practice management platform MyCase has introduced a variety of enhancements that share a single theme – they were all inspired by listening to customers.
That is what Kim Coalson, senior vice president for MyCase at AppFolio, its parent company, told me when I sat down with her…
Fastcase Officially Launches Its AI Sandbox and Firms that Will Participate
Nearly a year ago, this blog first reported that legal research service Fastcase would launch an artificial intelligence sandbox for law firms — a testing environment where firms would have access to various AI platforms and data sets, as well as be able to bring in their own data. Soon thereafter,…
New Product of the Year? Law Librarians Pick AI Research Tool from Bloomberg Law
A legal research tool that uses artificial intelligence to help legal researchers quickly find key language critical to a court’s reasoning has been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries as winner of its 2018 New Product Award.
AALL cited Points of Law, a tool developed by Bloomberg Law, for its…
Annual Am Law 100 Published Today Shows Boom Year for Biglaw
The American Lawyer today released its 31st annual ranking of the 100 highest-grossing U.S. law firms, and the results show that biglaw had its best year in nearly a decade, with key financial metrics showing their highest growth since 2010.
The 2018 Am Law 100, which looks at numbers from 2017, reports that…
Mitratech Acquires ThinkSmart to Create End-to-End Legal Operations Platform
At the Corporate Legal Operations Institute today in Law Vegas, Mitratech, a provider of legal and compliance software, announced the acquisition of ThinkSmart LLC, developer of a workflow automation platform used by many corporations and corporate legal departments.
The combination of the two, Mitratech says, will create an end-to-end platform that…