Jules Miller knows what it is to be a legal tech entrepreneur. She is a three-time founder, twice of legal tech companies: Hire an Esquire in 2012 and Evolve Law in 2015. Now a partner in venture capital firm Mindset Ventures, she is leading…

In what could be a strategic move to ensure its day in court, ROSS Intelligence made good this morning on its vow to continue fighting Thomson Reuters’ lawsuit against it, partially answering TR’s allegations and filing its own counterclaim against TR.

The filings follow news, first reported here Friday, that ROSS…

You can be sure that the closing-down of ROSS Intelligence will be on the agenda today, as our weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable reconvenes today at 3 p.m. ET to dissect and discuss the top news stories of the week.

It’s on Zoom and all free, but registration is required. Once you register for…

ROSS Intelligence, a company that sought to innovate legal research through the use of artificial intelligence, and that helped to raise awareness of AI throughout the legal industry, is shutting down its operations, as a lawsuit against it by Thomson Reuters has crippled its ability to raise new financing or explore potential…

LexisNexis today launched a unique “crowdsourced” solution to a problem faced by lawyers who negotiate commercial leases, which is the lack of data on market standards and trends to aid them in lease negotiations.

Because commercial leases are typically private, lawyers are unable to get a broad view of the terms and standards used in…

Brightflag, an Ireland company whose platform uses artificial intelligence to help corporate legal departments better manage their legal spend and legal matters, said today that it has raised $28 million in a growth equity investment.

The investment was led by London-based One Peak Partners, an investment firm that specializes in growth-stage technology companies…

Two University of Chicago computer science graduates who launched a software company to help public defenders analyze crucial data ahead of trial have been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2021.

The cofounders of JusticeText, CEO Devshi Mehrotra and CTO Leslie Jones-Dove, both 23, have been named to…

Last month, I wrote here about XIRA, a new lawyer-matching website whose goal is not only to make it easier for clients to find lawyers, but also to make legal services more affordable by providing attorneys with free practice management software.

Now XIRA is taking that free software a step further, with the…

A reminder to legal technology startups: The deadline for applications to compete in the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW is Dec. 18.

TECHSHOW is the American Bar Association’s premier legal technology conference, to be held virtually March 8-12, 2021.

Through the Startup Alley competition, 15 startups will be selected to participate in a virtual…



Dan Broderick believes businesses waste billions in repetitive work reviewing and negotiating semantically similar contracts. As a former lawyer, he saw the problem first-hand. It led him to found BlackBoiler, whose AI-based technology…

BlackBoiler, the Arlington, Va., company whose AI-based technology automatically marks up draft contract language, has been issued two additional patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its AI-assisted contract review software.

That brings to seven the number of U.S. patent allowances issued for BlackBoiler’s software. It has additional patent applications pending…

Twenty executives of legal technology companies and organizations signed on to a letter delivered this morning to Speaker Nancy Pelosi in favor of legislation that would eliminate the PACER paywall and modernize access to federal court records.

Executives from companies and organizations involved in legal research, docket research and legal information wrote in favor of…