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4 days ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
As he took the stage before the nearly 1,000 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel in Dallas to open his company’s Momentum Global 2025 user conference May 20, Aderant President and CEO Chris Cartrett said he preferred to think of his talk not as a keynote, but as a kick-off. But by the time I left the conference two days later, I could not help but think that his kick-off – and much else at the conference – was also a bit of a kick in the butt.
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5 days ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Earlier today, I wrote about the latest iteration of CoCounsel, the AI product originally developed by Casetext before it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023 for a whopping $650 million in cash.
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5 days ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company describes as a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute complex multi-step workflows within professional environments.
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1 week ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Cornell Winston, president of the American Association of Law Libraries, brings a unique perspective to law librarianship, having spent 45 years in libraries across diverse settings — from a hospital library where he started as a student worker; to the former Whittier Law School; to prominent law firms Munger, Tolles & Olson and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; and, for the last 24 years, as law librarian in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
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1 week ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
LexCheck has launched version 3.0 of its AI-powered contract review software, introducing capabilities that automatically generate custom playbooks from clients’ historical redlines and provide precedent checking against past agreements. The New York-based legal technology company says the release is a significant advancement in contract review accuracy and enterprise scalability.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
The 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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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Monica 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 brands and major corporations with a unique subscription-based model and flexible talent approach. But Zent’s entrepreneurial journey extends well beyond ZentLaw.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Document 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 firm precedents, and running playbooks with pre-defined rules.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
At 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 — were officially launched during this morning’s keynote address at the annual user conference.
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3 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
A legal information website launched this week is designed to help people in Arkansas handle legal problems on their own confidently and affordably. Called ArkansasLegalNow (ALN), the site was developed by Brandon Haubert, a civil and family lawyer and the CEO of WH Law, a Little Rock law firm. “We believe legal help shouldn’t be a luxury,” Haubert said in announcing the new site.
