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1 week ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Ever since 2012, when the American Bar Association first adopted a duty of technology competence for lawyers as part of its Model Rules of Professional Conduct, its approach has been the template for state adoption of the duty. That approach was to incorporate the duty in a comment (Comment 8) to Model Rule 1.1, which pertains generally to competence.
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1 week ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
When Chris Cartrett was named CEO of legal technology company Aderant in 2022, he did so with the mission of aggressively advancing a cloud-first strategy throughout the company’s suite of business and financial software for law firms. Given that Aderant is a nearly 50-year-old company with many customers who still use the on-premises version of its software, that was not an easy mission to fulfill. So three years later, what grade does he give himself in delivering on that mission?
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1 week ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexisLegal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis’ gen AI technology, primary law content, and Shepard’s Citations within the Harvey platform and jointly develop advanced legal workflows.
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1 week ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
A comprehensive survey of Washington State Bar Association members reveals a cautious approach to artificial intelligence adoption among legal professionals, with significant gaps in technology knowledge and cybersecurity practices creating potential vulnerabilities across the state’s legal landscape.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform is used by law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal services organizations to match lawyers with pro bono opportunities and manage pro bono engagement, is today launching a pro bono platform designed specifically for law schools and law students.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, today announced the beta launch of its AI Intake Specialist, an AI-powered intake feature that the company says will transform how plaintiffs’ law firms capture and qualify potential clients. This news follows Eve’s release in April of its AI Reasoning Mode that it says can perform complex legal analysis through sophisticated step-by-step reasoning capabilities, on a par with a senior-level lawyer.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Just four months ago in an article here, I caught up with founder and CEO Ryan Alshak for an update on Laurel, the company that provides automated time capture and analytics for law firms and other professional services firms.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Limelight, a communications and marketing agency serving law firms, legal technology companies, and other professional services and B2B companies, has hired Amy Hanan as its chief growth officer, where she will be responsible for leading the agency’s digital and growth marketing services practice. Hanan was most recently chief marketing officer at LRN Corporation, a global company that provides ethics and compliance products, training and advice.
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2 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
Law.com is set to unveil a comprehensive redesign on June 16 that significantly restructures how legal professionals access and navigate the platform’s extensive collection of legal news and resources. Most notably, the site is moving away from a somewhat siloed organizational structure built around the various publications owned by ALM, its parent company, in favor of an integrated, cross-publication approach organized around six core pillars of content.
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3 weeks ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi
After six years as vice president and general manager of legal markets for Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.,Ken Crutchfield has retired, effective yesterday, the company announced. He will be succeeded in that role by Jill Weinstein, who was previously vice president of product management, research and learning in Wolters Kluwer’s tax and accounting division.
