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Patent Search Startup NLPatent Raises $1.5M In Seed Funding
Patent search platform NLPatent earlier this week secured $1.5 million in seed funding that will be used to hire more employees and launch a second product focused on using patent data for business intelligence.
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Software Co., NC Officials Want Out Of Digital Courts Row
Software company Tyler Technologies, North Carolina court administrators and two sheriffs have asked a federal court to release them from a proposed class action alleging the state's new digital filing system has led to unlawful arrests and detentions.
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Legal Tech Consultancy Tiger Eye Separates From CTS Group
Legal tech consulting firm Tiger Eye has separated from CTS Group, its parent company since 2022, and will operate independently moving forward, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Google's Gradient Backs Patent Platform Patlytics
Patlytics, a startup that created an artificial intelligence-powered patent workflow platform, secured a $4.5 million seed round investment on Thursday, the company announced.
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USPTO Outlines Possible Pitfalls For Attorneys Using AI
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday detailed risks facing attorneys using artificial intelligence, warning that they must ensure that filings are accurate and humans played a role in inventions, which attorneys say illustrates that ethical rules are unchanged in the AI era.
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Legal Tech Co. Aderant Partners With Vanderbilt Over AI
Atlanta-based Aderant announced Wednesday that it will begin collaborating with Vanderbilt Law School as a means of driving more awareness towards the role of artificial intelligence in the legal industry.
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New Onit CEO Brings On His Former GC To Lead Legal
The former general counsel of supply chain software company E2open Inc. has jumped aboard legal technology company Onit Inc., following in the footsteps of former E2open CEO Michael Farlekas, who made the leap in January.
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CS Disco Gets New CEO Amid Leadership Shakeup
After months of turbulence marked by a co-founder's unexpected departure, e-discovery software company CS Disco hired Eric Friedrichsen as president, CEO and a member of its board of directors Wednesday.
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Legal Tech Biz Launches AI-Powered Deals Database
Legal technology company Litera said Wednesday it has launched a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that creates a unified source of information for law firms wanting to access key details from corporate deals they have worked on.
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Cozen O'Connor E-Discovery Biz Adds Atty For LA Expansion
Cozen O'Connor's East Coast-based ancillary business Codiscovr, which focuses on e-discovery and information governance, has added a West Coast team member, hiring a Redgrave LLP e-discovery pro as counsel in its Los Angeles office.
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Legal AI Co. Harvey Buys Large Language Model Designer Mirage
The founders of artificial intelligence company Harvey, which offers a chatbot focused on legal queries, announced on Monday that it has acquired custom machine learning startup Mirage.
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Ex-Legal Tech Exec Says Co. Sued Just To Preempt Her Suit
A former business executive at a Texas law firm and legal technology company called on a Texas federal court Monday to toss her former employer's lawsuit against her, claiming the company and its founders attempted to preempt her New York lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and unlawful termination.
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Charles Russell Speechlys Floats New Tech Adoption Unit
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP said Tuesday it has forged a new department dedicated to ensuring the law firm leaves no gains on the table in its hunt to incorporate legal tech and artificial intelligence into its services.
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Legal Lags Behind Other Professionals Using AI
Despite increased demand for artificial intelligence, most professionals are not using this technology at work, with legal professionals lagging behind other sectors, according to a new survey on Tuesday.
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Meta Litigator Jumps To Nixon Peabody To Lead New AI Team
Nixon Peabody LLP has added a litigator who most recently led Meta Platforms Inc.'s artificial intelligence-related ranking policy work to be the head of its new AI, digital platforms and emerging technologies team, the firm announced Monday.
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NYSBA Warns Of Risks To Confidentiality Posed By AI
Attorneys must ensure the use of artificial intelligence does not compromise the attorney-client privilege, advised a report from the New York State Bar Association on Monday, with additional recommendations provided for lawyers interested in exploring the burgeoning technology.
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Info Management Co. OpenText Names Three Presidents
Information management company OpenText has hired a former sales executive from Oracle and Apple to be president of worldwide sales, and it promoted two executives to president status, the Ontario-based company said Monday.
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ILTA Honors 10 Young Professionals In Legal Tech
A practice innovation attorney at Gunderson Dettmer, the chief strategy officer at SkillBurst Interactive and a senior information services project manager at Cooley LLP were among the 10 professionals honored by the International Legal Technology Association in its 2024 Young Professionals to Watch list, released on Monday.
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Key Congressional Leaders Float Sweeping Data Privacy Bill
The heads of the U.S. Senate and House commerce committees have taken a major step toward enacting a comprehensive federal consumer data privacy framework, reaching a long-awaited deal on proposed legislation that would minimize the personal data companies can gather, allow consumers to bring lawsuits and eliminate a growing patchwork of state laws.
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Legal Tech Funding Fell In Q1 As Debt Financing Stayed Level
Legal technology companies raised less money in the first quarter of 2024 than in the same period last year and reported fewer capital raises, but debt financing deals remained steady.
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Lawyers Need To Better Understand Perils Of AI, Paper Argues
As generative artificial intelligence becomes more commonplace in the legal industry, attorneys must better understand the limitations of large language models and programs to "reason" so as to best take advantage of the burgeoning technology, a Hong Kong-based law professor argues in a new research paper.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the beginning of April with another busy week as law firms expanded their offerings and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Array, Relativity
This week, there was a shakeup in e-discovery with an acquisition and a new CFO. Also, a former CEO bought a majority stake in a legal technology company this week. Here's a roundup of the biggest legal tech news from this week.
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AI Assistant Offers 'Second Brain' To Small Plaintiffs Firms
The legal tech startup Eve is specifically targeting plaintiffs firms with its new AI-native law firm program, using artificial intelligence trained by lawyers and customized to a firm’s caseload. The first firm to pilot the program, Frontier Law Center, says the comprehensive AI assistant has been a game changer.
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Tokyo's Robot Consulting Nets $7M, Plans Global Expansion
Tokyo-based Robot Consulting Co. announced on Tuesday the raising of 1.07 billion yen (around $7.08 million) in a Series B funding round to deliver a "robot lawyer" that uses large language models to deliver legal consultations.