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Number of AI Companies in Legal Grows 65% In Last Year
The number of artificial intelligence companies catering to the legal field has grown by 65 percent in the last year, from 40 to 66.
This finding is from the In-House Counsel’s LegalTech Buyer’s Guide 2018, published today by the contract review automation company LawGeex.
The increase in AI companies includes a number of “agile and well-funded startups,” says the guide, but also a number of established players that are joining the field,…
Email Encryption No Longer Secure After Vulnerability Found
Friday Roundup: Online Tech CLE, Open-Source EDGAR, Blockchain ODR, Deploying AI
A roundup of the week’s news from the worlds of legal technology and innovation:
Suffolk’s online innovation courses OK’d for CLE. In a post here last October, I reported on a new online certification course in legal innovation and technology being launched by Suffolk University Law School in Boston. This week, Suffolk announced that the Florida Bar has approved the first two of the planned six courses for 12 CLE credits each, including up to 2.5…
Judicial Analytics Company Gavelytics Expands with New Rulings Database and Arbitrator Archive
When last we wrote about judicial analytics company Gavelytics on March 13, it was announcing a $3.2 million funding round to support development of new features and expansion into additional jurisdictions. Today, the first two of these new features roll out — a rulings database and an arbitrator archive.
As I wrote when Gavelytics launched last September, it uses artificial intelligence to extract data from court dockets and then applies analytics to reveal insights…
Putting Justice Gorsuch to the Test of Three Legal Editing Programs
The jury of popular opinion is divided on the writing style of the newest justice on the Supreme Court. Slate pronounced Neil M. Gorsuch a terrible writer. But a forthcoming quantitative study of his published opinions concludes that he “does exceedingly well according to the standards of good writing that legal writing authorities espouse.” His writing is the subject of a mocking Twitter hashtag and has been covered in the New York Times.…
A Second State Moves Closer to Mandating Technology Training for Lawyers
In 2016, Florida became the first state to mandate technology training for lawyers, when it adopted a rule requiring lawyers to complete three hours of CLE every three years “in approved technology programs.”
So far, no other state has followed suit. But now one has moved a giant step closer to following in Florida’s footsteps. The North Carolina State Bar Council has approved a proposed amendment to lawyers’ annual CLE requirements that would mandate that…
New Survey Suggests Legal Tech Companies Confused About Marketing
Moneyball for Lawyers: Interview with Lex Machina CEO Josh Becker
