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Litera’s Acquisition of Doxly: I Speak with the CEOs on What’s Ahead

By Bob Ambrogi on August 16, 2019

As I wrote here earlier, Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired Doxly, a four-year-old company founded by a former biglaw partner to manage the legal transactions process. I have just had a phone call with the CEOs of the two companies and can provide more details. First, to sum up the news. the document technology company Litera Microsystems has acquired Doxly, a platform designed to manage the transaction-closing process from end to…

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Friday Roundup: So Much News, So Little Time, Not to Mention #ILTACON19

By Bob Ambrogi on August 16, 2019

So much legal technology news, I can barely keep up with it all, thanks in part to the fact that Sunday is the start of ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Here are some of the week’s headlines. Litera acquires Doxly. Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired Doxly, a four-year-old company founded by a former biglaw partner to manage the legal transactions. With Litera having just last month…

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Ahead of #ILTACON19, Levit & James Finalizes Its Pay-Per-Document Pricing for Best Authority

By Bob Ambrogi on August 15, 2019

Software company Levit & James, Inc. today announced the formal release of a pay-per-document licensing option for the latest version 5.0 of its Best Authority, a Microsoft Word add-in that automatically finds and marks all the legal citations in a brief and generates a table of authorities. Formerly, law firms could purchase Best Authority only through a site license. The price of the license was based on the number of litigators and appellate attorneys within…

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Join Me for A Legal Media Panel at #ILTACON19

By Bob Ambrogi on August 14, 2019

If you are attending ILTACON 2019, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, next week, consider joining me and other legal technology journalists for a panel discussion on the state of the industry. Moderating the panel is Gina Passarella, editor-in-chief, ALM Media. In addition to myself, panelists will be: Caroline Hill, editor-in-chief, Legal IT Insider. Zach Warren, editor-in-chief, Legaltech News. Roy Strom, reporter, Bloomberg Law. We will…

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ABA Votes to Urge Legal Profession to Address Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues of AI

By Bob Ambrogi on August 14, 2019

The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, its policy-making body, voted this week to approve a resolution urging courts and lawyers to address the emerging ethical and legal issues related to the usage of artificial intelligence in the practice of law. Among the AI-related issues the profession should address, the ABA said, are bias, explainability, and transparency of automated decisions made by AI; ethical and beneficial usage of AI; and controls and oversight of AI …

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LawNext Episode 48: ROSS Intelligence Founders Andrew Arruda and Jimoh Ovbiagele

By Bob Ambrogi on August 13, 2019

On this episode of LawNext, I travel to Toronto to sit down for a live recording with the founders of the AI-driven legal research platform ROSS Intelligence, CEO Andrew Arruda and CTO Jimoh Ovbiagele. Along with a third founder, Pargles Dall’Oglio, Arruda and Ovbiagele first developed ROSS at the University of Toronto in 2014, rapidly gaining international attention for what the news media dubbed the robot lawyer of the future. In short…

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In Advance of #ILTACON19, CloudNine Rolls Out Upgrades Of Its E-Discovery Technology

By Bob Ambrogi on August 13, 2019

Prepare for an onslaught of legal technology announcements, as ILTACON 19, the massive annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, is set to begin Sunday in Orlando. First up: CloudNine, which today is announcing new versions, features and performance upgrades to its suite of e-discovery products, which is composed of its on-premise products CloudNine Explore, LAW and Concordance, and its cloud-based Review. The Houston-based company also announced a new product for release…

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Will WordPress acquiring Tumblr start a Tumblr content renaissance?

By Garry Vander Voort on August 12, 2019

It was announced today that the stumbling Tumblr is being acquired by Automattic, maker of WordPress. This deal, which should ensure the existence of Tumblr for a while, will hopefully have an effect on something more important than Tumblr itself, Tumblr-style content. I am going to generalize my definition of the content here: Tumblr-style content is usually short visual based posts that have a minor amount of commentary. This sort of content thrived for…

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LexisNexis Reengineers CourtLink, Its Docket Research Product

By Bob Ambrogi on August 12, 2019

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is today unveiling a major reengineering of its CourtLink federal and state docket research product that moves it to the Lexis Advance platform and that gives users more options for searching dockets while reducing the steps involved in doing so. The move also means that users will be able to access all their LexisNexis products using a single sign-on, track all of their messaging from LexisNexis products in a single location,…

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Preorder Our Book: ‘Law Librarianship in the Age of AI’

By Bob Ambrogi on August 9, 2019

I had the privilege of contributing to the forthcoming book, Law Librarianship in the Age of AI, published by the American Library Association. The book will be out in the fall, but is now available for preorder, so get it while you can, because this one is sure to fly off the shelves. The book was edited by Ellyssa Kroski, director of information technology at the New York Law Institute and the editor and author…

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Litera’s Acquisition of Doxly: I Speak with the CEOs on What’s Ahead

Friday Roundup: So Much News, So Little Time, Not to Mention #ILTACON19

Ahead of #ILTACON19, Levit & James Finalizes Its Pay-Per-Document Pricing for Best Authority

Join Me for A Legal Media Panel at #ILTACON19

ABA Votes to Urge Legal Profession to Address Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues of AI

LawNext Episode 48: ROSS Intelligence Founders Andrew Arruda and Jimoh Ovbiagele

In Advance of #ILTACON19, CloudNine Rolls Out Upgrades Of Its E-Discovery Technology

Will WordPress acquiring Tumblr start a Tumblr content renaissance?

LexisNexis Reengineers CourtLink, Its Docket Research Product

Preorder Our Book: ‘Law Librarianship in the Age of AI’

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