Author: Bob Ambrogi
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On LawNext Podcast: As He Steps Down As Dean, Gordon Smith Reflects On His Mission To Make BYU Law ‘One Of The Most Innovative Law Schools in the Country’
In 2018, two years after D. Gordon Smith became dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, he told an audience of law school advisors, “I want BYU to be known as, if not the most innovative law school in the country, then one of the most innovative law schools in the country.” Now, Smith …
GPT Takes the Bar Exam Again; This Time It Scores Among Top 10% of Test Takers
Remember earlier this year when two legal scholars and scientists had GPT 3.5 take the multiple-choice portion of the bar exam and it failed to pass? Well, the second time’s a charm, as GPT has now passed not only the multiple-choice portion, but also the essay portion, and scored around the top 10% of test …
New Product, Josef Q, Uses OpenAI’s Tech To Transform Policies and Regulations Into Digital Q&A Tools
Josef, the Australia-based no-code automation platform for legal professionals, is next week launching the beta version of a new product, Josef Q, that uses advanced AI to transform policies and regulations — such as those pertaining to privacy, data security, HR and procurement — into digital Q&A tools. For businesses, the tool will allow employees …
Nexl, A No-Data-Entry CRM Platform for Law Firms, Raises $4M
Nexl, a no-data-entry CRM platform for lawyers, has raised $4 million in a financing round led by Australian-based B2B venture capital firm EVP with follow-on participation from The Legal Tech Fund, Vulpes and Saniel Ventures. Nexl said it will use the investment to accelerate the development of its core product, increase acquisition efforts in major …
How AI Has Become Increasingly Practical In Law and Where We Are Heading
Editor’s note: This is the introduction to an article published in the free resource directory on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. It is written by Marc Lauritsen, president of Capstone Practice Systems. You probably haven’t heard enough yet about ChatGPT and related developments. Let me bring you up to speed. Just kidding! We’ve been drowning in coverage and commentary …
Today on Legaltech Week: Our Review of ABA TECHSHOW, More GPT in Law, and More DoNotPay
It’s Friday, so it’s time again for Legaltech Week, where our regular group of panelists come together to discuss the top stories of the week in legal tech and innovation. This week, we’ll do a post-mortem on ABA TECHSHOW, and also talk about other legal tech stories in the news this week. Join us today …
Reflections on ReInvent Law Silicon Valley @ 10 Years – Part 3
As discussed Wednesday in part one of this three-part series, these posts are a collection of reflections on the 10th anniversary of the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. In today’s final installment, …
Zuva Launches Free AI-Powered Contracts Review Tool
Zuva, the company that spun off from Kira Systems after Kira was acquired by Litera in 2021, is offering a completely free version of its AI-powered contract review technology, which can be used by anyone just by uploading contracts to Zuva’s website. “Contracts AI is typically pretty expensive,” Noah Waisberg, Zuva’s CEO and cofounder and …
Reflections on ReInvent Law Silicon Valley @ 10 Years – Part 2
As discussed in yesterday’s part one, this post is the second in a three-part series of reflections on the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. Today, we feature contributions from Chas …
Reflections on ReInvent Law Silicon Valley @ 10 Years – Part 1
Today, March 8, 2023, marks 10 years since Daniel Martin Katz, Renee Knake Jefferson and a group of colleagues and students from Michigan State University School of Law hosted ReInvent Law Silicon Valley at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. While this may seem a relatively arbitrary date by which to mark the …
Here Are the Winners Of ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley
ABA TECHSHOW kicked off in Chicago last week with its traditional opening event, the Startup Alley pitch competition, in which 15 legal tech startups present three-minute pitches in pursuit of top honors. The winners of the competition (which I organize and emcee) are selected by popular vote of those in attendance in the audience, which …
This Was Not Your Grandparents’ ABA TECHSHOW
At ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago last week, it struck me that it is conceivable that an attendee could be the third generation within a family to have been to a TECHSHOW. After all, the conference was first held nearly four decades ago, way back in in 1987. That means that, in a multi-generational family of …
Smokeball to Expand Its Law Practice Management Platform With Addition Of Client Intake Feature
Aiming to help law firms capture more client leads and streamline client intake, the law practice management company Smokeball is introducing Smokeball Intake, an intake workflow system integrated within its platform that is intended to provide potential clients with the kind of digital experience they expect from a modern law firm. The new feature is …
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