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Fastcase CEO Ed Walters Joins The Legaltech Week Live Panel At 3 ET Today To Discuss the Fastcase-vLex Merger
With the merger of Fastcase and vLex the biggest legal tech story of the week, Fastcase CEO Ed Walters joins our Legaltech Week panel live today at 3 p.m. ET to discuss the news with our regular group of legal tech journalists and bloggers. We’ll also talk about Thomson Reuters’ sale of its Elite group …
With New Enterprise API, UniCourt Takes An API-First Approach To Providing ‘Legal Data As A Service’
When UniCourt was founded in 2017 to provide access to court data and analytics, APIs were an afterthought, cofounder Josh Blandi now says. The company’s original focus was on building an application to provide law firms and others with easy access to federal and state court records. But soon customers were asking for API access …
Thomson Reuters Spins Off Elite As Independent Company Now Owned By Asset Manager TPG
It is a day of major legal tech deals. Following news earlier today of the merger of Fastcase and vLex, now comes news from Thomson Reuters that it is selling off a majority stake in Elite, its suite of law practice management and financial products for larger law firms, to TPG, a global asset management …
Morning Docket: 04.04.23
- Report says Biglaw firms are more enthusiastic about merging this year. Shearman's wondering why y'all got to go rubbing salt on it. Reuters
- Goldman Sachs estimates that AI will replace 44 percent of legal tasks. Nice try, Goldman. You're not getting a 44 percent discount on those bills. Legaltech News
- The court system is a little closer to keeping judges from magically transforming acquittals into prison time. Bloomberg Law News
- TIL they tried to impose a salary cap on esports players, but the federal government intervened. Not sure this is the urgent antitrust action we were all waiting for, but you do you. Law360
- Not entirely surprising, but the financial jitters slowing big deal work have prompted more mid-sized deals and consequently more work for the Am Law second 50. It's good to dominate the wading pool when everyone's scared of the waves. American Lawyer
- Apparently Gwyneth Paltrow's lawyer is an internet sensation. Yahoo
- Former aide to the governor of Maryland accused of corruption died in "agent-involved shooting" which is the awkward passive phrasing of "shot by the FBI." Further details about how it came to that aren't out yet. NPR The post Morning Docket: 04.04.23 appeared first on Above the Law.
In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital
In a deal that will reshape the legal research and legal technology landscape on a global basis and threaten the longstanding “Wexis” legal research duopoly, the companies vLex and Fastcase today announced that they have merged into a single entity that they say will have the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms …
ABA Antitrust Content Now Available on vLex (And We Have An Exclusive Demo of How It Works)
The legal research company vLex and the American Bar Association are today announcing a partnership to offer access to a collection of more than 60 titles from the ABA’s Antitrust Law Section on vLex’s AI-powered research platform. The collection of competition and consumer protection content covers essential areas of antitrust law such as monopolization, intellectual …
On LawNext: Casetext’s Three Top Execs On CoCounsel, GPT-4 and ‘A New Age in the Practice of Law’
Now in its 10th year in business, Casetext has introduced a series of unique products over the years that have cemented its reputation as a leading innovator in legal technology and AI. Now, at time when seemingly every legal tech developer is rushing to incorporate the GPT artificial intelligence model into their products, Casetext has …
