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On LawNext: The Inside Story of the Caselaw Access Project, with Three of the People Who Made It Happen
March 1 marked the culmination of an ambitious and audacious project to digitize and provide free and open access to all official court decisions ever published in the United States. Called the Caselaw Access Project, it came about, starting in 2015, through an unusual partnership between Harvard Law School and a Silicon Valley-based legal research startup called Ravel...
Bob Ambrogi
3/26/2024
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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow
On my left: the edge of the off-ramp, a modest guardrail, and a fifty-foot drop. On my right, inching closer: a tractor-trailer determined to occupy my lane. I hit the brakes. The truck kept rolling. Its wheels pressed into my car as it wedged me against the curb and carved a tail-to-nose dent in my...
Adam Ziegler
3/18/2024
Legal IT Insider
descrybe.ai aims to disrupt legal research with 2.5m searchable & summarised US judicial opinions (for free)
Justice tech startup descrybe.ai has announced the completion of a year-long effort to summarise and make searchable all available state supreme and appellate judicial opinions from US state courts. Co-founder [...] The post descrybe.ai aims to disrupt legal research with 2.5m searchable & summarised US judicial opinions (for free) appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Emma Griffiths
3/14/2024
LawSites
Free Legal Research Startup descrybe.ai Now Has AI Summaries of All State Supreme and Appellate Opinions
descrybe.ai, a year-old legal research startup focused on using artificial intelligence to provide free and easy access to court opinions, has completed its goal of creating AI-generated summaries of all available state supreme and appellate court opinions from throughout the United States. descrybe.ai describes its mission as democratizing access to legal information and leveling the...
Bob Ambrogi
3/14/2024
Legal IT Insider
Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Core formally launched in the UK
Thomson Reuters today (12 March) formally announced the UK launch of its generative AI legal assistant, CoCounsel Core. This follows launches in Canada, Australia, and the United States. The global [...] The post Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Core formally launched in the UK appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Emma Griffiths
3/12/2024
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The UK Gets Access To Thomson Reuters’ Gen AI Product CoCounsel Core and Soon To Its AI-Assisted Research on Westlaw Edge
Thomson Reuters today brings its generative AI legal assistant CoCounsel Core to the United Kingdom, following its initial rollout in the United States and expansion last month into Australia and Canada. The company also said that its AI-Assisted Research product, launched in November within Westlaw Edge for the U.S., would be available on Westlaw Edge...
Bob Ambrogi
3/12/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Thomson Reuters Launches Legal AI Assistant CoCounsel Core in the UK
At least two U.K. firms are already using Thomson Reuters’ legal AI assistant, which it acquired in 2023 through its purchase of legal research company Casetext.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
3/12/2024
Dewey B Strategic
Why Are we Paying for That?  10 Tips and Techniques for Taming a Library Budget and Optimizing ROI
Law library budgets can easily grow wild like sprawling and untamed gardens. In the past, law librarians could be managing literally thousands of print titles spread across dozens of locations. The pandemic accelerated the full embrace of digital alternatives to print. Today many law firm libraries have small print collections but a large and complex...
Jean O'Grady
3/8/2024
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Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law
Back in 2018, something remarkable happened. The Caselaw Access Project, part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years.  It was a massive project that scanned 38.6 million pages from 39,796...
Bob Ambrogi
3/7/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Colorado Appellate Courts Launch Website to Search Case Law Dating Back to 1860s
“This new website, offering free and easy access to every opinion by both of Colorado’s appellate courts, provides anybody with important information as they make decisions about their own legal matters or simply seek to study the law,” Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright said in a statement.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
3/6/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Innovators of the Year (Individual), Provider: Jake Heller & Pablo Arredondo, Casetext
“We knew we had one shot. And that if we didn’t do it, no one would, not this quickly,” said Pablo Arredondo, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder of Casetext, now part of Thomson Reuters.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
3/5/2024
Above the Law Tech News
Cheat Code: How Will AI Affect Legal Research & Writing?
We’ve got all the angles covered in this episode of the Non-Eventcast podcast. The post Cheat Code: How Will AI Affect Legal Research & Writing? appeared first on Above the Law.
jared correia
3/1/2024
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LawNext: Thomson Reuters’ AI Strategy for Legal, with Mike Dahn, Head of Westlaw, and Joel Hron, Head of AI
On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and implementation.  In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role. It started in...
Bob Ambrogi
2/28/2024
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As Thomson Reuters Expands Casetext CoCounsel, the AI Legal Assistant, to Canada and Australia, It Provides Details on U.S. Growth
Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. Now, as it expands into new markets, we get details on its adoption to date. It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel, a product developed in partnership with OpenAI that...
Bob Ambrogi
2/20/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Thomson Reuters Expands CoCounsel Core to Canada and Australia
Following its US launch in November 2023, Thomson Reuters is rolling out the CoCounsel Core generative AI legal assistant to its first two English-speaking international markets.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
2/20/2024
Above the Law Tech News
ChatGPT Is NOT A Legal Research Tool
Notes to my (legal) self. The post ChatGPT Is NOT A Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law.
Olga V. Mack
1/12/2024
Dewey B Strategic
LexisNexis Launches Commercial Preview of Lexis+ AI in U.K. and Canada
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional  Lexis+ AI is a  a generative AI solution driven by LexisNexis’ proprietary search engine and authoritative content. Lexis+ AI   delivers results based on the LexisNexis’ proprietary content which assures that results include “verifiable, citable authority. This follows the 2023 launch of  Lexis+ AI in the United States. Lexis+ AI technology offers...
Jean O'Grady
1/11/2024
Legal IT Insider
LexisNexis announces the launch of Lexis+ AI commercial preview in the UK and Canada 
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today (11 January) announced the launch of the UK and Canadian commercial preview of Lexis+ AI, a generative AI solution designed to help lawyers with legal ... LexisNexis announces the launch of Lexis+ AI commercial preview in the UK and Canada  Read More » The post LexisNexis announces the launch of...
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
1/11/2024
Legal IT Insider
Gen AI fabricates case law again as unsealed Cohen-Schwartz papers point the finger at Google Bard 
Court papers unsealed at the end of December confirmed what we all suspected, which is that David Schwartz – lawyer to Donald Trump’s disgraced former attorney Michael Cohen – has ... Gen AI fabricates case law again as unsealed Cohen-Schwartz papers point the finger at Google Bard  Read More » The post Gen AI fabricates case law...
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
1/3/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Morgan Lewis to Shape Thomson Reuters AI Products Through New Partnership
“We’re going to be working with [Thomson Reuters] on a whole suite of AI-powered tools,” said chief knowledge and management and practice services officer Colleen Nihill. “Because of Morgan Lewis’ depth and breadth across multiple geographies, I think they saw us as being well suited to all different use cases.”
Law.com's Legal Tech News
12/19/2023
Law.com's Legaltech News
'Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence': AI Copyright Law and Fair Use on Trial
Many more jury trials will be required if judges must refrain from deciding whether the purpose of a generative AI system’s use of copyrighted material to learn language patterns is to produce a new product or to replicate the creative expression of the copyrighted material, according to Sushila Chanana and Vanessa K. Ing of Farella...
Law.com's Legal Tech News
12/15/2023
Dewey B Strategic
Press Release: Wolters Kluwer integrates GenAI into its legal research products; Transforms how legal professionals assess and interpret court rulings
On December 7, 2023 Wolters Kluwer released the following announcement: Legal & Regulatory division continues to redefine the landscape for legal professionals Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory (LR) today announced an innovative feature for legal professionals: Generative Pre-training Transformer (GPT)-generated summaries of court rulings. GPT summarization harnesses generative AI (GenAI) to simplify legal research, eliminating...
Jean O'Grady
12/11/2023
Law.com's Legaltech News
Wolters Kluwer Announces Generative AI Summarization Feature for Court Rulings
The new feature will be rolled out in Wolters Kluwer’s online research platform in Germany before being expanded to other products.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
12/7/2023
LawSites
The $650M Casetext Story: Coloring Book Edition
Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext.  Their original idea was to create a free, comprehensive library of...
Bob Ambrogi
11/27/2023
Above the Law Tech News
Westlaw AI Launch Forces Confrontation With The Inner Workings Of A Lawyer’s Mind
AI is learning to think like a lawyer. The post Westlaw AI Launch Forces Confrontation With The Inner Workings Of A Lawyer’s Mind appeared first on Above the Law.
Joe Patrice
11/15/2023
LawSites
Major Thomson Reuters News: Westlaw Gets Generative AI Research Plus Integration with Casetext CoCounsel; Gen AI Coming Soon to Practical Law
Thomson Reuters today delivered on its promise to integrate generative AI within its flagship legal research platform, introducing AI Assisted Research in Westlaw Precision, available immediately to all U.S. Precision customers at no extra cost. It also previewed its coming integration of Casetext CoCounsel as an AI legal assistant across multiple TR products, including Westlaw...
Bob Ambrogi
11/15/2023
Law.com's Legaltech News
Thomson Reuters Announces Generative AI Capabilities for Westlaw Precision, CoCounsel Integrations
Thomson Reuters’ announcement is the first big hint at how the Casetext acquisition is set to shape the company’s generative AI future.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
11/15/2023
Dewey B Strategic
Lexis+AI Suite Of Tools Expanded with Lexis Snapshot and Lexis Create
Less than a month ago LexisNexis announced the launch of Lexis+ AI which launched with Conversational search, document drafting, summarization and analysis features. Today they are announcing the availability of two new features designed to speed up workflow and deliver insights from within two very different contexts: CourtLink and Microsoft Word. Lexis Snapshot The new...
Jean O'Grady
11/14/2023
Dewey B Strategic
 vLex Expands Vincent GenAI Toolset, and Launches AI-Focused Co-Development Lab 
Today vLex  is announcing the launch of a powerful suite of generative AI-backed document analysis tools for litigators and transactional attorneys  Vincent AI platform.  vLex occupies a unique space in the legal research and workflow space since it is the only truly multi-national research platform which has now expanded into an AI enabled Vincent AI...
Jean O'Grady
4/16/2024
3 Geeks and A Law Blog
Vlex Pushes Legal Tech Boundaries with New Features and Top Talent
Our friend Damien Riehl stopped by to talk with Marlene Gebauer about two big happenings at vLex. Riehl unveiled exciting advancements in vLex’s AI-powered legal research platform and shed light on vLex’s commitment to streamlining legal workflows and reducing the need for extensive prompt engineering. One of the major developments is the enhanced document analysis...
Greg Lambert
4/16/2024
3 Geeks and A Law Blog
Pablo Arredondo on the One-Year Anniversary of CoCounsel
In this episode of “The Geek in Review,” hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer celebrate the one-year anniversary of CoCounsel, the pioneering Generative AI Legal Research Tool launched by CaseText. They are joined by Pablo Arredondo, Vice President of CoCounsel at Thomson Reuters and co-founder of CaseText, to discuss the significant strides and challenges faced...
Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer
2/29/2024
3 Geeks and A Law Blog
Pfeifer and Wellen Give an Inside Look at LexisNexis’ AI Sprint (TGIR Ep. 230)
This week we catch up with ⁠Jeff Pfeifer⁠ and ⁠Serena Wellen⁠ from LexisNexis to discuss the rapid development of AI tools for the legal industry over the past year. Pfeifer and Wellen give us an insider’s view of what it took to bring their ⁠Lexis+ AI⁠ tool to the market and the balance between speed...
Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer
12/5/2023