Legal Tech Generative AI

Legal Tech Rundown: New LLMs for ContractPodAI, FTI and Agiloft Partnership and More

eDiscovery Assistant's GPT-3.5 integration, which helps draft case law summaries, is focused on highlighting e-discovery and ESI issues.

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September 11, 2023 | News

Ironclad Launches Gen AI Offering That 'Shows Its Work': Ironclad Contract AI

An update on the legal tech market's past few weeks, from product launches to new partnerships.

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September 07, 2023 | News

Trellis Announces $15 Million Investment, With Plans to Launch Generative AI Offerings

The backend technology that allows Ironclad Contract AI to visually explain its reasoning, called Rivet, is also being offered as an open-source product by the company.

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August 31, 2023 | News

Troutman Pepper Rolls Out Proprietary Gen AI Chatbot 'Athena' With Painstaking Care

The state court legal research and analytics platform noted that it plans to leverage this funding round for its "next phase of growth" which will see new generative AI features and product releases.

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August 23, 2023 | News

Spellbook Adds to Its AI Suite with Gen AI-Powered "Spellbook Reviews"

With its new chatbot Athena, powered by OpenAI's GPT-3.5, the firm is drawing an unequivocal line when it comes to certain use cases—and keeping a watchful eye.

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August 22, 2023 | News

Legal Tech Rundown: BriefCatch, Infodash Funding, Travers Smith Rolls Out Gen AI Chatbot and More

The contract analysis solution harnesses generative AI capabilities to redline and review contracts within Microsoft Word.

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August 18, 2023 | News

By Isha Marathe By Rhys Dipshan

An update on the legal tech market's past few weeks, from product launches to new partnerships.

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August 15, 2023 | News

Litera Integrates Generative AI Into Contract Analysis Solution Kira for 'Smart Summaries'

Agiloft Launches AI Trainer, Allowing Legal Teams to Customize AI Models for Contract Analysis

As a product of Litera's AI incubator, the generative AI-powered "Smart Summaries" is meant to help speed up contract analysis.

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August 15, 2023 | News

Altumatim Expands E-Discovery Reach With AI-Powered Autonomous Review Offering

Agiloft seeks to empower legal teams with no IT or coding experience to customize their own artificial intelligence models for a more bespoke approach to contract review and analysis.

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August 15, 2023 | News

Opus 2 Launches Transaction Management Platform, Focusing on M&A Work Collaboration, Management

AUTONOMOUS REVIEW builds on proprietary algorithms and a model-agnostic approach to increase the speed, accuracy and defensibility of e-discovery, and eliminate the hallucinations and uncertainty common with large language models.

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August 09, 2023 | News

ProSearch Moves Into Document Review With Dedicated Services, Plans to Leverage Gen AI

The new offering is built on the same technology leveraged by the Opus 2 Case Management platform.

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August 09, 2023 | News

Gunderson Launches ChatGD, Firm's First Proprietary Gen AI App, to Accelerate Subject-Matter Expertise

ProSearch announced that it's moving to the right on the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) with the launch of its new Review Services.

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August 09, 2023 | News

By Jessie Yount

"We view this tool as an accelerant for subject matter expertise," said Gunderson chief innovation officer Joe Green. "It's not going to produce anything that is done and dusted and ready to go. But it will help attorneys do their jobs better."

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August 07, 2023 | Q&A

Dentons Head of Innovation on Why and How the Firm Built Its Own Gen AI Chatbot

LexisNexis Brings Lexis Create to U.S., Announces New Gen AI Capabilities Ahead

Legaltech News caught up with Joe Cohen, UKIME head of innovation at Dentons to discuss fleetAI, the firm's newly released proprietary version of ChatGPT.

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August 02, 2023 | News

UnitedLex Launches New Innovation Lab, With $10M in Support

First launched in the United Kingdom in 2021, Lexis Create, a drafting solution built into Microsoft Word, will be available for U.S. customers in Q3 for the first time, with generative AI enhancements planned to follow shortly after.

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July 25, 2023 | News

Everlaw Brings Generative AI to Its Storybuilder, Document Review Offerings

The new lab will act as a legal technology testing ground, incubator and development space.

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July 25, 2023 | News

NetDocuments Launches ndMAX Generative AI Suite With First Tool, PatternBuilder MAX

Everlaw's new AI Assistant, which uses OpenAI's API, leveraging the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models, is for now only available to a select number of customers in beta, with plans to release to the broader market in upcoming months.

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July 25, 2023 | News

UpLevel Ops Launches Generative AI Management Services for Legal Departments

The new ndMAX suite, which will comprise a rollout of new products, looks to add new generative AI capabilities across the entire NetDocuments platform.

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July 24, 2023 | News

Regulatory Intelligence Platform Regology Introduces Free Gen AI-Powered Solution

Generative Artificial Intelligence Management Services includes multiple offerings, from education and training to road mapping, with the aim of helping in-house teams plan and account for generative AI in their tech stacks.

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July 17, 2023 | News

Assembly Software Brings Generative AI to Its Case Management Platform With NeosAI

RegIntel aims to help users research the nuances of the laws in question, draft policies, and analyze their impact.

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July 13, 2023 | News

DISCO's AI-Powered E-Discovery Chatbot Cecilia Launches in Private Access for Select Customers

NeosAI, currently in beta, aims to bring new capabilities to Assembly Software's case management platform Neos such as automatic document generation and audio and video transcription.

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July 06, 2023 | News

New Wilson Sonsini Data Privacy Partner: 'Regulatory Tsunami' Coming to EU

The Cecilia chatbot works by allowing users to ask questions in natural language and immediately receive answers in the form of a narrative, accompanied by citations linking to documents in the user's private e-discovery database.

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June 20, 2023 | Q&A

Patented.ai Launches Free Personal Access to LLM Shield Amid $4M in Pre-Seed Funding From Cooley LLP, Others

Legaltech News caught up with Yann Padova, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's newest member of the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice in Brussels, to discuss how the GDPR has evolved in its five years in action, and what areas are likely on regulators' radars going forward.

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June 27, 2023 | News

Lexis+ Rolls Out 'Agreement Analysis' to Speed Up M&A Negotiations

The large pre-seed funding round for the tool that blocks ChatGPT from accessing sensitive legal information was led by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, and counts law firm Cooley LLP among its investors.

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June 27, 2023 | News

Relativity Piloting GPT-4, Aiming to Rise Above 'All the Noise' Surrounding Generative AI

The new Lexis+ solution seeks to go beyond simple searches for alternate clauses in merger and acquisition contracts.

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June 26, 2023 | Q&A

Personal Injury Startup EvenUp Announces $50.5 Million Investment, Launches Gen AI Assistant 'Litty'

"We all want to get [generative AI] out fast, because you feel like if you don't, you have a bit of FOMO, right? But [we said], let's not overtly take the bait. Let's breathe through this and make sure that when we do deliver something, it's of significant value that our customers can use and grow," Phil Saunders, CEO of Relativity, told Legaltech News.

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June 08, 2023 | News

Lega Inc. Emerges From Stealth Mode With LLM-Governance Platform, Enabling Safe Legal AI Experimentation

Alongside its funding round and a "self-service" generative AI tool that automates drafting demand packages and summarizing medical records, EvenUp also announced an integration with practice management provider Litify.

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May 31, 2023 | News

LawBase Integrates Generative AI Into Its Matter Management Solution

"There's nothing more important right now than just getting your hands on [large language models] and seeing what they can do, and trying to find use cases. But it has to be done in a way that's responsible," Lega founder and CEO Christian Lang told Legaltech News.

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May 25, 2023

Steno Announces $15 Million Investment, With Help From Clio

The matter management company may be the latest in a crowd of legal tech vendors integrating generative AI into their tools, but they hope to set themselves apart by focusing on metadata retrieval.

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May 23, 2023 | News

Thomson Reuters Embraces Generative AI With Microsoft 365 Copilot Integration, Upcoming Product Updates

With the capital infusion, court reporting and litigation financing provider Steno is looking to grow its market share, staff and offerings.

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May 23, 2023 | News

CLM Provider Evisort Announces Generative AI Integration, Partners With ServiceNow

A host of Thomson Reuters' products will now be available through Microsoft 365 Copilot for Word, while those products themselves are getting new generative AI capabilities later this year.

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May 17, 2023 | News

Outside Counsel Management Platform Persuit Announces ChatGPT-Powered 'Proposal Analyzer'

After joining the lineup of CLM companies leveraging generative AI solutions, Evisort also announced that it would be partnering with ServiceNow to offer its contracting capabilities to the organization's customer base.

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May 16, 2023 | News

LiquidText Announces Beta Integration With ChatGPT, OpenAI Models

The company noted that its new Proposal Analyzer feature, which summarizes and analyzes law firm RFP responses for legal departments, is "the first in a series of enhancements" it intends to release.

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May 16, 2023 | News

Pramata Introduces GPT-Assist Tool and New Pre-Signature Contracting Functionality

LiquidText's ChatGPT and OpenAI integration is currently released in beta edition only for iPad subscribers, with wider availability likely in the coming months.

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May 16, 2023 | News

Ontra Launches Ontra Synapse, an AI-Powered Contract Negotiation and Management Solution

Updates to the company's CLM platform include new pre-signature functionality that allows users to leverage their full contract repository, as well as a GPT-Assist feature that will leverage large language models to power the creation and maintenance of Playbooks and Approval Policies in natural language.

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May 15, 2023 | News

CLM Provider Icertis Launches ExploreAI, a Generative AI Contract Intelligence Tool

Ontra Synapse is powered by Ontra's proprietary large language models, which were trained on more than 800,000 agreements, Troy Pospisil, Ontra's founder and CEO, told Legaltech News.

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May 11, 2023 | News

LexisNexis and Microsoft Announce Lexis Connect, an AI-Powered Matter Intake Application

Via a chat interface, ExploreAI allows users to extract insights from their contract data, summarize and translate contracts into different languages, and monitor contracts for certain obligations, among other tasks.

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May 11, 2023 | News

Luminance Rolls Out Generative AI-Powered Chatbot 'Ask Lumi' for Corporate Customers

Lexis Connect is built specifically for corporate legal teams, and built on Microsoft Teams. It includes two generative AI powered chatbots: Ask Legal, and a legal research assistant chatbot tied directly to Lexis Connect.

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May 10, 2023 | News

LexisNexis Announces Generative AI Platform Lexis+ AI, Automating Search, Drafting and Summary Tasks

The AI-powered chatbot is trained on a limited set of data that Luminance has collected over its years of drafting contracts.

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May 04, 2023 | News

New LLM Shield Tool Blocks ChatGPT from Accessing Sensitive Legal Information

The generative AI platform, which acts as a chatbot, is still in development via LexisNexis's Commercial Preview Program, which elicits product testing feedback from in-house counsel and law firms.

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May 02, 2023 | News

Tokyo-Based Contract Review Startup Launches in US, Unveils GPT-4 Powered Contract Editing Tool

The latest offering from serial tech entrepreneur Wayne Chang, LLM Shield aims to stop sensitive data leakage through tools like ChatGPT: "There's no reason why, in order to use … AI and get the power that it brings, we have to give up our secrets, right?," Chang says.

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April 24, 2023 | News

ikaun Launches Generative AI-Powered Tool to Expedite RFP Automation

LegalOn Technologies took advantage of its U.S. release to announce new capabilities around its collaboration, search and editing features.

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April 17, 2023 | News

Ironclad Publicly Launches AI Assist, Now Powered by GPT-4

Experience management platform ikaun is looking to use OpenAI's GPT-4 along with its own generative AI technology to expedite the RFP process.

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April 11, 2023 | News

Fastcase Merges With vLex, With Plans for Integrated AI-Powered Research Offerings

The public launch of AI Assist, which now leverages OpenAI's newest large language model GPT-4, also comes with the release of new offerings within Ironclad AI more broadly.

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April 04, 2023 | News

BlackBoiler Releases Context AI, Aiming to Eliminate 'Black Box' of AI Contract Review

The merger creates a global law library with over a billion documents, which Fastcase CEO Ed Walters called "the most important training set" for large language models, such as those that power ChatGPT.

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March 30, 2023 | News

The Generative AI and GPT-Powered Legal Tech Announced at Legalweek 2023

As more legal tech providers are integrating artificial intelligence to power their solutions, CLM company BlackBoiler is seeking to provide insight into why its AI makes the decisions it makes.

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March 24, 2023 | Analysis

CLM Provider ContractPodAi Launches AI Legal Assistant Leah, Powered by 'Team of AI'

The application of generative AI and the large language models that power ChatGPT in the legal market isn't just a far off possibility.

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March 20, 2023 | News

SALI Harnesses Most Advanced GPT Models to Help Legal Industry 'Speak the Same Data Language'

The London-based CLM provider's latest offerings are powered by a combination of AI technologies including OpenAI's latest GPT model GPT-4, Microsoft Azure, IBM Watson and ContractPodAi's own proprietary AI.

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March 20, 2023 | News

PwC Legal, Tax Arm Begins Using Harvey's AI

SALI's new API and web application can access both GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 models to analyze any text, "extract what matters to the substance of law and what matters to the business of law, [implement SALI tags], and run analytics," said Damien Riehl, a leader at SALI.

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March 15, 2023 | News

By Habiba Cullen-Jafar

It is the only member of the Big Four firms to have access to the tool.

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March 14, 2023 | News

GPT-4 Is Here. Casetext's CoCounsel Already Brought It to Legal

Automation Startup Josef Leverages 'Most Advanced' OpenAI Model to Launch KM Tool—Josef Q

OpenAI's most advanced model yet, GPT-4 has passed all portions of the Uniform Bar Exam and is helping to increase access to justice. "I cannot stress enough how much better this new model is than anything we've seen before," said Pablo Arredondo, co-founder and CIO of Casetext.

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March 13, 2023 | News

Casetext Introduces AI Legal Assistant CoCounsel, Incorporating Most Advanced Models From OpenAI

While Australian automation provider Josef is using OpenAI's latest large language model, the trainable data the new tool accesses is intentionally kept narrow, which Josef says helps avoid inaccurate or irrelevant outputs like those seen in ChatGPT.

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March 01, 2023 | News

MyJr From Canadian Startup Jurisage Lets Researchers 'Chat' With Case Law

"Our AI legal assistant is the first of its kind," said Jake Heller, co-founder and CEO of Casetext. "It creates a momentous opportunity for attorneys to delegate tasks like legal research, document review, and contract analysis to an AI, freeing them to focus on the most impactful aspects of their practice."

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February 22, 2023 | News

By Gail J. Cohen

Jurisage's MyJr was designed to help lawyers make sense of case law "without the waste and frustration that comes with chasing every lead."

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January 25, 2023 | News

Agiloft Releases ConvoAI to Allow Interactive Conversations with Contracts

Legal Research Startup Alexsei Integrates GPT-3.5: It's Just One Part of Legal's AI 'Brain'

The feature is available to customers on Agiloft and Microsoft Teams' interfaces. Agiloft's chief product officer said the company hopes the tool will ultimately be used by all members of an organization—not just contract professionals.

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February 15, 2023 | Q&A

Allen & Overy Partners With AI Platform Harvey to Bring GPT-Powered Tools to Legal Workforce

Alexsei CEO and founder Mark Doble believes that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 may be soon reach their limits, though he sees much potential in combining LLMs with more legal-specific AI models.

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February 15, 2023 | News

By Linda A. Thompson

The firm says the move to implement the OpenAI platform globally is a 'game-changer' that 'marks a new era for A&O and the legal industry'.

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February 13, 2023 | News

Helm360 Integrates New GPT-3 Model Into Chatbot Termi, Enabling Legal Drafting

Ironclad Announces AI Assist, Leveraging OpenAI's GPT-3 to Redline Contracts

Helm360 is using Open AI's ChatGPT-3 technology to power its flagship chatbot Termi. However, given the generative AI's inaccuracies, the chatbot isn't meant to be client-facing.

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February 01, 2023 | News

Docket Alarm Incorporates GPT-3.5 to Auto-Summarize PDF Litigation Filings in Complex Dockets

For now, AI Assist is in beta form, with an official launch to all of Ironclad's consumers coming soon.

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January 31, 2023 | News

Microsoft Has Entered the Chat: Azure OpenAI Service Launches, ChatGPT Access Coming Soon

The new feature utilizes the large language model that underlays ChatGPT, but via an API that does not suffer from the same intermittent outages as the popular chatbot.

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January 18, 2023 | News

Microsoft Steps Up Investment in OpenAI, Creator of ChatGPT

Software giant Microsoft has launched general availability of access to OpenAI's advanced AI models, including GPT-3.5, Codex and DALL•E 2, through Azure OpenAI Service, and says ChatGPT access will follow shortly.

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January 24, 2023 | News

Behind the Curtain: How Lexion Harnessed GPT-3.5 for Contracts

The current investment, rumored to be worth $10 billion, deepens the ongoing partnership between the technology companies.

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January 11, 2023 | Q&A