As someone who worked in the KM trenches for years, I have repeatedly watched legal tech companies promise to tame the wild west of documents residing in law firm Document Management Systems (DMS). Over the years I implemented or worked with a variety of KM solutions from Lexis, West and smaller software companies. Recently the
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Wolters Kluwer Enters the Gen AI Market with the Launch of VitalLaw AI
Today Wolters Kluwer is entering the Generative AI race with the launch of new generative AI (GenAI) functionality for VitalLaw. VitalLaw is the company’s comprehensive legal research platform which covers 25 practice areas including tax, securities, privacy, and labor and employment. VitalLaw AI is available across all VitalLaw practice areas.
Interative chat features will
vLex Vincent AI Upgrade: 12 Skills, 12 Countries + the EU, Transactional Skills and VIDA AI for Dockets
vLex (Fastcase) is releasing a major upgrade to Vincent AI. This new release increases the number of workflows from 4 to 12. This includes expansion of both litigation and transactional tools and the addition of AI tools for additional jurisdictions including France Portugal and Brazil. vLex is the first generative AI platform to receive
LexisNexis Announces Commercial Preview of Protégé Personalized AI Assistant
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, has announced the US Commercial Preview program for LexisNexis® Protégé™ Legal AI Assistant. Protégé is the third-generation of Lexis+ AI and according to the press release “marks a substantial leap forward in personalized generative AI that will transform legal work, with personalization choices controlled by the customer. This development is closely
GAI Driving a Hot Job Market for Library and KM Professionals
The American Association of Law libraries, Annual Meeting & Conference brought several harbingers of good news on the job market for law librarians and knowledge management professionals.
I don’t need to remind anybody that the “death of the law librarian” has been repeatedly predicted over the past 20 years. Many law firm administrators and legal
LexisNexis Enhances Lexis+ AI with New Features, AI Models, and Graphing
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, announced over a dozen new Lexis+ AI features during the American Association of Law Libraries Meeting & Conference this week.
Lexis+ AI offers conversational search, insightful summarization, intelligent legal drafting, and document upload and analysis capabilities in a seamless user experience. The new features highlighted in the press release
LexisNexis Completes Acquisition of Henchman
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Henchman, a legal tech company that enriches data from Document Management Systems (DMS) for faster document drafting. Belgium-based Henchman has 170+ legal and corporate customers globally including top U.S. and European law firms and companies.
The Henchman acquisition was previously announced
Thomson Reuters Launches Claims Explorer Skill in Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel
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Thomson Reuters Has announced the release of Claims Explorer, a new generative AI skill available in Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel. The new feature enables lawyers to enter facts in to the tool and retrieve applicable claims or counterclaims.
This new generative AI feature simplifies claims research, when lawyers are filing a lawsuit, defending
Join Me in Chicago at the AALL Annual Meeting & Conference July 20 -23, 2024
I am looking forward to reconnecting with my colleagues in Chicago this Saturday at the American Association Law Libraries Meeting and Conference.
Facilitator, Writing Agendas and Scholarship Portfolios: From Ideation to Publication AALL Annual Meeting & Conference Chicago,Il. July 20, 2024 Moderator, Unleashing Innovation: A Rollercoaster Ride to Implement, Plan, and Fund Your GenAI Toolkit AALL
Generative AI Risk in Legal Research: Is the Fault in the Technology or in Ourselves? Answer is Both
Will Generative AI awaken the need for serious focus legal research education?
The introduction of Generative AI to the practice of law has been anything but smooth. First there was the unfortunate case of Mr. Schwartz who used Chat GPT-3 to write a brief complete with hallucinated cases which he submitted to a federal court