Multiple lawyers who are using the payments app Venmo in their law practices are exposing client information to the public — and they may not even know it. These accounts expose client names and sometimes other details, such as payment amounts, the nature of the representation, or even the client’s financial straits. Model Rule 1.6
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The State of Knowledge Management and Innovation in Legal, with Patrick DiDomenico and Joshua Fireman
On Oct. 17 and 18, 2024, two of the legal industry’s leading experts on knowledge management and innovation, Patrick DiDomenico, founder and CEO of InspireKM Consulting, and Joshua Fireman, president of Fireman & Company, which is owned by Epiq, the global provider of technology-enabled legal services, will present the second-annual KM&I for Legal Conference in…
Law Practice Management Platform Centerbase Now Automatically Captures Time Spent Working in Microsoft Word and Outlook
For some lawyers, tracking time is so tedious and onerous that they leave their law firms for jobs where hourly billing is not required, such as working inhouse at a corporation. Even apart from the tedium, time tracking is often incomplete and inaccurate, failing to record all billable hours and resulting in time leakage that can…
How It Works: A Demo of NeosAI, Integrating Generative AI Directly within the Neos Case Management Platform
Assembly Software recently announced the launch of NeosAI, a set of generative AI-powered features integrated directly into the Neos case management platform, with the goal of transforming how legal professionals operate and streamlining their daily tasks. By automating a wide range of tasks, including document summarization, document generation, data extraction, OCR, and dynamic form creation,…
On LawNext: All About Spellbook’s New AI Agent, Capable of Performing Complex Legal Tasks, with CEO Scott Stevenson
In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate would. This is the same company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review…
A Favor To Ask: Help Support and Celebrate Community Mediation
On Sept. 19, The Resolution Center celebrates its 30th anniversary. Long formerly known as the North Shore Community Mediation Center, it is an organization that provides conflict resolution and training services to a broad swath of communities north of Boston. I am on The Resolution Center’s board of directors, and I am writing this to…
CARET Says Its CEO Left Of Her Own Accord, Remains on Company’s Board
The chief executive officer of law practice management company CARET left that role on her accord and remains a member of the company’s board of directors, the company says. Earlier this week, Law.com reported that Keri Gohman, the former Bain Capital Ventures partner who had been CARET’s CEO since 2022, was laid off, along with…
Breaking: Continuance Ordered On Eve of Trial In Thomas Reuters Lawsuit Against ROSS Intelligence
As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product. But today the judge overseeing the trial, 3rd…
Spellbook Launches Gen AI Agent that Can Plan and Execute Complex Transactional Workflows
Spellbook, the company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review in 2022, today launched what it says is the first AI agent for law, capable of planning and executing complex, multi-step workflows. Called Spellbook Associate, the agent can plan, execute and check its work, and adapt to accomplish larger scope…
Gavel Launches Pre-Built Workflows for Document Automation, Starting with Three for California that Are Free to Use
The document automation company Gavel has launched pre-built workflows — sets of automated forms for document generation that are tailored to specific practice areas and jurisdictions, and that are free for any lawyer to test without a Gavel subscription. The new feature is launching today with three workflows for California lawyers for for divorce, probate…