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Legal Tech Roundup: Clio, Angeion Group
A legal technology powerhouse announcing the arrival of a new C-suite executive tops this roundup of recent industry news.
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MaxVal Group Hires 2 Partners For Its Affiliated IP Â鶹´«Ã½ Firm
Intellectual property management tech company MaxVal Group Inc. announced Friday the hiring of two former attorneys at Dennemeyer & Associates as partners with the group's affiliate law firm Convergence IP Â鶹´«Ã½ PC.
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Voir Dire: Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked mid-May with another busy week as attorneys landed new roles and firms expanded their offerings. Test your legal news savvy here with Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Anthropic's Atty Says Client's Own AI Created Error In Filing
A Latham & Watkins LLP associate representing Anthropic in the artificial intelligence company's copyright fight with music publishers said Thursday that she used Anthropic's own Claude.ai tool to help draft an expert's declaration that included an erroneous citation, but she argued the error was "an honest citation mistake and not a fabrication of authority."
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Anaqua Acquires IP Management Software Co. RightHub
Intellectual property management tech provider Anaqua Inc. announced Thursday its acquisition of European software developer RightHub, marking its first pick-up since Nordic Capital completed its purchase of Anaqua in February.
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Ex-LA DA's Atty's AI Use 'Affirmatively Misled' Special Master
The retired California federal judge serving as special master for former Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey's insurance coverage suit — stemming from her husband's holding a gun in their home's doorway in 2020 — has ordered litigation sanctions against Lacey's legal team, finding the lawyers submitted "bogus AI-generated research" that initially tricked the judge.
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Morae Acquires Information Governance Co. Gimmal
Legal business solutions provider Morae Global Corp. announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Gimmal, an information governance software company, continuing a steady streak of pick-ups since selling shares to a private equity firm.
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BigÂ鶹´«Ã½ Has More LinkedIn Followers, But Less Engagement
The 30 largest U.S. law firms have more LinkedIn followers, but smaller firms in the top 200 have higher engagement rates despite fewer followers on the platform, according to a report released Thursday by BTI Consulting Group.
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MyPillow CEO Can't Delay Defamation Trial Over Atty AI Errors
A Colorado federal judge denied MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's request to continue a defamation jury trial set for early June, finding her threat of discipline and media attention over mistakes stemming from defense counsel's use of artificial intelligence in drafting briefs don't warrant delaying trial in the lawsuit.
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Sheppard Mullin Adds Cadwalader's Tech-Savvy CIO In NY
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has hired Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP's chief information officer for that same role on its business services leadership team.
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Australia-Based AI Legal Platform Plexus Gets $6M Investment
Plexus, an artificial intelligence-powered legal automation platform for in-house teams, said Wednesday it had secured AUS$6 million (about $3.8 million) in new funding.
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Â鶹´«Ã½360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q1
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Â鶹´«Ã½360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the first quarter of the year.
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Judiciary To Share Pros, Cons Of AI For Courts With Congress
The federal judiciary is looking at the benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence for the court system and will share its discoveries with Congress, top officials testified on Wednesday.
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'Rapid Inorganic Growth' Ends As Dye & Durham Pauses M&A
Dye & Durham Ltd. has halted all mergers and acquisitions to focus on a new operational strategy, the legal practice management software company announced Tuesday.
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PwC, Integreon Team Up For AI Legal Services In EMEA
Integreon is partnering with PwC to provide artificial intelligence-based legal managed services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the tech-enabled legal solutions provider announced Wednesday.
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Did AI Co. Anthropic's Expert Cite AI-Hallucinated Study?
Music publishers claiming artificial intelligence company Anthropic infringed their works to train its AI models told a California federal magistrate judge Tuesday that an Anthropic expert witness cited a "fictitious" AI-generated study in a recently filed declaration, urging the judge to sanction the company's Latham & Watkins attorneys for not catching the issue.
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Europe-Focused Legal AI Noxtua Opens Paris Office
Noxtua SE, a Germany-based company that calls itself Europe's first sovereign legal artificial intelligence, announced Tuesday the opening of a Paris office, soon after it raised money and targeted further expansion in the region.
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Faster Pace, More Stress, On Path To A Summer Associate Gig
The path to securing a summer associate position at a law firm has changed significantly over the past few years, adding new pressures for students reaching for those coveted positions and new challenges for law firms trying to find top talent, according to Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
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AI Is Uncharted Territory In Summer Associate Job Hunt
About 20% of law students used artificial intelligence to assist them with their summer associate job hunt, leaning on the new technology to help navigate new challenges and shifting timelines, according to Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associates Survey.
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What Do Summer Associates Want? These Firms
As the competition to recruit future lawyers heats up, law firms are making summer associate offers earlier than ever. But even as the timeline shifts, law students' favorites have stayed largely the same, according to Â鶹´«Ã½360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
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Legal AI Co. Trellis Partners With Fisher Phillips On Case Data
Legal analytics company Trellis announced Tuesday a new partnership with employer-side labor law firm Fisher Phillips LLP that will see its generative artificial intelligence software used for daily case alerts at the firm.
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Lexis+ AI Boosts Composite Â鶹´«Ã½ Firm ROI By 344% In Study
The Lexis+ AI generative artificial intelligence platform can drive a 344% return on investment for large law firms by helping attorneys save time and focus on higher-value work, according to a study commissioned by LexisNexis Legal & Professional on Tuesday.
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Dentons Launches AI Tool For Europe, Central Asia Staff
Dentons announced Monday the launch of an internally developed artificial intelligence tool for its personnel in Europe and Central Asia, joining other firms in developing proprietary AI tools this year.
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Cadwalader Drops Data Breach Coverage Suit Against Lloyd's
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP and a Lloyd's of London syndicate it sued seeking coverage for litigation stemming from a 2022 data breach have agreed to end their dispute in North Carolina's business court with prejudice, according to a joint stipulation from the parties.
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Attys Say Avvo Scraped Bar Data To Sell Marketing Services
A new class action filed Friday in Washington federal court accuses online legal service provider Avvo Inc. of misappropriating the identities of over 1 million attorneys to promote its legal marketing tools and referral services.
Expert Analysis
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How Â鶹´«Ã½ Firms Can Innovate Amid Rising Client Demands
As clients increasingly tell law firms to integrate new legal technologies, firms should consider service delivery advancements that directly address the practice of law and can truly distinguish them — both from a technology and talent perspective, say members of Axiom Consulting.
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The Case That Showed Me The Value Of E-Discovery Plans
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
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What Litigators Can Expect From The Metaverse
As virtual reality continues to develop, litigators should consider how it will affect various aspects of law practice — from marketing and training to the courtroom itself — as well as the potential need for legal reforms to ensure metaverse-generated data is preserved and available for discovery, says Ron Carey at Esquire Deposition Solutions.
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The Future Of Legal Ops: Time To Get Serious About Data
Most corporate legal departments collect surface-level data around their operations, such as costs and time to resolution, but legal leaders should explore more in-depth data gathering to assess how effective an attorney was, how efficiently legal work was performed, and more, says Andy Krebs at Intel.
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Why You Should Leverage AI For Privilege Review
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.
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Tips For Evaluating Machine Learning For Contracts Review
Â鶹´«Ã½ firms considering machine learning and natural language processing to aid in contract reviews should keep several best practices in mind when procuring and deploying this nascent technology, starting with identifying their organization's needs and key requirements, says Ned Gannon at eBrevia.
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Collaborative Tech Will Dictate Future Â鶹´«Ã½ Firm Success
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Â鶹´«Ã½ firms need to shift their focus from solving the needs of their lawyers with siloed solutions to implementing collaboration technology, thereby enabling more seamless workflows and team experiences amid widespread embrace of hybrid and remote work models, says Kate Jasaitis at HBR Consulting.
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How Dynamic Project Management Can Help Â鶹´«Ã½ Firms
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Â鶹´«Ã½ firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
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How Firms Can Benefit From Creating Their Own ALSPs
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Keys To Digitizing Inefficient Contract Management Processes
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Â鶹´«Ã½yers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Â鶹´«Ã½ Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Â鶹´«Ã½ Firms
Â鶹´«Ã½ firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.