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Two legal technology startups adding new investments this week top this roundup of recent industry news.
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Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP is addressing the threat to businesses from cyberattacks and data breaches with a new incidents and investigations team led by firm veterans on both sides of the country with deep expertise in data security and privacy issues.
Bench IQ, a new startup founded by Ross Intelligence executives that analyzes a judge's record of decisions using artificial intelligence, announced Thursday the raising of $2.1 million in pre-seed funding from several venture capital groups, law firms and angel investors.
Global equity platform Slice Global Inc., which uses artificial intelligence to ensure that companies issuing equity to international employees stay in compliance with laws and regulations, secured a $7 million seed funding round on Thursday.
ProSearch, an e-discovery and legal data analytics company, announced Wednesday the hiring of a former executive at Exterro Inc. as its first chief operating officer.
The ousted partner of the law firm formerly known as Roche Freedman LLP asked a New York federal judge to impose sanctions on his former colleagues, claiming the partners destroyed evidence when they communicated through an application that auto-deleted their messages in the lead-up to voting him out of the firm.
Husch Blackwell has launched a cross-practice artificial intelligence group focused on advising clients on regulatory and legal matters related to the burgeoning technology.
A California plaintiff's boutique announced Wednesday that it will integrate artificial intelligence into "every aspect" of its practice as legal tech startup Eve's first "AI-native law firm."
National law firm BakerHostetler announced this week that its private wealth group has created an estate planning app called FinClar, short for Financial Clarity, making it one of the latest firms to launch a technology offering.
A Georgia radio host is continuing to press his case that OpenAI owes him legal fees for its abortive bid to remove his defamation suit against the company to federal court, telling the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday that there's ample grounds to send the case back to the district court level for the explanation he's owed.
The Mecklenburg County sheriff and clerk of courts have joined a growing list of defendants in a proposed civil rights class action alleging that North Carolina's new digital court system has led to unlawful arrests and detentions in the Tar Heel State.
Legal software provider Osprey Approach announced Tuesday that it has added the former head of information technology services at Xerox as its new CEO.
Hanson Bridgett LLP plans to introduce an artificial intelligence task force in March, joining other firms in recently launching similar teams to advise clients on use of the burgeoning technology.
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Tuesday that it had formally created an artificial intelligence practice team in the U.S., and that it would be helmed by an Atlanta-based partner who came aboard last year from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.
There's a growing divide between personal and organizational views of artificial intelligence, particularly as legal and procurement teams weigh the benefits and risks of this technology, a new survey revealed on Monday.
Gowling WLG on Tuesday launched an AI-powered service to protect brands against various forms of online infringement, allowing users to request the filing of takedown notices "at the click of a button."
Legal technology company Lexsoft Systems SL has floated a new artificial intelligence tool that uses OpenAI's technology to allow lawyers to automate parts of their workflow.
Though his standing order on lawyers writing briefs using artificial intelligence — one of the first in the country to address the technology — is fairly broad, Judge Michael Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says he's "not banning AI."
Launched in 2020 by a father and his two sons, legal software provider AltFee Solutions Inc attracted fresh industry attention this month when it won the American Bar Association Techshow's startup competition, beating 14 other finalists, including legal writing tool BriefCatch and e-discovery platform Beagle.
An optometrist who claims a fraudster infiltrated her lawyer's email system and tricked her into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account has challenged the firm's "very late post-trial disclosure" of five pages of emails about an alleged earlier incident, saying the messages are relevant to her own case.
Ohio firm Marshall & Melhorn LLC and a proposed class of over 27,000 of its clients affected by a 2021 ransomware attack urged an Ohio federal judge on Friday to institute a pause in the suit so they can reach a settlement with an outside mediator.
As would-be lawyers prepare to take the bar exam, testing accommodations for those who menstruate or lactate will vary by jurisdiction. In recent years, there's been a reckoning on state bar policies that affect women and transgender test-takers, but advocates say there's more to be done.
A document processing technology provider's latest acquisition tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
Online legal services provider LegalZoom Inc. is parting ways with its chief operating officer next month, according to a recent government filing, four months after announcing plans to layoff more than 100 sales employees in Austin, Texas.