The problem with academic publishing – Technollama
My social media timeline has started filling up with angry reactions to the news that several academic publishers have been licensing academic works to AI companies for training purposes without…
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Two-year-old Harvey raises $100m Series C and achieves unicorn status – Legal IT Insider
Gen AI startup Harvey has announced a $100m Series C led by GV (Google Ventures) with participation from OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, and SV Angel. The two…
Clio raises $900m in Series F investment – Legal IT Insider
Cloud practice management system provider Clio today (23 July) announced it has raised US $900 million, based on a US $3 billion valuation, in a Series F investment round led…
Superior Court of Los Angeles County suffers ransomware attack – Legal IT Insider
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County’s Court Technology Services (CTS) Division suffered a ransomware attack on Friday 19 July leading to it having to shut down the Court’s internal…
LexisNexis announces new capabilities for Lexis+ AI including RAG enhancements – Legal IT Insider
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today (22 July) announced a set of new capabilities in its gen AI solution Lexis+ AI, which enables conversational search and provides summarization, intelligent legal drafting,…
Major Windows outage takes organisations globally offline – Legal IT Insider
A global Microsoft Windows outage is impacting banks, law firms, airports and media organisations, with Windows laptops and PCs showing a blue screen, as early reports suggest that a Crowdstrike…
Mark Your Calendar – The Say Gap Is Back! – Legal IT Insider
We are ready to welcome everyone to this year’s two transformative days on 29th and 30th October 2024 at the EY London Bridge office. Connect with over 150 legal professionals…
Charting Change in Legal Podcast, episode 27 – Listen Here! – Legal IT Insider
In this 27th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, editor and publisher of Legal IT Insider, and leading global legal analyst Ari Kaplan, discussed litigation trends; AI applications;…
Leya raises $25m Series A two months after announcing $10.5m seed funding – Legal IT Insider
Only two months after it announced its $10.5m seed funding round, Swedish-founded legal gen AI startup Leya announces today (17 July) that it has raised a $25m Series A. The…
Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers selects ShareDo for case management – Legal IT Insider
Full service national Australian law firm Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers has selected ShareDo’s adaptive case management system, we can reveal. Carroll & O’Dea will initially implement ShareDo in their commercial…
Legal IT Insider launches inaugural Practice Management System Report – Download it here! – Legal IT Insider
Legal IT Insider has today (16 July) launched the first-ever practice management system industry report, which takes an unparalleled, in-depth look at the functionality of many PMS systems in the…
Dentons partners with AI startup Intanify for IP discovery, including referral scheme and white label pilot – Legal IT Insider
Dr Justin Hill, partner & co-chair of IP at Dentons explains to Legal IT Insider how AI software platform Intanify improves the process of creating IP inventories and assessing IP…
2twenty4 Consulting launches free AI project GDPR assessment tool – Legal IT Insider
UK data protection advisory company 2twenty4 Consulting has released a free AI GDPR assessment tool to give firms an idea of how compliant their AI projects are. Based on 2twenty4’s…
What can internet history teach us? – Technollama
People involved in the Internet Regulation area have a recurring joke that the field is like being stuck in some form of digital Groundhog Day, in which we are re-living…
What’s the status of AI and copyright? – Technollama
It’s been an interesting couple of years here in Llama Towers. While AI has long been a subject of interest to this blog, it’s undeniable that the subject has exploded…