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Adobe faces US federal government lawsuit alleging it hides termination fees to trap subscribers

Adobe faces US federal government lawsuit alleging it hides termination fees to trap subscribers

The US Department of Justice has today (17 June) begun a lawsuit against Adobe alleging that it has for years harmed consumers by enrolling them in a default subscription plan
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Product Walk Through: Thomson Reuters CoCounsel

Product Walk Through: Thomson Reuters CoCounsel

Valerie McConnell, senior director of customer success at Thomson Reuters, gives Legal IT Insider a demonstration of the functionality currently available within generative AI research platform CoCounsel. McConnell talks us
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Legal IT Latest: Your Friday round up of all the week’s news 

Legal IT Latest: Your Friday round up of all the week’s news 

Welcome to the legal tech weekend. Here’s some of the week’s biggest news including: Kirkland & Ellis faces class action for MOVEit data breach Filevine launches DMS with very punchy
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Robin AI launches AI Reports and says they cut M&A contract analysis time by 85%

Robin AI launches AI Reports and says they cut M&A contract analysis time by 85%

AI legal assistant Robin AI today (13 June) announced a new product line, Robin AI Reports, which automates a key piece of the M&A due diligence process. The new offering
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Webinar: Is it time to return to the office?

Webinar: Is it time to return to the office?

In the wake of the Covid pandemic, it was widely assumed that working from home and hybrid working were here to stay for good. However, the more time passes, the
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Aderant partners with BigHand to provide Expert and Sierra clients with BI and pricing insights 

Aderant partners with BigHand to provide Expert and Sierra clients with BI and pricing insights 

Aderant today (12 June) announced a new partnership with BigHand, which provides strategic financial data insights including pricing and business intelligence solutions.   While Aderant has historically competed with BigHand with
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PMS: Australian law firm Macpherson Kelley selects 3E Cloud

PMS: Australian law firm Macpherson Kelley selects 3E Cloud

Longstanding Elite customer Macpherson Kelley has selected Elite 3E Cloud in what is described as the final piece of its cloud journey. Founded in 1905, Macpherson Kelley is a full-service
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Charting Change in Legal Podcast, episode 25 – Listen Here!

Charting Change in Legal Podcast, episode 25 – Listen Here!

In this episode of Charting Change in Legal, Ari Kaplan, a globally-renowned legal industry analyst, and Legal IT Insider’s editor-in-chief Caroline Hill, discuss the importance of putting people first in
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Year-old LLM vendor Mistral AI raises £510m Series B and is valued at £4.9bn

Year-old LLM vendor Mistral AI raises £510m Series B and is valued at £4.9bn

French generative AI startup and OpenAI competitor Mistral has raised £510m (€600m) Series B. According to reports out today (11 June), the one-year-old company is now valued at £4.9bn (€5.8bn).
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Mitratech acquires HotDocs from CARET 

Mitratech acquires HotDocs from CARET 

Legal, compliance and risk management software provider Mitratech has acquired document automation vendor HotDocs from SaaS legal practice management system provider CARET.  HotDocs – which started out life as CAPS
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e2e-assure: Threat actors are pivoting to target law firms

e2e-assure: Threat actors are pivoting to target law firms

UK cybersecurity company e2e-assure has for the past decade provided threat detection and response services for a range of companies including within the financial services sector. What they noticed is
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Document verification vendor Atticus raises £5.6m in first fund round

Document verification vendor Atticus raises £5.6m in first fund round

Fast-growing Australian verification software company Atticus has closed a £5.6m (AUS $10.84m) minority investment from Skip Capital and Blackbird Ventures. Developed as a faster, easier way to fact-check critical documents
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Canadian-founded ‘AI for litigators’ platform Alexi raises a US $11m Series A

Canadian-founded ‘AI for litigators’ platform Alexi raises a US $11m Series A

Canadian legaltech company Alexi today (10 June) announced an US$11m Series A fundraise led by Ohio venture capital firm Drive Capital. This brings Alexi’s total funding to over $20m. Chris
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Legal Tech Insights: Epiq’s Legal Solutions president talks AI strategy, data, outcomes, and red flags

Legal Tech Insights: Epiq’s Legal Solutions president talks AI strategy, data, outcomes, and red flags

Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill sat down with Roger Pilc, president of Epiq’s Legal Solutions Business, to talk about Epiq’s AI strategy; the work it is doing with corporates
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Ashurst publishes qualitative gen AI data from firm wide trials

Ashurst publishes qualitative gen AI data from firm wide trials

UK top 20 law firm Ashurst today (10 June) publishes a behind-the-scenes look at its trials of three different generative AI platforms, focusing on the qualitative and quantitative data from
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DE&I in legal: The importance of diversity at a leadership level

DE&I in legal: The importance of diversity at a leadership level

Raj Boora is global head of data at Pinsent Masons. We spoke about diversity within business services and Raj’s own experiences of how the legal sector is faring when it
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New tech: Isabel Bathurst tells us about LegalAi and AsKAi

New tech: Isabel Bathurst tells us about LegalAi and AsKAi

We spoke to CEO Isabel Bathurst to find out more about her brand new startup, LegalAi. LegalAi has launched AsKAi – or Kai for short – as a digital worker
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