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GenAI legal assistant Paxton raises $22m Series A

GenAI legal assistant Paxton raises $22m Series A

US GenAI legal assistant Paxton has closed a $22M Series A funding round led by Unusual Ventures, alongside Kyber Knight, 25Madison, and Wisconsin Valley Ventures. This brings Paxton’s total funding
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Elevate acquires 500-strong IP research company Sagacious

Elevate acquires 500-strong IP research company Sagacious

Alternative legal services provider Elevate today (28 January) announced the acquisition of 500-people-strong intellectual property research company Sagacious IP, with Sagacious co-founders Anant Kataria and Tarun Bansal joining the Elevate
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LexisNexis formally launches Protégé AI assistant and Create+ AI drafting solution in MS365

LexisNexis formally launches Protégé AI assistant and Create+ AI drafting solution in MS365

LexisNexis today (27 January) announced the general availability in the US of LexisNexis Protégé, a personalised, agentic AI assistant. Lexis also formally today launched Create+, which stems from LexisNexis’ acquisition of
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Private equity firm Thoma Bravo acquires and merges Casepoint and Opexus

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo acquires and merges Casepoint and Opexus

US private equity company Thoma Bravo has acquired a majority stake in eDiscovery provider Casepoint and acquired Opexus from Gemspring Capital, simultaneously executing a merger of the two companies. Casepoint shareholders
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US M&A: SurePoint Technologies acquires ‘PMS for lawyers’ ZenCase

US M&A: SurePoint Technologies acquires ‘PMS for lawyers’ ZenCase

SurePoint Technologies today (23 January) announced the strategic acquisition of attorney-developed practice management system ZenCase, creating a “unified solution for managing all aspects of practice, from front-office and financial management
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Leading UK law firm Leigh Day selects Elite 3E Cloud and ShareDo 

Leading UK law firm Leigh Day selects Elite 3E Cloud and ShareDo 

UK top 100 law firm Leigh Day has selected Elite 3E Cloud as its new finance system following a 12-18 month selection process supported by Lights-On Consulting, with Helm360 selected
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SKILLS strikes a chord with a showcase of real world GenAI projects and use cases

SKILLS strikes a chord with a showcase of real world GenAI projects and use cases

At a time when there is a great thirst for knowledge about real world law firm GenAI projects and use cases, knowledge management conference SKILLS last week stepped up to
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Eve secures $47m Series A to grow LLM-based case management platform and launch tailored PI offering

Eve secures $47m Series A to grow LLM-based case management platform and launch tailored PI offering

Eve, a California-founded large language model-based case lifecycle management platform for plaintiffs, today (16 January) announced it has secured $47m Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from
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Epona merges with JustiSolutions, vendor of leading Danish case management system

Epona merges with JustiSolutions, vendor of leading Danish case management system

Dutch SharePoint-based document management system provider Epona has merged with JustiSolutions, vendor of leading Danish legal case management system Unik Advosys. The deal was driven by Main Capital Partners, the
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Elite’s acquisition of B2B payments business Tranch: What it means for customers and partners

Elite’s acquisition of B2B payments business Tranch: What it means for customers and partners

Edited 17:59 9/1/25 from saying that Tranch is a partner of Aderant, SAP, Oracle NetSuite and HubSpot to Tranch works with customers of those companies. We spoke with Elite’s CEO
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A2J: Josef collaborates with HCA and NYU on gen AI tool to help NYC tenants

A2J: Josef collaborates with HCA and NYU on gen AI tool to help NYC tenants

New York tenants’ rights organization Housing Court Answers, in partnership with New York University School of Law and legal automation company Josef, has launched a gen AI-powered tool designed to help
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Elite acquires B2B payments platform Tranch

Elite acquires B2B payments platform Tranch

Elite today (6 January) announced its acquisition of Tranch, a B2B invoice automation and payments platform that provides invoice management and turnkey payment options for law firms and their clients.
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Linklaters launches AI Sandbox following second global ideas campaign

Linklaters launches AI Sandbox following second global ideas campaign

Linklaters has launched an AI Sandbox which it says will allow the firm to quickly build out AI solutions and capitalise on the engagement and ideas from its people. The
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Clarilis teams up with Addleshaw Goddard to launch automated Early-Stage Investment Suite for the VC market

Clarilis teams up with Addleshaw Goddard to launch automated Early-Stage Investment Suite for the VC market

UK document automation provider Clarilis has launched an extensively automated Early-Stage Investment Suite (ESIS) for UK venture capital transactions. Based on the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Associations (BVCA’s)
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British Legal Technology Awards – iManage CEO Neil Araujo receives the Outstanding Achievement award as Horwich Farrelly secures a hat trick 

British Legal Technology Awards – iManage CEO Neil Araujo receives the Outstanding Achievement award as Horwich Farrelly secures a hat trick 

iManage’s co-founder and CEO Neil Araujo this week (20 November) received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the British Legal Technology Awards 2024 on a night that also saw Manchester-headquartered law
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Exclusive: Top Iberian law firm Cuatrecasas to move to SAP Cloud  

Exclusive: Top Iberian law firm Cuatrecasas to move to SAP Cloud  

Cuatrecasas is set to move in Q1 to SAP in the cloud, we can reveal, leveraging SAP’s business-transformation-as-a-service programme Rise with SAP, which was launched in 2021 to increase the
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Legal IT Latest: Pinsents builds onboarding LLM with Xapien, Burges Salmon selects Gen AI startup Wexler, & Nordic Capital to acquire Anaqua

Legal IT Latest: Pinsents builds onboarding LLM with Xapien, Burges Salmon selects Gen AI startup Wexler, & Nordic Capital to acquire Anaqua

Global law firm Pinsent Masons has partnered with AI SaaS leader Xapien to unveil a large-language-model-powered AI tool tailored for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance. This solution promises to address key
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