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Litera to Acquire Legal AI Pioneer Kira Systems, Enhancing its Transaction Management Offering

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Alexander Hudek , a computer scientist, founded the company in 2011, originally under the name DiligenceEngine (which I reviewed in 2014 ). The company developed what was the first of a now-common class of products that use machine learning for contract review and analysis. Waisberg will serve as a strategic advisor to Litera.

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Fueled By $20M Raise, Kira Spin-Off Zuva Reveals Its First Product

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Seven weeks ago, as Litera announced its acquisition of Kira Systems , the pioneering AI contract analysis company, Kira announced the spin off of a new company, Zuva , to continue developing machine learning technology for business documents. Alexander Hudek , is also joining Zuva as strategic advisor.). First Product Release.

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Voting Is Closed, Results Are In: Here are the 15 Legal Tech Startups Selected for the 2025 Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW

ABA TECHSHOW

Using Large Language Models and Geometric Machine Learning, our platform forecasts litigation outcomes at scale. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring the laws smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders. Read the original article here.

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Ep 108: Kira’s Cofounders on 10 Years in Business and their New Book on AI in Law

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When CEO Noah Waisberg , a former lawyer, and CTO Dr. Alexander Hudek , a computer scientist, launched Kira in 2011, they thought it would be easy to develop machine-learning software to review contracts. They quickly found out otherwise.

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Colin Lachance on Jurisage’s MyJr and How He’s Looking at AI to Assist in the Synthesis and Reading of Legal Cases (TGIR Ep. 190)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

This protects the researcher from the AI “creating” the answer from all the non-relevant information it has collected in its large language model of machine learning. We keep about this, you know, a roundabout but a logical way when we will get it historically, I’ve been working in legal information and tech since 2011.

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Regulatory Risks for Not Disclosing Trading Algorithms – Five Takeaways from the SEC’s $170 Million Settlement with BlueCrest Capital

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Regulators in the United States and abroad are showing increasing interest in pursuing enforcement actions against companies that deploy artificial intelligence, machine learning, or algorithmic-based applications (“AI”) in a way that the regulators perceive as harmful to the public.

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The Legal Singularity and the Future of Legal Research – Benjamin Alarie and Abdi Aidid (TGIR Ep. 193)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

In 2011, I was associate dean of the faculty here at the University of Toronto, it was in the context of leading review of the curriculum, the first year curriculum that I got really interested in thinking about the future of legal education. And, and as an academic, my focus is tax law. I’ve been at the tax law, professing game since 2004.