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Thomson Reuters acquires legal research challenger Casetext for $650m

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Thomson Reuters Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire legal tech research challenger Casetext for $650m cash.

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The Gaylord Opryland Isn’t So Bad After All … and Other Takeaways from the Clio Cloud Conference

Above the Law - Technology

I am, it turns out, a member of small club of fewer than 10 people who have attended every ClioCon since the first – a relatively modest affair of about 200 people who gathered in Chicago in 2013 for an event produced by a relatively small legal tech upstart that was proselytizing for lawyers to move to the cloud.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Above the Law - Technology

The company it started as in 2013 is not the company it is today. There are 49 that I found, and together they offer an overview of how a legal tech startup evolves into a mature company. 2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing. Turns Out Legal Research Services Vary Widely in Results.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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Women of Legal Tech: Cindy Cohn

Law Technology Today

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Cohn as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech. In 2013, The National Law Journal named Ms. How did you become involved in legal tech?

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A Former Legal Tech Founder Is At the Center of the Musk Affair Allegations

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” As it happens, Shanahan is the former founder of a legal tech company. An attorney, in 2013 she founded ClearAccessIP, a patent management platform that used AI to help creators and owners manage and distribute their IP assets. Shanahan was among the women I featured in a 2017 post, 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech.

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The Rumors Were True: Thomson Reuters Acquires Casetext for $650M Cash

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The acquisition unites a long-established giant in legal research with a company that has proven to be a feisty upstart since its founding in 2013. ” Earlier this year, it launched CoCounsel , an AI legal assistant developed in partnership with OpenAI and using the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT large language model.