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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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AI-Powered Tax Research Platform Blue J Launches First-of-its-Kind Entity and Relationship Diagramming

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“Blue J’s tax diagramming solution is purpose-built for tax practitioners and opens up new ways to leverage AI and machine-learning in analysis of the merits of tax positions.” Blue J’s technology evolved out of IBM’s 2014 Watson Challenge at the University of Toronto. market. .

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With $5M Investment, PacerPro Expands Into State Courts, Hires Silicon Valley Veteran As CTO

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But longer term, Bala said, she is excited about the opportunity to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide data-driven insights to the legal industry and others. (I I first wrote about PacerPro in 2014 for the ABA Journal. See that article here.).

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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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The Law Library of Babel: Exploring the Infinite Dimensions of Law and Technology

Colin S. Levy

The platform itself was a marvel, a testament to the incredible power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform the way we approach the law. Oxford University Press, 2014. Oxford University Press, 2014. Zahavi, Dan. Phenomenology: The Basics. Routledge, 2018. Dreyfus, Hubert L. Clark, Andy.

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Josh Blandi

Colin S. Levy

Josh Blandi is the CEO and Co-Founder of UniCourt , a SaaS offering using machine learning to disrupt the way court data is organized, accessed, and used. Some of the biggest lessons I’ve learned along the way, are that once you are onto something good that’s worthy of your time, stay the course.

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

Debevoise Data Blog

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.