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In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital

Above the Law - Technology

Originally a legal research company, Fastcase has diversified in recent years, launching its Full Court Press publishing arm and acquiring Docket Alarm and Law Street Media in 2018, NextChapter in 2019, and the technology and team of Judicata in 2020. Neither company is new to AI, he pointed out.

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Lawyers Fill Practice Gaps with Software and the State of Legal Tech

Ron Friedmann

Investment bank Raymond James ’ report, 2020 2Q European Legal Tech & Services Insight is an excellent read overall. We have certainly seen a range of companies buy up legal tech start-ups: Raymond James 2020 2Q European Legal Tech & Services Insight Change Management Challenges. Conclusions.

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AI and Beyond: Key Trends at ABA TECHSHOW 2025

Lawyerist

Naturally, AI will be a hot topic of conversation, both in the educational sessions and the expo hall. In 2020, Doctorow was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. On Stage TECHSHOW 2025 features nearly 30 sessions on the topic.

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An Early Win for Copyright Owners in AI Cases as Court Rejects Fair Use Defense

Debevoise Data Blog

Thomson Reuters filed suit back in 2020, alleging that ROSS had used its copyrighted Westlaw headnotes and other materials as training data for ROSS competing legal AI product. Thomson Reuters claimed that thousands of ROSSs legal memos are infringing copies of its Westlaw headnotes.

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vLex (Fastcase) Unveils Beta Version Of Its Global, Multi-Language Generative AI Legal Research Tool

LawSites

“This is the biggest legal data corpus ever assembled, including highly valuable structured data with industry-standard tags and analytics,” Fastcase cofounder Ed Walters said at the time. “The combined library is the crown jewel of LLMs and the ultimate training data set for legal AI.”

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Lessons Learned from 2024 and the Year Ahead in AI Litigation

Debevoise Data Blog

These cases are factually quite distinctthe Thompson Reuters case involves a more unusual set of facts involving training a legal AI platform using headnotes from the well-known Westlaw platform, while the CMG case poses a more common type of challenge to the use of copyrighted works in AI training data. 2020); Stevens v.

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Voting Is Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024 in February

Above the Law - Technology

It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. Casetext, Spellbook, EvenUp, DoNotPay.com, Harvey.ai, Filevine, ailawyer.pro, Lexis, Westlaw, amto.ai, Better Legal, Paxton Legal AI. Founded: 7/1/2020, Tampa, FL.

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