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9 Best Contract Management Software for Legal Departments

Percipient

Legal teams deal with contracts every single day, but keeping them organized is another story. Between tracking deadlines, chasing approvals, and making sure everything is airtight, contract management can quickly turn into a headache. Thats why contract management software exists. It keeps everything in one place, automates the boring stuff, and helps legal teams move faster without missing key details.

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Responding to Google Reviews: Best Practices for Law Firms

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Online reviews play a pivotal role in establishing your law firms credibility and attracting and retaining clients. However, simply accumulating reviews isnt enough how you respond to them is even more critical. By thoughtfully engaging with your clients’ feedback, you demonstrate that you value their opinions and are committed to their satisfaction.

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Laura Fauqueur: “We use the design thinking technique and apply it to solve problems”

Global LegalTech Hub

By Pablo Yannone Sancho , Journalist at GLTH Laura entered the legal field as a court interpreter. It was more than two decades ago, in the courtrooms of the Madrid region, that she fell in love with the legal industry, and all its problems. That connection was genuine from the start, as it didnt stem from an idealization: I saw many unsolved challenges, and observed so many things that could be done and improved in the legal space, she claims.

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💥Podcast Alert: Making Court Data Actionable with AI — Trellis CEO Shares Insights with Host Bim Dave on Legal Helm Show

Trellis.Law Blog

Catch the latest HELM360 podcast for a fascinating convo w/ Bim Dave & our CEO Nicole Clark on *transforming* legal work through AI tech! You’ll discover how law firms can harness the power of AI and state court data to… Continue reading → The post Podcast Alert: Making Court Data Actionable with AI Trellis CEO Shares Insights with Host Bim Dave on Legal Helm Show first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Leverage Trellis Court Data To Identify More Investment Opportunities

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

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Mishcon de Reya and Legora Partner to Pioneer AI-Powered Legal Services

Legal IT Professionals

Mishcon de Reya, a leading law firm renowned for its innovative practice, has announced a strategic partnership with Legora (formerly Leya), a cutting-edge provider of generative AI solutions for the legal sector. This collaboration, facilitated by MDR Lab, will explore the integration of Legora's AI capabilities into Mishcons workflows, driving significant improvements in efficiency, client service and firm-wide AI adoption.

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Efficient Learning for Busy Lawyers: How Justia CLE & Webinars Delivers Practical Value!

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Designed specifically for busy legal professionals, our Justia Webinars deliver valuable insights in an efficient, focused, and accessible format! Whether youre interested in legal tech innovations, practical marketing strategies, or navigating changes in the law, each session is tailored to provide you with actionable takeaways. Our webinars are open to everyone in the legal community, including legal professionals, law students, and law enthusiasts.

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WilsonAI Raises $1.7m Pre-Seed For Inhouse ‘AI Paralegal’

Artificial Lawyer

WilsonAI, a new legal tech startup co-founded by former Clifford Chance private equity lawyer Gus Neate, has raised $1.7m in pre-seed funding to help inhouse.

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Deep Trellis State Court Capabilities Help Bowman and Brooke Track Trends and Defend Mass Tort Litigation in State Courts (via CIO Applications)

Trellis.Law Blog

Discover how the Bowman and Brooke team continues to stay ahead of the curve by using Trellis to successfully monitor trends and uncover valuable product liability insights that matter to their customers. Read it here: [link] The post DeepTrellis State Court Capabilities Help Bowman and Brooke Track Trends and DefendMass TortLitigation in State Courts (via CIO Applications) first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Business Development Foundations for B2B Law Firms | Justia Webinars

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Is your law firm poised for deliberate and sustainable growth? For many B2B law firms, business development can feel overwhelming or unfocused. Without a clear strategy, its easy to waste time on activities that dont yield results. Our upcoming webinar with speaker Neil Barrow will walk you through the foundations of effective business development, including identifying your ideal clients, structuring your outreach efforts, understanding the client journey, and enabling firm leadership to suppor

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The Shape of Things to Come (Our Fearless Prediction)

Colin S. Levy

In an upcoming article , we consider how much downward pressure GenAI will exert on the use of billable hours as a proxy for value. If technology can handle adeptly the more mundane tasks in a lawyers day, why will clients be inclined to pay humans to take more time to do the same work? And if clients refuse to pay for humans to handle routine work, what will that mean to a law firms bottom line?

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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Bird & Bird Rolls Out Legora After POC

Artificial Lawyer

More Legora news today. International law firm Bird & Bird has opted for a firm-wide roll out of Legora, formally Leya, after a successful proof-of-concept.

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Wolters Kluwer’s Competitive Bidding Tool LegalCollaborator Gets Gen AI Summarization and Reverse Auctioning

LawSites

Wolters Kluwer today beefed up its LegalCollaborator product for corporate legal departments with the addition of new summarization functionality driven by generative artificial intelligence and the ability for legal departments to now leverage reverse auction capabilities to drive more competitive law firm bids.

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Lights, Camera, Clients: Driving Law Firm Growth Through Video Marketing | Justia Webinars

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The world of law firm marketing is changing, and video is at the forefront of this transformation. As clients increasingly turn to online video content, law firms that leverage this medium have a unique opportunity to build credibility and foster stronger connections with their audience. Join us for a comprehensive webinar that will cover everything from creating impactful video content to developing a video-first marketing strategy that fits your firms needs.

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Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface–theregister.com

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Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come R ichard Speed Microsoft is quietly testing the waters with an ad-supported version of its Office suite. On offer are desktop versions Windows-only by the looks of things of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The ad-supported, free version only shows up for a subset of users. Those who are offered the ad-supported versions will notice all three have been pared down; for example, Word lacks features like line spacing and borders, Excel is missin

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Uncovering The Hidden Connections: A Patent Family Survival Guide

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Walk Through: vLex – Multi-Modal Vincent AI + More

Artificial Lawyer

This weeks AL TV Walk Through is with vLex and covers its Winter 25 release, which includes several major updates to its Vincent AI assistant, in particular leveraging new genAI skills: Multi-Mod

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The Second Year Blues: Tips for Second-Year Law Firm Associates

Martindale-Avvo

They call it “the second-year blues” a phase in your career when you move on from the thrill and anxiety of being a first-year associate to the greater uncertainty and expectations of your second year. What can you do to manage, or better yet, thrive? Consider reinforcing your knowledge base, gathering a supportive people network, and taking care of your mental health.

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Jurimesh Fuels Up €1.6 million in Pre-Seed Funding to Reshape AI-Driven Legal Due Diligence

Legal IT Professionals

Legal due diligence has long been slow, expensive, and prone to human error. Belgian legaltech company Jurimesh is changing that. Jurimesh is today announcing the closing of a 1.6 million pre-seed funding round, led by international investment network Syndicate One and joined by several business angels.

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LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing–theregister.com

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Thomas Claburn A federal magistrate judge has recommended $15,000 in sanctions be imposed on an attorney who cited non-existent court cases concocted by an AI chatbot. In a report [PDF] filed last week, Mark J. Dinsmore, US Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, recommends that attorney Rafael Ramirez, of Rio Hondo, Texas, be “sanctioned $15,000 for his violations in this case $5,000 for each of the three briefs filed by Mr Ramirez where he failed to appropriately verify t

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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vLex Upgrades Vincent AI With Multi-Modal Capabilities

Artificial Lawyer

vLex has released its Winter 25 upgrade to its Vincent AI assistant, which introduces multi-modal capabilities. vLex CEO Llus Faus, said: The new multi-modal AI.

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Fixing Unconscious Bias in Law: Tips for Firms

Martindale-Avvo

Lawyers pride themselves on their commitment to reason and objective assessment of facts. But attorneys are human, harboring incorrect assumptions about others based on unconscious beliefs. Its natural for humans to have unconscious biases, but letting them go unchecked can lead to harm to individuals and communities. Shedding light on the phenomenon through education can help increase the vitality, relevance, and effectiveness of law firms as professional entities that serve the public.

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ASML’s Douwe Groenevelt to Deliver Keynote at Lexpo’25

Legal IT Professionals

Lexpo , Continental Europes premier legal innovation event, announces that Douwe Groenevelt, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Head of Legal at ASML, will deliver a keynote address at Lexpo25, taking place on 16-17 June in Amsterdam.

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Beyond black boxes: data security with AI-powered redaction

Lawyerist

Ever found yourself spending hours drawing black boxes over sensitive information in legal documents, only to discover later that the data wasn’t actually removed? Or perhaps you’ve experienced that sinking feeling when realizing a redacted court filing still contained sensitive client information in the file metadata? You’re not alone.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

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Mishcon + Legora Announce Legal GenAI Pilot

Artificial Lawyer

Mishcon de Reya has launched a pilot with Legora formerly Leya. The Stockholm-based genAI pioneer will be integrated into multiple workflows as part of.

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Reflections on The Masters Conference Miami: Modern Data Management in eDiscovery

CloudNine

On February 18, 2025, at The Masters Conference in Miami, I had the privilege of speaking on a panel alongside Matt Rasmussen (ModeOne), Alex Lewis (Kuro Group), and Brittany Leonard (General Counsel) to discuss one of the most pressing challenges in eDiscovery today: Modern Data Management. With mobile devices, social media, and collaboration tools now serving as primary business communication channels, legal professionals must rethink how they preserve, collect, and produce this data.

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LexisNexis Will Work More Closely with OpenAI To More Widely Deploy Its Models Across Products

LawSites

LexisNexis Legal & Professional and OpenAI today announced plans to work more closely with each other to integrate OpenAI’s large language models and APIs across the LexisNexis product ecosystem. LexisNexis will incorporate OpenAI’s technology across its various products, including Lexis+ AI and the Protg personalized AI assistant.

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Snow Crash and the Networked State

TechnoLlama

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about one of my favourite science fiction novels: ‘Snow Crash‘ by Neal Stephenson. “Snow Crash” envisions a future world where nation states have unravelled into chaotic, hyper-commercialised landscapes where traditional governmental structures have largely disintegrated.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key components: Draft Arguments — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an

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ALSP Axiom Offers AI Contract Solution with DraftPilot

Artificial Lawyer

ALSPs without AI…? These days that sounds like toast without avocado. So, its good to see Axiom working with AI-powered DraftPilot to provide a contracting.

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Court Rejects an Attempt to Create a Common-Law Notice-and-Takedown Scheme–Bogard v. TikTok

Eric Goldman

The plaintiffs allege they notified YouTube and TikTok about videos that allegedly violated the services’ rules, and the services didn’t take action on those notifications despite making various promises to do so. These arguments revisit well-trodden legal ground, but the plaintiffs tried a modest innovation. This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective operation of the services’ reporting tools, but the plaintiffs’ goal was to hold the services accountable

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How Greg Rada Saved 20 Hours a Week and Built a Stronger Firm 

Lawyerist

For over a decade, Gregory Rada ran a successful solo VA benefits practice. But as his caseload grew, so did his challengesparticularly around managing potential client inquiries and making the leap from a solo practitioner to a firm with employees. Greg knew he needed help but wasnt sure how to transition from a solo practice to a firm with employees.

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The Rise of the Patent Centaur: Merging AI with Legal Expertise

Brett Trout

Brett Trout The field of intellectual property law is undergoing a seismic transformation. The rise of AI-powered patent platforms is reshaping how patent attorneys conduct research, draft applications, and analyze legal landscapes. While some fear that AI could replace human expertise, a more nuanced reality is emergingone that blends the strengths of both AI and legal professionals.

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The New Way of Conducting Patent Research: Proven Strategies For Efficient Due Diligence

Speaker: Andrew Klein and Jennifer Vandenplas

Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.