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Lightbringer Raises €4.2M For AI-Backed Patent Software
Swedish startup Lightbringer announced Wednesday the raising of €4.2 million ($4.36 million) in seed funding to help grow its patent software that uses artificial intelligence.
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Law Firms Tap Business-Savvy Leaders Amid 2024 Shakeups
The legal industry has seen ongoing leadership changes in 2024, with law firms increasingly turning to business-savvy leaders to oversee operations and better compete in a challenging market.
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Legal Tech Co. NQ Zebraworks Gets $4.5M Capital Injection
The legal document and billing workflow software company nQ Zebraworks on Wednesday announced plans to continue product development and cloud growth through an additional investment of AU$7 million ($4.5 million) from its parent company Reckon Ltd.
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From AI To ESG, These Issues Shaped 2024 For GCs
Between the growing significance of advanced artificial intelligence and the Supreme Court's striking down of the Chevron doctrine, 2024 was a year of change for general counsel and the legal departments they helm. Here, Law360 Pulse tracks five trending topics among in-house lawyers over the past year.
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Level Legal Hires Ex-Priori Legal CMO
Dallas-based alternative legal service provider Level Legal announced Wednesday that the former chief marketing officer at legal marketplace Priori Legal had joined the company in the same role.
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Fla. Bar Eyes Rule Change On Limits For Non-Atty Roles
The Florida Bar Board of Governors is considering a rule change to spell out that nonlawyers at a law firm cannot supervise the work of attorneys or perform policymaking duties that affect the practice of law, among other prohibited tasks, a spokeswoman for the bar confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Monday.
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WashU Law School Teams With WickardAI On Legal AI Program
The School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis announced Tuesday the launch of a new program in collaboration with startup WickardAI focused on artificial intelligence and the practice of law.
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Dye & Durham Board Resigns As Interm CEO Selected
The board of directors for Dye & Durham Ltd. resigned on Tuesday and appointed an activist investor-led slate of candidates to replace them, ending a yearlong proxy fight for board seats.
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NY State Bar, Legal Aid Society Praise E-Filing Law
The New York State Bar Association, as well as the New York City nonprofit Legal Aid Society, praised the signing into law of legislation that would allow the chief administrative judge to institute e-filing of court documents in any or all of the state's trial courts.
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Holtzman Vogel Launches Program To Aid AI Startups
Holtzman Vogel unveiled a program Monday that will have the firm's recently launched artificial intelligence practice group provide pro bono legal services, including business formation advice and guidance about regulatory compliance to AI startups.
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Revived Legal Tech Co. Immediation Shifts Leaders Again
The online dispute resolution platform Immediation named a new chief executive officer on Monday, after its most recent CEO lasted less than one year.
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LegalZoom Launches Strategic Alliance With 1-800Accountant
LegalZoom announced Monday that it will launch a multiyear strategic partnership with financial services firm 1-800Accountant by the start of the new year.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Wolters Kluwer, LinkSquares
Two legal technology companies added new C-suite leaders this week.
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Looking Back At Dye & Durham's 2024 Proxy Fight
A yearlong proxy fight over the direction of Toronto-based legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd. will come to a head this week, as investors cast votes for a slate of competing nominees to its board of directors.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms recruited new talent and announced raises for associates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Glass Lewis Advises 'Substantive Change' At Dye & Durham
Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. on Thursday recommended that shareholders in legal technology provider Dye & Durham Ltd. vote for substantive changes to the company's board of directors.
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Law Firm AI Innovations Are Winning Over Legal Ops Teams
Despite near-universal rate increases from outside counsel, legal operations professionals are feeling increasingly positive about their law firms' willingness to innovate with artificial intelligence, according to a new report on Thursday.
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AI Terms, 'Coffee Badging' Among Top New Words In Law
Burton's Legal Thesaurus recently announced this year's top new words in law, with entries like "coffee badging" and "hot-tubbing" joining the echelons of 2022's "meme stock" and 2023's "hallucination" as the thesaurus brings to light some of the most novel terms and talking points for lawyers in 2024.
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PE Firm Buys Controlling Stake In Outsourcing Co. Frontline
The ownership of legal outsourcing solutions provider Frontline Managed Services has gone through some shuffling, with lead sponsor BV Investment Partners announcing on Wednesday the sale of its majority position in the company to private equity firm Broad Sky Partners.
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How Kansas State Court System Recovered From Cyberattack
The Kansas Judicial Branch spent several months recovering from an October 2023 cyberattack and a paper document backlog created when its statewide case management system was down, and used the incident to strengthen its technology systems, court leaders said at a panel Tuesday.
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Growing Workloads Have More In-House Teams Turning To AI
Corporate law departments are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools as they face pressure to control costs and meet growing demands for legal services amid flat headcount, according to survey results released Wednesday.
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Meta Adds Intel, King & Spalding Attys For Legal Leader Roles
Meta Platforms Inc. is bringing on a former Intel Corp. associate general counsel and a King & Spalding LLP attorney to fill senior legal leadership positions, the parent company of social media applications Facebook and Instagram confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
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Redgrave Adds E-Discovery Pro From Ogletree In Chicago
E-discovery firm Redgrave LLP announced Tuesday that an experienced attorney who most recently spent six and a half years with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC joined its Chicago office as a partner.
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Luminance Launches Auto-Negotiate Contract Tool
Luminance, which provides legal software using artificial intelligence, announced on Wednesday the launch of a contract product that will automatically negotiate with a recipient.
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NCSC Is Working On Tools For State Courts' Data Hurdles
The National Center for State Courts has developed tools to tackle some of the common challenges state courts face, including duplicate court records and trying to assess equity in a court system without racial data.