As someone who worked in the KM trenches for years, I have repeatedly watched legal tech companies promise to tame the wild west of documents residing in law firm Document Management Systems (DMS). Over the years I implemented or worked
Jean P. O'Grady
Jean P. O’Grady has over 30 years of experience developing strategic information initiatives for Am Law 100 law firms. She holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, an M.L.S. from St. John’s University and a B.A. in History from Fordham University She is a member of the NY State Bar. She has previously held Director positions at WilmerHale in DC and Shea & Gould in NY. She began her career as a reference librarian at the Pace University School of Law. She has been an adjunct faculty member at the graduate schools of Library and Information Science at St. John’s University and Long Island University where she taught legal research courses.
Wolters Kluwer Enters the Gen AI Market with the Launch of VitalLaw AI
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Today Wolters Kluwer is entering the Generative AI race with the launch of new generative AI (GenAI) functionality for VitalLaw. VitalLaw is the company’s comprehensive legal research platform which covers 25 practice areas including tax, securities, privacy, and labor…
vLex Vincent AI Upgrade: 12 Skills, 12 Countries + the EU, Transactional Skills and VIDA AI for Dockets
vLex (Fastcase) is releasing a major upgrade to Vincent AI. This new release increases the number of workflows from 4 to 12. This includes expansion of both litigation and transactional tools and the addition of AI tools for additional…
LexisNexis Announces Commercial Preview of Protégé Personalized AI Assistant
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LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, has announced the US Commercial Preview program for LexisNexis® Protégé™ Legal AI Assistant. Protégé is the third-generation of Lexis+ AI and according to the press release “marks a substantial leap forward in personalized generative AI that…
GAI Driving a Hot Job Market for Library and KM Professionals
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The American Association of Law libraries, Annual Meeting & Conference brought several harbingers of good news on the job market for law librarians and knowledge management professionals.
I don’t need to remind anybody that the “death of the law librarian”…
LexisNexis Enhances Lexis+ AI with New Features, AI Models, and Graphing
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, announced over a dozen new Lexis+ AI features during the American Association of Law Libraries Meeting & Conference this week.
Lexis+ AI offers conversational search, insightful summarization, intelligent legal drafting, and document upload and…
LexisNexis Completes Acquisition of Henchman
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Henchman, a legal tech company that enriches data from Document Management Systems (DMS) for faster document drafting. Belgium-based Henchman has 170+ legal and corporate customers globally…
Thomson Reuters Launches Claims Explorer Skill in Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel
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Thomson Reuters Has announced the release of Claims Explorer, a new generative AI skill available in Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel. The new feature enables lawyers to enter facts in to the tool and retrieve applicable claims or counterclaims.…
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Generative AI Risk in Legal Research: Is the Fault in the Technology or in Ourselves? Answer is Both
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Will Generative AI awaken the need for serious focus legal research education?
The introduction of Generative AI to the practice of law has been anything but smooth. First there was the unfortunate case of Mr. Schwartz who used Chat GPT-3…