E-discovery provider Everlaw announced on Monday that its generative artificial intelligence-powered legal assistant, Everlaw AI Assistant, has come out of beta after a year of testing and is now publicly available. The tool, which is integrated into Everlaw’s document review solution and Storybuilder, is divided into three key buckets: coding suggestions,…

On Monday, Thomson Reuters unveiled CoCounsel 2.0, a “significant milestone in the company’s vision for a single GenAI assistant enabling professionals across industries to accelerate and streamline entire workflows,” according to the press release. Thomson Reuters says CoCounsel 2.0 generates answers three times faster than the current version of CoCounsel,…

It didn’t take long to see the fruits of LexisNexis’s acquisition of Belgian contract drafting startup Henchman, which was officially completed in late July. On Monday, LexisNexis announced the launch of a commercial preview program for a new, personalized legal AI assistant called Protégé. The assistant, which will operate throughout the LexisNexis…

Welcome to another edition of our Litigation Leaders series, featuring the litigation practice leaders at some of the biggest and most innovative law firms in the country.  Meet John Hall, who chairs global litigation practice at Covington & Burling. Or, rather, meet him again. We checked in with Hall earlier…

With the loss of partners David Hepp and Matthew Collin last Thursday to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, the departures of senior personnel continue to mount at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.  According to data from the London Stock Exchange Group, the firm was No. 1 in global M&A in the…

Monday marks the first full day of ILTACON, the annual celebration of law, technology, and the professionals practicing in this intersection, presented by the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). As legal technology teams gather in Nashville this week, one wouldn’t be surprised if the 2024 edition were renamed “AICON.” At…