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Latham’s Leavers: What Do Big Law Firms Do When Star Partners Quit?

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Everlaw AI Assistant Comes Out of Beta, Launches Publicly

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,…

Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel 2.0, Powered by Google Cloud AI and OpenAI

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,…

Lexis Announces New Personalized Legal AI Assistant Protégé

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…

Litigation Leaders: Covington’s John Hall on the Value of Specialization

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…

Skadden’s Reputation Remains Sterling. So Why Are Partners Leaving?

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…