Bob Ambrogi
@bobambrogi
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Lawyer and journalist covering legal tech and innovation at https://t.co/fqp5MsJjTv and https://t.co/0G7Bt9MaBd and through the podcast LawNext.
Rockport, Mass.
Joined October 2008
Notable legal tech news today, as AffiniPay, parent to @LawPay, @MyCaseInc and others, rebrands as '8am' to better reflect its identity as it has evolved from a payments processor to a comprehensive suite of products.
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AffiniPay, a company that develops technology for lawyers and accountants, today announced it has rebranded to '8am,' to better reflect its identity as it has evolved from its origins as a payments...
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Major news today from @thomsonreuters - the launch of CoCounsel Legal, combining agentic workflows with deep research capabilities, and also a new version of Westlaw - one the company says will be the last.
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Two months ago, at a media briefing in its New York City offices, Thomson Reuters teased the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company said...
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Spending this week ironing out the behavior of an Agent I'm working on. Going to share thoughts and learnings in this thread.
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Grayscale's history is one of pioneering crypto and making our products more accessible overtime. Today we've done that yet again with Grayscale Solana Trust ETF (Ticker: $GSOL). Rest assured, we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
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As it is my 30th anniversary covering #legaltech, I asked ChatGPT to help me identify prevailing themes in my writing over the years. Honestly, I was not expecting what it delivered. Check it out at LawSites.
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[Note: This year marks the 30th in which I've been tracking the development of legal tech — or at least that is the earliest evidence I can find of when I started regularly writing about the subjec...
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I have learned that, in an undisclosed deal, payroll company @Paychex has acquired #LegalTech company @sixfiftyhq for an amount said to be between $70-$85M. Read more at LawSites. https://t.co/MMnVfhxrv9
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Update: Wilson Sonsini Issues Statement on Sale of SixFifty to Paychex. Although the deal has not been publicly announced by either company, LawSites has learned that the payroll and human resources...
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As a followup to my earlier post about the @goclio acquisition of @vlex, I get the chance to sit down with CEO @jack_newton to discuss the details and what it means for the legal industry.
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Landmark news broke this morning that law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock. After...
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Countdown to the next report + what to watch Countdown (from today, Oct 29, 2025): July 2025: $8.19M (+236% YoY). August 2025: $7.51M (+222% YoY). September 2025: $7.07M (+229% YoY; 2.03M gallons +238% YoY). What to watch in the report/call (not predictions): Informational
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In a landmark $1B deal, Clio has acquired global AI and legal research company @vlex.
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In a landmark deal that will undoubtedly reshape the legal tech landscape, law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex...
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In major news for the legal profession, Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has adopted new rules allowing non-lawyer ownership of law firms. A dissenting justice said this could put lawyers' independent judgment at risk. https://t.co/QrLS8Q75ts
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I wrote yesterday about the Puerto Rico Supreme Court's adoption of the duty of technology competence, done as part of its promulgation of new rules of professional conduct to replace a code of...
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The gen AI startup @Harveyaisol has entered into a partnership with @LexisNexis by which it will integrated LN technology, primary law content, and Shepard's Citations within the Harvey platform.
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The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexis Legal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis' gen AI technology, primary law content, and...
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What's @perplexity_ai have to say about its new partnership with @LegalZoom? I asked it, and here's its response.
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In what is described as the first known partnership between a legal services provider and a major generative AI platform, LegalZoom and Perplexity have entered into an agreement by which Perplexity...
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The scariest stories this October aren’t fiction—they’re funded. Read the new Capital Research magazine issue on our website!
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At the @Aderant Momentum Global conference, the momentum is towards AI-enabled cloud innovation and 'unmatched client experience.'
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As he took the stage before the nearly 1,000 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel in Dallas to open his company’s Momentum Global 2025 user conference May 20, Aderant President and CEO...
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Moderately intelligent humans can often figure out what you want in conversation. Most prompt engineering is about providing detailed instructions to a model to perform a task *outside* of a conversation. I very often have to ask for clarification when someone slacks me a
It seems to me that AGI would mean the end of prompt engineering. Moderately intelligent humans can figure out what you want without elaborate prompts. So by definition so would AGI.
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AI killing off lawyers' jobs? The latest law grad employment report suggests otherwise, with a record number of grads and a record number of hires.
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At a time when legal doomsayers have been predicting the imminent replacement of junior associates by AI legal assistants, the law school graduating class of 2024 has delivered a contrary verdict:...
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Six months after my investigation, Allard has yet to address the issues raised. There are others who wanted to share their stories but they're afraid of retaliation. What does that say about academic freedom?
Last November, journalist and lawyer @JulieSobowale investigated allegations of discrimination made by racialized professors at the University of British Columbia’s Allard Law School. Five months later, faculty—and students—continue to speak out:
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Very cool.
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SSK—the first U.S.-listed ETF that offers exposure to spot Solana and Solana staking rewards. SSK seeks to stake all (Solana) holdings on the Solana network. Any rewards earned may be distributed to shareholders, via monthly distributions. Distributions are not guaranteed.
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Exclusive: Back by several legal tech veterans, Entegrata raises $4.5M to further its mission to transform law firm data analytics and business intelligence.
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With $4.5 million in seed funding to date and the backing of several legal technology veterans, the legal technology company Entegrata aims to transform how law firms integrate and analyze data...
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Just learned about "Justice: Just A Promise?" on @bobambrogi's podcast. If you're interested in addressing the access to justice crisis, you can put your money where your mouth is: https://t.co/HLqeyYkbBU
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The story of the US civil justice system through the eyes of those who can’t access it.
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I managed to paste the wrong link about @goclio . (It was to an earlier Clio post). Here's today's:
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The motto of law practice management company Clio is to 'transform the legal experience for all.' But for many of its 17 years in business, that 'all' has focused primarily on smaller law firms and...
@goclio plants a flag in Big Law land with acquisition of ShareDo, a U.K. company that provides cloud-based enterprise case and matter management software for large law firms.
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I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired. Let’s start with Elon Musk.
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