Thomson Reuters, continuing to build on its acquisition last June of Casetext and its CoCounsel generative AI legal assistant for a whopping $650 million cash, today disclosed plans to deploy CoCounsel as a single and continuous AI assistant across its entire portfolio of products spanning every professional its serves in legal, tax, risk and…
Thomson Reuters Launches Developer Portal Giving Access to Over 100 APIs for Legal, Tax, Risk and Fraud
Thomson Reuters has launched a global Developer Portal giving access to over 100 APIs, providing tax, legal, risk and fraud professionals with tools to more easily integrate their workflows with the company’s technology, data, content and insights.
TR says that, by providing developers with API access to its data and insights, the portal should serve…
LawNext: Thomson Reuters’ AI Strategy for Legal, with Mike Dahn, Head of Westlaw, and Joel Hron, Head of AI
On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and implementation.
In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession,…
As Thomson Reuters Expands Casetext CoCounsel, the AI Legal Assistant, to Canada and Australia, It Provides Details on U.S. Growth
Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. Now, as it expands into new markets, we get details on its adoption to date.
It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel, a product developed in partnership with OpenAI…
Thomson Reuters Is Shutting Down Its Firm Central Law Practice Management Software
Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. 30, 2024.
Thomson Reuters launched Firm Central in 2013 at a media event in its then-headquarters in Eagan, Minn., as its answer to a then-growing crop of cloud-based practice management software such…
New AI Features In Practical Law Enable Users To Ask Legal Questions And Find Relevant Contract Clauses
In November, when Thomson Reuters announced the integration of generative AI within its flagship legal research platform Westlaw Precision, it also announced the beta version of a generative AI integration within Practical Law.
Today, Thomson Reuters is formally releasing that generative AI feature in Practical Law, called Ask Practical Law AI, and also releasing…
Thomson Reuters’ Message to Law Firms: Adapt to Market Changes or Become the Pan Am of Legal
Remember Pan Am? It was the world’s largest international airline for much of the 20th century and an innovative pioneer in the modern airline industry. But when its management failed to appreciate the dramatic changes underway in the industry, it suffered a series of economic blows, and management’s last-ditch efforts to save it came…
Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2023 and of All Time
Call me lucky. Every week, I get to sit down at the mic for my LawNext podcast and have a conversation with the leading “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.”
For me, each and every one of these conversations is fun and fascinating. But I am equally fascinated to add up the…
My 40 Most-Read Blog Posts This Year Tell A Story Of A Legal Industry Consumed With Generative AI
Look over this list of my blog posts that were most popular this year, and there is no doubt about the topic that most captivated the legal industry. Of my 40 most-read posts of 2023, 30 directly involved generative AI and others implicated it.
Of course, there is a chicken-or-egg aspect to this. Were so…
Brave New Discovery: Transcript of Discovery Hearing, Dec. 21, 2024 (A Guest Post By Pablo Arredondo)
[This post is by Pablo Arredondo, cofounder of Casetext and vice president, CoCounsel, at Thomson Reuters. Pablo notes that any views expressed in this post are entirely his own.]
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK December 21, 2024 Genesis Technology v. Obsidian DynamicsTranscript…
Small Law Firms Made Progress this Year On Their Biggest Challenge, Thomson Reuters Survey Finds
Seven times since 2016, Thomson Reuters has conducted a survey on the state of small law firms in the U.S., and every time, it found that small firms had made virtually no progress on one of their greatest challenges, which is that they spend too much time on administrative tasks to the exclusion of practicing…
Major Thomson Reuters News: Westlaw Gets Generative AI Research Plus Integration with Casetext CoCounsel; Gen AI Coming Soon to Practical Law
Thomson Reuters today delivered on its promise to integrate generative AI within its flagship legal research platform, introducing AI Assisted Research in Westlaw Precision, available immediately to all U.S. Precision customers at no extra cost.
It also previewed its coming integration of Casetext CoCounsel as an AI legal assistant across multiple TR products, including Westlaw…