Rhys Dipshan

CT-born, New York-based legal tech reporter covering everything from in-house technology disruption to privacy trends, blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, and ghosts-in-the-machine. Continually waiting for law to catch up with tech. (It's like waiting for Godot, but without the clowns)

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July 09, 2024 | Legaltech News

Legaltech Hub Acquires Legal Tech Consultants, Expanding to 'Full-Service Consulting'

Spurred by a close relationship between the two companies, the acquisition will see Legaltech Hub grow its consulting subscriptions and add more content offerings tailored to legal tech vendors.

By Rhys Dipshan

3 minute read

June 28, 2024 | Legaltech News

Legal Tech Rundown: Thomson Reuters Partners with NCSC, Ironclad Announces Alliance with KPMG, and More

An update on the legal tech market's past week, from product launches to new partnerships.

By Isha Marathe | Rhys Dipshan

6 minute read

June 26, 2024 | Legaltech News

Legal Writing Startup Clearbrief Raises $4M in New Funding Round

Clearbrief, which has released a number of generative AI tools over the past year, noted that an investment fund associated with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati participated in the round.

By Rhys Dipshan

3 minute read

June 24, 2024 | Legaltech News

Legal Tech Startup Wordsmith Raises $5M in Seed Funding

Wordsmith, which offers a generative AI-powered legal assistant targeted to in-house legal teams, is at least the third legal tech startup to announce seed funding this month.

By Rhys Dipshan

2 minute read

June 24, 2024 | Legaltech News

Midyear Money: The Top 2024 Legal Tech Investments (So Far)

Six months into 2024, and it's clear that legal tech funding is slowly, but steadily, bouncing back, spurred in significant part by booming interest in generative artificial intelligence.

By Rhys Dipshan

1 minute read

June 24, 2024 | Legaltech News

Legal Operations Startup Ruli Raises $2.2M In Pre-Seed Funding

The startup focuses on automating legal intake and knowledge management, in order to bring efficiencies to how corporate teams interact with the legal department, and access legal knowledge.

By Rhys Dipshan

5 minute read

June 18, 2024 | Legaltech News

Swiss Knowledge Search Startup DeepJudge Announces $10.7M in Seed Funding

DeepJudge, which offers a Knowledge Search platform to help legal professionals more effectively search their document management systems (DMSs), also announced the launch of a new generative AI interface, Knowledge Assistant.

By Rhys Dipshan

5 minute read

June 17, 2024 | Legaltech News

Case Tracking Startup Hona Announces $9.5M Series A Investment

The new investment comes less than a year after Hona, formerly known as Milestones, announced a $2.1 million seed funding round led by Y Combinator.

By Rhys Dipshan

2 minute read

June 13, 2024 | Legaltech News

DraftWise Launches 'Markup,' Gen AI-Powered Contract Drafting, Review and Redlining Tool

In addition to announcing Markup, DraftWise also said it will now be using one of the most recent generative AI models from Anthropic, Claude 3 Opus, citing its superior recall abilities and larger context window.

By Rhys Dipshan

6 minute read

June 12, 2024 | Legaltech News

Lexis Announces General Availability of Lexis+ AI in the UK

Lexis officially expanded the generative AI platform to the U.K. after a commercial preview program that lasted several months, and after announcing similar availability for Lexis+ AI in Australia earlier this month.

By Rhys Dipshan

3 minute read

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