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Priori, the leading legal technology platform for outside counsel decision-making, is honored to be named in the second annual Inc. Power Partner Awards. The awards highlight companies that have a proven track record working as invaluable B2B partners to startups and small businesses, providing support for key business functions and enabling growth.

“We’re thrilled that Inc. recognized the value Priori provides to companies by making it easier to find the right lawyers and other legal professionals at the right price,” commented Basha Rubin, CEO and Co-Founder of Priori. “We help companies of all sizes and allow startups and businesses with small legal teams to be responsive to the business’s needs and quickly scale legal support up and down as needed.”

The proprietary search and matching technology behind Priori Marketplace enables companies to find the perfect resource for their legal projects. It provides:

  • 40–75% cost savings over traditional outside counsel options

  • A network that is 51% more diverse than the overall law firm market

  • 8,000+ profiles of legal services providers across all 50 states and 70+ countries

  • Experienced attorneys from former AmLaw lawyers (49% of the network) to Fortune 500 in-house lawyers (34%) to lawyers with 8 years of experience or more (85% of the network)

This announcement comes on the heels of a year of growth for Priori. In July 2022, the company secured a $15 million A-1 financing round, and in the ensuing year doubled its headcount and added three members to its senior leadership team. In 2023, Priori was named New Law Company of the Year in the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award, joined the 2023 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for the first time and launched its customer advisory board, including members from Fortune 500 companies.

The second annual Inc. Power Partner Awards honors 389 companies that support entrepreneurship and provide guidance and expertise for businesses throughout their organizational journey. The awards recognize B2B companies that serve as reliable partners and received top marks in client surveys. To view the complete list, visit Inc.com.

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Today, successful startup Kili Technology Inc. officially launched davinci, a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology tool which drafts patents and office action answers in a fraction of the time that manual methods require.

Patent descriptions and office action answers have always been laborious and time-consuming, often requiring IP lawyers to spend dozens of hours drafting them. Pressure from corporate clients to work faster and smarter has made IP law firms place a new emphasis on technology automation. Enter davinci – the most highly performant and secure Patent AI copilot available.

How davinci Works
For patent drafting, davinci ingests text and drawings such as claims written by the attorney, the invention disclosure, conversation(s) with the inventor, and prior arts to generate a robust, detailed patent and drawing description that fits the required style. IP lawyers can then edit davinci’s draft based on their preferences.

For responding to office actions, davinci processes both the patent application and prior art cited by the examiner. The software evaluates the strength of the arguments and makes a recommendation to the attorney whether to counter them or refine the claims accordingly.

The davinci tool allows IP law firms to deliver better patent and office action answers  dramatically and more efficiently with lower operational risk. Early adopters of davinci, a hand-picked group of top 100 IP law firms in North America and Europe, have reported major time savings of up to 50% with its assistance. davinci frees up IP lawyers’ time to focus on more substantial legal work and better quality patents.

“AI-assisted drafting promises to assist patent professionals by removing some of the lower added value time spent drafting parts of a patent application. The ability to feed a set of claims, drawings, and background material into davinci and receive a fleshed-out specification is a significant time saver. This will enable patent professionals to spend more time with their clients to understand their business. In turn, a better understanding of a client’s business results in more focused applications, and a more effective overall IP strategy.  Quality of the output is an essential component of a successful AI-assisted drafting tool.” – Louis-Pierre Gravelle, IP Expert and Partner at Bereskin & Parr.

davinci is a Microsoft Azure partner and operates on Azure’s cloud infrastructure, which is universally trusted by law firms. Highly secure, davinci adheres to the most demanding security requirements including SOC II Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, as well as GDPR data privacy requirements. Highly confidential, davinci has a Zero Data Retention API, does not use clients’ data for training purposes, and adheres to a strict data segregation policy.

“We named davinci after enduring icon Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest inventor of all time in the realms of creativity, science and technology, to show our tremendous respect for the invention process and intellectual property,” remarked François-Xavier (FX) Leduc, co-founder and CEO of Kili Technology. “The davinci patent generation and prosecution software tool is a symbol of innovation, ingenuity, multidisciplinary thinking, and visionary foresight, which we believe Leonardo would have leveraged if he were alive today. It is time for IP to be revolutionized by data-driven AI tools like davinci, which are assertively driving the rapid pace of technology forward to meet the industry’s rising demands for technology collaboration.”

Availability
davinci is currently inviting law firms in North America and Europe to join the davinci waitlist to deploy the technology, which is by invitation-only for the next several months.

davinci will be demonstrating its Patent AI Copilot and meeting with law firms and media at ALM’s Legalweek New York 2024 conference from January 29 – February 1 at the New York Hilton Midtown (booth#1224).

For more information about davinci or to apply for joining the waitlist, visit https://www.getdavinci.ai/ or email contact thomas@getdavinci.ai.

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Evolve represents major leap forward for the translation industry

CHALFONT ST PETER, UK – 25 January 2024 – Following a successful beta program involving Dell and several other industry leaders, RWS announces the availability of Evolve, a groundbreaking linguistic AI solution which offers significant efficiency gains for global enterprises with substantial translation demands. Evolve signifies a major leap forward for the translation industry, integrating human and artificial intelligence, revolutionizing translation processes and the time it takes to achieve high quality results.

During the beta program, RWS has enhanced Evolve through using client feedback and by adding its own translation management system to the solution. RWS’s language services, which include 1,750+ in-house language specialists and domain experts, are deployed as part of the solution – which continually learns and self-improves, ensuring optimal translation outcomes.

“Evolve is the industry-first solution embodying Genuine Intelligence, a fusion of human and artificial intelligence, that helps global enterprises stay ahead of their overwhelming content challenges,” said Thomas Labarthe, President of Language & Content Technology at RWS.

Evolve combines RWS’s language services with its translation management system (Trados Enterprise) and its neural machine translation technology (Language Weaver) alongside language specialist-trained quality estimation and a finely tuned private large language model. This powerful combination helps global companies achieve near-instant, human-like translation quality, allowing RWS’s language specialists to focus their unique skills and cultural expertise on the content that requires their attention.

“Dell has always focused on continuous innovation, which is why we were excited to participate in the Evolve beta program,” commented Wayne Bourland, Director of Translation at Dell. “RWS has created a groundbreaking linguistic AI solution that addresses the ever-growing translation challenges presented by large content volumes, enabling us to engage international audiences faster.”

The Evolve linguistic AI solution is currently available in several language pairs – with more to come in 2024. To check if you qualify to benefit from Evolve click here.

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We’re excited to share that Priori was named a finalist in three categories for the much-anticipated 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards. Priori co-founders, Basha Rubin, CEO, and Mirra Levitt, Chief Product Officer, were recognized in the Innovators of the Year category, and Priori was also nominated for the Legal Operations and New Law Company of the Year categories. These nominations for the 2024 awards follow Priori’s win last year in the New Law Company of the Year category.

“We are so honored by these nominations, particularly being nominated for Law Company of the Year after winning the category last year,” commented Basha Rubin, CEO and Co-Founder, Priori. “The last year has been another whirlwind for us – between adding legal operations professionals to our Marketplace to incorporating AI within Scout to make it more efficient. We’re looking forward to joining the legal technology community at the show in January, and we congratulate all of the nominees on this honor.”

This caps off an eventful year in which Priori achieved a series of milestones, not the least of which was our win for New Law Company of the Year at the 2023 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards. Some of those notable achievements include:

The 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards honor individuals and organizations for their achievements in innovation over the past year in a wide range of categories across law firms, legal departments and technology providers. Winners will be announced at the in-person awards ceremony as part of Legalweek on January 29, 2024. The Priori team will be at the show, so please don’t hesitate to reach out if you’ll be there!

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Today ProSearch announced two innovations designed to help organizations tackle high-volume case data and privacy compliance in legal discovery. Both initiatives were developed by the ProSearch Linguistics, Analytics, and Data Science (LADS) team in collaboration with clients.

ProSearch’s generative AI solutions for review are very effective because they bring practical value and time savings to the work of document review, assuring that reviewers can quickly understand the material and make informed, confident decisions.

“The LADS team is on fire with practical applications of generative AI,” says Gina Taranto, director of applied sciences at ProSearch. “After years of delivering solutions powered by deep learning and large language models, we are finding that generative AI supports new types of creativity and versatility for discovering and delivering insights. We’ve just scratched the surface on these advances, and we’re excited to take on more challenges in leveraging AI to support the conversion of complex legal data into deep knowledge.”

Identify and Manage PII with ProSearch Privacy Suite

ProSearch also announced the addition of a new user interface and dashboard in Privacy Suite, to help eDiscovery and compliance teams identify and address PXI in datasets. ProSearch Privacy Suite uses text and image classifiers to identify over 30 types of personal and private information to support eDiscovery redactions, DSAR request fulfillment, data breach response, and other privacy regulations.

The ProSearch team will be on-site at Legalweek 2024 in New York, from January 29 to February 1. Organizations and law firms are invited to contact ProSearch to request a meeting.

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Onit Catalyst AI technology within the OnitX platform boosts productivity and sharpens the decision-making of corporate legal teams

Houston, TX – January 23, 2024 – Onit, the leading provider of legal workflow solutions, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Operations within OnitX, a workflow automation platform for sophisticated, legal-related business processes. Legal professionals can now use natural language chat to access a new, powerful level of intelligence enabled by generative AI that simplifies and automates everyday legal tasks from within their most-used productivity software — Microsoft Outlook.

“The continuous and rising demand on legal teams as the protector of the business has brought significant challenges for operational scalability.  Our objective with Onit Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Operations was simple —leverage the strength of generative AI to make relevant information easily accessible so the best action can be taken quickly,” said Mary Fuzat, Onit Senior Vice President of Product. “With Catalyst Virtual Assistant, the power of insights from the OnitX platform is brought right to a user’s desktop in Microsoft Outlook.”

The OnitX plugin for Microsoft Outlook has been enhanced with Catalyst Virtual Assistant to serve as a “bridge” to the new generative AI capability now built into OnitX. Users can more easily collaborate with workflows that provide compliance and control over legal processes, access information stored across different OnitX applications, and minimize time spent on mundane tasks.

The Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Ops empowers users to:

  • Automatically populate legal service and contract requests.
  • Instantly surface related matters, contracts, and legal service requests.
  • Answer questions based on legal service request, matter, and contract data stored within the OnitX platform using natural language chat.
  • Rapidly draft follow-up emails and review/summarize in the context of your legal matters and requests.
  • Translate different languages to support your global business.

The combination of the proven OnitX platform that has hosted hundreds of workflow automation apps and Onit’s deep legal expertise, as represented by the millions of legal interactions processed annually, 3,000+ customers, and $47B of legal spend data, is unique in the legal technology landscape. As a result, OnitX provides corporate legal leaders with a distinct means to boost productivity, ensure better decisions and outcomes, and provide intuitive access to the latest technologies that are practical and enterprise-grade.

“We initially introduced the Onit Catalyst Virtual Assistant last fall to serve as a digital contract paralegal that reviews and edits contracts on Legal’s behalf,” said Nick Whitehouse, Managing Director of Onit’s AI Center of Excellence. “The Onit Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Ops is the continuation of our strategy to build meaningful AI into workflows – automating a huge number of legal tasks and scaling knowledge across legal organizations in a controlled and impactful way. These virtual assistants demonstrate how the OnitX platform is at the forefront of this new era of AI-augmented work.”

Learn more about the Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Operations between January 30 – February 1 at Legalweek New York 2024, where the company will offer live demonstrations of all its enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management, and business process automation solutions.

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imDocShare is an innovative solution to conveniently live view, edit, search and sync iManage Work Server 10.2+ & iManage Cloud content within Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams.

The key Add-Ons of imDocShare

imDocShare One Teams app

imDocShare Teams app allows users to Live–View, Add, Edit, Search, and Sync any iManage Work Server 10.2+ (or iManage Cloud) content in Microsoft Teams as a personal app or Channel Tab.

Users can reference & insert document cards from iManage in Teams’ Conversations (Post), Save Microsoft Teams Channel Conversation Thread selectively to iManage and ensure Content Governance and Compliance

imDocShare Sync

imDocShare Sync allows users to automatically perform bi-directional/one-way sync of everything or selected folders/files, including metadata fields, between SharePoint, Teams Files, OneDrive Libraries, and iManage Workspaces/folder.

imDocShare Hybrid Search

imDocShare Hybrid Search provides the ability to Search multiple iManage and SharePoint content sources from one single integrated search interface in SharePoint.

imDocShare Content Browser

imDocShare Content Browser provides the ability to look up and reference any iManage content sources with your .NET, PHP, Java, or Full Stack web app.

imDocShare Attach

imDocShare Attach provides the ability to look up and link iManage documents within SharePoint List and Document Libraries.

Co-Authoring using Office Client

Users can co-author Office (version 2013 or above) documents saved in iManage right within SharePoint & Teams using Office Client like Word, Excel on their laptop.

imDocShare Admin

Users can centrally manage and enforce imDocShare Settings, including enable/disable/default-value setup of properties that can be otherwise modified by Page Admins in SharePoint WebParts and Users in Microsoft Teams’ Channel Tab.

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Former KPMG Managing Director and recognized legal technology expert joins X1 as head of product strategy to further accelerate growth and expansion of the X1 Enterprise eDiscovery Platform

(Los Angeles, CA) – January 23, 2024 – X1®, the global leader in index-in-place data discovery software for legal, compliance, governance and investigative purposes, today announced the appointment of Charles Meier as the company’s new Vice President of Product reporting directly to the CEO.

Charles “Chas” Meier brings over 20 years of in-depth technology expertise and eDiscovery industry experience to X1 having previously held long-term senior positions at KPMG and other prominent multinational organizations in the eDiscovery space. “Chas is a highly skilled business and technology expert with a deep-rooted background in product strategy and development of enterprise eDiscovery software and services,“ said Larry Gill, Chief Executive Officer at X1. “We are absolutely thrilled to bring Chas on board at X1. His extensive domain expertise, robust Microsoft 365 knowledge, and deep familiarity with RelativityOne and cloud-based SaaS solutions aligns perfectly with our Enterprise growth plans. As VP of Product, Chas will help amplify X1’s product strategy to further enhance our industry-leading MS 365 capabilities and expand our footprint to incorporate Legal Hold, attorney Early Case Assessment (iterative data preview) and much more.”

Prior to joining X1, Chas Meier was Advisory Managing Director at KPMG US for over two decades where he held leadership positions in development, operations, support and optimization of multiple eDiscovery platform solutions from inception to market adoption. Prior to that, Chas enjoyed successful tenures at Arthur Andersen Los Angeles, where he introduced and delivered fundamental forensic technology used in high-profile matters, and before that helped lead development at Hennigan, Mercer, & Bennett and Stone & Webster Engineering/LADWP. Chas has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and A&M College and holds certifications in Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Reveal AI, and successfully reached Reveal Academy Certified Genius status.

“I am very excited to be joining the X1 team, especially at such an exciting time of growth at the company,” said Chas Meier. It is an amazing opportunity to be able to help lead the product strategy with this innovative team and its industry-leading technology solutions. X1’s proprietary index-in-place technology and highly-scalable, targeted search and collection capabilities are unmatched in the market. I look forward to helping the team further expand and enhance their already advanced support for MS 365 data sources, and to help accelerate the Enterprise Collect roadmap plans to introduce MS 365 Legal Hold and preservation in-place capabilities, as well as support for several other cloud data sources.”

To see a live demonstration of X1’s automated in-place data discovery solutions for both on-premise and cloud data sources, visit the X1 booth (#1219) at Legalweek 2024 at the Hilton Midtown New York, January 29 – February 1.

About X1
X1 is the global leader in remote preservation and collection software. With more than 600,000 users in 20,000 different organizations globally, X1 solutions address our clients’ and users’ mission-critical needs every day. Please contact X1 at info@x1.com or visit www.x1.com for more information. ¹U.S. Patents No. 7,370,035, 7,496,559, 7,945,914, 8,019,741, 8,498,977, 8,856,093, 9,633,139, and 10,552,490.

 

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