by RG | Apr 29, 2026 | LawSite
On March 11, 2026, some 200 employees of Thomson Reuters – many of them based at the company’s Westlaw operations in St. Paul, Minn. – sent a letter to management with an unequivocal demand: Do not renew the company’s $22.8 million contract with ICE, set to expire on...
by RG | Apr 28, 2026 | LawSite
[Note: Since first publishing this post, I have made several edits and updates based on information provided by Thomson Reuters and other sources. In most cases, I have indicated where I have changed or added information.] For the lawyers and other legal professionals...
by RG | Apr 27, 2026 | LawSite
Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval. The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are...
by RG | Apr 27, 2026 | LawSite
Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word. “With Gavel Exec for Web,...
by RG | Apr 23, 2026 | LawSite
A New York-based legal tech startup called Abstract is making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, offering law firms and corporate legal departments what it describes as a fundamentally different approach to keeping clients and businesses...
by RG | Apr 23, 2026 | LawSite
In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli entrepreneur Erez Vega-Kadoch kept receiving what he considered to be inappropriate text messages from an Israeli company. Never having consented to the messages, he decided to fight back and file a...
