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AI Legal Assistant Platform Paxton Secures $22M Series A Funding

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Paxton, an artificial intelligence platform serving the legal industry, has raised $22 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $28 million, it said today. The Oregon-based company offers AI-powered legal assistant tools for legal research, document […]

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The Differences Between Paralegals and Legal Assistants

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These dedicated professionals are responsible for conducting thorough legal research and managing extensive paperwork, playing a critical role in the operational success of law firms. Within a firm, these responsibilities are usually divided among lawyers, paralegals, legal assistants, and other staff members.

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It’s the Battle of the AI Legal Assistants, As LexisNexis Unveils Its New Protégé and Thomson Reuters Rolls Out CoCounsel 2.0

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It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their products.

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Paralegal Roles in Other Countries

Paralegal Bootcamp

With this being the case, we focus on a variety of paralegal, legal assistant, and administrative assistant legal positions in our home country. Assistant Juridique (Legal Assistant): Legal assistants in France perform similar duties to that of legal assistants in the USA, but they don’t necessarily work for law firms.

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The $650M Casetext Story: Coloring Book Edition

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Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext.

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Gen AI: Your Legal Research Assistant, Not Your Replacement

Above The Law

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding AI legal assistants. But they will streamline tedious elements of legal work and free up your time for strategy and counseling clients. Are they coming for your job?

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LegalTech’s AI Race: A Sign of What’s to Come

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Black notes the milestone of Thomson Reuters announcement that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Casetext, a legal research software company, for $650 million. For the past decade, Casetext has provided a legal research platform grounded in AI technology.