As you may have seen, Heathrow airport is closed all day (Friday) due to a major incident and the knock-on delays to 1,000s of flights from the UK will be felt right into next week, (including AL’s Monday flight, which has the ‘Delayed’ sign, but with no other info available). So, if you’re in New York and waiting for some Brits to turn up next week….they may be late. I’ll keep you posted.
Plus, AL was planning on taking something of an Editorial Holiday next week so people could be the main focus while in-person at Legal Week, but if we’re all stuck in London for the next few days, then AL may as well continue as usual in terms of articles, at least until I can get a flight to the Big Apple – which I’m guessing may not be until later in the week now. Let’s see how things go.
Right, onto more positive things in this week’s FFO
AL TV Walk Through: Expert Institute’s Expert Radar
This week’s AL TV Walk Through is with Expert Institute’s Expert Radar, which is improving expert witness due diligence with an AI-powered platform to deliver investigative insights.
The system, which is designed to give litigators a strategic edge, provides:
- ‘Comprehensive Expert Profiles – Instantly access an expert’s litigation history, prior testimony, disciplinary actions, publications, and potential biases.
- AI-Driven Analysis – Identify inconsistencies, conflicts, and credibility issues that could be leveraged in depositions or cross-examinations.
- Ongoing Monitoring – Stay updated on an expert’s evolving litigation activity, ensuring your strategy is always informed by the latest developments.
- Verified Accuracy – Every profile undergoes a rigorous human Q&A review before delivery, ensuring reliability and precision.
- Rapid Turnaround – Profiles are typically delivered within days, with expedited options available for urgent deadlines.’
Taking us through Expert Radar is Kate Babusiak, Senior Analyst at Expert Institute. The video is followed by some Q&A with Artificial Lawyer covering a range of related topics. Please press Play to watch inside the page, or go directly to the AL TV Channel.
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You can find out more about Expert Radar and the Expert Institute here.
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AL talks to Dr Megan Ma Ahead of Legal Innovators California conference, June 11 and 12 – San Francisco
As part of a new series highlighting expert speakers at the upcoming Legal Innovators California conference in San Francisco, June 11 and 12, AL talks to Dr Megan Ma, Associate Director, CodeX and Law, Science, Technology Program at Stanford Law School. She will be on the panel: ‘AI and The New Normal for Innovation Teams’.
In this video we explore a number of themes, ranging from how law firms will train junior lawyers as legal AI absorbs more elementary level work; how inhouse legal teams are adopting genAI tools at the same time as their external advisers; and the wider changes that we will see as legal AI becomes part of daily life for lawyers.
These themes and much more will be explored across two days at the Legal Innovators Californiaconference in San Francisco, June 11 and 12. Day one is focused on law firms, and day two on inhouse and legal ops. You can find more information and get your ticket here.
To watch the speaker video inside the page please press Play. Or you can watch on the AL TV channel, along with 150+ other legal tech videos.
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Legal Innovators California Conference in San Francisco, June 11 and 12
You can get your tickets here.
Keep a look out for more highlights and info about the conference!
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Hotshot Webinar: ‘Lawyer Training in the Age of AI’ – April 3 – 12 Noon EST, (5PM UK)
What to do after Legal Week? Well, if you’re interested in the future of the legal profession then on Thursday, April 3, 12 Noon EST, (5PM UK), Hotshot and Artificial Lawyer will be hosting a new webinar on AI and the future of legal education and lawyer training.
The panel will include:
- Caitlin Vaughn, Managing Director of learning & professional development at US law firm Goodwin,
- Ian Nelson, Co-Founder, Hotshot, the pioneering legal education company,
- Chair – Richard Tromans.
It’s free to attend, but please book your place here.
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Breakfast In New York – Wed 26th
(If everyone is in place by Wednesday AM, then this will continue as scheduled.)
‘Come and join us for a great breakfast and discussion about all things legal tech, AI and innovation at the elegant La Grande Boucherie in New York, starting at 8.30AM, Wed, March 26th.
If you’ll be at Legal Week, or are in the vicinity, and would like to meet up with the Cosmonauts team – the organisers of the Legal Innovators California and UK conferences – as well as meet with Artificial Lawyer’s Founder Richard Tromans, then come along and enjoy some excellent French food just a few steps from the main Hilton venue.
If you’d like to sit down with us for an amazing French breakfast, please RSVP here to Robins as spaces are limited: robins@cosmonauts.biz
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And here are some Nibs you may have missed:
Germany’s June Bags €7.3m
JUNE has secured €7.3m from multiple investors under the leadership of 5i.
The AI-driven case management platform said: ‘JUNE is not just another legal tech tool – it’s the AI-powered backbone of modern legal operations. By combining GenAI, AI Vision, NLP, and machine learning, JUNE transforms fragmented and unstructured legal data into structured insights, automates workflows, enables content creation from documents to reports, searches for hidden knowledge and streamlines case management like never before.
‘Designed as a single source of truth, it adapts seamlessly to any system, industry, or jurisdiction. Whether for top-tier law firms or global enterprises, JUNE isn’t just about managing legal work – it’s about redefining how it’s done.’
Björn Frommer, Co-Founder and CEO of JUNE, added: ‘We are thrilled to welcome 5I Ventures to the JUNE family. We’ve already seen the immense value this collaboration brings to our journey ahead. The team and I are confident that 5IV will play a crucial role in helping us achieve our strategic milestones, and we look forward to working even more closely together in the future.’
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Clifford Chance Expands Its Wexler Roll-Out
Global firm Clifford Chance is extending its partnership with Wexler. The firm has been piloting the tool for six months and has ‘seen promising results in fact extraction, chronology creation, Q&A functionality over a corpus of documents and inconsistency mapping’.
The platform now offers:
- ‘Advanced fact extraction and analysis: The system can process up to 500,000 documents simultaneously, identifying critical facts and connections that might otherwise remain hidden.
- Chronology creation: Lawyers collaborate with wexler.ai to create chronologies from thousands of documents. Wexler’s workflow allows lawyers to understand the decisions leading to which facts are deemed relevant, helping them to get to grips with complex matters, collaborating to reach final output.
- Inconsistency mapping: uncover contradictions and inconsistencies between testimony and evidence, helping ‘crack the case’, prepare for cross examination and build case strategy.’
Claire Freeman, a Partner in Clifford Chance’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution team, said: ‘At Clifford Chance, we are committed to leveraging innovative technology to enhance the quality and efficiency of our legal services. Wexler has proven to be a valuable tool, enabling our teams to deliver even greater value to our clients. The feedback from our lawyers has been very positive, reflecting the platform’s strong functionality and practical benefits.’
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CaseBlink Immigration Law Startup Bags $2m
CaseBlink, an AI startup focused on immigration law, has secured $2m in pre-seed funding led by Tower Research Ventures, leading VCs, and immigration firms, including Fakhoury Global Immigration.
CaseBlink helps with ‘end-to-end AI automation that streamlines case preparation, enhances efficiency, and improves outcomes for clients’. The company recently announced the launch of Studio, the industry’s first fully customizable AI drafting tool designed specifically for immigration attorneys.
CaseBlink speeds up the visa application process by providing:
- Advanced document understanding tools – for text analysis, sorting, and summarization,
- Automated research for tailored and case-specific insights that includes relevant regulations, case law, and additional sources;
- Drafting for high-quality exhibit lists, legal briefs, and customizable support letters that are automatically combined into a single, ready-to-file PDF.
Khalil Zlaoui, CEO of CaseBlink, said: ‘We’re excited to close this pre-seed round. With over 50 law firms using CaseBlink and more than 1,000 cases prepared on our platform, we’ve reached significant milestones. But this is just the beginning. There’s still so much to build, and I look forward to giving attorneys and paralegals more time to focus on what matters: getting cases approved.’
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That’s all for now. Let’s hope the Heathrow situation improves over the next 24 to 48 hours.
Have a nice weekend in any case!
