Solution Guides

The LTH Competitive Analysis compares products or services within a category across key features and characteristics. In the Competitive Analysis series for ALSPs, service providers are evaluated on the basis of the services that they provide.

The LTH Competitive Analysis compares products or services within a category across key features and characteristics. In the Competitive Analysis series for ALSPs, service providers are evaluated on the basis of the services that they provide.

The LTH Competitive Analysis compares products or services within a category across key features and characteristics. In the Competitive Analysis series for ALSPs, service providers are evaluated on the basis of the services that they provide.

Smart drafting, clause banks, document automation, and AI legal assistants each offer distinct advantages for document draffing, but their true value lies in how they work together.

Harvey offers a suite of tools for legal professionals with AI-enabled solutions for drafting, research, document analysis, redlining, and other related workflows. In this product briefing, Jake Weiner, Head of Strategic Business Development at Harvey, demonstrates Harvey's contract analysis and extraction capabilities, agentic workflows, redline analysis tool, prompt example library, and Microsoft Word add-in.

Cicero is a privately hosted legal AI platform by Australian company Automatise, specializing in chronologies, investigations, and document review, and summarization. In a recent interview, Joseph Rayment, the founder and Managing Director of Automatise, discussed the company’s journey, the problem Cicero solves, its key use cases, and what sets it apart in a crowded market.

Smart drafting, clause banks, document automation, and AI legal assistants each offer distinct advantages for document draffing, but their true value lies in how they work together.

Before investing in an expensive technology license, it is prudent to run a small pilot of the technology or undertake a proof of concept to validate (1) that the technology works as the vendor proclaims it does, (2) that there are no unanticipated internal obstacles that prevent the technology from working properly, and (3) that the technology does in fact have the capabilities to address the use cases you’re anticipating.

The LTH Requirements provides a full set of functional requirements for the category that can be used by prospective buyers to evaluate eDiscovery software and assess whether the relevant solutions will address the relevant user cases and business needs.

Our head-to-head comparison of the most promising deal intelligence products on the market.

Centari offers innovative solutions to enhance deal intelligence and enable lawyers to extract deal points at scale. In this product briefing, CEO Kevin Walker describes the key features of the Centari Deal Intelligence product and demonstrates Centari's core functionality.

LTH Competitive Analyses are the product of substantial research, providing an overview of top competitors within a category and evaluating them in relation to completeness of features (Y axis), maturity and market penetration (X axis), and stability with regards to their funding level, financial status, and security profile (size of bubble).

Initially developed for sales-driven industries, CRM systems have evolved to meet the specific needs of legal professionals. Today, they are indispensable tools for building stronger client connections, generating new business, tracking client interactions, improving efficiency, and supporting informed decision-making.

The LTH Requirements Template provides a full set of technical requirements along with notes to help buyers evaluate and compare solutions in the category. These requirements can be downloaded and tweaked for a particular use case and environment.

The LTH Pilot Guide provides guidance on how to run a pilot or a POC of a specific type of technology. Before investing in an expensive technology license, it is prudent to run a pilot of the technology or undertake a proof of concept to validate the suitability of the technology to address the relevant use case(s).

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a business case to leadership for investment in a particular type of technology, including suggesting effective ROI arguments.

The LTH Requirements Template provides a full set of technical requirements along with notes to help buyers evaluate and compare solutions in the category. These requirements can be downloaded and tweaked for a particular use case and environment.

The LTH Pilot Guide provides guidance on how to run a pilot or a POC of a specific type of technology. Before investing in an expensive technology license, it is prudent to run a pilot of the technology or undertake a proof of concept to validate the suitability of the technology to address the relevant use case(s).

The LTH Evaluation Framework provides a checklist and list of questions to guide prospective buyers through an assessment of various products in the category, and to inform product demos.

Despite the frequency in which DEI initiatives make headlines, the common expectation that large law firms hire Chief-level diversity leaders, and the brightness of spotlights from legal departments, “diversity and inclusion” is one of the least mature areas of technology in the legal market. Other leaders in law firms have significant budgets, staff, and systems, while diversity leadership does their best with a small team and manual work. The proliferation of manual surveys has benefited benchmarking visibility but, regrettably, has done so on the backs of diversity staff – each year worse than the last.

The LTH Requirements provides a full set of functional requirements for the category that can be used by prospective buyers to evaluate diversity and inclusion solutions according to the relevant use case and business goals

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a business case to leadership for investment in a particular product or type of technology, including effective ROI arguments.

The LTH evaluation framework provides a checklist and list of questions or considerations to assist buyers when they are evaluating Document Automation solutions.

Document automation, also known as document assembly, has been used in the legal industry for more than 30 years. However, it has only been in the last five years that the number of vendors has exploded, and that document automation has become mainstream. No one player currently dominates the market.

The LTH Vendor Analysis provides detailed data about a solution including information about the company and its founders, technical features and functionality, implementation, security and data privacy information, and details of training and customer service.

The LTH Vendor Analysis provides detailed data about a solution including information about the company and its founders, technical features and functionality, implementation, security and data privacy information, and details of training and customer service.

Providing a robust ROI in terms of money saved is challenging in connection with a document management system. The Business Case document suggests some arguments that can be used in support of a proposal for licensing this type of robust platform.

From major tech releases to national ad campaigns to a multiverse of simulated Santas, December 2024 might just be the saturation point for the AI zeitgeist.

The LTH evaluation framework provides guidance for buyers of document automation platforms, including a checklist of questions to ask when they are viewing demos and evaluating the market.

Over the last several decades, the ediscovery industry has matured significantly. It continues to develop as the demand for solutions to everyday business problems keeps growing as new types of data formats emerge, legal rules change, privacy regulations develop, and security issues continue to challenge everyone. Ediscovery software encompasses tools that enable the identification, collection, processing, review and production of electronically stored information or “ESI” and is widely used in organizations of all sizes, including corporations, law firms, and government agencies.

Weagree provides an automated contract creation and end-to-end contract lifecycle management solution, accelerating contract flows for all types of contracts, simple or highly complex. In this interview with founder Willem Wiggers, he dscribes the features of the solution and what differentiates it from competitors in the market.

The LTH Vendor Analysis provides detailed data about a solution including information about the company and its founders, technical features and functionality, implementation, security and data privacy information, and details of training and customer service.

The LTH Vendor Analysis provides detailed data about a solution including information about the company and its founders, technical features and functionality, implementation, security and data privacy information, and details of training and customer service.

The LTH evaluation framework provides guidance for buyers of document automation platforms, including a checklist of questions to ask when they are viewing demos and evaluating the market.

Entity Compliance & Governance (ECG), sometimes referred to as Corporate Secretarial Services (CoSec) (collectively, “ECG Services”), refers to the services provided by corporate governance professionals to discharge and otherwise support the recurring annual corporate compliance obligations of multinational enterprises , based on specialized knowledge, leading practices and technology.

The LTH Buyers Guide provides in-depth analysis and guidance on the market for a category of legal technololgy, and a deep-dive on both major, entrenched software providers and newer entrants, to assist buyers in evaluating technology and making an informed investment decision.

Neota delivers proven tools to build powerful digital solutions, offering an intuitive platform that enables businesses to easily develop and deploy decision- making solutions to automate workflows, documents, decisions and processes. In this interview with Neota CEO Julian Uebergang, he shares the versatility of the platform and reveals the new AI product features in the pipeline.

The LTH Vendor Analysis provides detailed data about a solution including information about the company and its founders, technical features and functionality, implementation, security and data privacy information, and details of training and customer service.

The LTH Vendor Analysis provides detailed data about a solution including information about the company and its founders, technical features and functionality, implementation, security and data privacy information, and details of training and customer service.

As we develop greater sophistication of AI knowledge and collectively delve deeper into projects such as piloting AI solutions, leveraging APIs from OpenAI and others, or experimenting with LLMs, there is a more advanced vocabulary we need to wrap our heads around. The definitions below will give you greater fluency in discussions and planning sessions related to AI initiatives.

Understanding the short-hand of prompt engineering terminology and what techniques exist that can help you to improve model output is useful. Knowing about prompting techniques also helps with understanding how LLM technology works and why a given output might be lower quality than desired, which means that as you experiment you can tweak your prompts productively on the basis of established research.

At AALL this year, Zach Warren, eTechnology & Innovation Insights, Thomson Reuters Institute, provided a fascinating overview of a recent Thomson Reuters Staffing Survey which reported a remarkable spike in the demand for library and KM professionals, sparked by GenAI and data developments. Jean does a deep dive and shares her insights.

The LTH Evaluation Framework provides a checklist and list of questions or considerations to assist buyers when they are evaluating Expert Systems solutions.

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a business case to leadership for investment in a particular type of technology, including suggesting effective ROI arguments.

Intellectual property (IP) is a valuable asset for businesses, making its effective management crucial. Intellectual Property Management Systems (IPMS) are software solutions that are designed to streamline and enhance the management of IP assets while ensuring that deadlines are met and risks minimized. In this article, we explore the features and modules that are typically found in IPMSs, considerations for choosing a system, potential implementation issues and cost. We also include a list of vendors that offer IPMSs.

The LTH evaluation framework provides a checklist and list of questions or considerations to assist buyers when they are evaluating [insert category name] solutions.

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a business case to leadership for investment in a particular product or type of technology, including effective ROI arguments.

The LTH Pilot Guide provides guidance on how to run a pilot or POC of a specific type of product or technology. Before investing in an expensive technology license, it is prudent to run a pilot of the technology or undertake a proof of concept to validate the viability of the technology to address the relevant use case(s).

Business Case ROI for a Judicial or Litigation Analytics Solution. Such a solution to users: 1. The ability to draft more successful arguments based on citations and arguments presented by judges2. Access to evidence based decision-making for selection of jurisdiction based on type of action and Plaintiff/Defendant resolution3. Evidence to determine the appropriate motion practice4. Ability to evaluate judicial and opposing counsel experience for litigation strategy

Litigation Analytics: Evaluation Framework Technical Efficacy1. What jurisdictions are covered and how comprehensively? What are the unique considerations in terms of content entry for various jurisdictions and how were they identified? How does your platform accommodate and normalize unique content entry?2. How does your system address abnormalities in content entry by the courts?3. Do you make the information addressed in Questions 1-2 public on your site?4. Does the search make it easy for the user to see if there are abnormalities potentially impacting the search results?

The category of judicial analytics has a few major players, with more coming into play. Lex Machina, the granddaddy of judicial analytics began with patent and trademark analytics and moved into federal, bankruptcy, appeals and states. Others such as Thomson Reuters Litigation Monitor followed. The focus for several years was on developing analytics for federal courts, with Courtlink being one exception. Lex Machina, Gavelytics and Docket Alarm began exploring state coverage. Acquisitions have played a role in shaping the judicial analytics landscape, in particular, Lexis’ acquisition of Lex Machina and FastCase’s acquisition of Docket Alarm. More recently, Westlaw Edge has come out with a comprehensive platform and substantial state court coverage and new player Trellis has made a significant impact into state court coverage.

The LTH Evaluation Framework provides a checklist and list of questions or considerations to assist buyers when they are evaluating Expert Systems solutions.

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a case to leadership in favor of investing in this category of technology. The Business Case provides ROI arguments and suggestions that allow buyers to more easily formulate a justification for investment.

Most of the current generation of aggregation and curation products help lawyers tame the firehose of newscontained in the firms warehouse of premium subscriptions, as well as the explosion of social media resources.Each vendor’s goal is to deliver only highly relevant, actionable insights tailored to the needs of the individuallawyer or practice group.

The LTH Requirements Template provides a full set of technical requirements along with notes to help buyers evaluate and compare solutions in the category. These requirements can be downloaded and tweaked for a particular use case and environment.

A paramount feature of any project management tool tailored for legal use is its ability to contemplate and offer straightforward access to the myriad documents central to legal operations. This means the ideal tool should either seamlessly integrate with existing document management systems within the legal practice or provide an efficient mechanism to link documentation directly to specific tasks or project milestones.

Project Management and Legal Project Management (LPM) is a significant topic, in relation to which there are both theoretical frameworks to understand and apply as well as software solutions that can support the execution of those frameworks. In this overview, the former will be explored. The latter is covered in the partner article to this, the Buyers’ Guide for Project Management and LPM Software.

In a recent interview with Alex Smith, the Senior Director of Global Search and AI Product Lead at iManage, he introduced the latest version of Insight+, exploring the background of Insight+, the problems it aims to solve, its key use cases, and how it leverages AI to stand out in a competitive market.

Search, and retrieval more generally, is a wicked problem (ie. "messy and reactive, and with no single solution" as per Roger Martin). If you're involved in search and retrieval in any way and you're finding it easy and simple then you're doing it wrong. Yes, it's that messy. And particularly at law firms.

Proof of Concept > Pilot > Deployment for Enterprise Search Deployment and adoption of Enterprise Search technology does not necessarily follow a standard Proof of Concept > Pilot > Broader Deployment approach as with other legal technologies. Deciding which enterprise search system to implement and partner with at your firm is almost always taken before the system is installed and linked up to any of your data. It is a huge job to clear Security, get the environment installed, and your content indexed, so a proof of concept or 'mini-pilot' can be difficult for either party to agree to.

Smart drafting, clause banks, document automation, and AI legal assistants each offer distinct advantages for document draffing, but their true value lies in how they work together.

The LTH Pilot Guide provides guidance on how to run a pilot or a POC of a specific type of technology. Before investing in an expensive technology license, it is prudent to run a pilot of the technology or undertake a proof of concept to validate the suitability of the technology to address the relevant use case(s).

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a business case to leadership for investment in a particular type of technology, including suggesting effective ROI arguments.

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a business case to leadership for investment in a particular type of technology, including suggesting effective ROI arguments.

The LTH Pilot Guide provides guidance on how to run a pilot or a POC of a specific type of technology. Before investing in an expensive technology license, it is prudent to run a pilot or proof of concept to validate the technology and its ability to address the relevant use case(s).

Jigsaw is a professional diagramming tool that allows you to easily create, update and manage complex business visuals at unprecedented speeds. In this product briefing, read up on the new AI-enabled features of Jigsaw and view a product demo provided by Co-CEO Travis Leon.

The LTH Requirements Template provides a full set of technical requirements along with notes to help buyers evaluate and compare solutions in the category. These requirements can be downloaded and tweaked for a particular use case and environment.

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a business case to leadership for investment in a particular type of technology, including suggesting effective ROI arguments.

TIQ Time helps lawyers build complete and consistent time entries with an add-on to your Practice Management System and Document Management System. To ensure that filling out a timesheet is as easy as possible for every fee-earner, TIQ automatically captures the time spent on activities such as drafting documents, emails, meetings, and other activities. In this product briefing, founder and CEO Nick Schils provides an overview of TIQ Time including what problems it solves for which demographic.

In the legal field, workflow automation leverages technology to streamline repetitive tasks such as document generation, data entry, and case management. The promise of automating workflows is to reduce reliance on manual processes to improve efficiency, minimize errors, and allow legal professionals to focus on higher-value work.

The LTH Evaluation Framework provides a checklist and list of questions or considerations to assist buyers when they are evaluating Expert Systems solutions.

The LTH Business Case provides a template for making a business case to leadership for investment in a particular type of technology, including suggesting effective ROI arguments.