Yesterday it was Legal Data Hunter, today it’s Trellis Law. I’m beginning to see how legal tech companies are enabling lawyers to work with legal data through Anthropic’s Claude.
Trellis Law is an AI-driven legal research and analytics platform designed specifically for state trial courts. While traditional platforms focus heavily on appellate opinions, Trellis structures trial court data across 45
From Legal Data Hunter, “Every country has its own laws. Every court publishes its own decisions. Every government buries its statutes in its own portal, its own format, its own language. The result? A legal world fractured into thousands of silos — and AI that can only think inside one of them at a time.”
Not for long. Anthropic’s Claude
The Library Development and Networking Division of the Texas State Library reports on the introduction of virtual court kiosks in county law libraries offering “a secure, private space where patrons can connect to legal resources and even attend virtual court hearings.”
“At the Harris County Law Library, Law Librarian Rod Hall shared during a recent TLA Tech Chat webinar
“I just think it’s important, if you are ‘gifted,’ to share that gift with people.” Martin Short responding to Ron Howard’s question on the Netflix program, Marty, Life is Short, on why he keeps doing what he’s doing.
Short said “gifted’ in a tongue in cheek way, so as not to be boasting.
I was 40 years old sitting in
Bob Ambrogi reported today on Anthropic’s biggest step yet into the legal market, releasing more than 20 new MCP connectors linking Claude to the software lawyers run on, plus 12 plugins built around specific practice areas.
A Claude YouTube video Bob shared was titled “Claude works where lawyers work.”
I was struck by how much legal is wired into the
A ton of legal publishing by practicing lawyers has taken place over the last twenty years. Much of this publishing lies on a firm site, to help people looking for legal information and for SEO.
I had a conversation with a state bar association today about the LexBlog Library. I wanted to give them the opportunity to hear about the
Interesting Tweet Sunday evening from Matt Mullenweg, a co-founder of WordPress.
Per Emma Roth of The Verge,
“Substack, the once buzzy newsletter platform, is losing a new swath of writers to rival platforms most people haven’t heard of. Just last month, The Ankler, one of Substack’s most popular publications, left for a platform that gives it more control over its
Someone asked me recently what the difference will be between the LexBlog Library and Perma.cc.
Perma.cc and the LexBlog Library are complementary. The purpose of each is to satisfy one fundamental need in legal research and legal citation. That being that a researcher can always “find and verify” a cited source.
They tackle digital preservation in opposite ways:
Imagine someone copying all of your publishing and the publishing of other authors and publishers like you, and saying they had the right to do so because they were training their AI solution — one that helps people receive the guidance they would have received from your publishing and the publishing of others like you. And imagine you’re a lawyer
Building something you believe in that’s never existed before and getting people to follow you, and even getting some to buy what you are building is not an easy chore.
Doing so without typical marketing and sales doesn’t make it easier, or maybe it does when the founder is out engaging people on the web and openly sharing with the