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The legal industry's roles and responsibilities are shifting. This is especially true for those tasks that can be performed alternately by humans, Symbolic AI, and Generative AI. Learn more about the key takeaways from the summer 2023 legal-tech conference season.

vLex has launched a collection of highly sought-after Nigerian legal materials on its award-winning legal research platform. These authoritative materials, provided in partnership with DSC Publications, offer practitioners in Nigeria a solid legal framework to support their understanding and practice of the law.

Could law librarians and other knowledge workers in law firms be replaced by artificial intelligence or are information professionals more important than ever? vLex’s Chief Strategy Officer, and founder of Fastcase, Ed Walters, shares his insights from the 2023 American Association of Law Libraries on this topic.

The vLex, Fastcase and Docket Alarm team had the honor of hosting a number of cooking experiences at the 2023 American Association of Law Libraries conference. Discover what they got up to with this quick recap.

vLex and Fastcase are proud to announce the 2023 Fastcase 50 honorees. Since 2011, the Fastcase 50 annually recognizes innovators, visionaries, and leaders in law. The 2023 honorees have reshaped the legal landscape for lawyers, courts, and the public at large, and have played a significant role in helping the legal world operate to its full potential.

vLex and Docket Alarm have today launched the Batch AI Analyzer. This exciting new tool, which enables pleadings to be downloaded in bulk, summarized, and organized in a spreadsheet, significantly reduces time spent analyzing dockets. Learn more about the Batch AI Analyzer, and start accessing high-quality summaries and outlines today.

As of June 2023, vLex will host a curated selection of law books published by Wildy, Simmonds & Hill (WSH), the publishing imprint of Wildy & Sons. These books have not been available online before, and vLex will be hosting them exclusively alongside the primary law collections that they cite.

vLex is delighted to confirm that it has partnered with the Canadian Association of Law Libraries in a multi-year deal that will see vLex sponsoring and supporting the annual CALL/ACBD event in 2023 and beyond.

vLex has partnered with London Publishing Partnership to become the first service to digitise a number of renowned books on construction law, hosting them alongside the case law, statutes, and regulations that they cite to enable researchers to seamlessly navigate between relevant documents for a comprehensive research experience, all on one platform.

Following Vincent AI’s global expansion, vLex has launched a brand-new update that enables the award-winning legal research assistant to use large language model technology to extract and present the key legal issue from judgments, and generate headnotes.

Following an extremely close competition, vLex is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 International Law and Technology Writing Competition.

This article was written by Juliette Groothaert of the University of Bristol. Juliette won Best in Category: Sports, Law and Technology in vLex's International Law and Technology Writing Competition 2023.

This article was written by George Jeffreys of the University of Law, UK. George won Best in Category: Climate, Law and Technology in the vLex International Law and Technology Writing Competition 2023.

This article was written by Xiaoli Jin of Harvard Law School. Xiaoli won Best in Category: Crypto, Law and Technology in vLex's International Law and Technology Writing Competition 2023.

This article was written by Lucy Cameron of the University of Oxford, the overall winner of the vLex International Law and Technology Writing Competition 2023.

Oakley Capital and Bain Capital Credit back business combination to accelerate the development of AI tools for lawyers, in one of the most consequential mergers in the history of legal tech.

The American Bar Association and vLex today announced that they have partnered to offer access to a collection of more than 60 titles from the ABA’s Antitrust Law Section on vLex’s AI-powered research platform.

For the sixth consecutive year, the vLex International Law and Technology Writing Competition has attracted the attention of students around the world. Having received submissions from students from 17 countries around the world, vLex is pleased to announce the official 2023 shortlist of finalists.

The LegalTech Breakthrough Awards Program has today announced that vLex has been selected as the 2022 winner of the “Overall Legal Research Solution Provider of the Year” award. Read the official press release from LegalTech Breakthrough below.

A new joint project has been announced to help promote access to justice in the United States by creating the first fully comprehensive collection of U.S. federal and state opinions as a free database.

vLex, an award-winning online subscription platform offering easy access to the largest collection of legal information on a single service, receives investment from pan-European private equity investor, Oakley Capital (“Oakley”). This new partnership is fueled by a joint commitment to deliver world-class legal technology to a global market worth $21bln.

On Friday the 29th of April, vLex attended the Legal Innovation Awards at the Hilton, London Bankside. Masoud Gerami, Managing Director of vLex Global Markets, was presented with the prestigious Lifetime Contributor to Innovation award at the ceremony. Masoud has dedicated over 35 years to pioneering legal technology and pushing boundaries within the publishing industry.

vLex is delighted to be partnering with LiRN to enrich library services and academic resources in law libraries across Ontario. vLex will be providing exclusive access to the Irwin Law collection of over 300 books, as well as over 300,000 full-text Canadian cases, including the Maritime Law Book series.

From April 2022, vLex will become the first provider to offer America’s oldest law library access to international materials from over 100 countries, all on one intelligent platform.

From February 2022, researchers can explore a range of journals from SAGE Publishing on vLex. These journals can be subscribed to as one collection, or as part of vLex’s renowned Professional Common Law Books and Journals Package.