Catchin’ up on recent tech news, and a heads up on today’s CodeX speakers:

• Aron Solomon, Innovation Lead at LegalX and Senior Advisor for education technology at Toronto-based MaRS, is excited about a “very interesting new LegalX start-up, Global-Regulation.com.   The founders are Nachshon Goltz, Ph.D. Candidate and Israeli Lawyer, and Addison Cameron-Huff, J.D. (Queen’s Law), Lawyer and Developer.

Here’s the elevator pitch: The site offers “comparative search engine for laws that enables regulators and academics to search 250,000+ laws from 20+ jurisdictions including the U.S., E.U., China, Singapore and more.,” said Solomon. “We’re taking advantage of the movement of putting national laws online and developments in machine translation to make the world’s laws easily accessible. We have paid subscribers: U.S./Canadian law libraries and parts of the Canadian government,” he notes.

• Nicole “Niki” Black checks in (pardon the pun) to let us know that MyCase has added a new feature, MyCase ACH Payments. It helps MyCase users accept eCheck payments (aka Automated Clearing House payments) from legal clients, with no third-party integration required.

Caveat: It may take a few days to hear from a MyCase representative, due to high response, MyCase notes on its website.

Bonus: Sean Doherty’s review of the MyCase ACH Payments, and his  analysis of MyCase on Above the Law and review of

• Today’s CodeX meeting will feature two presentations: Andrew Arruda, CEO of ROSS Intelligence and Ian Wetherbee, a software engineer at Google.

Wetherbee “will tell us more about ROSS, an artificial intelligence that helps lawyers conduct legal research. ROSS graduated as a part of Y Combinator’s S15 class. ROSS’ first job was at Denton’s the world’s largest law firm and is now working simultaneously at a number of leading firms. She aims to be the catalyst for better and more affordable legal services for all,” said Roland Vogl, executive director of CodeX.

Wetherbee will discuss Google Patent Search, which aims “to improve the quality of patents today and in the future,” said Vogl. Wetherbee will talk about how “continued improvements to search technology are critical to find relevant results in an ever-growing corpus of possible prior art. This talk will cover the users of patent search tools and their obstacles in getting great results, our process for redesigning patents.google.com to meet those needs from a technical and user-experience standpoint, and the barriers to solving the ‘open challenges’ in patent search,” Vogl said.

Location: Stanford Law School, Room N102 or remote via Bluejeans (sign up at codex_group_meetings@lists.stanford.edu). 1:30- 2:30. p.m. Pacific. Open to all interested.

Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX and a freelance journalist for Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business. She is a member of the California bar. Twitter: @MonicaBay Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu. If you’ve launched a startup or have made a significant update
of technology that can help improve the delivery of legal services ping me at mbay@codex.stanford.edu.