Updated with a link to Nicole Shanahan’s article and more news from Jobst Elster. Catching up on a very busy week!

For starters, Nicole Shanahan, who is wrapping up her Residential Fellow term at CodeX, had a story published by Los Angeles Daily Journal. Her essay, “Transition to Legal AI Will Happen Suddenly,” was printed on June 7.

“The legal system is behind the a curve in terms of how it manages information, and that is largely due to the fact that legal information is complex and exists predominatedly in natural language,” she noted in the article.

Shanahan, a member of the California bar, is also the founder and CEO of ClearAccessIP.

Read the story here.
See also: Startup Snapshot: Nicole Shanahan.

• Jobst Elster (InsideLegal.com) checks in to note that NetDocuments has announced ndOffice v1.8. He notes that the upgrade “advances NetDocuments’ and Microsoft’s cloud-first strategy and office application integration for the law firm and corporate legal market.”

Elster also alerted us to the merger of Fireman & Company and Gimbal Canada, generating a new entity, Peformance Excellence Group. It will focus on “pricing, legal process improvement, legal project management and legal [knowledge management] expertise for law firms and corporate legal.” Tom Baldwin had recently joined Fireman (He previously served as CIO or CKO for Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP; Reed Smith LLP; and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, & Hampton LLP.) Partners include Baldwin, Karen Dunn Skinner, Ron Friedmann and David Skinner. Press release here.

• Are you dreading July heat? Need CLE credits? Head to frigid San Francisco! Check out “The Circuit: Avoiding July Heat Waves” on Above The Law (my June column.) If you plan to watch the Giants play at AT&T Park after your CLE programs are over, be sure to pack your parka and gloves!

• Congrats to ALM for a terrific Legaltech West Coast (aka San Francisco). And thanks to everyone who participated in our CodeX Lightning Rounds, and to the excellent presenters!

• Finally, “Orange Is the New Black Season 4″ is now available on Netflix! Yeah!
Binge time!!!!

Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX and a freelance journalist. She is a columnist at Above The Law and is a member of the California bar. @MonicaBay  Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu. Send us your CodeX-related news!

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