September 2025

Here is a link to my Above the Law post on the how safe your data is in the cloud.While cloud adoption rates by law firms keeps climbing, there’s little discussion about who’s actually responsible when that data disappears.New research suggests 85% of law firms don’t understand that cloud providers like Microsoft and Google protect the infrastructure but that data
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Calling it a breakthrough that “sets a new standard for AI-powered legal research quality,” Jus Mundi, the AI-powered research platform for international law and arbitration, today announced the launch of Jus AI 2, the second generation of the AI assistant it launched last year, saying it provides the solution to one of legal AI’s persistent challenges: the trade-off
Continue Reading Jus Mundi Launches Jus AI 2: ‘Breakthrough’ Legal AI Combines Agentic Reasoning with Research Control

Industry leaders from Harvey, Relativity, Sullivan Cromwell, Husch Blackwell, and the American Arbitration Association, among others, are joining Washington University School of Law’s AI Advisory board to develop new initiatives for students.
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The Illinois Supreme Court announced today that Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr., has been selected to serve as the Court’s 123rd Chief Justice. His three-year term will begin on October 26, 2025.
Chief Justice Neville will be the second Black Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, following the late Justice Charles E. Freeman, who served in the role from


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The problem of legal timekeeping is as old as the billable hour itself. Lawyers either interrupt their work to record time contemporaneously, breaking their flow and concentration, or they reconstruct their time retroactively, inevitably missing billable work and resulting in weaker narratives for clients. 
Enter Ajax, an AI-powered time-tracking platform that aims to solve this age-old dilemma through what
Continue Reading The Smart Screen Reader: How Ajax Is Automating Legal Timekeeping with AI-Powered Activity Tracking

Forbes is out this week with its 10th annual Cloud 100 list, tracking the top companies in cloud computing, and four legal tech companies made the list, while one dropped off from last year.
Two other legal tech companies were highlighted as rising stars — “startups on track to be some of the best private cloud companies in the
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If you’ve ever wondered how technology is reshaping the world of Human Resources, beyond outdated forms and awkward onboarding videos, we’re here to help. I’m thrilled to be joined by Oksana, a leading voice from Flex HR, an organization at the forefront of modern workforce transformation.

We’ll start by exploring how digital tools and AI are fundamentally changing, well,
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Daniel Lewis has witnessed legal technology’s evolution from multiple vantage points that few others can claim. As a Stanford law student in 2012, he and classmate Nik Reed co-founded the legal research startup Ravel Law with the audacious goal of taking on LexisNexis and Westlaw using machine learning and data analytics – at a time when such challengers were few
Continue Reading On LawNext: From Law Student Startup Founder to Global CEO: Daniel Lewis’s Legal Tech Journey