Contract management is emerging as the top use case for generative artificial intelligence in legal departments, according to a new survey of in-house legal professionals released today, the 2025 AI Impact on In-House Legal Teams Survey Report.
Conducted by the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft, the survey finds that a significant majority (70.8%) of legal teams foresee AI-driven…
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Gauvreau CPA, a recognized Clio Gold Partner, has selected Universal Migrator as their solution for migrating client firms into Clio, significantly accelerating their onboarding processes and expanding their service capabilities.
Universal Migrator is a tool that helps law firms and legal organizations migrate their data when moving from one practice management solution or technology platform to another. Working primarily with…
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Nominations are now open for the American Legal Technology Awards, which honor innovation and excellence in the legal industry. 
Nominations will be accepted through July 31. The awards will be presented at a gala dinner in Boston on Oct. 15, 2025, at Suffolk University Law School. 
Self-nominations are encouraged, the organizers say, and there is no fee to nominate.
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This story has all the ingredients of a parody on The Onion. Regrettably, however, it is all true.
In federal court in Colorado, Eric Coomer, a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems, is suing Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, for defamation, over Lindell’s claims that Coomer somehow rigged the 2020 presidential election.
In that lawsuit, Lindell is being…
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At a time when legal doomsayers have been predicting the imminent replacement of junior associates by AI legal assistants, the law school graduating class of 2024 has delivered a contrary verdict: Human lawyers aren’t going anywhere just yet.
According to the latest American Bar Association employment report, the legal job market is showing not just resilience, but growth. The data,…
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In my continuing quest to track the states that have adopted the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers, there is now another jurisdiction to add to the list: the District of Columbia.
On April 7, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals approved a variety of amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct of the D.C. Bar. Among them…
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A newly launched independent initiative aims to develop an accurate, holistic and transparent index of AI adoption among law firms, in-house legal departments, and individual legal professionals.
Called the AI Adoption Index, the organization says its aim is to bring greater transparency to the current state of AI adoption in the legal industry “and remove hype, hyperbole and FOMO…
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Marcus Floyd, of MigrationMasters.com, has earned the Universal Migrator Gold Consultant Certification, further establishing his position as a leading expert in legal technology migrations.
Already a Clio certified consultant and NetDocuments certified consultant, Floyd specializes in large-scale data migrations for enterprise clients. His client portfolio includes major corporations such as Equifax, Lowes, Chevron, Lockheed Martin, and OpenText.
Floyd’s experience in…
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An overwhelming 87% of professionals in midsized law firms view investing in cutting-edge technology as critical for their firm’s future, with expectations for AI’s value growing significantly, according to the 2025 US Midsize Law Firm Priorities Report, released today by law practice management company Actionstep.
The report, which surveyed 264 U.S. law firm professionals from firms with 50-250…
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Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, is today introducing an AI Reasoning Mode that it says can perform complex legal analysis through sophisticated step-by-step reasoning capabilities, on a par with a senior-level lawyer.
The company describes its Reasoning Mode as “a powerful new capability that transforms how legal professionals work with Eve’s platform to perform complex legal…
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How satisfied are customers of legal AI companies? That question was put to attendees at the Strategic Knowledge & Innovation Legal Leaders Summit, or SKILLS, and the results are now in.
The SKILLS Summit, held March 27, 2025, in New York, brought together knowledge and innovation leaders from the largest law firms. In conjunction with the summit, organizers asked…
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Following its February acquisition of UK-based Peppermint Technology, Litera today announced an expanded partnership with Harbor, a provider of expert services to the legal industry, to provide law firms with implementation and support services for Peppermint’s CX365 platform, which combines CRM, ERM, matter management, and case management within a single solution integrated with Microsoft 365.
“Our acquisition of…
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Brightflag, a company that provides spend and matter management software for corporate legal departments, today announced the addition of a number of new features, all aimed at enhancing how inhouse teams manage their work and spending.
The new capabilities — some available today, others coming in June — build upon Brightflag’s established AI technology with new matter management tools,…
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