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Thirty-five years ago, lawyers told me fixed fees could never work. A skyscraper and a quarter helped me address their concerns but nothing ever changed. AI gives us a new reason to listen.There is plenty of talk today about whether AI will end the billable hour. If work that once took hours can be done in minutes, how will firms

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Continue Reading Guest Post: Beyond the Billable Hour — Will AI Finally Make Fixed Fees the Norm?

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Over the past few years, there have been a few twists and turns in the competition among legal research platforms to be the preferred partner of state and local bar associations.Once, that competition was almost exclusively between Fastcase and Casemaker. That changed when Fastcase acquired Casemaker in 2021. Then, in 2023, Fastcase merged with international legal research company vLex

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Continue Reading After Signing On with Upstart Legal Research Service Decisis, Maine Bar Switches to Clio Library

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At its annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco this week, the e-discovery company Everlaw unveiled Omni, an agentic AI investigation suite that orchestrates the full range of the company’s tools to answer questions about a case.The company also launched Workflows, a drag-and-drop tool for automating complex document reviews, and Everlaw for Word, a Word add-in that links Bates citations back

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Continue Reading At Its Annual Summit, Everlaw Unveils Omni, Its Agentic AI Suite, But CEO Says Customers Are Even More Excited About Opening Its Platform to Other AI Tools

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NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter believes the document management system is becoming something even greater — a law firm’s organizational intelligence layer. As lawyers increasingly do their work inside AI tools such as Claude, Harvey, Legora and ChatGPT, Baxter says NetDocuments’ job is to build and preserve the firm’s context, then make it accessible through whatever interface the user chooses. He

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Continue Reading LawNext Podcast: NetDocs CEO Josh Baxter on Why the DMS is Becoming the Law Firm’s ‘Intelligence Layer’

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Got conferences? If so, then probably one or more of Legaltech Week’s regular panelists has been there in the last couple weeks — from ClioCon in Boston to the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to NetDocuments Inspire in Orland0 and some smaller ones along the way — and we will be sharing our reports and takeaways live today at 3

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Continue Reading Today on Legaltech Week: Conference Round-Up – Reports from ClioCon, Everlaw and NetDocs – Plus Law360’s Rachel Rippetoe Sits In

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Within the span of 48 hours this week, I was an in-person witness to the legal profession’s divide on AI. Through a bit of karmic coincidence, I was in a room one day dominated by people who fear it as a threat, and then two days later with those who embrace it as an opportunity. I went from those who

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Continue Reading At ClioCon, Legal’s AI Future Is Already Here, Along with 3,000 People Eager to Shape It

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Clio rolled out a ton of news today, as founder and CEO Jack Newton delivered the opening keynote at the annual ClioCon conference in Boston — from major new products and features, to a new acquisition, and even new branding. While I am too busy here for the next two days to write a detailed report, here is a quick

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Continue Reading ClioCon 2026: A Quick Wrap-Up of Everything Clio Announced Today (And It’s A Lot)

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On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform.That integration is now live, and last week the two companies gave me a demo of how it works.With the integration, EvenUp customers

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Continue Reading LexisNexis Protégé Is Now Live In EvenUp, Letting PI Lawyers Query Case Law Using Facts From Their Case Records

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Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms.With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely by the hour outnumber firms billing solely by flat fee by nearly

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Continue Reading Reports of the Billable Hour’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, 8am Data Finds

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A new connector announced today enables Harvey customers to access the AI legal research platform Midpage.The connector makes Midpage’s research library of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and agency materials accessible from directly within Harvey, so lawyers can find and cite authority on the same platform they use for drafting and analysis.Midpage already had connectors with Anthropic’s Claude, which was

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Continue Reading Harvey Now Connects to Legal Research Platform Midpage Through An MCP Connector

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Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today.Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline citations linking back to sources in Blue J.The companies say that their shared customers had asked

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Continue Reading New MCP Makes Tax Research from Blue J Available from within Legora

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Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday.Silverton Partners led the round, with General Partner Mike Dodd taking the lead. Indicator Ventures, Lightbank, Neon Fund, ZVC, Rosecliff Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, FJ Labs, Graph

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Continue Reading Chariot Claims Raises $10M Series A To Fuel Mass Consumer Arbitrations

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Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners.Microsoft now becomes the fourth major AI company in five months to roll out a dedicated legal

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Continue Reading Microsoft Launches Copilot for Legal, Becoming the Fourth AI Giant in Five Months to Build Out a Legal Vertical

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Control Risks, a global strategic intelligence and security firm, said today that it has entered into an agreement to spin off two of its businesses, Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics, into a new, stand-alone company that will operate initially under the name of Control Risks – Compliance, Investigations & eDiscovery.The new company will be owned by the private

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Continue Reading Control Risks To Spin Off Its Discovery, Data and Forensics Businesses Into A New Company

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Jennie Morawetz, who was named this week as CEO of regulatory intelligence company SCOREalytics, wants the company’s product to become the accepted standard for how lawyers keep up with regulatory change.“I want using SCORE to be the standard for due diligence, or for a general counsel who’s tasked with staying on top of changes and updating the board quarterly

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Continue Reading New SCOREalytics CEO Jennie Morawetz on Building Regulatory Intelligence Lawyers Can Rely On