Over the last six weeks or so, four separate surveys have come out, all reporting on generative AI adoption within the legal profession. I’ve reported on all four separately, but wondered how their findings compared when stacked up against each other.
To help me in this, I turned to — you guessed it — generative AI. Using ChatGPT 4.5, I…
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I first discovered LiquidText way back in 2017, writing at the time that it just might “forever change how you read and annotate complex documents.” The product has evolved in multiple ways since then, and today it achieves another milestone, as it launches real-time collaboration capabilities that enable multiple users to review, annotate and edit documents concurrently.
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Harbor, a consulting company that provides expert services to the legal industry in strategy, technology, operations and intelligence, has named Michael Stahl as chief integration officer and general counsel.
Stahl comes to Harbor from the architecture and engineering firm Barge Design Solutions, where he was chief commercial officer, overseeing the development, launch and scaling of new tech-enabled service offerings for…
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New Jersey’s Supreme Court has adopted a new continuing legal education requirement for attorneys in that state that requires them to take one-credit hour per two-year reporting cycle in a technology-related subject.
But the Supreme Court declined to join the 40 other states that have adopted the so-called duty of technology competence as set out in Comment 8 to Model…
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In the gold rush of generative AI, it seems that every legal tech vendor wants to be a one-stop shop for legal technology. But after 15 years of developing legal tech, Nik Reed, CEO of Knowable, a legal technology company devoted to helping enterprises bring order and organization to their executed agreements, believes that lawyers should be wary…
Continue Reading From Ravel Cofounder to Knowable CEO, Nik Reed Has Learned that Building Quality AI for Legal Takes A Lot of Hard Work

Universal Migrator has released its April 2025 update, significantly expanding its global reach with new European system connectors and introducing innovative security features. The update brings the total number of supported migration paths to over 2,882, further solidifying the company’s position as a leader in legal tech data migration solutions.
Working primarily with legal tech consultants and migration departments…
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Thomson Reuters today released its 2025 Generative AI in Professional Services Report, and it reveals that legal professionals have become increasingly optimistic about generative AI, with adoption rates nearly doubling over the past year and a growing belief that the technology should be incorporated into legal work.
According to the report, 26% of legal organizations are now actively using…
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TermScout, a company that uses technology to certify contracts as fair by verifying them against market standards, has named Olga V. Mack as chief executive officer. Mack succeeds Otto Hanson, who remains on the company’s board after joining Agiloft in January.
Mack is the former CEO and chairwoman of contract lifecycle management company Parley Pro, which LexisNexis…
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Aderant, a global provider of legal business management software, has appointed Josiah Chaves, an 11-year veteran of the company, as its new chief client officer, the company announced today.
In his new role, Chaves, will be responsible for overseeing the integration of operational teams and work to enhance client experiences. He will also focus on helping clients use Aderant’s…
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In law practice today, technology is no longer optional — it’s essential. As practicing attorneys increasingly rely on technology tools to serve clients, conduct research, manage documents and streamline workflows, the question is often debated: Are law schools adequately preparing students for this reality?
Unfortunately, for the majority of law schools, the answer is no. But that only begs the…
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OpenAI this week announced improvements to its ChatGPT that will allow it to remember more about your earlier chats and build on those to deliver more tailored results. As a teaser to demonstrate this new capability, it is offering users the opportunity to have it describe what it knows about you. Needless to say, I could not resist the bait,…
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Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists discusses the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation, is back today, live at 3 p.m. E.T.
If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for all future sessions. You can also catch prior episodes …
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For the second time in the long and winding road of the copyright lawsuit brought by Thomson Reuters against the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, the trial has been postponed on the eve of its start date.
Although a pretrial conference had been set for yesterday and the trial scheduled for the week of May 12, 3rd U.S. Circuit…
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