Are you still on the fence about whether generative artificial intelligence can do the work of human lawyers? If so, I urge you to read this new study.
Published yesterday, this first-of-its-kind study evaluated the performance of four legal AI tools across seven core legal tasks. In many cases, it found, AI tools can perform at or above the level…
Continue Reading Legal AI Tools Show Promise in First-of-its-Kind Benchmark Study, with Harvey and CoCounsel Leading the Pack

In a historic development for the legal profession, KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax, and advisory firm, became the first Big Four firm with a subsidiary licensed to practice law in the United States, as the Arizona Supreme Court approved the application of KPMG Law US to be licensed as an alternative business structure under Arizona’s liberalized rules that allow…
Continue Reading Breaking: KPMG Becomes First of Big Four To Practice Law in U.S., As Arizona Approves Its ABS License

Intapp, a global company that provides cloud-based software tailored to legal, accounting and financial services firms, has unveiled DealCloud Activator, an AI-enabled growth platform designed to help professional services firms adopt and sustain successful business development practices.
The platform, which combines artificial intelligence with behavioral science to guide professionals in their client relationship management, was announced during the publicly…
Continue Reading Intapp Launches AI-Powered DealCloud Activator to Enhance Business Development for Professional Services Firms; Announces Other Product Updates

Wolters Kluwer today beefed up its LegalCollaborator product for corporate legal departments with the addition of new summarization functionality driven by generative artificial intelligence and the ability for legal departments to now leverage reverse auction capabilities to drive more competitive law firm bids.
The new summarization capabilities will help corporate legal departments assess how law firm proposals align with the…
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LexisNexis Legal & Professional and OpenAI today announced plans to work more closely with each other to integrate OpenAI’s large language models and APIs across the LexisNexis product ecosystem.
LexisNexis will incorporate OpenAI’s technology across its various products, including Lexis+ AI and the Protégé personalized AI assistant.
Through this direct collaboration, LexisNexis says, it will be able to integrate the…
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A panel of five judges and a professor of law and computer science, all members of the Working Group on AI and the Courts of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence, have published recommended guidelines for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in judicial settings.
The guidelines, “Navigating AI in the Judiciary: New Guidelines …
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AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, MyCase, and other platforms, today announced that it will hold its first-ever conference in the fall for legal and accounting professionals.
Called Kaleidoscope, the two-day event will take place Sept. 2-4, 2025, in Austin, Texas. 
AffiniPay said the conference will be “packed with valuable insights and a variety of educational content.” It…
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You may have heard the news earlier this month that attorneys at plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan — the 42nd largest U.S. law firm by headcount — were facing sanctions over their submission of court filings containing fake legal cases generated by artificial intelligence.
Now, the Wyoming federal judge presiding over the case, U.S. District Judge Kelly H. Rankin,…
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Earlier this month, a legal tech startup called Fortuna Arbitration launched what it says is the first true AI judge – an automated arbitration system called Arbitrus.ai that the company claims can fully replace human arbitrators in resolving legal disputes. The system promises to cut the cost of arbitration from an average of $100,000 to just $10,000, while delivering consistent,…
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Baretz+Brunelle, which describes itself as a growth advisory firm to elite businesses in the legal industry, has acquired LexFusion, a company that provides go-to-market sales representation of a portfolio of companies acr0ss major categories of legal technology.
LexFusion was founded in 2020 by two well-known veterans of the legal industry, Joe Borstein, who had previously been global…
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Recently, I wrote here about the AI Smackdown presented at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered by three leading platforms – Lexis+AI, Westlaw Precision AI, and vLex’s Vincent AI.
Having been playing around of late with Deep …
Continue Reading Remember the Legal Research ‘AI Smackdown’? I Decided To Bring OpenAI’s Deep Research to the Fight

Patlytics, an AI-powered patent workflow platform founded just last year, said today that it has closed a $14 million Series A round, on top of a $4.5 million seed round last April, bringing its total funding to $21 million, all within a nine-month span.
This latest round was led by global venture firm Next47, with participation from existing investors…
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When legal intelligence company vLex released a major upgrade to its Vincent AI last September, I wrote that it might just be the most capable generative AI assistant in the legal market. Now, vLex is releasing another major upgrade to Vincent AI that pushes it further beyond traditional legal research and document analysis, with distinct capabilities and coverage not…
Continue Reading Exclusive: With Its Latest Release Out Today, vLex’s Vincent AI Adds Multi-Modal Capabilities, Litigation Workflows, and Coverage for Four New Countries