A legal sector International Women’s Day online event last week was sabotaged and explicit images shared on screen, leading to the event being canceled and the organisers warning others to be vigilant in the wake of other IWD events being infiltrated.
Well-known legal marketer Helen Burness and business psychologist Noo Jones hosted the event on Friday (13 March) for around…
Continue Reading IWD online event sabotaged as organisers urge vigilance

Shawn Misquitta, EVP of product management at iManage, which won the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Innovating Knowledge Management discusses how the era of AI pilots is ending, and what legal buyers are looking for in innovative tools.
Continue Reading iManage EVP of Product Management: Legal Tech Buyers Moving Toward Strategic Selectivity”

Fahad Diwan, director of product marketing at Exterro, which won the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Best Emerging Technology (Non-AI), discusses how data minimization and governance becomes vital in the age of AI, growing regulations and heightened cyberrisk.
Continue Reading Exterro Director of Product Marketing: Focus Will Shift From AI Strategies to Data Strategies

Last week, Law.com Legalweek pulled off something genuinely impressive: It moved. After 39 years at the New York Hilton Midtown, one of the world’s leading legal technology conferences relocated to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a sprawling glass and steel pavilion 1.6 miles away on Manhattan’s far west side, steps from the entrance to […]
Continue Reading Legalweek Has Left the Building – and Successfully Landed In A New One

Customer results highlight growing demand for unified drafting, comparison, and collaboration within Microsoft 365 and web   NEW YORK – Legalweek 2026 – Mar. 10, 2026 – Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, shared new customer results at Legalweek demonstrating how law firms are transforming document workflows and realizing immediate value with […]
Continue Reading Hand Arendall Harrison Sale Transforms Document Workflows and Sees Immediate ROI with Litera’s AI-Powered Drafting and Compare

Harvey today (16 March) unveiled a heavyweight in-house customer advisory board, which includes Bob Hoyt, the chief legal officer of HSBC Holdings.
Harvey got its start working with law firms, working with them to gain feedback on developing its product. The general legal AI startup says that it is now applying that same approach to in-house teams and requesting that…
Continue Reading Harvey announces heavyweight inaugural in-house advisory board

Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is adopting Legora as its firm-wide general-purpose AI platform, marking  what it describes as a significant step in the firm’s investment in innovation and technology‑enabled legal services. The news came out last week (12 March), within a day of the announcement that Legora has acquired Walter AI to expand its agentic platform for…
Continue Reading Legora to be adopted firm-wide by HSF Kramer PLUS acquires Walter AI

This week, we sit down with two guests from Anthropic, Matt Samuels, Senior Product Counsel, and Den Delimarsky, a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Together, they unpack why MCP is drawing so much attention across the legal industry and why some are calling it the USB-C for AI. For law firms long burdened…
Continue Reading Anthropic’s Matt Samuels and Den Delimarsky – Claude & MCP: Building the USB-C for the Legal Tech Stack

Photo credit: Amrith Kaur Aakre
Our Professionalism Spotlight series highlights Illinois legal professionals who demonstrate the ideals of professionalism in their careers.
In this Professionalism Spotlight, we spoke to Amrith Kaur Aakre, Chief Civil Rights Enforcer for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the Midwest region. Amrith oversees all federal employment discrimination investigations and prosecutions across Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota,…
Continue Reading Professionalism Spotlight: Amrith Kaur Aakre, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Photo credit: iStock.com
You don’t have to look hard to find conflict in the world. It’s everywhere. Add to this the conflict that is inherent to the practice of law, and it’s no wonder that lawyers are stressed.
Spend a day in a courthouse, and you are likely to see litigants arguing, opposing counsel raising their voices at each other,…
Continue Reading How Lawyers Can Turn High Conflict into Healthy Conflict

The final Legalweek keynote made the argument that law firms need to do what Apple and Netflix did in the early 2000s: blow up a their existing business model for a better one. Hard to argue with that. But it’s hard to see that it’s happening in legal.Here’s the data: only 19% of firms have modified fee arrangements aligned with…
Continue Reading Legalweek Final Keynote: An Industry Still Whistling Past the Graveyard?

By Neil Cameron
I attended LegalWeek’s 2026 session ‘AI in the Courtroom: A Mock Argument on Generative AI for Document Review’ with considerable interest – and left with considerable concern. The mock judge ruled that GenAI review was defensible. The basis: validation statistics. Recall. Precision. The familiar numbers. With respect, that is precisely the problem.Advertisement
No court has yet issued…
Continue Reading Comment: Legalweek’s GenAI mock courtroom may be the warning nobody heeded

During the British Legal Technology Forum (BLTF) conference on 11 March, Legal IT Insider asked vendors, “What’s the hardest truth about AI ROI that firms aren’t ready to hear yet?”We got answers from Jylo, Wavenet, Novaplex, NetDocuments, Jigsaw, Trakti, & Elite. Spoiler alert: there is a heavy focus on cost-benefit analysis. You can listen to snapshots of those conversations below:…
Continue Reading BLTF 2026 Video – “What’s the hardest truth about AI ROI that firms aren’t ready to hear yet?”