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“We’ve reached peak legal tech.”That was the takeaway of a veteran legal tech CEO while attending this week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association.The conference was in Nashville, but it should have been in Texas, because everything was bigger this year. Consider:
  • It was the largest ILTACON attendance ever. As of Wednesday, registrations had reached 5,700,

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Continue Reading Have We Reached ‘Peak Legal Tech?’ Sure Felt That Way At ILTACON this Week

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Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts.The hiring marks Clio’s first dedicated move into the judiciary, an expansion the company describes as the

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Continue Reading Pablo Arredondo, Casetext Cofounder and Legal AI Pioneer, Joins Clio to Lead Its Expansion into the Judiciary

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The legal AI company Harvey and the court data company PacerPro have announced an integration partnership that gives litigation teams working in Harvey access to their firm’s complete litigation record, including the filings and case context from matters the firm has previously handled and those currently on the docket.PacerPro captures state and federal court filings and their underlying documents as

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Continue Reading Harvey and PacerPro Announce Partnership To Connect Docket Data with AI Litigation Workflows

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It certainly has been no secret that Thomson Reuters has been building its own proprietary large language model. In fact, in my June interview with TR’s CEO Steve Hasker, he talked openly about it, and just a few weeks ago, I reported on TR’s release of preliminary benchmarking data that showed impressive results comparable to the best general-purpose AI

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Continue Reading Thomson Reuters Launches Thomson, Its Own Proprietary LLM Trained on Westlaw and Practical Law Content

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced what it is calling the next generation of Lexis+ with Protégé, its generative AI legal assistant, unveiling new agentic capabilities designed to enable legal professionals to move from an initial idea to review-ready work product in one intuitive AI experience.Branding it the LexisNexis Legal Intelligence Engine, the release centers on a new orchestration layer,

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Continue Reading LexisNexis Unveils ‘Legal Intelligence Engine,’ Rebuilding Protégé Around Dynamic Agentic Orchestration

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Law practice company Clio said today that it is bringing AI to Clio Grow, its client intake and relationship management product.Clio describes the new Grow AI as a set of features within Grow “that work around the clock to turn inquiries into clients.”The product targets a problem documented by Clio’s Legal Trends Report. Even though 79% of prospective clients expect

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Continue Reading Clio Grows Clio Grow with Launch of Grow AI, Providing 24/7 Intake Agents

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The document management company NetDocuments today announced two additions to its platform’s AI capabilities. One, Tabular Review, is a tool that lets users analyze collections of documents in a structured table. The other, Legal Authorities, automatically extracts case citations from documents as they are saved to the platform and links them to the full case text on CourtListener.The company

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Did you know that the law practice management company Smokeball is named for a famous court case — Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. — that stands for the proposition that a company has a duty to deliver on its promises?It is fitting, then, that Smokeball is today unveiling a new global brand that focuses on both its duty to

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Continue Reading Law Practice Management Company Smokeball Unveils New Global Brand Built Around ‘Powering People-Law’

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When Clio acquired vLex in 2025, a key asset it gained was Docket Alarm, one of the world’s largest litigation databases containing more than 1 billion filings from federal and state courts. At the ClioCon user conference last year, Clio relaunched it as Clio Docket.Now, Clio is making Clio Docket available from within Clio Work, its AI-driven

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Continue Reading Clio Docket Is Now In Clio Work, Combining An AI Workspace with Access to More Than 1 Billion Court Filings

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Trellis, a legal research company that provides state trial court data and insights, has expanded agentic AI access to its data with a new plugin for OpenAI’s ChatGPT and a native assistant called Trellis Chat, both of which are in addition to the Trellis MCP connector for Claude that the company launched in May.Trellis claims to have the largest

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Continue Reading Having Already Launched A Claude Connector, Trellis Extends AI Access to Its Court Data with ChatGPT Plugin and Its Own Chat Tool

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Perform legal work in Harvey, get a draft time entry created automatically in Aderant’s iTimekeep.That is the upshot of a integration announced today by the two companies.With the integration, law firms that are customers of both Harvey and iTimekeep can connect the two products so that work done in Harvey is captured by the timekeeping system.The companies say

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Continue Reading Work Done In Harvey Now Creates Time Entries In Aderant’s iTimekeep, Thanks To New Integration

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DeepJudge, the Zurich-based enterprise search company that describes itself as the institutional intelligence platform for legal AI, today introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol, an open protocol designed to let users move from one AI product into another – and, in some cases, back again – while retaining the full context of their work.Harvey has already announced that it

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Continue Reading DeepJudge Releases an Open Protocol for Passing Users – and Their Context – Between AI Products, with Harvey and Thomson Reuters On Board

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This week, LexisNexis announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City — a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI companies such as OpenAI and Amazon Web Services sit in the same room and build legal AI together, in real time.The company is calling it a new model for how legal AI gets built

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Continue Reading LawNext: LexisNexis CTO Greg Dickason On Building Legal AI In Real Time with Customers in Its New Innovation Lab

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Relativity today announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI interface that lets lawyers ask plain-language questions across an entire RelativityOne matter and get back answers with citations to the underlying record.Relativity CEO Phil Saunders calls it a fundamentally new way for lawyers to get straight to the answers in their most consequential legal data.“Conversational AI is now how people everywhere expect

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Continue Reading Relativity Announces claiR, A Conversational AI for Lawyers, But You’ll Have to Wait Awhile to Chat with It

For ambitious software startups, winning a new customer is only the beginning. The next challenge is getting that customer fully operational before delays, technical complications, or a difficult data migration undermine the relationship.Universal Migrator helps fast-moving startups accelerate onboarding by providing the tools and expertise needed to transfer customer data from legacy systems into their new platforms. Instead of asking

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