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Every Friday, a panel of leading legal tech journalists come together to discuss the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation. The show is live and free to attend.You can register to attend the weekly Zoom here. Missed last week’s show? Here are the recordings.hThis week’s topics:(00:00) Introductions(03:55) AALL: A Good Time Was Had by All (Selected by

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Continue Reading Replay – Legaltech Week for 07/24/26: Free Legal Claude Connector, AALL recap, OpenAI’s rogue model, and more

In April, I reported here on a dramatic first-quarter 2026 increase in the numbers of legal tech demos law firms were scheduling, with the numbers going up across nearly every major practice area by as much as 40% to 50%.Now, it appears that trend has reversed, according to a newly released report on legal technology buying behavior during the second

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Continue Reading Q2 Report On Legal Tech Advertising Finds Q1’s Buying Surge Was Largely Seasonal, But Reveals Where Demand Is Now Concentrated

As chief technology officer at Casetext, Ryan Walker helped build CoCounsel, one of the first and most consequential generative AI legal assistants — a product so significant it led to the company’s $650 million acquisition by Thomson Reuters. But Walker came away unsatisfied. Although the legal tech tools kept getting better, he believed, clients were seeing no benefit. Billing

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Continue Reading LawNext: From Product to Practice – Why Casetext’s Former CTO Founded General Legal, An AI Native Law Firm

Since launching its Clio Work AI product in October 2025, Clio says it has been the fastest-adopted product in the company’s 18-year history. But there was one place where Clio Work was not available — Canada, the country where Clio was founded and is headquartered.Now Clio has brought home the bacon, so to speak, launching Clio Work in Canada — and

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Continue Reading Bringing Home The Bacon: Clio Launches ‘Clio Work’ AI In Its Home Country Of Canada

It was just 18 months ago that I wrote about the legal research startup Midpage passing what its founder considered a critical threshold in its development, achieving full data coverage of key U.S. case law.Now the company is crossing another threshold, adding full coverage of the other major chunk of primary law — statutes, regulations, constitutions and agency guidance

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Continue Reading Legal Research Startup Midpage Crosses Another Threshold Of Coverage, Adding Federal and State Statutes, Regulations and Agency Guidance

Microsoft’s legal department is becoming a Harvey customer.The legal AI company Harvey announced today that Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization — the roughly 2,000-person unit that houses the company’s lawyers and compliance professionals — will use the Harvey platform to support its legal and compliance operations.As part of the same announcement, Harvey said it will expand its

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Continue Reading Microsoft’s Own Legal Department Will Use Harvey, As the Two Companies Deepen Their Alliance

The legal data company Entegrata, whose data lakehouse platform helps law firms consolidate siloed data into a single source of truth, has hired Andrew Baker, who for more than five years led applied AI and data science at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, as its first chief AI and data strategy officer, where he will lead development of a

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Continue Reading Entegrata Hires Simpson Thacher AI Leader Andrew Baker To Head New AI Enablement Product Line

Two practicing lawyers in Austin, Texas, have built a free connector that plugs Claude directly into millions of court opinions, statutes, regulations and court rules, along with federal court filings via PACER — and they say that, in their own testing, it matches and sometimes beats the Westlaw AI accounts their firms pay for.The tool is called DingDuff, and

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Continue Reading Built By Lawyers, For Lawyers: DingDuff Is A Free Claude Connector That Its Founders Say Rivals The Legal Research Giants

Martin Luther King famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” My guest today quoted his words in her 2024 book, Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis. But now, two years after that book’s publication — at a moment when many see the rule of law under strain and

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Continue Reading Law Democratized: Renee Knake Jefferson on Her Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis

Anyone can make sweets, but not everyone can make a Hershey bar.The debate over legaltech startups offering nothing more than a “thin wrapper” around an LLM begs a deeper analysis of the value of a wrapper, particularly as open-source alternatives take root.Let’s start with a Hershey bar. You pay for the chocolate, right? Maybe.What is the value of the Hershey

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Continue Reading What’s In A Wrapper? Comparing A Hershey Bar To LegalTech AI

Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an “expert AI coworker” designed to run the business operations of a firm — from deal screening and conflicts clearance to business development and…
Continue Reading Intapp Makes Celeste Generally Available, Calling It An ‘AI Coworker’ To Run the Business Side of Law Firms

Last week, Relativity announced that Chris Brown, its chief product officer since 2018, had been named the company’s president, effective July 13. In the new role, Brown continues to lead Relativity’s product organization while adding marketing and technology partnerships to his scope — a change that coincides with the departure of Chief Marketing Officer Cristina Rossman after more than…
Continue Reading Relativity President Chris Brown on the Gavel Acquisition, Opening Up to Claude, and the ‘Gangbusters’ Growth of aiR

When I spoke with Chris Cartrett yesterday, just hours after reporting that he will step down Aug. 1 as president and CEO of Aderant, he was emphatic that his departure, after 12 years at the company, including five as CEO, was not about wanting to leave.
“It’s not a matter of wanting to leave Aderant,” he told me. “There…
Continue Reading ‘I Couldn’t Get It Out of My Mind’: Chris Cartrett on Why He Is Leaving Aderant and Legal Tech

Legal Decoder, a legal spend analytics company whose billing-review technology has been relied on by Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 firms, as well as fee examiners in major federal bankruptcy cases, is today launching Aperture, a natural language interface that lets law firms and legal departmentss conversationally query legal billing and spend data — while promising that…
Continue Reading Legal Decoder Introduces Aperture, A Natural Language Interface for Querying Legal Billing Data

Litera, one of the most broadly deployed technology companies in the legal industry, is today unveiling a company-wide relaunch that positions it as the legal AI platform unifying the practice and business of law through one AI agent and one dataset.
The relaunch — going live today at litera.com — includes a new brand identity, the tagline “Raise The…
Continue Reading Litera Relaunches Its Brand Around a Unified Vision: One AI Agent Spanning the Practice and Business of Law