R&D & AI INNOVATION

How the Agentic PDLC Accelerated Delivery and Drove AI Adoption
R&D performance, Q1 FY2025 through Q2 FY2026
By Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer, Litera

Eighteen months ago, I walked out of an Hg conference in Silicon Valley knowing that how we built software was about to change completely. We had just seen a demo of…
Continue Reading The AI Productivity Inflection: How the Agentic PDLC Accelerated Delivery and Drove AI Adoption

The University of Chicago Law School yesterday released a comprehensive AI Strategy Statement that will reshape how it teaches first-year students, how it assesses upper-level writing, and how it integrates AI tools across its curriculum — including a pilot program that will prohibit laptops, tablets and phones in all core 1L classes starting this fall.
The strategy statement, titled Rethinking …
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Two years ago, the law practice management company Smokeball gave me an exclusive preview of its plans for an AI ecosystem spanning the full client lifecycle, anchored by an AI matter assistant called Archie, which it formally launched in July 2024.
Now the company has released the next generation of Archie AI, a major overhaul that moves Archie from…
Continue Reading Two Years After Launching Its AI Assistant Archie, Smokeball Rolls Out the ‘Next Generation’ Built on Agentic AI, and Embedded in Word and Outlook

Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched External Views, a capability that allows law firms to create white-labeled dashboards and share them directly with clients.
The feature builds on Centari’s Views capability, introduced earlier this year, which enables firms to analyze transaction trends, benchmark market positions, and visualize deal data across their practices. External Views…
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Norm Ai, the New York-based legal and compliance AI company, today announced a $120 million Series C round at a $1.2 billion valuation, crossing the unicorn threshold and joining a growing but still select club of legal AI companies valued at $1 billion or more.
Khosla Ventures led the round, in its first investment in Norm Ai. Notably, Khosla…
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When Anthropic launched Claude for Legal in May – more than 20 MCP connectors and a dozen practice-area plugins built specifically for legal work – it marked the company’s biggest and most explicit commitment yet to the legal industry. It also reignited a debate that’s been simmering since Anthropic’s first legal plugin briefly rattled the stock prices of Thomson Reuters,…
Continue Reading On LawNext: Inside Claude for Legal — Anthropic’s Mark Pike on AI’s Next Frontier in Law

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., will hear arguments this week in a case that could help define the rules of the road for legal AI companies that rely on licensed caselaw data.
The case, Fastcase Inc. v. Alexi Technologies Inc., pending before Judge Richard J. Leon in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, pits Fastcase…
Continue Reading Fastcase And Alexi Head To Court This Week In High-Stakes Fight Over Legal AI, Caselaw Data And Clio’s $1B vLex Deal

Universal Migrator has expanded its migration library to support more than 170 legal and business applications, giving legal technology consultants access to one of the industry’s broadest collections of reusable migration scripts.
The expanded library enables consultants to migrate data between a wide range of practice management, document management, CRM, billing, accounting, and other business applications commonly used by law…
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The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a critical benefit that helps to alleviate food insecurity for vulnerable populations, supporting over 40 million low-income individuals, nearly three quarters of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.
But recent changes to the program enacted as part of H.R. 1 (aka the Big Beautiful Bill) have altered requirements,…
Continue Reading Frontline Justice and Josef Partner on Multi-State Rollout of AI to Protect Access to SNAP Benefits

Last month, when Anthropic, developer of the popular AI assistant Claude, announced a major push into legal, much of the coverage in the media and the buzz on social media focused on what the announcement meant for law firms, in-house legal teams, and the legal tech ecosystem.
But the less talked about side of the story was potentially the…
Continue Reading On LawNext: Legal Research for Everyone: Inside the CourtListener-Claude Partnership

When I wrote last week about BARBRI’s acquisition of Lega, I had not yet had the chance to speak with Lega founder Christian Lang, who was traveling. So I closed that post with what was admittedly conjecture on my part – that the large-language-model governance product that defined Lega when it launched in 2023 was now going away, in favor…
Continue Reading After the BARBRI Deal, Lega’s Christian Lang Says the Governance Platform Isn’t Going Away, But It Is Going to School

Supio, the AI platform built for plaintiffs’ personal injury firms, has hired Melissa Graham, chief operating officer of Nevada’s Richard Harris Law Firm for the last 15 years, as its vice president of industry, a newly created role aimed at narrowing the gap between the people who build legal technology and the people who actually run law firms.
Continue Reading Supio Hires COO of Nevada’s Largest PI Firm As Its First VP of Industry, To Help Drive Innovation Strategy

The closely watched copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence returned to the spotlight this month as a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over whether ROSS’s use of Westlaw headnotes to train its legal research system was protected by fair use.
At oral argument June 11 in Philadelphia, the three-judge panel, consisting…
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