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We don’t usually say this, but for today’s LawNext, you’re going to want to watch the video version, if you can. The audio will be good, but the video will be great. You can find it on YouTube.
Why? Because we’re going to be talking today about vibe coding, and you’re going to want to see what our guests
Continue Reading Built on a Weekend: Damien Riehl and Mike Bommarito Show What Vibe Coding Can Really Do

A newly released report on legal technology advertising trends suggests that while demand for legal tech continues to rise, the market is increasingly dividing between commoditized product categories and highly competitive segments tied to revenue generation.
The report, Q1 2026 Legal Tech Adoption Report, was produced by FlyTech, a marketing agency specializing in advertising for legal vendors, in
Continue Reading New FlyTech-LawSites Report on Legal Tech Advertising Finds Market Splitting Between Commoditization and Competition as Demand Surges

While much of the AI development in legal tech focuses on the practice of law — research, drafting, document review and the like — Centerbase, the practice management platform for midsized law firms, is releasing a new AI feature that focuses on the business of law.
Today, the company is announcing the limited release of Centerbase IQ, an AI-powered
Continue Reading Centerbase Launches AI-Powered Business Intelligence Tool That Gives Firms Citation-Backed Answers from Their Own Data

A federal appeals court has handed a significant win to UpCodes, a legal tech startup that publishes building codes and technical standards online, ruling that its posting of copyrighted standards likely constitutes fair use — at least for now.
In a decision issued April 7, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s denial of a
Continue Reading Third Circuit Rules That UpCodes’ Publication of Incorporated Building Standards Is Likely Fair Use

Promotion recognizes first-year impact and Litera’s commitment to operational excellence and scalable growth
 
CHICAGO – Apr. 9, 2026 – Litera, a leading legal AI platform provider that unifies the practice and business of law, announced the promotion of Priyanka Singh to Executive Vice President, Operations & Chief Financial Officer. Since joining Litera one year ago as CFO, Priyanka
Continue Reading Priyanka Singh Promoted to EVP, Operations & CFO at Litera, Taking on Expanded Strategic Role as Litera Sees Ongoing Strong Growth

It is estimated that more than 75 percent of civil litigants in U.S. state courts have no legal representation. In eviction proceedings, the figure exceeds 90 percent. For decades, the primary response to this explosion of self-represented litigants has been to provide them with information, such as court websites, self-help centers and legal forms.
Unfortunately, none of that has moved
Continue Reading Courtroom5 Launches The LAW Accelerator, a Structured Program to Help Self-Represented Litigants Navigate Civil Court

Are courts the next frontier for legal AI? Shlomo Klapper, founder and CEO of the AI-driven judicial case-preparation platofrm Learned Hand, believes they are. A former litigator at Quinn Emanuel and law clerk for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Klapper is building what he calls a “reasoning engine” for judges — AI tools designed to help
Continue Reading LawNext Podcast: Learned Hand’s Shlomo Klapper on Why Courts Are the Next Frontier for Legal AI

Josef, the Australia-based legal automation platform, has launched a new capability it is calling the Rapid Ingestion Engine, which uses AI to convert unstructured business inputs — such as email threads, meeting notes and term sheets — into the structured data that legal workflow templates require.
The idea, according to Josef CEO and cofounder Tom Dreyfus, is that
Continue Reading Josef Launches ‘Rapid Ingestion Engine,’ Using AI To Turn Messy Business Inputs Into Structured Legal Workflows

PracticePanther, the cloud-based legal practice management platform that is part of Paradigm’s suite of legal software products, today launched PantherAccounting Plus, a comprehensive trust and operating accounting feature set built natively into its platform.
The new capability enables law firms to manage the full lifecycle of their financial operations – from client retainers to month-end reconciliations to year-end tax
Continue Reading PracticePanther Launches PantherAccounting Plus, a Native Trust and Operating Accounting Suite for Law Firms

Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into major practice management tools Clio, MyCase, Litify, and Lawmatics. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 144+ applications, spanning practice management, CRM, billing/accounting, and document management systems. The latest additions […]
Continue Reading Universal Migrator Releases scripts that migrate Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom to Clio, MyCase, Litify and Lawmatics

Clio today announced two notable updates to its AI product line: the addition of agentic capabilities to Clio Work, and the launch of a standalone Vincent by Clio mobile app for iOS and Android. Agentic Clio Work When Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled Clio Work at ClioCon last October — in a keynote that left […]
Continue Reading Clio Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Clio Work, Also Launches Vincent Mobile App

There was a time, not so long ago, when the most exciting sponsorship deal a legal technology company might land was having its logo on a tote bag at an ABA conference. Those days, it appears, are decidedly over. Today, 8am — the company formerly known as AffiniPay and parent of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and […]
Continue Reading The NFL Has a New Official Professional Services Partner, and Yes, It’s a Legal Tech Company

Following its February news that it had entered into a brand partnership withj Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits, the legal AI company Harvey said today that it has entered into another such partnership involving another iconic Harvey — only this time it is using AI to make the partnership […]
Continue Reading In AI-Powered Brand Deal, Harvey Partners with Yet Another Harvey — You Know, Its Other Namesake

E-discovery platforms have gotten great at narrowing millions of documents down to manageable sets. But what happens next — the grueling work of extracting facts, organizing them, and building a reliable case narrative — has remained largely manual. In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi talks with Daniel Lord-Doyle, cofounder and CEO of Mary […]
Continue Reading On LawNext: Mary Technology Wants to Solve Litigation’s ‘Fact Chaos’ Problem

I have been meaning to write about the new Law Firm Research & Innovation Conference taking place April 28 in New York, and then I realized there is now some urgency to it, as ticket prices go up tomorrow, April 1. The new conference is being organized by LegalTech Connect, the same team that produces […]
Continue Reading A New Legal Research Conference Coming Soon — And Last Day Before Ticket Prices Increase