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The legal AI platform Alexi has launched what it is calling the most comprehensive AI workflow library on the market, designed to help law firms move beyond risky AI experimentation toward reliable, scalable automation of legal work.
The Toronto-based company introduced the Workflow Library in September, describing it as a solution developed for firms that are seeking to adopt AI
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If content is the raw material of generative AI, it only makes sense that an AI-driven contract automation platform would want to acquire the world’s largest database of contracts and clauses. That is exactly what happened recently when SimpleDocs, a company with an AI contract drafting, redlining and review platform, acquired Law Insider, which claims to be home
Continue Reading On LawNext: As SimpleDocs Acquires Law Insider, Founder Preston Clark Shares the Strategic Vision

Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, has brought on two experienced legal tech executives to help it continue to scale its litigation support business beyond its core court reporting roots.
The Los Angeles-based company announced today that it has hired Adam Camras as general manager and senior vice president of litigation support, and Sean
Continue Reading Steno Bolsters Its Leadership Team with Two Strategic Hires from InfoTrack and EvenUp

The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) today announced a major expansion and restructuring of its board of directors, expanding it from nine to 16 members, the largest increase in the organization’s 10-year history.
In a significant policy shift for the organization, CLOC is formally adding legal technology and service providers to its board for the first time, alongside in-house legal
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As the long-running litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence has moved to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s copyright rulings in favor of TR, amicus curiae have come out in force to support the position of the now-defunct AI legal research startup that it did not violate copyright law. 
Ten
Continue Reading ‘No One Can Own the Law’: Amici Come Out In Force to Support ROSS In Appeal of Copyright Ruling Favoring Thomson Reuters

AJ Shankar, CEO and founder of e-discovery company Everlaw, used the company’s annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to announce that Deep Dive, a new AI tool within the company’s platform that enables legal teams to ask questions across millions of documents, will reach general availability before the end of the year following a successful eight-month beta testing
Continue Reading Everlaw Announces General Availability of AI Deep Dive, As Well As Major Pricing Changes, at Annual Summit

Fresh off his first Waymo ride, Ken Crutchfield observes that autonomous vehicles had to be trained to navigate real streets and make life-or-death decisions years before legal tech began exploring agentic AI. Now, as law firms rush to deploy AI agents, there are crucial lessons to be learned from Waymo’s journey, he says.
In his latest column for LawNext, What
Continue Reading Guest Post: What Waymo’s Autonomous Vehicles Can Teach Legal Tech About Deploying Agentic AI

Last week brought the 13th annual ClioCon — the annual conference of legal technology company Clio — to Boston, Mass., where cofounder and CEO Jack Newton gave a keynote in which he laid out the company’s vision for a new era of AI-driven legal work. That new era is one in which Clio becomes an “intelligent legal work platform”
Continue Reading LawNext: Clio CEO Jack Newton on Its New ‘Intelligent Legal Work Platform’ and A New Era Of AI-Driven Legal Work

Legal business management company Aderant today announced it has acquired Virtual Pricing Director (VPD), the London-based company that created the legal industry’s first practice management-agnostic pricing platform.
The acquisition brings together Aderant’s financial and matter management products with VPD’s AI-powered pricing tools and the expertise of VPD founder Richard Burcher, who is internationally recognized as a leading authority on law
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A new benchmark study released by Vals AI suggests that both legal-specific and general large language models are now capable of performing legal research tasks with a level of accuracy equaling or exceeding that of human lawyers.
The report, VLAIR – Legal Research, extends the earlier Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) from February 2025 to include an in-depth examination
Continue Reading Vals AI’s Latest Benchmark Finds Legal and General AI Now Outperform Lawyers in Legal Research Accuracy

Platform Layer
The Intelligent Legal Work Platform
New architectural foundation turning Clio into a “system of action” — AI that anticipates and performs tasks across the full client lifecycle.
Connects Clio Manage, Grow, Draft and new Clio Work into one context-aware ecosystem.

Context Engineering
AI “understands” matter context (facts, law, communications, deadlines) for precise, proactive actions.
Powers AI reasoning across
Continue Reading Here’s A Guide To Help You Make Sense of Clio’s New Line Up of Products and Features

In his nearly 90-minute keynote at ClioCon last Thursday, CEO Jack Newton laid out an ambitious array of new products that, together, form what he called the Intelligent Legal Work Platform, transforming Clio from a “system of record” to a “system of action.”
Read: To A Sometimes ‘Shell-Shocked’ ClioCon Audience, Jack Newton Presented Clio’s Vision for a New Era of
Continue Reading A Day in the Life of a Clio Lawyer, As Powered By Its New ‘Intelligent Legal Work Platform’

Today, we’re taking a special look at Eve’s new call intake features, which help law firms to field and categorize calls from new and existing clients. Joining me to walk through the product is Eve CEO and Founder Jay Madheswaran.
Eve is a leading Legal AI platform for Plaintiff Law Firms. Eve is designed to handle the heavy lifting of
Continue Reading How It Works: A Demo of Eve Legal’s Call Intake for Law Firms

Have you ever found yourself present in a moment and realized you were witnessing something historic? It is not an exaggeration to say that is what many of the 2,700 in-person attendees felt who were present for Clio cofounder and CEO Jack Newton’s keynote address that opened the 13th annual ClioCon conference last week in Boston.
Two people told me
Continue Reading To A Sometimes ‘Shell-Shocked’ ClioCon Audience, Jack Newton Presented Clio’s Vision for a New Era of AI-Driven Legal Work

In the United States, over 90% of civil legal needs go unrepresented – a staggering justice gap that leaves millions of people facing eviction, domestic violence, wrongful conviction and other urgent legal crises without access to an attorney. For these individuals, the difference between getting legal help or going without can literally be the difference between safety and harm, between
Continue Reading On LawNext: How AI Is Helping Legal Aid Serve 50% More Clients: Thomson Reuters’ AI for Justice Program One Year In