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As a former lawyer, a legal technology CEO, and a paying client of five major law firms, I see how legal services are built, sold, and experienced.Recently, my wife and I sent three firms an RFP for personal legal work. One firm responded with a partner’s name, an associate’s name, an hourly rate, and a LinkedIn profile. That was the

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Continue Reading I Sent Three Law Firms an RFP. There’s Clearly a Client Experience Gap.

Following this week’s ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright battle against the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence,  ROSS says it will seek review in the Supreme Court. Yar Chaikovsky, partner at White & Case, issued a statement on behalf of ROSS disagreeing with the ruling and promising

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Continue Reading ROSS Says It Will Ask Supreme Court to Review 3rd Circuit Ruling for Thomson Reuters in Copyright Case

Relativity is holding firm on its plan to require that all new matters be hosted in the cloud beginning Jan. 1, 2028, CEO Phil Saunders said Thursday, and he had a blunt message for partners who are not on board: “Know we’re going to run through you.”Saunders made the comments during a media briefing on the last day of Relativity

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Continue Reading Relativity CEO Says 2028 Server Deadline Stands; Will Prioritize Partnering with Frontier Labs Over Legal AI Companies

Five years ago, Noah Waisberg sold Kira Systems, the pioneering AI contract-analysis company he co-founded, to Litera. Even though the deal itself went well, the experience of going through the sale was hard, Waisberg now says. But that experience provided the fuel that turned into his next business. As part of the sale, he kept a copy of the

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Continue Reading ‘The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done’: Noah Waisberg on Why Selling a Business Hurts, and How Zuva Aims to Fix It

Clio today announced that it has acquired Learned Hand, a startup that builds AI exclusively for judges and courts, giving the legal tech company’s newly launched judiciary business an existing product already in use in a number of courthouses.Clio did not disclose the terms of the deal.The acquisition caps a rapid series of events as Clio has moved into

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Continue Reading Clio Acquires Learned Hand, Giving Its New Judiciary Business An Existing Product

Yesterday I noted that th 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issued an opinion in the long-running copyright battle between Thomson Reuters and the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence, but that the opinion was sealed and not viewable by the public.Today, it was revealed that the court has ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters on the two

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Continue Reading 3rd Circuit Rules For Thomson Reuters In Its Copyright Fight Against Legal Research Startup ROSS

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an opinion in the long-running copyright battle between Thomson Reuters and the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence, but the opinion is, at least for now, sealed and not viewable by the public.The court issued the opinion under seal together with an order stating only as follows:“The opinion in this

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Continue Reading 3rd Circuit Issues Opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Case, But For Now It Is Sealed

Section 1: Five Realities Reshaping How Corporate Restructuring Gets DoneCorporate restructuring operates at the intersection of legal precision and financial complexity, with stakeholder decisions routinely made under exigent circumstances. More data and shortened timelines have made that work harder. A 2025 study by Harvard and USC law professors published in the University of Chicago Law Review found that the

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Continue Reading Built for Corporate Restructuring: The Case for Purpose-Built AI

I’ll confess: When I heard that Jesse Cole, the founder of the Savannah Bananas baseball team, was to be the keynote speaker at 8am’s Kaleidoscope conference, I found myself scratching my head. After all, what could the founder of a baseball team known for dancing players and a senior-citizen dance squad possibly teach lawyers about running a small

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Continue Reading What the Savannah Bananas Can Teach You About Building a Successful Small Law Firm

In a marriage of two alternative legal services providers, Repario, a company with a focus on e-discovery and managed review, has acquired UnitedLex, a global company that provides a broader range of services spanning legal process outsourcing, legal operations, litigation, IP, contracts and technology.Repario said that by blending its agility and innovation with the operational depth and multinational

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Continue Reading In A Marriage of Two ALSPs, Repario Acquires UnitedLex to Strengthen Its AI Offerings

At its second-annual Kaleidoscope customer conference in Las Vegas today, 8am announced new generative AI features, a new Claude MCP connector, and new financial products, including a law firm loan program with quick approval and funding.Although 8am is the parent company of three law practice management platforms – MyCase, CasePEER and DocketWise – as well as the payments technology LawPay,

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Continue Reading At Its User Conference in Las Vegas, 8am Announces MCP Integration and New AI Tools for MyCase, Plus New Law Firm Funding Program through LawPay

Legal AI company Harvey said today that it is launching a dedicated pro bono program in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.In the first phase of the program, the company will work with a selected group of it law firm customers as design partners. Initially, this group consists of senior pro bono leaders at the firms shurst Perkins

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Continue Reading Harvey Launches Pro Bono Program, Collaborating with Pro Bono Leaders At Major Firms

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a breakthrough technology, helping fuel the AI industrial revolution. OpenAI and Anthropic are market leaders, with extraordinary private valuations. The prospect of their respective trillion-dollar public company valuations, should their initial public offerings come to fruition, has drawn attention to LLM economics.LLMs are transforming industries including healthcare and the practice of law. They will also

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Continue Reading Ken Crutchfield: Lessons From Steel — Why LLMs Will Become Commodities

Legal tech company Clio has long said that its mission is to transform the legal experience for all. Until now, that “all” has largely focused on law firms and their clients, but recently Clio announced a major initiative to develop technology for the judiciary.As part of that initiative, it hired Pablo Arredondo, the former cofounder of Casetext and developer of

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Continue Reading On LawNext: An Offer She Could Not Turn Down — Bridget McCormack on Joining Clio to Transform Technology for Judges