LexisNexis and Luminance today announced a partnership that will let mutual in-house legal customers access LexisNexis’s Protégé AI assistant from inside Luminance’s contract negotiation platform, with a pathway to move into Lexis+ with Protégé for more involved legal work.
Under the arrangement, users working in Luminance’s natural-language assistant, Lumi, can pose legal questions and receive answers drawn from LexisNexis’s case…
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It started with Harvey, the legal AI company that signed Gabriel Macht – the actor who played Harvey Specter on Suits – as a brand ambassador. Then Legora one-upped everyone by signing the actor Jude Law, building a whole campaign around the tagline, “Law just got more attractive,” and shooting the thing with an Oscar-winning cinematographer.
Harvey also locked up…
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In its sixth acquisition, Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing and management platform, has acquired WebTMS, a UK-based provider of IP portfolio management software with more than 25 years in business and over 500 clients globally.
The acquisition, announced today, brings together Alt Legal’s automation-driven approach to trademark docketing with WebTMS’s deep configurability and global portfolio management capabilities.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 […]
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