Most professionals are now using artificial intelligence at work, but far fewer are getting much value out of it, according to new research from Thomson Reuters. And the cost of that shortfall is starting to show up in lost clients, departing talent, and a generation of professionals who may take longer to develop the independent judgment expected of them.
The…
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BARBRI, the legal education company best known for bar exam preparation, has acquired Lega, the AI startup that launched in 2023 with a focus on large language model governance but which has been evolving into helping legal professionals develop AI fluency through practical, experiential learning.
Legal was founded by Christian Lang, the former president and chief operating…
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In two separate announcements this week, Clio rolled out two initiatives aimed at the same problem — getting practicing lawyers comfortable with AI. One puts AI software directly into lawyers’ hands at no cost; the other tries to teach the profession how to use it.
On Monday, the company announced the Legal AI Accelerator, a free education and certification…
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When Kirkland & Ellis announced a $500 million investment in AI, much of the reaction focused on the dollar amount. That much money commands attention in the legal industry.
But the dollar amount may not be the most interesting part of the story. The more important questions are what is Kirkland actually buying and what it is selling.
There…
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BlackBoiler, a company that has spent over a decade building automated redlining technology, this week launched Veris, a new platform that takes its original deterministic editing engine and supercharges it with generative AI and an agentic, chat-based interface.
Running directly inside a Microsoft Word add-in, Veris allows contract-review teams to negotiate and mark up agreements without ever leaving the…
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Relativity, the Chicago-based legal data intelligence company best known for the e-discovery and litigation platform RelativityOne, has acquired Gavel, the Los Angeles-based document automation and AI drafting company founded by Dorna Moini (pictured above).
Relativity said the move will enable it to extend Relativity’s AI platform into the place where lawyers actually write, Microsoft Word.
Work product generated…
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In all my years of covering legal tech, I cannot remember a week quite like this. And I say that for a very specific reason: This week brought an unusual concentration of leadership changes at legal tech companies.
Four companies announced new chief executives, and a fifth named a new president. Is that much C-suite turnover within a single week…
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“We want to be the intentional multipliers which can deliver the predictable, purposeful and scalable solutions to our stakeholders.”
That is the message Krishna Nacha is delivering to his employees as he steps into the role of chief executive officer of Integreon, a global provider of technology-enabled legal and business solutions.
Integreon announced today that Nacha has joined the…
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Five months after introducing what it called an “AI workforce” for plaintiff law firms, legal AI company Eve is taking its next step with the launch of EveOS, which it describes as an AI-native operating system designed to run a firm’s operations across the full case lifecycle.
Eve says that today’s release is the company’s largest platform expansion to date,…
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Clio has acquired Jurisage, the Canadian legal AI and data company, in a deal it is describing as “a foundational investment in the future of legal AI in Canada.
The deal brings together one of Canada’s most comprehensive AI-ready legal datasets with Clio’s “Intelligent Legal Work Platform,” the name the company uses to describe its array of AI-powered products for…
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Law practice management company Smokeball has now partnered with 28 state bar associations to offer its trust accounting and billing software free to their members — a milestone that extends the offer to more than 900,000 lawyers, or roughly two-thirds of the 1.4 million lawyers in the United States.
The latest additions are The Florida Bar and the North Carolina…
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When Thoma Bravo took a majority stake in Casepoint in January 2025 and merged it with the government-software company OPEXUS, it set the e-discovery pioneer on a broader course — deeper into the government market and squarely into FOIA and case management. Now the company has a new leader to see that course through: Paul Colangelo, a 25-year veteran…
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Two years ago, Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, named Prabhdeep Singh as its chief operating officer to help accelerate the company’s growth.
Apparently, he did a good job, because today the company announced his appointment as chief executive officer, succeeding cofounder Greg Hong, who will continue to support the company as a…
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