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Artificial intelligence is no longer an abstract or experimental technology for lawyers – it is rapidly becoming core infrastructure for law practice, courts, legal education and access-to-justice efforts, and the legal profession must now shift its focus from whether to use AI to how to govern, supervise and integrate it responsibly. That is the central […]
Continue Reading ABA Task Force: AI Has Moved From Experiment to Infrastructure for the Legal Profession

With more than 650 documented cases of AI hallucinations appearing in court filings, and courts imposing sanctions ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to removal from client representations, law firm partners face an uncomfortable quandary: How can they confidently sign pleadings when they cannot be certain whether someone on their team used AI tools […]
Continue Reading Clearbrief Launches Cite Check Report to Give Law Firm Partners an Audit Trail Against AI Hallucinations

Legal business software company Aderant and legal AI company Harvey today announced a partnership they are describing as “market-defining” for the way it will bridge the gap between software for the business of law and software for the practice of law.  “Together, the companies will deliver the industry’s first deeply connected ecosystem that unites AI-powered […]
Continue Reading Aderant and Harvey Announce Partnership To Bridge the Gap Between Business and Practice of Law

A reminder to all legal tech startups: The deadline is approaching to apply for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, a competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference. Startups […]
Continue Reading Don’t Forget: Deadline Is Nearing To Apply For the Startup Alley Competition at ABA Techshow

In a rare public forum appearance, Harvey co-founders Winston Weinberg, its CEO, and Gabriel Pereyra, its president, spent over two hours answering questions from the legal tech community in a Reddit AMA earlier today, addressing everything from their $8 billion valuation to how they compete with legal research giants and what the future holds for AI in […]
Continue Reading Harvey Cofounders Answer Tough Questions in Reddit AMA: Valuation, Competition and the Future of Legal AI

For legal technology company Clio, this was a particularly significant year, marked by major announcements – including its $1 billion acquisition of vLex – that many saw as transformative for the company. This was on full display at the company’s ClioCon conference in October, where CEO Jack Newton gave a keynote laying out the company’s […]
Continue Reading On LawNext: Inside Clio’s AI-Driven Transformation – CPO John Foreman and CTO Jonathan Watson

Following the preview release in August and the commercial release in October of its Protégé General AI, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today rolled out what it is calling the product’s next generation, expanding its capabilities to unify authoritative legal content, customer documents and open web insights within a single secure AI workflow environment. LexisNexis developed […]
Continue Reading LexisNexis Unveils the ‘Next Generation’ of Its Protégé General AI, Callling It the ‘Most Integrated Legal AI Workflow Solution’

The long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence is now pending in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s rulings in favor of TR. Recently here, I reported on the 10 amicus curiae briefs filed in support of ROSS, all arguing that the now-defunct AI legal […]
Continue Reading Film Studios, News Media and Even Competitor LexisNexis Among the Nine Amicus Briefs Supporting Thomson Reuters’ Copyright Case Against ROSS

Contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today released Obligation Management, a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract and track commitments from contracts. The feature is designed to address a persistent challenge in contract management: organizations frequently overlook critical obligations after signing agreements. Citing research from PwC, Agiloft says that companies can lose 5-9% […]
Continue Reading Agiloft Launches AI-Powered Obligation Management System for Contract Lifecycle

EvenUp today introduced its new Medical Management product designed to help personal injury law firms track their clients’ medical care in real time and prevent treatment interruptions that can undermine case value. The San Francisco-based company, which specializes in AI tools for personal injury practices, said the product addresses a widespread problem. According to EvenUp’s […]
Continue Reading EvenUp Launches Medical Management Tool to Address Treatment Gaps in Personal Injury Cases

The American Arbitration Association has introduced two free resources aimed at helping individuals and small businesses navigate arbitration without legal representation. The tools, released today, include an AI-powered chatbook that provides real-time answers to questions about arbitration procedures, rules and case management, and a downloadable PDF handbook that walks users through the arbitration process step-by-step, […]
Continue Reading AAA Launches AI Chatbook and Guide for Self-Represented Parties in Arbitration

Fewer than four months after the University of Chicago Law School announced it would be launching an AI Lab, a course designed to teach law students how to build generative AI tools to help people who cannot afford an attorney, the 10 students in the lab’s inaugural class have developed and launched their first product. […]
Continue Reading University of Chicago Law School AI Lab Launches LeaseChat, a Free Tool to Help Renters Understand Their Leases and Legal Rights

The Masters Conference, an education and thought leadership forum focused on e-discovery, litigation, information governance, AI and related disciplines for legal professionals, has named legal industry veteran Kevin Vermeulen as its new chief executive officer. Masters also announced that Mike Dalewitz, a veteran e-discovery entrepreneur and former advisor to The Masters Conference, is returning to […]
Continue Reading The Masters Conference Names Legal Industry Veterans Kevin Vermeulen As CEO and Mike Dalewitz As Chairman, Plans 2026 Rebrand and Refocus

Legal research technology company Fastcase, which is now owned by Clio, has filed a federal lawsuit against AI-powered legal research platform Alexi, alleging breach of contract, trademark infringement and trade secret misappropriation, relating to its use of data licensed from Fastcase. The complaint, filed Nov. 26 in the U.S. District Court for the District of […]
Continue Reading Fastcase Files Lawsuit Against Alexi Over Alleged Data Misuse and Trademark Infringement

The Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Legal Leaders Summit (SKILLS), an organization of people who work in roles relating to knowledge and innovation at leading law firms, is developing a certification program and is seeking volunteers to join the faculty and help write the curriculum.  Called UpSKILLS, the certification program will cover topics related to legal […]
Continue Reading SKILLS Seeks Volunteers to Help Develop and Teach KM and Innovation Curriculum