A Reddit post last week ignited a firestorm of speculation across the legal industry about the long-term prospects of legal AI company Harvey, with some dismissing it as little more than a ChatGPT wrapper. But is that criticism missing the point?
Ken CrutchfieldIn his latest column for LawNext, legal tech strategy consultant Ken Crutchfield argues that Harvey’s
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The legal technology company Case Status today unveiled Client Intelligence, an AI-driven platform that the company says represents a significant shift from reactive client management to predictive client engagement.
The company announced the launch earlier today at its inaugural Client Experience Summit in Charleston, S.C., positioning the platform as a “system of action” rather than just a system of record.
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A study examining artificial intelligence adoption in legal aid organizations has revealed that these resource-constrained nonprofits are embracing AI technology at nearly double the rate of the broader legal profession, driven by the urgent need to serve millions of underserved Americans.
The survey, The AI Advantage: How Technology Can Help Bridge the Justice Gap, was conducted by Everlaw in partnership
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Will AI create a golden age for lawyers — or make them obsolete? In her latest column for LawNext, AI strategist Jennifer Case explores a fascinating paradox: As AI tools lower barriers to legal services, they are simultaneously creating more legal work and potentially eliminating the need for lawyers altogether.
Jennifer CaseThe numbers are stark: 92% of low-income Americans
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Briefpoint, a legal technology company that uses AI to automate much of the drudgework of propounding and responding to discovery requests in litigation, today introduced Autodoc, a new AI-powered feature that automates the process of responding to document-production requests — finding and assembling the responsive documents in seconds and drafting the fully formatted response, ready to be served
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With as many as 120 million legal problems going unresolved in America each year, traditional lawyer-centered approaches to access to justice have consistently failed to meet the scale of need. But what if the solution is not just about providing more legal services — what if it lies in fundamentally rethinking who can provide legal help?
In today’s episode, host
Continue Reading On LawNext: Justice Workers — Reimagining Access to Justice as Democracy Work, with Rebecca Sandefur and Matthew Burnett
For an established dispute-resolution organization that is turning 100 next year, the American Arbitration Association seems to be doing everything but acting its age. Long among the world’s leading providers of human arbitrators and mediators for a range of disputes, the AAA is now preparing to launch its first AI-powered arbitrator in November.
The AI arbitrator will initially handle documents-only
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Artificial intelligence tools matched or exceeded human lawyers in producing reliable contract drafts in the first comprehensive benchmarking study comparing AI against legal professionals, according to research published this week.
The study, Benchmarking Humans & AI in Contract Drafting, conducted by LegalBenchmarks.ai, found that human lawyers produced reliable first drafts 56.7% of the time, while several AI products
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Has there ever been a time since the advent of legal reporting systems when citations have been under greater attack? Driven by their unwitting reliance on AI to generate legal briefs, lawyers seem to have forgotten everything they ever learned in law school about how to research and cite the law.
Standing as a bulwark against this attack, one would
Continue Reading New Bluebook Rule On Citing to AI Generates Criticism from Legal Scholars and Practitioners
As Leslie Witt took to the stage Sept. 3 to deliver the keynote at Kaleidoscope, 8am’s inaugural customer conference, it was the culmination of a whirlwind summer. It had been just four months since she had joined the company formerly known as AffiniPay as chief product officer, responsible for leading product transformation and strategy for established legal tech brands LawPay,
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Finalists have been named for the 2025 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology.
The awards recognize achievement in various categories related to legal technology, such as by a law firm, an individual, or an enterprise.
The awards will be presented on Oct. 15 at a gala dinner on the eve of
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Twenty years ago, I had the great good fortune to help launch the podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer as cohost along with J. Craig Williams. It was one of the first legal podcasts of any kind, was the very first podcast of the Legal Talk Network, and is today the longest continuously running of all legal podcasts.
After recording
Continue Reading A Special Video Celebrating 20 Years of the Lawyer 2 Lawyer Podcast
A new panelist joins our Legaltech Week panel today: Rhys Dipshan, editor-in-chief of legal technology at ALM. Rhys has been a reporter and editor for 17 years, and he has covered legal tech for nearly a decade. We look forward to his contributions and insights.
Lots to cover today, including our impressions of the recent Kaleidoscope conference, the inaugural
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At its annual BoxWorks conference in San Francisco today, Box announced the launch of Box Shield Pro, an enhanced suite of AI-powered security capabilities designed to address the evolving cybersecurity needs of law firms, financial services firms, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and others.
The new offering builds on Box’s existing Shield security platform by adding three AI-driven features: an AI
Continue Reading Box Unveils AI-Powered Security Suite Targeting Legal, Finance, Government and Other Industries