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LegalOn Technologies, a global company that provides AI-driven software for contract review and matter management, has closed a $50 million Series E funding round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, bringing the company’s total funding to $200 million since its founding in 2017.
The company also today announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, that gives
Continue Reading LegalOn Closes $50M Series E, Partners with OpenAI to Develop Advanced AI Agents

Universal Migrator has announced its July 2025 update, introducing five new connectors to its migration platform, and expanding its library to more than 130 available connectors. The latest additions include CaseCloud, CityLaw, DocRio, Surepoint LMS, and Vimeo.
About Universal Migrator
Universal Migrator specializes in providing technology and IT consultants with streamlined solutions for migrating data between legal software platforms. With
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Adoption of generative artificial intelligence among legal professionals involved in e-discovery is accelerating rapidly, with 37% of them now actively using the technology in their work, compared to 12% two years ago, according to the newly released 2025 Ediscovery Innovation Report by Everlaw.
The study, conducted in partnership with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists and the International Legal Technology
Continue Reading Report Shows 37% of E-Discovery Professionals Now Using AI, With Cloud Adopters Leading the Charge

Legal professionals are struggling to evaluate the rapidly evolving landscape of generative artificial intelligence tools for legal research, according to experts who spoke at a panel discussion during the American Association of Law Libraries annual conference in Portland, Ore., this week.
The panel, titled “AI in Legal Research: Measuring What Matters with Benchmarks and Rubrics,” brought together three professionals working
Continue Reading At Law Librarians’ Annual Meeting, Panel Tackles the Challenge of Benchmarking AI Research Tools

If generative AI was the biggest story in legal tech in 2023 and 2024, agentic AI is proving to be the most talked-about topic of 2025. Spurring this, at least in part, has been Thomson Reuters’ announcement of its forthcoming release of a new agentic version of CoCounsel, its AI legal assistant, that will be able to plan, reason and
Continue Reading On LawNext: CoCounsel’s Next Generation – TR’s Emily Colbert and Rawia Ashraf on Agentic AI for Lawyers

In an often rousing keynote address at the annual conference of American Association of Law Libraries in Portland, Ore., yesterday, Roosevelt Weeks, director of the Fort Bend County (Texas) Library, urged law librarians to “be bold” as their profession faces unprecedented challenges and transformation.
Speaking to the hundreds of law librarians gathered for the conference, Weeks — himself a
Continue Reading At Law Librarians Conference, Keynote Speaker Urges Boldness, Advocacy, During Turbulent Times

AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay and other law practice management products, has entered into a partnership with Canadian AI company Caseway that will bring automated court form filling capabilities to MyCase practice management software users.
The partnership introduces a new product developed by the Vancouver-based Caseway — an AI-powered court form automation tool that can extract
Continue Reading AffiniPay Partners with Canadian Company Caseway to Bring AI Court Form Automation to MyCase

As we move through 2025, one thing is clear. Midsize law firms are at a pivotal moment of transformation. These firms are facing rising client expectations, increasing operational costs, and a shifting talent landscape that is motivating firms to make bold moves to stay competitive, efficient, and client focused.  
At Actionstep, we are proud to share insights from our third
Continue Reading Inside the Minds Working at US Midsize Law Firms: 2025 Priorities Revealed

One of the areas of legal practice in which generative artificial intelligence is having a significant impact is litigation, bringing new products designed to handle the time-intensive work of conducting discovery, sifting through evidence, analyzing depositions and preparing for trial.
Now comes another notable example of that, as Lexitas, a company that specializes in technology-enabled legal support services, has
Continue Reading Lexitas Launches AI-Powered Deposition Platform for Transcript and Video Analysis and Review

On this episode of How it Works, I’m joined by Ed Kirk, Head of Partnerships at Supio, to walk through the Supio Legal AI platform.
Supio specializes in personal injury and mass tort litigation, developing an AI-powered platform that helps law firms organize, analyze and prepare legal cases. Supio combines purpose-built AI models with human expert verification to improve accuracy
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LegalOn Technologies, a legal technology company that until now has focused on AI-driven contract review, said today that it is expanding into matter management with a major upgrade to its platform that allows legal departments to manage the intake and execution of legal requests. 
“We want to help legal teams solve the problems that slow business, create risk and
Continue Reading Contract Review Platform LegalOn Expands Into Matter Management and Updates Its Interface

Ben M. Schorr, one of the leading experts in the use of Microsoft products in legal practice, has joined Affinity Consulting Group LLC, one of the top companies in the U.S. providing strategic business and tech-implementation consulting for law firms and legal departments.
Starting today, Schorr is joining a new innovation strategy team at Affinity, focusing on the
Continue Reading Microsoft Legal Technology Expert Ben Schorr Joins Affinity Consulting Group

A new survey of state courts reveals a striking paradox in the American judicial system: Even though courts face severe staffing shortages and operational strain, they remain reluctant to adopt generative artificial intelligence technologies that could provide significant relief.
The Thomson Reuters Institute’s third annual survey of state courts, conducted in partnership with the National Center for State Courts
Continue Reading U.S. State Courts Cautiously Approach AI Despite Efficiency Promises and Staffing Crises

Google’s recent outage wasn’t just an inconvenience — it was a wake-up call. As more and more law firms rely on AI tools and AI agents to perform critical tasks, they’re potentially creating a dangerous dependency that could paralyze key aspects of their practice when (not if) the AI grid goes down.
In her latest column for LawNext, AI strategist
Continue Reading What Happens When A Law Firm’s AI Goes Dark? A Column By Jennifer Case

EvenUp, a legal technology company leveraging AI to transform personal injury law, today announced two new products that expand the capabilities of its platform for performing case analysis and for keeping in contact with clients: AI Playbooks and Voice Agent.
It also announced major enhancements to the AI Drafts product suite it released two months ago.
Related: How
Continue Reading EvenUp Enhances Its Platform for PI Lawyers with Two New Features: AI Playbooks and Voice Agent

When legal research giant LexisNexis and legal AI giant Harvey announced a strategic alliance last month, legal tech commentator Richard Tromans called it “possibly the most important legal tech move in a decade.” On today’s episode of LawNext, we go deep into the partnership and its implications with Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK & Ireland. 
Continue Reading On LawNext: How LexisNexis and Harvey Are Partnering to Reshape Legal AI, with LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick