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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

It was major news this week when law practice management company Clio announced its acquisition of legal research and AI company vLex for $1 billion.
But Ken Crutchfield, who has been an executive at LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, and most recently Wolters Kluwer, where he was vice president and general manager of legal markets for Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory…
Continue Reading Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on Clio’s Acquisition of vLex – Have We Seen this Movie Before?

Law libraries across academia, private practice, and government are contending with rapid changes in technology, staffing, and service delivery, according to the 2025 State of the Profession report released this week by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).
Based on survey responses from 510 legal information professionals across the United States, the fourth edition of the biennial report documents…
Continue Reading AALL State of the Profession Report Charts How Law Libraries Are Navigating AI, Hybrid Work, and Expanding Roles

Landmark news broke this morning that law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock.
After my initial report earlier today, I had the opportunity to sit down with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton to discuss this deal and what it means…
Continue Reading A Conversation with CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Acquisition of vLex

In a landmark deal that will undoubtedly reshape the legal tech landscape, law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock.
The companies say that the acquisition will “establish a new category of intelligent legal technology at the intersection of the business and…
Continue Reading In A Mega Deal, Clio Buys vLex for $1 Billion, Merging AI, Research and Practice Management

Having had to skip last week’s show, we have two weeks of news to catch up on today on Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists discusses the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation.
It’s live today at 3 p.m. E.T. If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend…
Continue Reading Harvey and Ethics and Research and More! Tons to Talk About on Legaltech Week Today at 3 p.m. ET. Join us!

Unless you have been living in a cave for the past two years, you are undoubtedly aware of the rash of AI hallucination cases plaguing the legal profession. These are cases in which lawyers-who-should-know-better file briefs they’ve generated using AI without ever checking the citations, only to learn — surprise of surprises — that the AI made up some of…
Continue Reading LawDroid Launches CiteCheck AI, A Fail-Safe Against AI Citation Hallucinations

Earlier this week, I reported on FTV Capital’s investment in ProfitSolv, the parent company behind multiple law practice management platforms, including CosmoLex, Orion, Rocket Matter and Tabs3. Although the dollar amount of the investment was not disclosed, ProfitSolv described it as “substantial.”
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Adam Hallquist, a principal at…
Continue Reading FTV Capital’s Adam Hallquist on the ProfitSolv Investment: Growth, Payments, and the Unvended Legal Market

A study out today from Thomson Reuters reveals a stark division within the legal profession: When it comes to reaping the benefits of AI, organizations with clear AI strategies are dramatically outperforming those without them, creating an increasingly pronounced competitive divide.
The 2025 Future of Professionals report, based on responses from 2,275 global professionals across legal, risk, compliance, tax,…
Continue Reading The AI Strategy Divide in Law: Thomson Reuters Survey Says Strategic AI Adoption Is the Key to AI Success

Supio, an AI-driven platform developed specifically for personal injury lawyers, has been generating a lot of buzz. On the heels of reporting record growth last year and raising $25 million in Series A funding in October, last month it raised another $60 million in a Series B round. But what do the lawyers who use the platform think of…
Continue Reading On LawNext: How One Mass Tort Firm Uses Supio, the AI Platform for PI Lawyers

Even free legal research platforms need to make money at some point, and so as Descrybe.ai today launches a paid upgrade, it is making it worth your while, offering a “Legal Research Toolkit” with a suite of features, including its own AI-driven citator, which it calls the Cytator.
As I wrote about Descrybe last year, it was founded by…
Continue Reading Free Legal Research Site Descrybe.ai Launches A Paid Suite of Legal Research Tools, Including Its Own Citator

ProfitSolv, the parent company to a group of practice management and payments products for legal, accounting and professional services firms, said today that it has secured a significant strategic investment co-led by private equity firms FTV Capital and Lightyear Capital.
The company said that the investment will be used to drive product innovation, strengthen its payments offering and expand…
Continue Reading ProfitSolv, Parent To Multiple Law Practice Management Platforms, Secures ‘Substantial’ Strategic Investment

A month before the American Association of Law Libraries is set to convene in Portland, Ore., for its annual conference, its executive director, Vani Ungapen, announced today that she will leave at the end of August to purse a new professional opportunity.
Ungapen has been the AALL’s executive director since October 2018. An AALL announcement of her departure…
Continue Reading A Month Before Annual Meeting of Law Libraries Association, Its Executive Director Announces Departure