Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform is used by law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal services organizations to match lawyers with pro bono opportunities and manage pro bono engagement, is today launching a pro bono platform designed specifically for law schools and law students.
Developed in collaboration with some 30 law schools, the platform is designed to…
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Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, today announced the beta launch of its AI Intake Specialist, an AI-powered intake feature that the company says will transform how plaintiffs’ law firms capture and qualify potential clients. 
This news follows Eve’s release in April of its AI Reasoning Mode that it says can perform complex legal analysis through sophisticated…
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Just four months ago in an article here, I caught up with founder and CEO Ryan Alshak for an update on Laurel, the company that provides automated time capture and analytics for law firms and other professional services firms. I first met Alshak in 2017, when his then startup won the very first Startup Alley, the startup…
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Limelight, a communications and marketing agency serving law firms, legal technology companies, and other professional services and B2B companies, has hired Amy Hanan as its chief growth officer, where she will be responsible for leading the agency’s digital and growth marketing services practice.
Hanan was most recently chief marketing officer at LRN Corporation, a global company that provides ethics…
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Law.com is set to unveil a comprehensive redesign on June 16 that significantly restructures how legal professionals access and navigate the platform’s extensive collection of legal news and resources.
Most notably, the site is moving away from a somewhat siloed organizational structure built around the various publications owned by ALM, its parent company, in favor of an integrated, cross-publication approach…
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After six years as vice president and general manager of legal markets for Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., Ken Crutchfield has retired, effective yesterday, the company announced. 
He will be succeeded in that role by Jill Weinstein, who was previously vice president of product management, research and learning in Wolters Kluwer’s tax and accounting division.
Although retiring from…
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In what is described as the first known partnership between a legal services provider and a major generative AI platform, LegalZoom and Perplexity have entered into an agreement by which Perplexity Pro subscribers will get access to exclusive offers from LegalZoom, including discounts on legal services and products tailored for individuals and small businesses.
I’ve read LegalZoom’s announcement and several…
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What happens when a CEO steps away from a legal tech company just before the generative AI revolution explodes, then returns two years later amid a landscape that is being dramatically transformed? For Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha, that is exactly what happened.
As the CEO of Litera from 2016 to 2022, Marwaha led the legal tech company through a remarkable…
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A new benchmarking study reveals that artificial intelligence adoption in corporate legal departments is gaining momentum, with 38% of surveyed teams already using AI tools and another 50% actively exploring implementation. However, significant barriers around trust, data privacy, and measurement persist as the legal profession navigates this technological shift.
The inaugural AI in Legal Departments: 2025 Benchmarking Report, published…
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Microsoft dominates small law tech, but it’s fumbling the AI agent transition. Google sees the opening.
The Unexpected Opening
In most small law offices, you’ll find a familiar tech stack: Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams. Microsoft is the default productivity suite for the legal world. It has been for decades. So, when Copilot was announced, fully integrated into Microsoft 365, it…
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Five years after Arizona and Utah launched groundbreaking reforms to liberalize legal services regulation, a new comprehensive study from Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession reveals both the promise and the complexities of regulatory innovation in the legal sector.
The report, Legal Innovation After Reform: Five Years of Data on Regulatory Change, is an…
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Two veterans of the legal technology industry, Patrick DiDomenico and Kevin Klein, today announced the launch of LegalTech Connect, a new venture aimed at connecting participants across the legal technology ecosystem through events, advisory services, and educational resources.
“Leveraging more than five decades of combined experience in legal technology, innovation, and large-scale industry event production, LegalTech Connect aims…
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As he took the stage before the nearly 1,000 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel in Dallas to open his company’s Momentum Global 2025 user conference May 20, Aderant President and CEO Chris Cartrett said he preferred to think of his talk not as a keynote, but as a kick-off. But by the time I left the…
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