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I’ll confess: When I heard that Jesse Cole, the founder of the Savannah Bananas baseball team, was to be the keynote speaker at 8am’s Kaleidoscope conference, I found myself scratching my head. After all, what could the founder of a baseball team known for dancing players and a senior-citizen dance squad possibly teach lawyers about running a small

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Continue Reading What the Savannah Bananas Can Teach You About Building a Successful Small Law Firm

In a marriage of two alternative legal services providers, Repario, a company with a focus on e-discovery and managed review, has acquired UnitedLex, a global company that provides a broader range of services spanning legal process outsourcing, legal operations, litigation, IP, contracts and technology.Repario said that by blending its agility and innovation with the operational depth and multinational

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Continue Reading In A Marriage of Two ALSPs, Repario Acquires UnitedLex to Strengthen Its AI Offerings

At its second-annual Kaleidoscope customer conference in Las Vegas today, 8am announced new generative AI features, a new Claude MCP connector, and new financial products, including a law firm loan program with quick approval and funding.Although 8am is the parent company of three law practice management platforms – MyCase, CasePEER and DocketWise – as well as the payments technology LawPay,

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Continue Reading At Its User Conference in Las Vegas, 8am Announces MCP Integration and New AI Tools for MyCase, Plus New Law Firm Funding Program through LawPay

Legal AI company Harvey said today that it is launching a dedicated pro bono program in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.In the first phase of the program, the company will work with a selected group of it law firm customers as design partners. Initially, this group consists of senior pro bono leaders at the firms shurst Perkins

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Continue Reading Harvey Launches Pro Bono Program, Collaborating with Pro Bono Leaders At Major Firms

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a breakthrough technology, helping fuel the AI industrial revolution. OpenAI and Anthropic are market leaders, with extraordinary private valuations. The prospect of their respective trillion-dollar public company valuations, should their initial public offerings come to fruition, has drawn attention to LLM economics.LLMs are transforming industries including healthcare and the practice of law. They will also

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Continue Reading Ken Crutchfield: Lessons From Steel — Why LLMs Will Become Commodities

Legal tech company Clio has long said that its mission is to transform the legal experience for all. Until now, that “all” has largely focused on law firms and their clients, but recently Clio announced a major initiative to develop technology for the judiciary.As part of that initiative, it hired Pablo Arredondo, the former cofounder of Casetext and developer of

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Continue Reading On LawNext: An Offer She Could Not Turn Down — Bridget McCormack on Joining Clio to Transform Technology for Judges

The American Legal Technology Awards has named the finalists for its seventh annual awards program, honoring outstanding achievement and innovation across multiple categories of legal technology. This year’s winners were selected from 234 submissions across 10 categories. Winners will be revealed at a gala awards dinner Oct. 25 at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Finalists were selected by a panel of

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Continue Reading Finalists Named for American Legal Technology Awards; Winners To Be Named At October Gala in Boston

A legal operations professional requested a demo earlier this year with a note that intrigued me. She said that she was going to “stack” a CLM solution, and she was looking for the workflow portion (which is what my product, Josef, does).When we met, I dug in further, finding that she’d piloted three CLM tools in the preceding year,

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Continue Reading Guest Post: The Rise Of The Contracting ‘Stack’

Nominations are now open for the 2027 Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which recognizes an innovator who, early in their career, has made a significant impact toward making the American legal system work better for everyone.That description fits the person for whom the award is named. Alli Gerkman died of breast cancer in 2019 at the way-too-young age of

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Continue Reading Nominations Are Open for the 2027 Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award; Deadline is Nov. 1

Yesterday, OpenAI released Astra for Law, a GPT-6 model tailored for legal work, as I reported here. The announcement included news of 26 new ChatGPT plugins from legal tech vendors, but it mentioned only four: Harvey, iManage, Legora and Thomson Reuters. When I asked OpenAI for the full list, I got no answer.However, no sooner did I publish my

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Continue Reading Yesterday Came OpenAI’s Launch Into Legal, Now Come the Litany of Vendor Integrations

Calling it the beginning of its long-term investment in law, ChatGPT developer OpenAI today released Astra for Law, a version of its latest model, GPT-6 Astra, configured for legal work, including a dedicated legal search index and custom instructions for legal analysis and writing.“Today, we’re introducing Astra for Law: a new foundation for law firms and legal technology companies

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Continue Reading OpenAI Releases Astra for Law, A GPT-6 Model Tailored for Legal Work, Targeting Large Firms and Tech Vendors

Call it Alex Su, redux. We do not usually have the same guest on LawNext twice in the same year, but there is good reason to have Alex back, as he has just been named president of Latitude Legal, the flexible legal staffing company.Last February, Alex and I recorded a live episode of this podcast over lunch in

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Continue Reading On LawNext: Alex Su, Newly Named President of Latitude Legal, On Why AI Is Driving Demand for Flex Talent

Perhaps it is only fitting that a product launched in the cloud should be renamed for the atmosphere it occupies.The e-discovery company Relativity announced today that it has renamed RelativityOne, its cloud-based platform, as Relativity aiR, giving it the name that had previously been assigned to Relativity’s suite of AI and agentic capabilities.The purpose of the name change, the company

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Continue Reading RelativityOne Gets A New Name To Reflect Its Increasing Capabilities Around AI and Data

The mystery of Bridget M. McCormack’s destination has been solved.Last week, I reported that McCormack, current president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, was leaving her job for an undisclosed opportunity that, as she said at the time, “I could not turn down,” teasing only that it involved “the chance

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Continue Reading One Plus One Equals More Than Two: Clio Lands McCormack to Join Arredondo in Judiciary Expansion

At the recent conference of the International Legal Technology Association, the big legal AI vendors CoCounsel, Harvey and Legora had outsized presences, with ginormous booths in the exhibit hall, major-name performers at their parties, and advertising so ubiquitous it even popped up in people’s Uber apps. (See: Have We Reached ‘Peak Legal Tech?’ Sure Felt That Way At ILTACON this

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Continue Reading Which AI Product Is Most Popular Among Law Firms? Findings of ILTA’s Tech Survey May Surprise You

Wednesday morning’s keynote session at ILTACON this year opened with a sobering and moving 25th anniversary tribute to 9/11. ILTA showed a 30-minute film it produced with interviews of ILTA members and friends who were in Manhattan that day, followed by an extended moment of silence as the names of everyone who lost their lives scrolled across the screen.I was

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Continue Reading ILTACON Included A Sobering Memorial to 9/11, with Video Interviews Of Some Who Were There (Including Me). Now, ILTA Has Posted the Full Interviews