Ted Turner died yesterday at 87, and the obituaries are appropriately full of CNN, the Braves, the America’s Cup, the bison, and the billion-dollar pledge to the U.N.
But there is a small, largely forgotten chapter of his story that is notable for its impact on shaping legal media as we know it today. It was because of a run-in…
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Less than three months after replacing Lexis+ AI with Lexis+ with Protégé as its flagship legal AI platform, LexisNexis today is announcing a substantial expansion of that platform – what the company is calling its “next evolution,” combining significant build-outs of existing capabilities with several completely new ones.
The expansion, announced today, layers six new or expanded components onto the…
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When using any technology — including AI — a lawyer “must independently review, verify, and exercise professional judgment regarding any output generated by the technology that is used in connection with representing a client.”
That language appears in a new comment to Rule 1.1 on competence proposed by the State Bar of California’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct…
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Legal technology company Clio‘s integration with the payment processing platform 8am LawPay is discontinuing on Aug. 31, 2026, it has notified customers. After that date, customers of the Clio Manage law practice management platform will no longer be able to use LawPay to process payments.
The integration contract between the two companies expires as of that date and will…
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Everlaw and Legora have announced a technology partnership that will allow litigation teams to access documents stored in Everlaw directly within Legora’s drafting and collaboration environment.
The integration is designed to close the gap between the discovery and drafting phases of litigation. Under the arrangement, attorneys working in Legora — whether on witness statements, deposition questions or trial briefs —…
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On March 11, 2026, some 200 employees of Thomson Reuters – many of them based at the company’s Westlaw operations in St. Paul, Minn. – sent a letter to management with an unequivocal demand: Do not renew the company’s $22.8 million contract with ICE, set to expire on May 31.
(See Part 1 of this two-part post: How Thomson …
Continue Reading The Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 2 — The Pushback: Employees, Shareholders, Lawyers and the Fight Over May 31

Recorded live at the annual meeting of the Legal Marketing Association in New Orleans, this episode features my conversation with Rachel Shields Williams, president of the LMA and director of client intelligence at Sidley Austin, where she has spent 17 years building out roles at the intersection of marketing, business development, knowledge management and data. Earlier this year, Rachel…
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8am, the parent company of a suite of practice and business management products for lawyers and accountants, is now guaranteeing next-day payments for customers of its LawPay and CPACharge payments platforms, it said today.
The company also announced new capabilities that it says streamline billing and improve visibility into financial performance for its customers.
The company said that next-business-day deposits…
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For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools of the trade – essential systems for finding case law, checking citations and getting practical guidance.
But behind those familiar research services is a less-familiar story. The same two corporate parents that dominate legal research have, since the early 2000s, built…
Continue Reading The Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 1 — How Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis Helped Support America’s Immigration Surveillance Machine

Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word.
“With Gavel Exec for Web, lawyers can chat with an AI purpose-built for legal work, benchmark documents against market standards…
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Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval.
The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are significantly larger, across every query type, technology domain and jurisdiction tested.
QaECTER is the product of Questel’s in-house AI Lab, which developed…
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In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli entrepreneur Erez Vega-Kadoch kept receiving what he considered to be inappropriate text messages from an Israeli company. Never having consented to the messages, he decided to fight back and file a small claims case against the company.
But when he searched for a tool that would help…
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A New York-based legal tech startup called Abstract is making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, offering law firms and corporate legal departments what it describes as a fundamentally different approach to keeping clients and businesses informed about government activity that may affect them.
At Legalweek in March, I had a chance to meet with Abstract…
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