In my continuing quest to track the states that have adopted the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers, there is now another jurisdiction to add to the list: the District of Columbia.
On April 7, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals approved a variety of amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct of the D.C. Bar. Among them…
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A newly launched independent initiative aims to develop an accurate, holistic and transparent index of AI adoption among law firms, in-house legal departments, and individual legal professionals.
Called the AI Adoption Index, the organization says its aim is to bring greater transparency to the current state of AI adoption in the legal industry “and remove hype, hyperbole and FOMO…
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Marcus Floyd, of MigrationMasters.com, has earned the Universal Migrator Gold Consultant Certification, further establishing his position as a leading expert in legal technology migrations.
Already a Clio certified consultant and NetDocuments certified consultant, Floyd specializes in large-scale data migrations for enterprise clients. His client portfolio includes major corporations such as Equifax, Lowes, Chevron, Lockheed Martin, and OpenText.
Floyd’s experience in…
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An overwhelming 87% of professionals in midsized law firms view investing in cutting-edge technology as critical for their firm’s future, with expectations for AI’s value growing significantly, according to the 2025 US Midsize Law Firm Priorities Report, released today by law practice management company Actionstep.
The report, which surveyed 264 U.S. law firm professionals from firms with 50-250…
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Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, is today introducing an AI Reasoning Mode that it says can perform complex legal analysis through sophisticated step-by-step reasoning capabilities, on a par with a senior-level lawyer.
The company describes its Reasoning Mode as “a powerful new capability that transforms how legal professionals work with Eve’s platform to perform complex legal…
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How satisfied are customers of legal AI companies? That question was put to attendees at the Strategic Knowledge & Innovation Legal Leaders Summit, or SKILLS, and the results are now in.
The SKILLS Summit, held March 27, 2025, in New York, brought together knowledge and innovation leaders from the largest law firms. In conjunction with the summit, organizers asked…
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Following its February acquisition of UK-based Peppermint Technology, Litera today announced an expanded partnership with Harbor, a provider of expert services to the legal industry, to provide law firms with implementation and support services for Peppermint’s CX365 platform, which combines CRM, ERM, matter management, and case management within a single solution integrated with Microsoft 365.
“Our acquisition of…
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Brightflag, a company that provides spend and matter management software for corporate legal departments, today announced the addition of a number of new features, all aimed at enhancing how inhouse teams manage their work and spending.
The new capabilities — some available today, others coming in June — build upon Brightflag’s established AI technology with new matter management tools,…
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Three months after announcing its acquisition of Screens, Agiloft has completed the integration of the AI-powered contract review and no-code playbook technology into its contract lifecycle management platform, the company says.
In an interview last week, Screens founder Otto Hanson, who joined Agiloft as part of the December acquisition as vice president and general manager of Screens, said…
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Over the last six weeks or so, four separate surveys have come out, all reporting on generative AI adoption within the legal profession. I’ve reported on all four separately, but wondered how their findings compared when stacked up against each other.
To help me in this, I turned to — you guessed it — generative AI. Using ChatGPT 4.5, I…
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I first discovered LiquidText way back in 2017, writing at the time that it just might “forever change how you read and annotate complex documents.” The product has evolved in multiple ways since then, and today it achieves another milestone, as it launches real-time collaboration capabilities that enable multiple users to review, annotate and edit documents concurrently.
Learn more about…
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Harbor, a consulting company that provides expert services to the legal industry in strategy, technology, operations and intelligence, has named Michael Stahl as chief integration officer and general counsel.
Stahl comes to Harbor from the architecture and engineering firm Barge Design Solutions, where he was chief commercial officer, overseeing the development, launch and scaling of new tech-enabled service offerings for…
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New Jersey’s Supreme Court has adopted a new continuing legal education requirement for attorneys in that state that requires them to take one-credit hour per two-year reporting cycle in a technology-related subject.
But the Supreme Court declined to join the 40 other states that have adopted the so-called duty of technology competence as set out in Comment 8 to Model…
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