How do AI-driven legal research platforms — specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions — stack up against each other?
That was the question at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered by three leading platforms…
Continue Reading In ‘AI Smackdown,’ Law Librarians Compare Legal AI Research Platforms, Finding Distinct Strengths and Limitations

Factor, a managed services company that describes itself as a provider of “integrated law” to corporate legal departments, has acquired Theory and Principle, a legal technology design and development agency, in a move intended to advance Factor’s strategic shift toward developing and delivering AI-first legal services.
The acquisition, announced this morning, brings together Factor’s experience in providing “complex…
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When it comes to contract negotiations, lawyers often find themselves spending countless hours haggling over standard agreements such as NDAs and SaaS contracts, with both sides often saying more or less the same thing, but in different words. What if there was a better way?
Today’s guests believe there is. Electra Japonas, chief legal officer at Law Insider and…
Continue Reading On LawNext: Standardizing Legal Agreements: How OneNDA and OneSaaS Aim to Transform Business Contracting

Legal workflow automation provider Gavel announced today that it has expanded its AI-powered document automation tool, Gavel Blueprint, to support a total of 60 languages.
Previously, Blueprint support only English-language documents, while the company’s original rules-based platform supported 19 languages and is in use by legal professionals across 23 countries. Today’s news adds 59 languages to Blueprint.
The expanded coverage…
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In-house legal departments often struggle with a common challenge: how to efficiently review and negotiate the constant flow of routine contracts without sacrificing quality or consistency.
Aiming to help them tackle that challenge, SimpleDocs, known for its AutoNDA contract automation software, has launched SimpleAI, a Microsoft Word-integrated tool that enables in-house legal teams to create and deploy custom…
Continue Reading SimpleDocs Launches SimpleAI, An AI-Powered Contract Review Tool with Customizable Playbooks (Plus Video Demo)

Trust accounting remains one of the most dangerous pitfalls for unwary lawyers. Far too often, lawyers — particularly those in solo and small firms — still rely on manual methods for maintaining and reconciling their client funds accounts. As a result, trust account violations are a frequent source of professional disciplinary cases for lawyers, in some states accounting for half…
Continue Reading 500,000 U.S. Lawyers Now Have Free Access to Trust Software through Bar Partnerships with Smokeball

Voting has now closed and your votes have been tallied to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to participate as finalists in the ninth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2025, taking place April 2-5 in Chicago.
These 15 finalists will face off in an opening-night pitch competition that is the opening event of TECHSHOW, with the…
Continue Reading Voting Is Closed, Results Are In: Here are the 15 Legal Tech Startups Selected for the 2025 Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW

In a significant ruling for legal publishing and AI development, a federal judge has granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against ROSS Intelligence, finding that ROSS infringed on Westlaw’s copyrighted headnotes and rejecting ROSS’s fair use defense.
The ruling, issued today by 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting…
Continue Reading Breaking: Federal Judge Rules Legal Research Startup ROSS Infringed Westlaw’s Copyrights, Rejecting Fair Use Defense

Legal research startup Midpage has reached a critical threshold in its commercialization, its founder believes, as it achieves full data coverage of key U.S. case law and prepares to launch its own citator in the coming weeks.
The company, which has spent two years building its own comprehensive case law database, is positioning itself to compete more directly with established…
Continue Reading Legal Research Startup Midpage Passes Threshold As It Achieves ‘Full’ Case Coverage and Readies Citator Launch

At its inaugural Future Contracts Miami conference today, Law Insider announced the launch of oneSaaS, a standardized template for cloud services agreements, developed through a community-driven process that drew on input from more than 300 legal professionals and software-as-a-service providers and that analyzed nearly 1,000 public SaaS agreements.
The initiative aims to address unnecessary inefficiency, complexity and inconsistency in…
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This week, I have been experimenting with Deep Research, the AI agent OpenAI released on Sunday that it says is capable of completing multi-step research tasks and synthesizing large amounts of online information. Not to be confused with the controversial Chinese AI product DeepSeek), Deep Research is said to be particularly useful for people in fields such as finance,…
Continue Reading A Compendium of Legal Ethics Opinions on Gen AI (As Compiled by – You Guessed It – Gen AI)

Litera, fresh off its November acquisition of UK-based document automation company Office & Dragons, said today that it has acquired another UK-based company, Peppermint Technology, a provider of modular, cloud-based technology for law firms, built on and closely integrated with Microsoft cloud technology.
“This strategic acquisition significantly elevates the value law firms derive from their Microsoft applications, adding…
Continue Reading In Its Latest Acquisition, Litera Picks Up Peppermint, Provider of Legal SaaS Solutions for Large Law Firms

Last year was a big one for the company formerly known as ZERO. Not only did it rebrand under the new name Hercules AI, but it also raised $26 million in Series B funding and launched a new AI-powered pre-bill review platform, Verify, that it says can detect up to 50% of billing compliance issues before they result…
Continue Reading After Rebranding from ZERO, HerculesAI Unveils An AI-Driven Billing Compliance Tool with An ROI Guarantee