I have had a strong interest in online dispute resolution ever since at least 1996, when I wrote what I was later told was the first published article about ODR, Cyberspace Becomes Forum for Resolving Disputes. I was so curious about the concept that, in 1999, I put that interest to work, becoming a mediator […]
Continue Reading Dyspute.ai Launches Adri v2, A 24/7 Asynchronous AI Mediation Platform

Over $55 million worth of meritorious civil claims go unfiled annually, particularly in working-class communities, because over 64% of prospective plaintiffs’ calls to law firms are ignored, says legal AI startup AlphaLit. The reason firms ignore those calls is that they cannot financially justify vetting all those small cases. “You might need to have 100 […]
Continue Reading AI Startup AlphaLit Raises $3.2M Seed Round To Screen and Score Smaller Cases and Route them to Lawyers

With this post, voting is now officially open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, March 25-28, 2026. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW in […]
Continue Reading Voting Is Now Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2026 in March

Relativity today announced the general availability of aiR for Case Strategy, a generative AI-powered product designed to help lawyers and litigation professionals develop case narratives faster by automatically extracting facts, building chronologies and generating strategic work product from evidence. The legal data intelligence company said the tool enables legal teams to auto-extract key facts from […]
Continue Reading Relativity Launches aiR for Case Strategy to Extract and Organize Key Facts Using Generative AI

Dean Sonderegger is returning to the legal market in a new leadership role at Wolters Kluwer, the company announced today. Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory has appointed Sonderegger as senior vice president and general manager of its ELM Solutions business, marking his return to the legal sector after a three-year stint leading other divisions within […]
Continue Reading Dean Sonderegger Returns to Law to Lead Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions Business

What’s ahead for legal tech and innovation in 2026? In today’s live broadcast of Legaltech Week, our panel of  journalists and experts will share their predictions for the year ahead. We will also look back at our predictions from last year — and see how we did. The show is live today at 3 p.m. […]
Continue Reading Today: The Legaltech Week 2026 Predictions Show, Live At 3 P.M. Eastern

Legal AI company Harvey today announced plans to develop Memory, a product that will allow users to choose to retain and carry forward the context of their work, including matter details, relevant precedent, working preferences and approved best practices, with the goal of enabling users to achieve greater consistency, efficiency and connectedness. The company also […]
Continue Reading Harvey Announces Plan To Develop Memory, Enabling Users To Retain Context For More Consistent Work

The year 2025 marked a genuine inflection point in legal technology – the moment when AI moved from experimental novelty to operational necessity, when a billion-dollar deal reshaped the competitive landscape, and when regulatory reform appeared to gain renewed momentum. As I look back over the stories I have covered this year, they chronicle an […]
Continue Reading The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2025

The biggest deal of 2025 – in fact, the biggest deal ever in legal tech – was legal tech company Clio’s acquisition of vLex for $1 billion. A global legal research company founded in Spain, vLex had, just two years earlier, merged with the U.S. legal research company Fastcase, and the union of those two […]
Continue Reading On LawNext: Fastcase Founder Ed Walters On the Implications of Clio’s Acquisition of vLex

Law firms dramatically accelerated their technology investments in 2025, with spending on tech and knowledge management tools growing 9.7% and 10.5% respectively — the fastest real growth likely ever experienced in the legal industry, according to the newly released 2026 Report on the State of the US Legal Market from Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law’s […]
Continue Reading Legal Tech Spending Surges 9.7% As Firms Race to Integrate AI, Says Report On State Of Legal Market

Last month, I reported on key hires and a rebranding at The Masters Conference, a legal education and thought leadership forum, as it announced its new identity as Masters LegalAI and brought on legal industry veteran Kevin Vermeulen as its new chief executive officer, along with Mike Dalewitz, a veteran e-discovery entrepreneur, as its executive chairman. Now, […]
Continue Reading Henry Dicker, Longtime Leader Of ALM’s LegalTech Conferences, Joins Masters LegalAI

Forget the bold predictions. Ken Crutchfield is focusing on something more fundamental: the physics of the legal tech market. In the wake of a banner 2025 — with Harvey hitting an $8 billion valuation, Filevine raising $400 million, and Clio’s acquisition of vLex — it is tempting to either celebrate the boom or fret about […]
Continue Reading Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield Reads the Tea Leaves for Legal Tech in 2026

BriefCatch, a legal technology company devoted to helping legal professionals improve their legal writing, has raised a $6 million Series A led by the growth equity investing firm Full In. BriefCatch says the round comes amid its highest revenue growth rate to date, with 126% net enterprise revenue retention among large law-firm customers. The start-up’s […]
Continue Reading Breaking: BriefCatch Raises $6M Series A to Accelerate Acquisitions and Development