Last week brought the 13th annual ClioCon — the annual conference of legal technology company Clio — to Boston, Mass., where cofounder and CEO Jack Newton gave a keynote in which he laid out the company’s vision for a new era of AI-driven legal work. That new era is one in which Clio becomes an […]| LawSites
Legal business management company Aderant today announced it has acquired Virtual Pricing Director (VPD), the London-based company that created the legal industry’s first practice management-agnostic pricing platform. The acquisition brings together Aderant’s financial and matter management products with VPD’s AI-powered pricing tools and the expertise of VPD founder Richard Burcher, who is internationally recognized as […]| LawSites
A new benchmark study released by Vals AI suggests that both legal-specific and general large language models are now capable of performing legal research tasks with a level of accuracy equaling or exceeding that of human lawyers. The report, VLAIR – Legal Research, extends the earlier Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) from February 2025 to […]| LawSites
In delivering his keynote at the 2025 ClioCon in Boston last week, CEO Jack Newton described the litany of new products and features he announced as “quite literally the biggest wave of innovation in Clio’s history.” For those in the audience, it was a lot to take in, as Newton announced new products, new features, […]| LawSites
Today, we're taking a special look at Eve's new call intake features, which help law firms to field and categorize calls from new and existing clients. Joining me to walk through the product is Eve CE...| LawSites
The generative AI legal tech startup Harvey has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. When I first wrote about Harvey in November, the previously stealth startup had...| LawSites
In his nearly 90-minute keynote at ClioCon last Thursday, CEO Jack Newton laid out an ambitious array of new products that, together, form what he called the Intelligent Legal Work Platform, transforming Clio from a “system of record” to a “system of action.” Read: To A Sometimes ‘Shell-Shocked’ ClioCon Audience, Jack Newton Presented Clio’s Vision […]| LawSites
Have you ever found yourself present in a moment and realized you were witnessing something historic? It is not an exaggeration to say that is what many of the 2,700 in-person attendees felt who were present for Clio cofounder and CEO Jack Newton’s keynote address that opened the 13th annual ClioCon conference last week in […]| LawSites
In the United States, over 90% of civil legal needs go unrepresented – a staggering justice gap that leaves millions of people facing eviction, domestic violence, wrongful conviction and other urgent legal crises without access to an attorney. For these individuals, the difference between getting legal help or going without can literally be the difference […]| LawSites
The legal CRM and marketing automation platform Lawmatics today announced the beta launch of Qualify AI, which it is calling “the most powerful and useful lead score and qualification platform in legal tech.” The new AI-powered product represents Lawmatics’ first major entry into the application of generative artificial intelligence. It is designed to address one […]| LawSites
When blogging platform Typepad announced in August that it would shut down on Sept. 30, 2025, it threatened to erase decades of legal blog posts that formed a body of scholarship and commentary. In response, legal blogging platform LexBlog mounted an emergency rescue operation that has preserved 579,162 legal blog posts and migrated more than […]| LawSites
In a keynote that was equal parts rallying cry and strategic roadmap, Relativity CEO Phil Saunders stood before 1,834 attendees at Relativity Fest 2025 in Chicago last week and delivered an unconventi...| LawSites
Recently, the legal technology company Case Status held its inaugural Client Experience Summit in Charleston, S.C., a conference devoted to exploring how AI, data and ethical practices can enable law firms to deliver a better experience for their clients.In an opening keynote at the conference, Andy Seavers, the cofounder and CEO of Case Status, unveiled several new products, including, most […]| LawSites
As the investment dollars keep flowing into legal tech, today’s beneficiary of that trend is Nexl, an AI-powered CRM and “growth platform” for law firms, which has closed a $23 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Tidemark Capital, whose founder Dave Yuan said that Nexl “represents a step-function change in legal […]| LawSites
Earlier this year, Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, launched the beta version of an AI-powered intake feature that the company said would transform how plaintiffs’ law firms capture and qualify potential clients. After a beta program with over 40 firms, Eve has now announced the general availability of its comprehensive AI Intake […]| LawSites
The challenge with law firm billing has never been the work itself—it’s been capturing it. Attorneys often face the same pain points: late-night time entry marathons, vague narratives that invite client pushback, or forgotten calls and emails that leave money on the table. AI-powered timekeeping platforms promise to close these gaps. Early adopters have reported […]| LawSites
Passle, a technology company that develops thought leadership and cross-selling tools for law firms, has unveiled a new visualization tool for its CrossPitch AI platform that promises to make cross-selling activity in law firms visible, actionable and measurable for the first time. The Cross-Selling Intelligence Map, released today, creates a network diagram showing how thought […]| LawSites
One of the hottest areas of development and growth in legal tech these days is personal injury law. Just last week, Eve, an AI platform for plaintiff-side firms, raised $103 million, and now today com...| LawSites
For the second time in a month, I attended a first-time conference. And, once again, the inaugural conference exceeded my expectations. Several weeks ago, I wrote about Kaleidoscope, the debut confere...| LawSites
Utah has joined the growing movement to rethink attorney licensure in the United States, as the Utah Supreme Court approved Rule 14-703A, establishing an alternate pathway to becoming a licensed attorney that emphasizes hands-on legal training over traditional standardized testing. The new route, approved Sept. 24 and which will be open to applications starting Jan. […]| LawSites
The legal technology company Altorney today announced the general availability of MARC, a generative AI-powered document review system designed to automate first-pass review decisions before documents enter traditional review platforms. After first announcing MARC last March and going through a pilot period with corporate legal departments, the company is now releasing the product for general […]| LawSites
Nearly two years ago on this podcast, we discussed the American Arbitration Association’s innovation initiatives – and specifically its embrace of generative AI – with Bridget Mary McCormack, who became its president and CEO in 2023 after having been chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and Diana Didia, its chief information and innovation officer. On today’s episode, McCormack and […]| LawSites
Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, has raised $103 million in Series B funding at over a $1 billion valuation, it said today. The round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Menlo Ventures. This follows the company Series A raise of $47 million […]| LawSites
Content is the raw material of generative AI, so it only makes sense that an AI-driven contract automation platform would want to acquire what is said to be the world’s largest database of contracts and clauses. That is exactly what happened today as SimpleDocs, a company with an AI contract drafting, redlining and review platform, […]| LawSites
A Reddit post last week ignited a firestorm of speculation across the legal industry about the long-term prospects of legal AI company Harvey, with some dismissing it as little more than a ChatGPT wrapper. But is that criticism missing the point? In his latest column for LawNext, legal tech strategy consultant Ken Crutchfield argues that […]| LawSites
The legal technology company Case Status today unveiled Client Intelligence, an AI-driven platform that the company says represents a significant shift from reactive client management to predictive client engagement. The company announced the launch earlier today at its inaugural Client Experience Summit in Charleston, S.C., positioning the platform as a “system of action” rather than […]| LawSites
A study examining artificial intelligence adoption in legal aid organizations has revealed that these resource-constrained nonprofits are embracing AI technology at nearly double the rate of the broader legal profession, driven by the urgent need to serve millions of underserved Americans. The survey, The AI Advantage: How Technology Can Help Bridge the Justice Gap, was conducted […]| LawSites
Will AI create a golden age for lawyers — or make them obsolete? In her latest column for LawNext, AI strategist Jennifer Case explores a fascinating paradox: As AI tools lower barriers to legal services, they are simultaneously creating more legal work and potentially eliminating the need for lawyers altogether. The numbers are stark: 92% of […]| LawSites
Briefpoint, a legal technology company that uses AI to automate much of the drudgework of propounding and responding to discovery requests in litigation, today introduced Autodoc, a new AI-powered feature that automates the process of responding to document-production requests — finding and assembling the responsive documents in seconds and drafting the fully formatted response, ready […]| LawSites
With as many as 120 million legal problems going unresolved in America each year, traditional lawyer-centered approaches to access to justice have consistently failed to meet the scale of need. But what if the solution is not just about providing more legal services — what if it lies in fundamentally rethinking who can provide legal […]| LawSites
For an established dispute-resolution organization that is turning 100 next year, the American Arbitration Association seems to be doing everything but acting its age. Long among the world’s leading providers of human arbitrators and mediators for a range of disputes, the AAA is now preparing to launch its first AI-powered arbitrator in November. The AI […]| LawSites
Artificial intelligence tools matched or exceeded human lawyers in producing reliable contract drafts in the first comprehensive benchmarking study comparing AI against legal professionals, according to research published this week. The study, Benchmarking Humans & AI in Contract Drafting, conducted by LegalBenchmarks.ai, found that human lawyers produced reliable first drafts 56.7% of the time, while […]| LawSites
Has there ever been a time since the advent of legal reporting systems when citations have been under greater attack? Driven by their unwitting reliance on AI to generate legal briefs, lawyers seem to have forgotten everything they ever learned in law school about how to research and cite the law. Standing as a bulwark […]| LawSites
As Leslie Witt took to the stage Sept. 3 to deliver the keynote at Kaleidoscope, 8am’s inaugural customer conference, it was the culmination of a whirlwind summer. It had been just four months since she had joined the company formerly known as AffiniPay as chief product officer, responsible for leading product transformation and strategy for […]| LawSites
Finalists have been named for the 2025 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology. The awards recognize achievement in various categories related to legal technology, such as by a law firm, an individual, or an enterprise. The awards will be presented on Oct. 15 at a gala dinner on […]| LawSites
A new decision from the California Court of Appeals adds an intriguing dimension to the growing body of AI hallucination sanctions cases, raising the question of a lawyer’s duty to detect fabricated, AI-generated citations — not in the lawyer’s own filings, but in an opponent’s. While the court did impose a $10,000 sanction on the […]| LawSites
Ever since 2012, when the American Bar Association first adopted a duty of technology competence for lawyers as part of its Model Rules of Professional Conduct, its approach has been the template for...| LawSites
Landmark news broke this morning that law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock. After m...| LawSites
The motto of law practice management company Clio is to 'transform the legal experience for all.' But for many of its 17 years in business, that 'all' has focused primarily on smaller law firms and th...| LawSites
Ever since Casetext released CoCounsel on March 1, 2023, the race has been on among legal tech companies to develop the most capable generative AI assistant for legal professionals. Today, vLex is re...| LawSites
The e-discovery landscape will be needing a new map after the global e-discovery company Reveal said today that it has acquired two other leading e-discovery companies, Logikcull and IPRO. The combina...| LawSites
Filevine, a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help f...| LawSites
Legal technology company Filevine announced today it has raised $400 million across two funding rounds over the past 15 months, positioning the Salt Lake City-based company as one of the most well-cap...| LawSites
Twenty years ago, I had the great good fortune to help launch the podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer as cohost along with J. Craig Williams. It was one of the first legal podcasts of any kind, was the very first podcast of the Legal Talk Network, and is today the longest continuously running of all legal […]| LawSites
A new panelist joins our Legaltech Week panel today: Rhys Dipshan, editor-in-chief of legal technology at ALM. Rhys has been a reporter and editor for 17 years, and he has covered legal tech for nearly a decade. We look forward to his contributions and insights. Lots to cover today, including our impressions of the recent […]| LawSites
At its annual BoxWorks conference in San Francisco today, Box announced the launch of Box Shield Pro, an enhanced suite of AI-powered security capabilities designed to address the evolving cybersecurity needs of law firms, financial services firms, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and others. The new offering builds on Box’s existing Shield security platform by adding […]| LawSites
In an unusual judicial response to the ongoing epidemic of AI-generated fictitious citations, Washoe County, Nev., District Court Judge David Hardy has crafted what he calls a “creative and unpredictable” solution that offers a different way for courts to address attorney misconduct involving artificial intelligence. The unusual order, first reported by Mark Robison at the […]| LawSites
Calling it a breakthrough that “sets a new standard for AI-powered legal research quality,” Jus Mundi, the AI-powered research platform for international law and arbitration, today announced the launch of Jus AI 2, the second generation of the AI assistant it launched last year, saying it provides the solution to one of legal AI’s persistent challenges: […]| LawSites
The problem of legal timekeeping is as old as the billable hour itself. Lawyers either interrupt their work to record time contemporaneously, breaking their flow and concentration, or they reconstruct their time retroactively, inevitably missing billable work and resulting in weaker narratives for clients. Enter Ajax, an AI-powered time-tracking platform that aims to solve this […]| LawSites
Forbes is out this week with its 10th annual Cloud 100 list, tracking the top companies in cloud computing, and four legal tech companies made the list, while one dropped off from last year. Two other legal tech companies were highlighted as rising stars — “startups on track to be some of the best private […]| LawSites
Daniel Lewis has witnessed legal technology’s evolution from multiple vantage points that few others can claim. As a Stanford law student in 2012, he and classmate Nik Reed co-founded the legal research startup Ravel Law with the audacious goal of taking on LexisNexis and Westlaw using machine learning and data analytics – at a time when […]| LawSites
I took advantage of my flight home from Austin to write my review of 8am’s inaugural Kaleidoscope conference, which I’d just attended there. I published that review earlier today, and you can see it in full here. Once done with that, I pulled out my Kindle and returned to reading Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck’s […]| LawSites
Attending the inaugural Kaleidoscope conference in Austin last week, I couldn’t shake a strange feeling: I’d been here before. That was impossible, of course, as this was 8am’s very first customer conference. But the energy, the setup, the vibe all felt uncannily familiar. It was, as Yogi Berra might have said, déjà vu all over […]| LawSites
Two weeks after the company formerly known as AffiniPay unveiled its rebranding as 8am, it convened its inaugural Kaleidoscope customer conference in Austin today, where its chief product officer, Leslie Witt, took to the stage to deliver a keynote address in which she announced key platform integrations, new AI-powered tools, and expanded financial services offerings. […]| LawSites
Red Panda Systems, a provider of IT and cybersecurity services for law firms, has selected Universal Migrator to accelerate document migrations into the popular LPMS Clio. The collaboration is based on Universal Migrator’s continued role as a trusted solution for technology partners tasked with helping law firms modernize their technology stacks. As a Clio Certified […]| LawSites
Twenty years ago today, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the city of New Orleans and surrounding parishes. Eighty percent of the city was flooded, many people died, and many others...| LawSites
As I continue to play catch up on some of the news announced during ILTACON, the e-discovery company Everlaw made two notable announcements there: The expansion from private to open beta of its AI Deep Dive, a tool that can answer complex questions about large document collections, and its having secured FedRAMP certification for its […]| LawSites
In February 2024, I wrote here about the launch of Bench IQ, a company that is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written rulings, but also their rulings from the bench and other data. At the time, the company had just closed a […]| LawSites
I am often asked about the best legal tech conferences for solo and small firm lawyers. Having previously attended and spoken at the State Bar of Georgia’s law practice management conference, which is slated for Sept. 18-19, I can strongly recommend you check it out if you are in the vicinity. The theme of this […]| LawSites
Even though ILTACON ended more than a week ago now, I am still digging out from the deluge of briefings and meetings I attended there. One of particular note was a media briefing with LexisNexis executives in which they provided further information on the company’s AI strategy. Just ahead of ILTACON, LexisNexis had announced the […]| LawSites
Join us live today at 3 p.m. E.T. for Legaltech Week — our weekly breakdown of the top stories in legal tech — as the panelists share their impressions and takeaways from the recently concluded ILTACON. Plus, to help us do that, we will be joined by a special guest: Jeffrey Brandt, editor of Law Technology […]| LawSites
Universal Migrator has announced its August 2025 update, adding five new connectors to its ever-expanding migration platform. The latest additions of Amazon S3 Buckets, CP Financial, iCal ICS Calendars, Intapp, and M-Files bring the company’s library to more than 135 connectors, further extending its reach and reliability. Universal Migrator specializes in providing technology and IT […]| LawSites
First movers in legal tech often win the day, says Ken Crutchfield, but without also anticipating what’s ahead, an early move can be quickly outmoded. This is particularly true given the pace of development of major AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, Meta and others. But what if an AI innovator could know — or […]| LawSites
If you’ve never worked in the field of e-discovery, then you might think of it as just another type of technology or just another area of law practice. But for those who work in the field, it is very much also a community. Sadly, that community has lost one of its pillars, as Kaylee Walstad, […]| LawSites
The e-discovery company Reveal Data recently announced that it will launch its new generative AI-powered document review platform, called “aji,” in late September. Notably, the company said it is offering full access to the platform at no cost through Dec. 31, in order to enable “the entire legal community to explore and master the next […]| LawSites
Thomson Reuters President and CEO Steve Hasker believes the legal profession is experiencing “the biggest disruption … in its history” due to generative and agentic artificial intelligence, fundamentally rewriting how legal work products are created for the first time in more than 300 years. Speaking to legal technology reporters during ILTACON, the International Legal Technology […]| LawSites
Pre/Dicta, a legal analytics company that specializes in predictive modeling of judicial decision-making, today announced a significant expansion of its platform featuring new appellate forecasting capabilities, enhanced biographical intelligence tools, and comparative prediction features across judges, venues and law firms. The New York-based company, which claims an 85% accuracy rate in predicting the outcomes of […]| LawSites
AffiniPay, a company that develops technology for lawyers and accountants, today announced it has rebranded to “8am,” to better reflect its identity as it has evolved from its origins as a payments processor to a comprehensive suite of products for legal, accounting, and other professional services firms. The Austin-based company’s rebrand encompasses the parent company […]| LawSites
Last Friday, Aug. 15, as I began to make my way home from ILTACON 2025, and finally had enough of a break from the conference’s non-stop, four-day flurry of activity to check up on my social media, I took notice of the posts commemorating the 56th anniversary of Woodstock, which, as it happens, began on […]| LawSites
On this episode of How it Works, I sit down with Midpage founder Otto Zastrow to demo Midpage GPT, a plugin within ChatGPT that allows lawyers to accurately and securely research case law. The Midpage...| LawSites
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today introduced Protégé General AI, expanding its artificial intelligence platform to include secure access to multiple general-purpose AI models alongside its existing legal-specific AI tools. This eliminates the need to switch contexts between legal-specific and general-purpose AI tools and provides a higher degree of security when using the general tools. Launched […]| LawSites
When Jean O’Grady retired from writing her Dewey B Strategic blog late last year, she also stepped away as a regular panelist on our Friday live podcast Legaltech Week. But this week brought news so big that it drew Jean out of retirement and back on our panel — at least for today. What news […]| LawSites
In an in-depth piece I wrote about HerculesAI last February, I noted that the past year had been a big one for the company. Well, it just got even bigger, as Aderant, a leading global provider of business management software for law firms, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HerculesAI’s legal technology […]| LawSites
This year’s ILTACON, which starts later this week, marks the second anniversary of Harbor, a global expert services company formed through the merger of three long-established legal consulting firms: HBR Consulting, LAC Group, and Wilson Allen, and that formally launched at ILTACON in 2023. The company, which counts among its clients some 80% of the […]| LawSites
Turnberry Solutions, a prominent provider of technology services specializing in complex deployments for large law firms, has selected Universal Migrator to accelerate data migrations into practice management platform Litify. Universal Migrator’s capability to streamline sophisticated migration processes and minimize operational disruption. Turnberry Solutions, known for its comprehensive approach to legal modernization and business excellence, opted […]| LawSites
With the legal research startup Casetext now kaput, having been killed off after its acquisition by Thomson Reuters, a newer legal research startup, Descrybe, has secured its spot in the widely used curriculum of the National Society for Legal Technology, joining established players including Lexis+, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law as one of six core research […]| LawSites
As it continues its “Road to ILTACON” series of product announcements leading up to ILTACON starting later this week, legal technology company Litera has announced updates to its Foundation Platform firm intelligence suite, including adding Microsoft Outlook integration and expanded AI capabilities through its Lito assistant. The Chicago-based company’s Foundation Platform combines client relationship management […]| LawSites
The e-discovery company Reveal Data today announced that it will launch its new generative AI-powered document review platform, which it is calling “aji,” in late September. The company said it is offering full access to the platform at no cost through Dec. 31, in order to enable “the entire legal community to explore and master the […]| LawSites
Two months ago, at a media briefing in its New York City offices, Thomson Reuters teased the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company said would be a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute […]| LawSites
Hot off the presses is news that Francisco Partners, a major global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, announced plans to acquire Elite, a legal technology company that specializes in financial management and business operations. It will acquire it from its current owners, TPG Capital, the U.S. and European private equity platform of […]| LawSites
NetDocuments today announced significant enhancements of its document management system, introducing AI-powered document profiling capabilities and the company’s first agentic AI tool for editing documents directly within Microsoft Word. The new features come as part of the company’s ongoing push to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into legal workflows while enabling legal professionals to maintain […]| LawSites
Since launching Spellbook three years ago, and scaling to over 3,400 law firms and in-house legal teams as customers, we’ve heard one big piece of recurring feedback: “I want AI to sound more like me. I want it to understand my style and preferences.” Fine tuning was an alright technique two years ago, but today […]| LawSites
NetDocuments today announced ndConnect, a new interoperability program designed to integrate third-party AI solutions directly into its document management system, starting with partnerships with legal AI vendors Harvey and Legora. The company says that ndConnect addresses a growing need among legal professionals to use various AI tools while maintaining security and governance standards within their […]| LawSites
Continuing its “Road to ILTACON” series of product announcements that I wrote about earlier this week, Litera today announced several enhancements to its Litera One platform, adding new workflows designed to integrate knowledge management and client relationship data directly into Microsoft Word and Outlook environments. The Chicago-based legal technology company introduced four new features to its […]| LawSites
What happens when a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer, tired of copying and pasting contract language, starts reading about self-driving cars? In Shashank Bijapur’s case, it sparked the creation of SpotDraft, a contract lifecycle management company that just raised $54 million in Series B funding and that counts major companies such as Airbnb among its customers. In […]| LawSites
Streamline AI, a company founded in 2020 by a former DoorDash attorney to address the challenges she encountered in her legal work, today said it has closed an $8.6 million Series A round, to bring its total funding to $14 million. This latest round was led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Tribeca Venture Partners, Acronym […]| LawSites
Querious, which was one of two legal tech startups to win this year’s Startup Alley at ABA Techshow in a first-ever tie, has been approved by the Alabama State Bar as a member benefit. The approval means that Alabama bar members will be able to subscribe to Querious at a discounted rate. The bar has […]| LawSites
On Monday, I broke the news that the legal tech company SixFifty, of which a majority was owned as a subsidiary of the Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosait, had been acquired by the payroll and HR company Paychex. Although the deal had closed in May, neither Wilson Sonsini nor Paychex publicized […]| LawSites
[Note: This year marks the 30th in which I’ve been tracking the development of legal tech — or at least that is the earliest evidence I can find of when I started regularly writing about the subject. In commemoration of that milestone, I decided to write a post highlighting the major themes that have characterized […]| LawSites
A legal technology startup, ChronoTracer, is making its official launch today with the rollout of a platform designed to automatically convert digital evidence into searchable, filterable chronologies for litigation and investigation teams. The Austin-based company was founded by former attorney Richard Gorelick, who started his career at Coudert Brothers before transitioning to technology, and software engineer […]| LawSites
Update: Wilson Sonsini Issues Statement on Sale of SixFifty to Paychex. Although the deal has not been publicly announced by either company, LawSites has learned that the payroll and human resources c...| LawSites
Is the road to ILTACON paved with gold? Global legal technology company Litera may be hoping so, as it rolls out a “Road to ILTACON” series of product launches and enhancements, all leading up to the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, which starts Aug. 10 in National Harbor, outside Washington, D.C. Last […]| LawSites
Join us live at 3 p.m. E.T. today for Legaltech Week — our weekly breakdown of the top stories in legal tech — as we have not one, not two, not three, but four new stories about AI hallucinations in legal matters, including one where the fictitious filing was by a federal judge. Plus we’ll […]| LawSites
OpenAI just dropped a game-changer: ChatGPT Agent can now access your calendar, communicate with external systems, and perform tasks autonomously on your behalf. For legal professionals, this isn’t just another AI update — it’s a glimpse into a future where AI doesn’t just answer questions, but actively manages workflows, submits court filings, and orchestrates complex […]| LawSites
LegalOn Technologies, a global company that provides AI-driven software for contract review and matter management, has closed a $50 million Series E funding round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, bringing the company’s total funding to $200 million since its founding in 2017. The company also today announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI, the company […]| LawSites
Universal Migrator has announced its July 2025 update, introducing five new connectors to its migration platform, and expanding its library to more than 130 available connectors. The latest additions include CaseCloud, CityLaw, DocRio, Surepoint LMS, and Vimeo. About Universal Migrator Universal Migrator specializes in providing technology and IT consultants with streamlined solutions for migrating data […]| LawSites
Adoption of generative artificial intelligence among legal professionals involved in e-discovery is accelerating rapidly, with 37% of them now actively using the technology in their work, compared to 12% two years ago, according to the newly released 2025 Ediscovery Innovation Report by Everlaw. The study, conducted in partnership with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists […]| LawSites
Legal professionals are struggling to evaluate the rapidly evolving landscape of generative artificial intelligence tools for legal research, according to experts who spoke at a panel discussion during the American Association of Law Libraries annual conference in Portland, Ore., this week. The panel, titled “AI in Legal Research: Measuring What Matters with Benchmarks and Rubrics,” […]| LawSites
If generative AI was the biggest story in legal tech in 2023 and 2024, agentic AI is proving to be the most talked-about topic of 2025. Spurring this, at least in part, has been Thomson Reuters’ announcement of its forthcoming release of a new agentic version of CoCounsel, its AI legal assistant, that will be able to […]| LawSites
In an often rousing keynote address at the annual conference of American Association of Law Libraries in Portland, Ore., yesterday, Roosevelt Weeks, director of the Fort Bend County (Texas) Library, u...| LawSites
