Leading Product Transformation Amid Company Transformation: 8am’s New Chief Product Officer Leslie Witt | 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 s...| LawSites
Down to the Wire! Tomorrow Is the Deadline! Vote Now For Your Favorite Legal Tech Startups To Go To Startup Alley at ABA Techshow
Tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 13, is the deadline to vote. Your votes determine the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. Below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Which of these companies will end up lucky on Friday the 13th? Remember, your votes determine […]| LawSites
8am Expands LawPay Into Full Financial Management Platform for Law Firms, with Payments, Billing and Reporting | LawSites
The company formerly known as AffiniPay continues its evolution under the 8am brand, today announcing the expansion of its LawPay payments platform into what it says is a complete financial management...| LawSites
In A Marriage Of Legal Editing Tools, BriefCatch Has Acquired WordRake and Its 12 Editing Patents | LawSites
When it comes to standalone editing software for legal professionals, there have been basically three choices: BriefCatch, WordRake, and PerfectIt. Now that list is one shorter, as BriefCatch has acqu...| LawSites
Legalgain shares Findings in Whitepaper on Structural Requirements for AI Legal Research | LawSites
Legalgain has released Integrity Meets Intelligence: The Training Data and Domain Architecture Standards for Agentic Legal Research, a whitepaper examining the data and architectural requirements nece...| LawSites
Friday Is the Deadline to Vote! Here Are the Current Standings. Vote Now to Pick the 15 Startups that Will Go to Startup Alley at ABA Techshow in March
This Friday, Feb. 13, is the deadline to vote. Your votes determine the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. Below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Which of these companies will end up lucky on Friday the 13th? Remember, your votes determine […]| LawSites
DISCO Launches Scaled Agentic AI Tool for Large Discovery and Fact Investigation Matters | LawSites
Calling it 'the industry’s first scaled agentic AI tool for fact investigation and e-discovery,' DISCO today announced an agentic AI enhancement to its Cecilia Q&A tool, which the company says is...| LawSites
Eve Launches An AI Intake Specialist for Plaintiffs' Law Firms | LawSites
Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, today announced the beta launch of its AI Intake Specialist, an AI-powered intake feature that the company says will transform how plaintiffs' law firms...| LawSites
Today’s Legaltech Week: The Claude-pocalypse, AI Agents Gone Wild, and Much More – All Live at 3 ET
As I wrote earlier this week, it was the shot heard ’round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. Meanwhile, AI agents now have their own social network, Moltbook, while another new site is enabling them to rent humans to do […]| LawSites
Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on 10 Reasons the Market Overreacted to Claude’s Legal Skills Announcement
When Anthropic announced legal skills inside its Cowork environment this week, shares of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer tanked. Investors appeared to price in a new competitive threat from Claude. But Ken Crutchfield believes the market got it wrong. “I feel the market reaction does not reflect the reality of the situation,” he […]| LawSites
Masters AI Taps Cat Casey to Anchor Its New Global Legal AI Conference Series and Learning Ecosystem
The Masters Conference, which just two months ago announced new leadership and plans to launch a new division, Masters AI Legal, today announced that it has partnered with Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, and former chief growth officer at Reveal. Casey will anchor Masters AI […]| LawSites
Anthropic’s Legal Plugin for Claude Cowork May Be the Opening Salvo In A Competition Between Foundation Models and Legal Tech Incumbents
To read today’s news, you’d think it was the shot heard ’round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least. “Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,” reports The Guardian. “Anthropic’s Move Into Legal, Data Services Sinks Software Stocks,” says Bloomberg. “A selloff in … stocks deepened on […]| LawSites
LSC Issues Blueprint for Narrowing the Justice Gap through Technology Innovation in Civil Legal Services
In 2013, the Legal Services Corporation published the landmark study, Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice. The report forcefully made the case that technology could be a powerful – indeed, essential – tool in narrowing the justice gap, and its recommendations helped shape the last decade of […]| LawSites
At the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovation Conference, Talk of ‘Radical Collaboration,’ Cutting-Edge AI, and Doing More with What You Have
In video remarks that opened the second day of the Legal Services Corporation’s annual Innovations in Technology Conference in San Antonio last week, Bridget Mary McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, urged attendees to engage in “radical collaboration.” “AI alone won’t close the […]| LawSites
With Two Weeks Left to Vote, Here Are the Standings for ABA Techshow’s Startup Alley
With just two weeks left to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Remember, your votes determine the 15 companies that get the opportunity to face off in a live pitch competition on the […]| LawSites
Guest Post: In the Second of His Three-Part Series, Ken Crutchfield Looks At Whether UPL Will Hit the Breaking Point in 2026
Where does all the pressure building in legal tech concentrate? On unauthorized practice of law (UPL), says Ken Crutchfield — and something’s got to give. In Part 1 of his series on “The New Physics of Legal Tech,” Crutchfield examined the macro forces shaping the industry. Now, in Part 2, he zeroes in on the […]| LawSites
LawNext: From Customer to Acquirer: Filevine’s Ryan Anderson and Pincites’ Sona Sulakian on Building AI Contract Intelligence
In this episode of LawNext, we talk with Ryan Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Filevine, and Sona Sulakian, former CEO and co-founder of Pincites, about Filevine’s acquisition of the AI-powered contract redlining company. The deal, which closed in December, marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of the year. Even more notably for this traditionally litigation-focused […]| LawSites
AI Video Tools Depict Lawyers and Judges As Women At Far Lower Rates than Real Life, New Study Finds
A new study examining bias in AI-generated video reveals that the leading AI video creation tools significantly underrepresent women in the legal profession, depicting female lawyers at rates far below their actual numbers in the workforce. AI videos also underrepresent lawyers of color, although by a lesser percentage. According to research published by Kapwing, which […]| LawSites
EvenUp Launches AI Communication Agents to Handle Routine Tasks in PI Cases; Also Enhances Its AI Drafting
EvenUp, a company that specializes in AI tools for personal injury law practices, today launched Communication Agents, AI-powered voice and text assistants designed to automate routine communications in PI case management. The company also announced enhancements to its AI drafting capabilities. The company announced the new features during a keynote by cofounder Saam Mashhad at […]| LawSites
Can AI Agents Settle PI Cases? Mighty Says They Can and Have, As It Launches Free, Direct-to-Consumer Platform To Resolve Accident Claims
Joshua Schwadron is fed up with personal injury lawyers’ failure to pass on to their clients the savings they realize from technology. He is so fed up, in fact, that he is pivoting his legal technology company Mighty – which he originally launched to serve PI lawyers – to bypass those lawyers and go direct […]| LawSites
Aiming To Make AI More Easily Accessible for Smaller Law Firms, Legal AI Company August Launches Self-Service Platform and Free Educational Library
Aiming to remove the sales-cycle obstacles that have kept generative AI tools out of reach for many solo and smaller-firm lawyers, August today launched immediate self-service access to its legal AI platform, including a two-week free trial, alongside a comprehensive library of over 100 video tutorials. For the first time, the company says, smaller law […]| LawSites
Zebraworks Launches DataQ AI to Help Law Firms Accelerate Cash Flow Through AI-Driven Revenue Analytics
Zebraworks today announced the launch of DataQ AI, an artificial intelligence-powered analytics platform designed to help law firms identify and address revenue cycle issues before they impact cash flow. The new product, part of the company’s Invoices-to-Cash suite, analyzes billing and collections activity, accounts receivable, trust and retainer balances, and client payment patterns to surface […]| LawSites
Litera Expands Kira’s AI Capabilities with Hybrid Gen AI/Proprietary Approach to Contract Review
Litera is significantly enhancing Kira, its AI-powered contract review platform, with new capabilities designed to address the growing demands for speed, accuracy and trusted generative AI in contract review work, the company announced today. The enhanced version of Kira combines gen AI with proprietary AI models trained on over one million legal contracts to deliver […]| LawSites
Legal Tech Leaders Join Other Legal Professionals In Open Letter Supporting the Rule of Law
A number of leaders from the legal technology community are joining other legal professionals in an open letter supporting the rule of law. “Lawyers, judges, and government officials all take an oath to support and defend the constitution,” the letter says. “We write at a moment when constitutional rights and legal norms, long considered stable, […]| LawSites
Orbital Raises $60M Series B to Automate Real Estate Law with AI and Fuel U.S. Expansion
London-based real estate legal AI platform Orbital has raised $60 million in Series B funding to expand its presence in the U.S. market and build what it envisions as a comprehensive workspace for real estate legal work. The round was led by New York-based growth fund Brighton Park Capital, with participation from a diverse group […]| LawSites
Have You Voted Yet? Time Is Running To Pick The 15 Finalists For Startup Alley At ABA TECHSHOW
The deadline is fast approaching to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago, March 25-28, 2026. Your votes determine the 15 companies that get the opportunity to face off in a live pitch competition that is the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW. […]| LawSites
Universal Migrator Offers Free Access to eDocs Migration Tools in Wake of NetDocuments’ eDocs Acquisition
Last week, NetDocuments announced the acquisition of OpenText eDocs, marking a shift in the document management landscape for law firms. In response to this development, Universal Migrator has announced that it is making its complete library of eDocs migration tools available to all NetDocuments consultants globally at no cost. Universal Migrator’s decision is designed to […]| LawSites
Eve Launches ‘AI Workforce’ to Reshape the PI Firm Org Chart: Not Replacing Lawyers, But Freeing them For Higher-Level Work
Amid the ongoing debate over whether AI will replace lawyers, the legal tech company Eve is offering a different answer: It won’t replace them, but it will autonomously handle much of the routine work they used to do themselves, to give them more time for higher-value legal work. The company has unveiled Eve 2.0, which […]| LawSites
LexisNexis Launches Preview of Protégé AI Workflows with Hundreds of Pre-Built Tools and Custom Workflow Builder
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the commercial preview launch in the United States of a comprehensive set of hundreds of AI workflows within its LexisNexis Protégé AI assistant. The launch combines hundreds of pre-built litigation and transactional workflows with a custom workflow builder in what the company describes as an integrated, private, and secure […]| LawSites
London-Based Antidote Raises $5M to Automate Law Firm Billing Compliance and Drive U.S. Expansion
Antidote, an AI-powered billing compliance platform for law firms, announced today it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Lakestar, with participation from Concept Ventures, The LegalTech Fund, and several unnamed industry angels. The round brings the London-based company’s total funding to $7 million, following a $2 million pre-seed round in 2025. The […]| LawSites
LawNext: From Roommates to Billionaires: Harvey’s Founders Gabriel Pereyra and Winston Weinberg on Building AI Infrastructure for Law
Gabriel Pereyra and Winston Weinberg started legal AI company Harvey in 2022 as roommates in a San Francisco apartment. Pereyra had been working on AI research at Meta and Google, while Weinberg was a first-year litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers. Today, they still share that same apartment, but their company has grown into a […]| LawSites
Litera Brings Agentic AI to Mobile with New iOS App for Litera One Platform
Litera today launched an iOS mobile app for Litera One, its AI-enabled legal platform, extending its agentic AI capabilities to iPhone and iPad devices with what the company describes as “true two-way continuity” between desktop and mobile environments. The app addresses a practical challenge facing lawyers who need to maintain productivity across multiple devices and […]| LawSites
Alexi Fires Back at Fastcase Lawsuit with Counterclaims Alleging Anticompetitive Conduct Following Clio’s $1B Acquisition
Alexi Technologies has filed its answer and counterclaim against Fastcase, vLex, and Clio, accusing the newly merged legal technology giant of manufacturing breach-of-contract allegations as a pretext to eliminate a competitor in the AI legal research market. In December, Fastcase, now owned by Clio, sued Alexi in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, […]| LawSites
Did You Miss the Legaltech Week 2026 Predictions Show? No Worries, Here’s the Recording
What’s in store for legal tech and innovation in 2026? That was the topic of our most recent Legaltech Week live show, in which our panel of legal tech journalists shared their predictions for the year ahead. But if you missed it, no problem. Here are both the video and audio recordings. Remember, our show […]| LawSites
A Clio Doubleheader: CMO Reagan Attle and VP of Payments A.J. Axelrod
In the last in a series of interviews recorded during the ClioCon conference in Boston in October 2025, we bring you a doubleheader – two interviews with two of the legal tech company’s key executives. In the first, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Reagan Attle, chief marketing officer at Clio since 2017. In a […]| LawSites
Dyspute.ai Launches Adri v2, A 24/7 Asynchronous AI Mediation Platform
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 […]| LawSites
AI Startup AlphaLit Raises $3.2M Seed Round To Screen and Score Smaller Cases and Route them to Lawyers
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 […]| LawSites
Voting Is Now Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2026 in March
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 […]| LawSites
Relativity Launches aiR for Case Strategy to Extract and Organize Key Facts Using Generative AI
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 […]| LawSites
Dean Sonderegger Returns to Law to Lead Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions Business
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 […]| LawSites
Today: The Legaltech Week 2026 Predictions Show, Live At 3 P.M. Eastern
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. […]| LawSites
Harvey Announces Plan To Develop Memory, Enabling Users To Retain Context For More Consistent Work
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 […]| LawSites
The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2025
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 […]| LawSites
On LawNext: Fastcase Founder Ed Walters On the Implications of Clio’s Acquisition of vLex
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 […]| LawSites
Legal Tech Spending Surges 9.7% As Firms Race to Integrate AI, Says Report On State Of Legal Market
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 […]| LawSites
Henry Dicker, Longtime Leader Of ALM’s LegalTech Conferences, Joins Masters LegalAI
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, […]| LawSites
Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield Reads the Tea Leaves for Legal Tech in 2026
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 […]| LawSites
Breaking: BriefCatch Raises $6M Series A to Accelerate Acquisitions and Development
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 […]| LawSites
Final Reminder: Last Day for Startup Alley Applications! If You Are A Legal Tech Startup, Apply Today
Attention all legal tech startups: This is your final reminder. Today is the last day to apply for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. This competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual […]| LawSites
Guest Post: The Promise of AI in Legal Has Landed, But Not in the Way People Thought It Would
Augment or empower? The new split in AI for legal. There are still no “AI lawyers,” no bots running matters end to end or standing up in court. What we’re seeing instead is far more interesting: hundreds of focused solutions that chip away at specific problems. Taken together, they’re quietly reshaping the way legal work […]| LawSites
Exclusive: Filevine Acquires Pincites, AI-Powered Contract Redlining Company, Strengthening Its Positioning for Corporate Legal and Enhancing Its AI
Legal technology company Filevine has acquired Pincites, an AI-powered contract redlining company, in a deal that moves the company further into corporate and transactional law, complementing its strong presence in litigation, and that furthers its AI strategy. The deal marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of 2025, following its April acquisition of Parrot, a platform […]| LawSites
It’s the Legal Tech 2025 Year In Review, Live Today on Legaltech Week — Join Us!
What were the top stories and trends of 2025 in legal tech and legal innovation? Join us today on Legaltech Week as the leading legal tech journalists and bloggers wrap up the year’s top stories and trends — all live today at 3 p.m. Eastern time. The show is live on Zoom. It’s all free, […]| LawSites
Court Denies Alexi’s Emergency Motion to Restore Access to Fastcase Data
In an early win for legal research company Fastcase in its data-licensing lawsuit against AI legal research platform Alexi, a federal judge has denied Alexi’s emergency request for a temporary restraining order that would have compelled Fastcase to restore Alexi’s access to its proprietary legal database. In Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon […]| LawSites
Questel Integrates AI-Powered Patent Translation Services with Equinox IP Management Platform
Questel, a Paris-based global provider of intellectual property software and services, has integrated its patent translation services with its Equinox IP management software and other third-party IP systems through newly created connectors, the company said today. The integration allows patent professionals to initiate translation cases and track progress directly from within their IP management platforms. […]| LawSites
ABA Task Force: AI Has Moved From Experiment to Infrastructure for the Legal Profession
Artificial intelligence is no longer an abstract or experimental technology for lawyers – it is rapidly becoming core infrastructure for law practice, courts, legal education and access-to-justice efforts, and the legal profession must now shift its focus from whether to use AI to how to govern, supervise and integrate it responsibly. That is the central […]| LawSites
Clearbrief Launches Cite Check Report to Give Law Firm Partners an Audit Trail Against AI Hallucinations
With more than 650 documented cases of AI hallucinations appearing in court filings, and courts imposing sanctions ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to removal from client representations, law firm partners face an uncomfortable quandary: How can they confidently sign pleadings when they cannot be certain whether someone on their team used AI tools […]| LawSites
Aderant and Harvey Announce Partnership To Bridge the Gap Between Business and Practice of Law
Legal business software company Aderant and legal AI company Harvey today announced a partnership they are describing as “market-defining” for the way it will bridge the gap between software for the business of law and software for the practice of law. “Together, the companies will deliver the industry’s first deeply connected ecosystem that unites AI-powered […]| LawSites
Don’t Forget: Deadline Is Nearing To Apply For the Startup Alley Competition at ABA Techshow
A reminder to all legal tech startups: The deadline is approaching to apply for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, a competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference. Startups […]| LawSites
Harvey Cofounders Answer Tough Questions in Reddit AMA: Valuation, Competition and the Future of Legal AI
In a rare public forum appearance, Harvey co-founders Winston Weinberg, its CEO, and Gabriel Pereyra, its president, spent over two hours answering questions from the legal tech community in a Reddit AMA earlier today, addressing everything from their $8 billion valuation to how they compete with legal research giants and what the future holds for AI in […]| LawSites
On LawNext: Inside Clio’s AI-Driven Transformation – CPO John Foreman and CTO Jonathan Watson
For legal technology company Clio, this was a particularly significant year, marked by major announcements – including its $1 billion acquisition of vLex – that many saw as transformative for the company. This was on full display at the company’s ClioCon conference in October, where CEO Jack Newton gave a keynote laying out the company’s […]| LawSites
LexisNexis Unveils the ‘Next Generation’ of Its Protégé General AI, Callling It the ‘Most Integrated Legal AI Workflow Solution’
Following the preview release in August and the commercial release in October of its Protégé General AI, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today rolled out what it is calling the product’s next generation, expanding its capabilities to unify authoritative legal content, customer documents and open web insights within a single secure AI workflow environment. LexisNexis developed […]| LawSites
Film Studios, News Media and Even Competitor LexisNexis Among the 12 Amicus Briefs Supporting Thomson Reuters’ Copyright Case Against ROSS
The long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence is now pending in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s rulings in favor of TR. Recently here, I reported on the 10 amicus curiae briefs filed in support of ROSS, all arguing that the now-defunct AI legal […]| LawSites
Agiloft Launches AI-Powered Obligation Management System for Contract Lifecycle
Contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today released Obligation Management, a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract and track commitments from contracts. The feature is designed to address a persistent challenge in contract management: organizations frequently overlook critical obligations after signing agreements. Citing research from PwC, Agiloft says that companies can lose 5-9% […]| LawSites
EvenUp Launches Medical Management Tool to Address Treatment Gaps in Personal Injury Cases
EvenUp today introduced its new Medical Management product designed to help personal injury law firms track their clients’ medical care in real time and prevent treatment interruptions that can undermine case value. The San Francisco-based company, which specializes in AI tools for personal injury practices, said the product addresses a widespread problem. According to EvenUp’s […]| LawSites
AAA Launches AI Chatbook and Guide for Self-Represented Parties in Arbitration
The American Arbitration Association has introduced two free resources aimed at helping individuals and small businesses navigate arbitration without legal representation. The tools, released today, include an AI-powered chatbook that provides real-time answers to questions about arbitration procedures, rules and case management, and a downloadable PDF handbook that walks users through the arbitration process step-by-step, […]| LawSites
University of Chicago Law School AI Lab Launches LeaseChat, a Free Tool to Help Renters Understand Their Leases and Legal Rights
Fewer than four months after the University of Chicago Law School announced it would be launching an AI Lab, a course designed to teach law students how to build generative AI tools to help people who cannot afford an attorney, the 10 students in the lab’s inaugural class have developed and launched their first product. […]| LawSites
The Masters Conference Names Legal Industry Veterans Kevin Vermeulen As CEO and Mike Dalewitz As Chairman, Plans 2026 Rebrand and Refocus
The Masters Conference, an education and thought leadership forum focused on e-discovery, litigation, information governance, AI and related disciplines for legal professionals, has named legal industry veteran Kevin Vermeulen as its new chief executive officer. Masters also announced that Mike Dalewitz, a veteran e-discovery entrepreneur and former advisor to The Masters Conference, is returning to […]| LawSites
SKILLS Seeks Volunteers to Help Develop and Teach KM and Innovation Curriculum
The Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Legal Leaders Summit (SKILLS), an organization of people who work in roles relating to knowledge and innovation at leading law firms, is developing a certification program and is seeking volunteers to join the faculty and help write the curriculum. Called UpSKILLS, the certification program will cover topics related to legal […]| LawSites
Reimagining Litigation Workflows through AI: A Panel Recorded Live at the Everlaw Summit
As new tools using generative AI promise to change the way we litigate and conduct discovery, what are the implications for day-to-day litigation workflows? On today’s episode of LawNext, we feature a conversation with three guests about how law firms are navigating the urgency around gen AI adoption while staying grounded in practical realities. LawNext […]| LawSites
Clio Reveals Leadership Roles for Former vLex Executives Following $1 Billion Acquisition
Following the completion of its historic $1 billion acquisition of vLex last month, Clio has announced the leadership positions for key former vLex executives joining the company. The appointments are: Lluis Faus will serve as strategic advisor and interim chief content officer. As the former CEO of vLex, which he and his brother founded in […]| LawSites
Norm Ai Raises $50 Million from Blackstone, Launches AI-Native Law Firm
Norm Ai, the New York-based legal and compliance AI company, said last week that it has secured an additional $50 million investment from asset management firm Blackstone and is launching Norm Law LLP, which it describes as an AI-native law firm initially focused on financial services clients. The investment, which comes through Blackstone Innovations Investments […]| LawSites
Two Former BigLaw M&A Attorneys Launch Rubi, a Virtual Apprenticeship for Transactional Lawyers
Two former BigLaw M&A attorneys have launched a legal tech startup aimed at addressing one of the profession’s most persistent challenges — the gap between law school education and the practical skills needed to succeed in transactional practice. Rubi Legal Training, founded by co-CEOs Madison Keeble (pictured left above) and Geetika Jerath (pictured right), officially […]| LawSites
What Do Law Librarians Earn? New AALL Salary Survey Provides Details
As they adapt to rapid technological change, law libraries and legal information professionals are experiencing their highest staffing levels in nearly a decade, according to a comprehensive new industry survey released yesterday. But salaries for those in law libraries vary widely, depending on the type of library and career stage. While the highest base salary […]| LawSites
Thomson Reuters v ROSS: What Might Those Tantalizing Redactions in TR’s Brief Conceal?
Earlier today, I wrote about the brief filed by Thomson Reuters in its ongoing copyright litigation against the now-closed legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, which is now on an interlocutory appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Like many of the documents that have been filed in this case since it began in […]| LawSites
The Clio-Scorpion ‘Preferred Partnership’: A Closer Look At the Strategy and the Impact on Customers
Last June, legal technology company Clio and legal marketing company Scorpion announced that they had formed a comprehensive strategic partnership aimed at giving law firms greater visibility into their marketing investments and outcomes, addressing what the companies described as a longstanding blind spot in how lawyers understand and optimize their client acquisition efforts. The partnership […]| LawSites
Tradespace Acquires Paragon, A Patent Drafting Startup Founded By Computer Science Students, to Round Out Its End-to-End IP Platform
Tradespace, the San Francisco-based AI-powered intellectual property management platform, has acquired Paragon, an AI patent-drafting startup founded by three Princeton University computer science students. The acquisition, Tradespace says, makes it the first AI-powered platform to support the complete IP lifecycle, from initial invention disclosure through patent drafting, prosecution, portfolio management and commercialization. The deal brings […]| LawSites
LawNext: The Neuroanalytics Of Using Legal Tech: Clio’s Joshua Lenon On A First-of-its-Kind Cognitive Study
Legal technology company Clio recently released the 10th edition of its Legal Trends Report, its annual analysis of data and survey responses on legal practice and emerging trends, and this year’s report ventured into new territory. For the first time, the report included a neuroanalytics study of legal professionals, analyzing electrical brain activity in legal […]| LawSites
The LegalTech Fund Closes $110 Million Second Fund, Nearly 4X Its First
Yesterday, I reported here on the TLTF Summit last week in Austin, “the Davos of legal tech.” Now there is more news from its organizer, the venture capital firm The Legaltech Fund: It announced yesterday that it has closed its second fund at $110 million, representing a nearly fourfold increase over its inaugural $28.5 million […]| LawSites
From ‘Who Luck’ to ‘Who’s Here?’: The TLTF Summit Continues to Excel, Even As It Expands
God forbid a disaster had befallen Austin, Texas, last week, because it could have set back the evolution of legal tech by at least a decade. Assembled there were many of the best and the brightest of the legal tech world, who had all come together for the fourth edition of what has become the […]| LawSites
Attention Legal Tech Startups: Applications Now Open for the 10th Annual Startup Alley and Pitch Competition at ABA TECHSHOW 2026
Applications are now open for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, a competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference. Out of all the entries received, 15 startups will […]| LawSites
Callidus Legal AI Rebrands as StrongSuit, Adds Automated Case Validation
Callidus Legal AI has rebranded to StrongSuit and launched a significantly upgraded legal research platform that includes automated case validation — what lawyers traditionally call “shepardizing” — marking the company’s evolution from a legal AI tool into what it describes as an end-to-end litigation platform. The San Francisco-based company’s new platform automatically verifies that cases […]| LawSites
Harbor Acquires Legal Tech Training Firm Encoretech in First Deal Since BayPine Investment
Harbor, the Chicago-based legal technology and consulting firm, continues its string of recent acquisitions with the addition of Encoretech, a specialized training and user adoption services company focused on the legal sector. The deal marks Harbor’s first acquisition since receiving a majority investment from private equity firm BayPine in June and represents the company’s sixth […]| LawSites
Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on What Business Robin AI — and Other Legal Tech Companies — Are Really In
What does McDonald’s real estate strategy have to do with legal tech? More than you might think, says Ken Crutchfield. In the wake of Robin AI’s recent struggles to secure funding and reports of potential emergency acquisition talks, Crutchfield draws a compelling parallel to Ray Kroc’s revelation in The Founder that McDonald’s wasn’t really in […]| LawSites
K2 Services Acquires Epiq’s Business Process Outsourcing Division in Strategic Realignment
Epiq announced today the sale of its Global Business Transformation Solutions (GBTS) division to K2 Services, a managed services provider. The transaction positions Epiq to concentrate more intensively on technology-enabled legal solutions while significantly expanding K2’s operational footprint in the professional services sector. The deal is part of a broader strategic move by K2 Services, […]| LawSites
Clio Completes Historic $1 Billion vLex Acquisition, Announces $500 Million Series G at $5 Billion Valuation, Plus Exclusive Interview with CEO and CFO
Legal technology company Clio has completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, marking the conclusion of the largest deal in legal tech history, and has simultaneously closed a $500 million Series G funding round, along with a $350 million debt facility, valuing the combined company at $5 billion, and clearing the way to move forward […]| LawSites
Alexi Launches Comprehensive Workflow Library to Automate Transactional and Litigation Tasks
The legal AI platform Alexi has launched what it is calling the most comprehensive AI workflow library on the market, designed to help law firms move beyond risky AI experimentation toward reliable, scalable automation of legal work. The Toronto-based company introduced the Workflow Library in September, describing it as a solution developed for firms that […]| LawSites
CLOC Restructures Board, Expanding to 16 Members and Adding Legal Tech Vendors for First Time
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) today announced a major expansion and restructuring of its board of directors, expanding it from nine to 16 members, the largest increase in the organization’s 10-year history. In a significant policy shift for the organization, CLOC is formally adding legal technology and service providers to its board for the […]| LawSites
Steno Bolsters Its Leadership Team with Two Strategic Hires from InfoTrack and EvenUp
Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, has brought on two experienced legal tech executives to help it continue to scale its litigation support business beyond its core court reporting roots. The Los Angeles-based company announced today that it has hired Adam Camras as general manager and senior vice president of […]| LawSites
On LawNext: As SimpleDocs Acquires Law Insider, Founder Preston Clark Shares the Strategic Vision
If content is the raw material of generative AI, it only makes sense that an AI-driven contract automation platform would want to acquire the world’s largest database of contracts and clauses. That is exactly what happened recently when SimpleDocs, a company with an AI contract drafting, redlining and review platform, acquired Law Insider, which claims […]| LawSites
‘No One Can Own the Law’: Amici Come Out In Force to Support ROSS In Appeal of Copyright Ruling Favoring Thomson Reuters
As the long-running litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence has moved to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s copyright rulings in favor of TR, amicus curiae have come out in force to support the position of the now-defunct AI legal research startup that it did not […]| LawSites
Everlaw Announces General Availability of AI Deep Dive, As Well As Major Pricing Changes, at Annual Summit
AJ Shankar, CEO and founder of e-discovery company Everlaw, used the company’s annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to announce that Deep Dive, a new AI tool within the company’s platform that enables legal teams to ask questions across millions of documents, will reach general availability before the end of the year following a successful […]| LawSites
Guest Post: What Waymo’s Autonomous Vehicles Can Teach Legal Tech About Deploying Agentic AI
Fresh off his first Waymo ride, Ken Crutchfield observes that autonomous vehicles had to be trained to navigate real streets and make life-or-death decisions years before legal tech began exploring agentic AI. Now, as law firms rush to deploy AI agents, there are crucial lessons to be learned from Waymo’s journey, he says. In his […]| LawSites
LawNext: Clio CEO Jack Newton on Its New ‘Intelligent Legal Work Platform’ and A New Era Of AI-Driven Legal Work
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
Aderant Acquires Virtual Pricing Director to Advance AI-Powered Legal Pricing
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
Vals AI’s Latest Benchmark Finds Legal and General AI Now Outperform Lawyers in Legal Research Accuracy
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
Here’s A Guide To Help You Make Sense of Clio’s New Line Up of Products and Features
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
How It Works: A Demo of Eve Legal’s Call Intake for Law Firms
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 CEO and Founder Jay Madheswaran. Eve is a leading Legal AI platform for Plaintiff Law Firms. Eve is designed to […]| LawSites
A Day in the Life of a Clio Lawyer, As Powered By Its New ‘Intelligent Legal Work Platform’
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
To A Sometimes ‘Shell-Shocked’ ClioCon Audience, Jack Newton Presented Clio’s Vision for a New Era of AI-Driven Legal Work
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
On LawNext: How AI Is Helping Legal Aid Serve 50% More Clients: Thomson Reuters’ AI for Justice Program One Year In
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