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
AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay and other law practice management products, has entered into a partnership with Canadian AI company Caseway that will bring automated court form filling capabilities to MyCase practice management software users. The partnership introduces a new product developed by the Vancouver-based Caseway — an AI-powered court form automation tool […]| LawSites
As we move through 2025, one thing is clear. Midsize law firms are at a pivotal moment of transformation. These firms are facing rising client expectations, increasing operational costs, and a shifting talent landscape that is motivating firms to make bold moves to stay competitive, efficient, and client focused. At Actionstep, we are proud to […]| LawSites
One of the areas of legal practice in which generative artificial intelligence is having a significant impact is litigation, bringing new products designed to handle the time-intensive work of conducting discovery, sifting through evidence, analyzing depositions and preparing for trial. Now comes another notable example of that, as Lexitas, a company that specializes in technology-enabled […]| LawSites
On this episode of How it Works, I’m joined by Ed Kirk, Head of Partnerships at Supio, to walk through the Supio Legal AI platform. Supio specializes in personal injury and mass tort litigation, developing an AI-powered platform that helps law firms organize, analyze and prepare legal cases. Supio combines purpose-built AI models with human […]| LawSites
LegalOn Technologies, a legal technology company that until now has focused on AI-driven contract review, said today that it is expanding into matter management with a major upgrade to its platform that allows legal departments to manage the intake and execution of legal requests. “We want to help legal teams solve the problems that slow […]| LawSites
Ben M. Schorr, one of the leading experts in the use of Microsoft products in legal practice, has joined Affinity Consulting Group LLC, one of the top companies in the U.S. providing strategic busines...| LawSites
A new survey of state courts reveals a striking paradox in the American judicial system: Even though courts face severe staffing shortages and operational strain, they remain reluctant to adopt generative artificial intelligence technologies that could provide significant relief. The Thomson Reuters Institute’s third annual survey of state courts, conducted in partnership with the National […]| LawSites
Google’s recent outage wasn’t just an inconvenience — it was a wake-up call. As more and more law firms rely on AI tools and AI agents to perform critical tasks, they’re potentially creating a dangerous dependency that could paralyze key aspects of their practice when (not if) the AI grid goes down. In her latest […]| LawSites
EvenUp, a legal technology company leveraging AI to transform personal injury law, today announced two new products that expand the capabilities of its platform for performing case analysis and for ke...| LawSites
Usage of artificial intelligence by legal professionals has skyrocketed from 19% in 2023 to 79% this year, according to the ninth edition of the Legal Trends Report, released today by Clio during its...| LawSites
When legal research giant LexisNexis and legal AI giant Harvey announced a strategic alliance last month, legal tech commentator Richard Tromans called it “possibly the most important legal tech move in a decade.” On today’s episode of LawNext, we go deep into the partnership and its implications with Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, […]| LawSites
It was major news this week when law practice management company Clio announced its acquisition of legal research and AI company vLex for $1 billion. But Ken Crutchfield, who has been an executive at LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, and most recently Wolters Kluwer, where he was vice president and general manager of legal markets for Wolters […]| LawSites
Law libraries across academia, private practice, and government are contending with rapid changes in technology, staffing, and service delivery, according to the 2025 State of the Profession report re...| 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
In a landmark deal that will undoubtedly reshape the legal tech landscape, law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for...| LawSites
Having had to skip last week’s show, we have two weeks of news to catch up on today on Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists discusses the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation. It’s live today at 3 p.m. E.T. If you haven’t already, you can sign […]| LawSites
Unless you have been living in a cave for the past two years, you are undoubtedly aware of the rash of AI hallucination cases plaguing the legal profession. These are cases in which lawyers-who-should-know-better file briefs they’ve generated using AI without ever checking the citations, only to learn — surprise of surprises — that the […]| LawSites
Earlier this week, I reported on FTV Capital’s investment in ProfitSolv, the parent company behind multiple law practice management platforms, including CosmoLex, Orion, Rocket Matter and Tabs3. Although the dollar amount of the investment was not disclosed, ProfitSolv described it as “substantial.” Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Adam Hallquist, a principal at FTV Capital who led […]| LawSites
A study out today from Thomson Reuters reveals a stark division within the legal profession: When it comes to reaping the benefits of AI, organizations with clear AI strategies are dramatically outperforming those without them, creating an increasingly pronounced competitive divide. The 2025 Future of Professionals report, based on responses from 2,275 global professionals across […]| LawSites
Supio, an AI-driven platform developed specifically for personal injury lawyers, has been generating a lot of buzz. On the heels of reporting record growth last year and raising $25 million in Series A funding in October, last month it raised another $60 million in a Series B round. But what do the lawyers who use the platform […]| LawSites
Even free legal research platforms need to make money at some point, and so as Descrybe.ai today launches a paid upgrade, it is making it worth your while, offering a “Legal Research Toolkit” with a suite of features, including its own AI-driven citator, which it calls the Cytator. As I wrote about Descrybe last year, […]| LawSites
A month before the American Association of Law Libraries is set to convene in Portland, Ore., for its annual conference, its executive director, Vani Ungapen, announced today that she will leave at the end of August to purse a new professional opportunity. Ungapen has been the AALL’s executive director since October 2018. An AALL announcement […]| LawSites
Free Law Project’s CourtListener has launched RECAP Search Alerts, a new feature that allows users to monitor federal court filings for specific keywords, people, or topics, and receive alerts when there is a match. The service, which went live this week, represents what the organization calls “Google Alerts for federal courts, but much better.” RECAP […]| LawSites
I wrote yesterday about the Puerto Rico Supreme Court’s adoption of the duty of technology competence, done as part of its promulgation of new rules of professional conduct to replace a code of ethics that had governed lawyers’ professional conduct in Puerto Rico since 1970. While Puerto Rico modeled its new Rules of Professional Conduct on […]| 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 state adoption of the duty. That approach was to incorporate the duty in a comment (Comment 8) to Model Rule 1.1, which […]| LawSites
When Chris Cartrett was named CEO of legal technology company Aderant in 2022, he did so with the mission of aggressively advancing a cloud-first strategy throughout the company’s suite of business and financial software for law firms. Given that Aderant is a nearly 50-year-old company with many customers who still use the on-premises version of […]| LawSites
The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexis Legal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis’ gen AI technology, primary law content, and Shepard’s Citations within the Harvey platform and jointly develop advanced legal workflows. As a result of the partnership, Harvey’s customers working within its platform will be able to […]| LawSites
A comprehensive survey of Washington State Bar Association members reveals a cautious approach to artificial intelligence adoption among legal professionals, with significant gaps in technology knowledge and cybersecurity practices creating potential vulnerabilities across the state’s legal landscape. The WSBA Technology Survey, conducted from September to October 2024 and published in April 2025, found that only […]| LawSites
Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform is used by law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal services organizations to match lawyers with pro bono opportunities and manage pro bono engagement, is today launching a pro bono platform designed specifically for law schools and law students. Developed in collaboration with some 30 law schools, the […]| 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 capture and qualify potential clients. This news follows Eve’s release in April of its AI Reasoning Mode that it says can perform complex legal […]| LawSites
Just four months ago in an article here, I caught up with founder and CEO Ryan Alshak for an update on Laurel, the company that provides automated time capture and analytics for law firms and other professional services firms. I first met Alshak in 2017, when his then startup won the very first Startup Alley, […]| LawSites
Limelight, a communications and marketing agency serving law firms, legal technology companies, and other professional services and B2B companies, has hired Amy Hanan as its chief growth officer, where she will be responsible for leading the agency’s digital and growth marketing services practice. Hanan was most recently chief marketing officer at LRN Corporation, a global […]| LawSites
Law.com is set to unveil a comprehensive redesign on June 16 that significantly restructures how legal professionals access and navigate the platform’s extensive collection of legal news and resources. Most notably, the site is moving away from a somewhat siloed organizational structure built around the various publications owned by ALM, its parent company, in favor […]| LawSites
After six years as vice president and general manager of legal markets for Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., Ken Crutchfield has retired, effective yesterday, the company announced. He will be succeeded in that role by Jill Weinstein, who was previously vice president of product management, research and learning in Wolters Kluwer’s tax and accounting […]| LawSites
In what is described as the first known partnership between a legal services provider and a major generative AI platform, LegalZoom and Perplexity have entered into an agreement by which Perplexity Pro subscribers will get access to exclusive offers from LegalZoom, including discounts on legal services and products tailored for individuals and small businesses. I’ve […]| LawSites
What happens when a CEO steps away from a legal tech company just before the generative AI revolution explodes, then returns two years later amid a landscape that is being dramatically transformed? For Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha, that is exactly what happened. As the CEO of Litera from 2016 to 2022, Marwaha led the legal tech company […]| LawSites
A new benchmarking study reveals that artificial intelligence adoption in corporate legal departments is gaining momentum, with 38% of surveyed teams already using AI tools and another 50% actively exploring implementation. However, significant barriers around trust, data privacy, and measurement persist as the legal profession navigates this technological shift. The inaugural AI in Legal Departments: […]| LawSites
Microsoft dominates small law tech, but it’s fumbling the AI agent transition. Google sees the opening. The Unexpected Opening In most small law offices, you’ll find a familiar tech stack: Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams. Microsoft is the default productivity suite for the legal world. It has been for decades. So, when Copilot was announced, fully […]| LawSites
Five years after Arizona and Utah launched groundbreaking reforms to liberalize legal services regulation, a new comprehensive study from Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession reveals both the promise and the complexities of regulatory innovation in the legal sector. The report, Legal Innovation After Reform: Five Years of Data on […]| LawSites
Two veterans of the legal technology industry, Patrick DiDomenico and Kevin Klein, today announced the launch of LegalTech Connect, a new venture aimed at connecting participants across the legal technology ecosystem through events, advisory services, and educational resources. “Leveraging more than five decades of combined experience in legal technology, innovation, and large-scale industry event production, […]| LawSites
As he took the stage before the nearly 1,000 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel in Dallas to open his company’s Momentum Global 2025 user conference May 20, Aderant President and CEO Chris Cartrett said he preferred to think of his talk not as a keynote, but as a kick-off. But by […]| LawSites
Earlier today, I wrote about the latest iteration of CoCounsel, the AI product originally developed by Casetext before it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023 for a whopping $650 million in cash. But well before Casetext was acquired, and well before it introduced CoCounsel as one of the very first legal AI assistants to […]| LawSites
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company describes as a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute complex multi-step workflows within professional environments. Today’s announcement centered on the immediate availability […]| LawSites
Cornell Winston, president of the American Association of Law Libraries, brings a unique perspective to law librarianship, having spent 45 years in libraries across diverse settings — from a hospital library where he started as a student worker; to the former Whittier Law School; to prominent law firms Munger, Tolles & Olson and Orrick, Herrington […]| LawSites
LexCheck has launched version 3.0 of its AI-powered contract review software, introducing capabilities that automatically generate custom playbooks from clients’ historical redlines and provide precedent checking against past agreements. The New York-based legal technology company says the release is a significant advancement in contract review accuracy and enterprise scalability. This follows its January release of […]| LawSites
The judge presiding over the long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and Ross Intelligence today issued a memorandum opinion explaining his April 10 issuance of an 11th-hour order postponing the scheduled trial to allow Ross to file an interlocutory appeal of the judge’s partial grant of summary judgment. “Though I am still confident in my […]| LawSites
Monica Zent is a true pioneer in legal innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the founder of ZentLaw, an award-winning alternative legal services provider that broke the traditional law firm mold when she founded it in 2002. ZentLaw has since grown into a nationwide legal services provider, serving global brands and major corporations with a unique […]| LawSites
In the latest installment of our How It Works series, we explore EvenUp, a legal technology company leveraging AI to transform personal injury law. This 15-minute product demo focuses on a few of EvenUp’s just-released features, including their AI Drafts Suite, Smart Workflows, and the Medical Bills Summary. Joining me to tell us about EvenUp […]| LawSites
Document automation company Gavel today released Gavel Exec, an AI assistant embedded in Microsoft Word that it says can perform at a senior-level capacity for small law firms. Lawyers can use the AI assistant to perform a range of activities, including contract analysis and redlining, negotiation based on firm precedents, and running playbooks with pre-defined […]| LawSites
At its Momentum Global conference in Dallas today, legal technology company Aderant unveiled four new cloud-based financial management applications, marking a significant expansion of the company’s AI-powered offerings for law firms. The new applications — Cloud Accounts Receivable (AR), Cloud General Ledger (GL), Stridyn Analytics, and askMADDI — were officially launched during this morning’s keynote […]| LawSites
A legal information website launched this week is designed to help people in Arkansas handle legal problems on their own confidently and affordably. Called ArkansasLegalNow (ALN), the site was developed by Brandon Haubert, a civil and family lawyer and the CEO of WH Law, a Little Rock law firm. “We believe legal help shouldn’t be […]| LawSites
As many of you know, I’ve long followed and reported on the evolving intersection of law, technology, and access to justice. That’s why I’m proud to partner with Everlaw for Good, the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, and Paladin on a new survey launched this week at the Equal Justice Conference in San Francisco. We’re asking legal […]| LawSites
On May 5, 2025, PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in helping corporate legal departments select and manage outside counsel, announced that it had acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal, in a move designed to create an end-to-end workflow solution spanning everything from matter intake to invoice payment. “This acquisition accelerates our ability […]| LawSites
I am thrilled to announce a new regular contributor to our site, Jennifer Case, and tell you about her inaugural column, which was published today. She will be writing each month about AI in legal practice, with a focus on solo and small-firm lawyers. Jennifer is a California attorney, entrepreneur and AI strategist who helps lawyers […]| LawSites
In what has become a distressingly familiar pattern in courtrooms across America, two more cases have emerged of lawyers submitting briefs containing non-existent legal citations generated by AI tools. At this point, one wonders if the legal profession needs a mandatory continuing legal education course titled, “How to Avoid Becoming the Next AI Hallucination Headline.” […]| LawSites
John Foreman, who has served as chief product officer at two major SaaS companies, has joined law practice management company Clio as its new chief product officer, the company said today. The company said he will lead its product strategy and delivery across its expanding platform of products, guiding the company’s long-term innovation roadmap. Foreman […]| LawSites
