Yesterday, Thomson Reuters made two announcements. It opened early access to the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired Casetext in 2023, and it released its Future of Professionals Report 2026, which warns of a widening gap between AI adoption and…

Once upon a time, a legal tech vendor’s goal in getting seen by potential customers was to rank on the first page of Google search. But in the age of AI, that is no longer enough. Now, when a potential buyer asks ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to recommend a vendor, what matters is whether…

Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched two capabilities, Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, that help attorneys understand how transactions change over time and how documents relate to one another.

Both features further extend Centari’s platform beyond single-document review to reasoning across the multiple agreements, amendments, and ancillaries that make up…

Thomson Reuters is opening early access this week to what it calls the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired the product as part of its 2023 purchase of Casetext — and, just as notably, a shift in how the company describes…

Most professionals are now using artificial intelligence at work, but far fewer are getting much value out of it, according to new research from Thomson Reuters. And the cost of that shortfall is starting to show up in lost clients, departing talent, and a generation of professionals who may take longer to develop the independent…

BARBRI, the legal education company best known for bar exam preparation, has acquired Lega, the AI startup that launched in 2023 with a focus on large language model governance but which has been evolving into helping legal professionals develop AI fluency through practical, experiential learning.

Legal was founded by Christian Lang,…

In two separate announcements this week, Clio rolled out two initiatives aimed at the same problem — getting practicing lawyers comfortable with AI. One puts AI software directly into lawyers’ hands at no cost; the other tries to teach the profession how to use it.

On Monday, the company announced the Legal AI Accelerator,…

When Kirkland & Ellis announced a $500 million investment in AI, much of the reaction focused on the dollar amount. That much money commands attention in the legal industry.

But the dollar amount may not be the most interesting part of the story. The more important questions are what is Kirkland actually buying and…

BlackBoiler, a company that has spent over a decade building automated redlining technology, this week launched Veris, a new platform that takes its original deterministic editing engine and supercharges it with generative AI and an agentic, chat-based interface.

Running directly inside a Microsoft Word add-in, Veris allows contract-review teams to negotiate and mark up…

Relativity, the Chicago-based legal data intelligence company best known for the e-discovery and litigation platform RelativityOne, has acquired Gavel, the Los Angeles-based document automation and AI drafting company founded by Dorna Moini (pictured above).

Relativity said the move will enable it to extend Relativity’s AI platform into the place where lawyers actually write,…

In all my years of covering legal tech, I cannot remember a week quite like this. And I say that for a very specific reason: This week brought an unusual concentration of leadership changes at legal tech companies.

Four companies announced new chief executives, and a fifth named a new president. Is that much C-suite…