(This is a guest editorial by Emma Pullman, head of shareholder engagement and responsible investment at the British Columbia General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) in Canada, a minority shareholder in Thomson Reuters, and Sarah Lamdan, a lawyer and librarian who researches and writes about library vendors and service providers, and who wrote a 2019…
Universal Migrator Launches New Website Built for Migration Experts
Universal Migrator has launched a brand-new website designed to make legal data migrations easier to research, explain, plan, and execute.
The new site gives migration consultants, IT professionals, legal technology advisors, and law firm leaders a clearer way to understand what Universal Migrator can do across hundreds of migration scenarios. Instead of forcing migration experts…
Ironclad Founder Jason Boehmig Joins OpenAI To Develop Products for the Legal Sector
The legal industry is turning into a battleground for the two dominant frontier AI companies.
Less than a month ago, Anthropic — developer of the Claude AI assistant — took a major step into the legal market, releasing more than 20 MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments…
Florida Supreme Court Tackles AI Hallucinations with New Rule Applicable to All State Courts
Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today issued a new rule that requires the signer of any document filed in any Florida court to represent that “the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.”
The court’s order (Opinion_SC2026-0673) also adds a rule that…
Aiming To Provide Members with Affordable AI Tools, Illinois Bar Partners with SimpleDocs for Contract Review
For Illinois attorneys who are curious about trying artificial intelligence for contract review, now is their chance to do it for free.
The Illinois State Bar Association and the AI contract review platform SimpleDocs said today that they have entered into a partnership to give ISBA members free 30-day access to the SimpleDocs’…
Darrow, the ‘AI Lab for Legal Risk,’ Launches a Platform to Let Plaintiffs’ Firms Manage Litigation Like an Investment Portfolio
The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too late to mitigate and the only course is to react.
That is the premise of Darrow, a company that built its early reputation by scanning the web to surface potential class…
In Banning AI, Is Berkeley Law Shortchanging Its Students — and Endangering their Future Clients?
UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the use of generative AI for nearly every step of producing graded work — and prohibiting it outright in any exam. The policy takes effect this summer.
The rule, which the school released…
Ahead of June 10 Shareholder Vote, Union Investor Renews Push for Thomson Reuters to Assess Human Rights Impact of Its Products Used By ICE
Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts to sell law enforcement data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily through two products: CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), which provides personal data from a variety of public and non-public sources, and license…
iManage Touts AI Momentum and a ‘Context Fabric’ as It Unveils Platform Overhaul at ConnectLive 2026
iManage used the opening of its annual ConnectLive user conference in Chicago earlier this week to introduce what it describes as the next evolution of its document- and knowledge-management platform, a redesign the company says is built to make institutional knowledge usable by AI systems while keeping governance and security controls in place.
The…
Claude for Legal and Access to Justice: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown
Last week, when Anthropic released its biggest legal push to date — more than 20 MCP connectors, 12 practice-area plugins,a and integrations with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint — much of the coverage focused on what the announcement means for law firms, in-house teams, and the legal tech ecosystem. That is where the…
Harvey Launches ‘Command Center’ for Managing Enterprise AI Adoption, and Partners with DeepJudge on Institutional Knowledge
As legal AI company Harvey kicks off the two-day Harvey Forum today in New York City, it is announcing the launch of Command Center, a new product designed to help law firms and legal teams manage, measure, and optimize enterprise AI adoption.
In addition, Harvey today announced a partnership with legal AI company
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