Supio, the AI platform built for plaintiffs’ personal injury firms, has hired Melissa Graham, chief operating officer of Nevada’s Richard Harris Law Firm for the last 15 years, as its vice president of industry, a newly created role aimed at narrowing the gap between the people who build legal technology and the…

The closely watched copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence returned to the spotlight this month as a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over whether ROSS’s use of Westlaw headnotes to train its legal research system was protected by fair use.

At oral argument June 11…

Perplexity, the AI search engine known for delivering sourced answers to user queries, is making an explicit move into the legal market, rolling out legal-specific features within its agentic platform, Perplexity Computer, and positioning the product as what it calls “Computer for Counsel.”

The company highlighted the legal push yesterday at an

Recently I sat through a demo of a product unlike anything I’d seen before, aimed at a segment of the legal profession that legal tech companies have largely ignored – the fractional general counsel, lawyers who serve as outside in-house counsel for multiple companies too small to have their own legal departments.

The product is…

When I wrote about Abstract in April, I reported on how the New York-based startup was making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, alerting law firms and corporate legal teams to the bills and rules that matter to a client, even when they never mention that client’s industry by name.…

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,…