Got conferences? If so, then probably one or more of Legaltech Week’s regular panelists has been there in the last couple weeks — from ClioCon in Boston to the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to NetDocuments Inspire in Orland0 and some smaller ones along the way — and we will be sharing our reports and…

NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter believes the document management system is becoming something even greater — a law firm’s organizational intelligence layer. As lawyers increasingly do their work inside AI tools such as Claude, Harvey, Legora and ChatGPT, Baxter says NetDocuments’ job is to build and preserve the firm’s context, then make it accessible through…

At its annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco this week, the e-discovery company Everlaw unveiled Omni, an agentic AI investigation suite that orchestrates the full range of the company’s tools to answer questions about a case.

The company also launched Workflows, a drag-and-drop tool for automating complex document reviews, and Everlaw for Word, a…

Within the span of 48 hours this week, I was an in-person witness to the legal profession’s divide on AI. Through a bit of karmic coincidence, I was in a room one day dominated by people who fear it as a threat, and then two days later with those who embrace it as an opportunity.…

Clio rolled out a ton of news today, as founder and CEO Jack Newton delivered the opening keynote at the annual ClioCon conference in Boston — from major new products and features, to a new acquisition, and even new branding. While I am too busy here for the next two days to write a detailed…

On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform.

That integration is now live, and last week the two companies gave me a demo of…

Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms.

With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely by the hour outnumber firms billing…

A new connector announced today enables Harvey customers to access the AI legal research platform Midpage.

The connector makes Midpage’s research library of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and agency materials accessible from directly within Harvey, so lawyers can find and cite authority on the same platform they use for drafting and analysis.

Midpage…

Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today.

Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline citations linking back to sources in Blue J.…

Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday.

Silverton Partners led the round, with General Partner Mike Dodd taking the lead. Indicator Ventures, Lightbank, Neon Fund, ZVC, Rosecliff…

Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners.

Microsoft now becomes the fourth major AI company in five months…