Jennie Morawetz, who was named this week as CEO of regulatory intelligence company SCOREalytics, wants the company’s product to become the accepted standard for how lawyers keep up with regulatory change.

“I want using SCORE to be the standard for due diligence, or for a general counsel who’s tasked with staying on top of…

Legal professionals will now be able to automatically record the time they spend working in the legal AI platform Legora, as the result of a new partnership with the AI timekeeping platform Laurel.

With this partnership, the companies announced today, Laurel will turn every task a lawyer completes in Legora into a time entry, with…

A former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at Greenberg Traurig today launched useABI, a legal AI platform for M&A lawyers that is designed to function not as just another AI assistant but as something closer to a working member of a deal team.

“With useABI, an M&A lawyer gets the purchase agreement markup, issues list, diligence report…

Last year, this blog broke the news that the payroll and human resources company PayChex had acquired the employment law compliance and documentation company SixFifty, which had previously been owned by the Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a technology subsidiary, as well as by SixFifty’s CEO…

Partners at law and accounting firms say the one thing they most want from business-development technology is help finding new business in relationships their firms already have. But 78% say the relationship data at their firms is hard to act on, and most of those using AI for business development are using general-purpose chatbots that…

Perhaps this is the way the case will end, not with a bang but a whimper.

With apologies to T. S. Eliot, that was my reaction when I read the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ assessment of the 6.5-year battle between legal information giant Thomson Reuters and once-fledgling startup ROSS Intelligence as “no more…

Kirkland & Ellis made headlines again when it stated it will no longer disclose financial information to The American Lawyer magazine and other media after 2026. Firm leadership said financial disclosures could put too much focus on quantitative metrics over the quality and caliber of the firm’s legal services.

Kirkland is in a category…

As a former lawyer, a legal technology CEO, and a paying client of five major law firms, I see how legal services are built, sold, and experienced.

Recently, my wife and I sent three firms an RFP for personal legal work. One firm responded with a partner’s name, an associate’s name,…

Following this week’s ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright battle against the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence,  ROSS says it will seek review in the Supreme Court. 

Yar Chaikovsky, partner at White & Case, issued a statement on behalf of…

Relativity is holding firm on its plan to require that all new matters be hosted in the cloud beginning Jan. 1, 2028, CEO Phil Saunders said Thursday, and he had a blunt message for partners who are not on board: “Know we’re going to run through you.”

Saunders made the comments during a media briefing…

Five years ago, Noah Waisberg sold Kira Systems, the pioneering AI contract-analysis company he co-founded, to Litera. Even though the deal itself went well, the experience of going through the sale was hard, Waisberg now says. But that experience provided the fuel that turned into his next business. As part of the…