Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.

I have already covered the conference and several of the…

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.

I have already covered the conference and several of the…

The legal technology company Filevine has launched an AI-native citator and a companion brief-checking tool inside LOIS, its Legal Operating Intelligence System AI platform, that its CEO says perform as well as or better than the leading legal citators from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters.

The citator has two core features. One checks a filed…

Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts. In this episode of LawNext,…

Newcode, an Oslo-based legal AI company that sells law firms a configurable AI harness rather than a finished assistant, has raised a Series A led by OnDean Forward, the investment firm founded by Relativity founder Andrew Sieja.

The round brings the company’s total capital raised this year to $20 million and will fund its…

“We’ve reached peak legal tech.”

That was the takeaway of a veteran legal tech CEO while attending this week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association.

The conference was in Nashville, but it should have been in Texas, because everything was bigger this year. Consider:

Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts.

The hiring marks Clio’s first dedicated move into the judiciary,…

The legal AI company Harvey and the court data company PacerPro have announced an integration partnership that gives litigation teams working in Harvey access to their firm’s complete litigation record, including the filings and case context from matters the firm has previously handled and those currently on the docket.

PacerPro captures state and…

It certainly has been no secret that Thomson Reuters has been building its own proprietary large language model. In fact, in my June interview with TR’s CEO Steve Hasker, he talked openly about it, and just a few weeks ago, I reported on TR’s release of preliminary benchmarking data that showed impressive results…

LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced what it is calling the next generation of Lexis+ with Protégé, its generative AI legal assistant, unveiling new agentic capabilities designed to enable legal professionals to move from an initial idea to review-ready work product in one intuitive AI experience.

Branding it the LexisNexis Legal Intelligence Engine, the release…

Law practice company Clio said today that it is bringing AI to Clio Grow, its client intake and relationship management product.

Clio describes the new Grow AI as a set of features within Grow “that work around the clock to turn inquiries into clients.”

The product targets a problem documented by Clio’s Legal Trends…