Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an “expert AI coworker” designed to run the business operations of a firm — from deal screening and conflicts…
Relativity President Chris Brown on the Gavel Acquisition, Opening Up to Claude, and the ‘Gangbusters’ Growth of aiR
Last week, Relativity announced that Chris Brown, its chief product officer since 2018, had been named the company’s president, effective July 13. In the new role, Brown continues to lead Relativity’s product organization while adding marketing and technology partnerships to his scope — a change that coincides with the departure of Chief Marketing Officer…
‘I Couldn’t Get It Out of My Mind’: Chris Cartrett on Why He Is Leaving Aderant and Legal Tech
When I spoke with Chris Cartrett yesterday, just hours after reporting that he will step down Aug. 1 as president and CEO of Aderant, he was emphatic that his departure, after 12 years at the company, including five as CEO, was not about wanting to leave.
“It’s not a matter of wanting…
Legal Decoder Introduces Aperture, A Natural Language Interface for Querying Legal Billing Data
Legal Decoder, a legal spend analytics company whose billing-review technology has been relied on by Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 firms, as well as fee examiners in major federal bankruptcy cases, is today launching Aperture, a natural language interface that lets law firms and legal departmentss conversationally query legal billing and spend…
Litera Relaunches Its Brand Around a Unified Vision: One AI Agent Spanning the Practice and Business of Law
Litera, one of the most broadly deployed technology companies in the legal industry, is today unveiling a company-wide relaunch that positions it as the legal AI platform unifying the practice and business of law through one AI agent and one dataset.
The relaunch — going live today at litera.com — includes a new brand…
Chris Cartrett to Step Down as CEO of Aderant, Departing Legal Tech to Lead Public Safety Software Company; Former CEO Deane Price to Return on Interim Basis
In a major leadership change at one of legal technology’s largest companies, Chris Cartrett will step down as president and CEO of Aderant, effective Aug. 1, the company announced today.
He is leaving the legal industry to become chief executive officer of ImageTrend, a provider of software and data analytics for emergency medical…
Exclusive: As Its Kaleidoscope Conference Returns for Year Two, 8am Trades Austin’s Cowboy Boots for the Las Vegas Strip — And Books the Savannah Bananas’ Founder As Keynote
Last September, when the company 8am — having successfully pulled off a major rebrand just three weeks earlier — then went on to pull off its first-ever customer conference in Austin, I wrote a review giving it high praise.
Although that inaugural event was modest in size, it was big in energy,…
Percipient Launches Certera.AI, A Blind Head-to-Head Testing Ground for Legal AI, with a Lawyer-Voted Leaderboard On the Way
Which AI models are actually best at legal work? A new platform launched in beta by the alternative legal services provider Percipient aims to answer that question by letting legal professionals put the models to the test themselves, in blind, head-to-head comparisons, and all at no cost.
The platform, Certera.AI, lets a user submit…
The AI Productivity Inflection: How the Agentic PDLC Accelerated Delivery and Drove AI Adoption
R&D & AI INNOVATION
The AI Productivity Inflection How the Agentic PDLC Accelerated Delivery and Drove AI AdoptionR&D performance, Q1 FY2025 through Q2 FY2026
By Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer, Litera
Eighteen months ago, I walked out of an Hg conference…
UChicago Law Bans Laptops from 1L Classrooms As Part of Sweeping New AI Strategy for Legal Education
The University of Chicago Law School yesterday released a comprehensive AI Strategy Statement that will reshape how it teaches first-year students, how it assesses upper-level writing, and how it integrates AI tools across its curriculum — including a pilot program that will prohibit laptops, tablets and phones in all core 1L classes starting this fall.…
Two Years After Launching Its AI Assistant Archie, Smokeball Rolls Out the ‘Next Generation’ Built on Agentic AI, and Embedded in Word and Outlook
Two years ago, the law practice management company Smokeball gave me an exclusive preview of its plans for an AI ecosystem spanning the full client lifecycle, anchored by an AI matter assistant called Archie, which it formally launched in July 2024.
Now the company has released the next generation of Archie AI,…
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