For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it…

In what may be one of the most significant appellate sanctions rulings yet involving fabricated case citations, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has imposed substantial penalties on two Tennessee attorneys for filing briefs containing more than two dozen fake or misrepresented citations.

The court sanctioned attorneys Van R. Irion and Russ Egli, ordering…

Aderant, the Atlanta-based provider of business management software for law firms, today announced the addition of AI-powered capabilities to its vi by Aderant talent management suite, including AI-assisted employee performance evaluations, real-time sentiment analysis, and auto-summarization features within its viEval and viAllocate products.

The company says these are the first client-facing AI…

Pro Bono Net, the nonprofit that has been a pioneering force in access-to-justice technology since the dawn of the internet era, yesterday announced that it is rebranding as Scale Justice, reflecting an evolution in its mission that has taken it beyond its origins as an organizer of pro bono legal services.

The new name,…

You know that idiom about the mountain coming to Muhammad? That is how I felt when Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton came to my small seaside town of Rockport, Mass., to interview me, complete with film crew and entourage.

It was Jack turning the tables on me. I’ve interviewed him for…

Customer results highlight growing demand for unified drafting, comparison, and collaboration within Microsoft 365 and web

NEW YORK – Legalweek 2026 – Mar. 10, 2026 – Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, shared new customer results at Legalweek demonstrating…

Last week, Law.com Legalweek pulled off something genuinely impressive: It moved.

After 39 years at the New York Hilton Midtown, one of the world’s leading legal technology conferences relocated to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a sprawling glass and steel pavilion 1.6 miles away on Manhattan’s far west side, steps from the entrance…

This is the final installment in a three-part series examining the forces reshaping the legal industry. Part One and Part Two covered the macro dynamics of the AI industrial revolution and also the bending of UPL as consumers turn to AI products such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for legal advice.

Consumer behavior…

Clio has officially launched Clio Capital, a financing program designed exclusively for law firms that use the company’s practice management platform.

The product, which went live Feb. 26, provides eligible law firms with pre-qualified access to working capital through a streamlined application process directly within the Clio platform, bypassing the paperwork-heavy, rejection-prone process that…

An Australian legal tech startup that has built what it describes as the first fact management system for litigation is announcing a A$7 million seed round and its expansion into the United States, including the opening of a San Francisco office and the launch of a self-serve platform aimed at smaller law firms.

Mary…

With Legalweek 2026 set to open Monday in New York City, legal technology companies have been rolling out a string of product announcements and company news in the days leading up to the conference. The pre-conference wave covers a range of developments, from new AI platforms and funding rounds to enhancements in e-discovery tools…