Articles Posted in 2025

Microsoft dominates small law tech, but it’s fumbling the AI agent transition. Google sees the opening. The Unexpected Opening

In most small law offices, you’ll find a familiar tech stack: Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams. Microsoft is the default productivity suite for the legal world. It has been for decades. So, when Copilot was announced, fully…

Five years after Arizona and Utah launched groundbreaking reforms to liberalize legal services regulation, a new comprehensive study from Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession reveals both the promise and the complexities of regulatory innovation in the legal sector.

The report, Legal Innovation After Reform: Five Years of Data…

Two veterans of the legal technology industry, Patrick DiDomenico and Kevin Klein, today announced the launch of LegalTech Connect, a new venture aimed at connecting participants across the legal technology ecosystem through events, advisory services, and educational resources.

“Leveraging more than five decades of combined experience in legal technology, innovation, and large-scale…

As he took the stage before the nearly 1,000 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel in Dallas to open his company’s Momentum Global 2025 user conference May 20, Aderant President and CEO Chris Cartrett said he preferred to think of his talk not as a keynote, but as a…

Earlier today, I wrote about the latest iteration of CoCounsel, the AI product originally developed by Casetext before it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023 for a whopping $650 million in cash. But well before Casetext was acquired, and well before it introduced CoCounsel as one of the very first legal…

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company describes as a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute complex multi-step workflows within professional environments.

Update: Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel Legal…

Cornell Winston, president of the American Association of Law Libraries, brings a unique perspective to law librarianship, having spent 45 years in libraries across diverse settings — from a hospital library where he started as a student worker; to the former Whittier Law School; to…

Vancouver, BC – May 27, 2025 – LexSelect, a pioneer in AI-driven legal technology, proudly announces the release of its new Parsing Engine, setting a new benchmark in legal document processing. This enhanced engine unlocks a wider range of documents—including image-based and complex-layout PDFs—enabling legal professionals to extract structured, actionable insights with unprecedented…

LexCheck has launched version 3.0 of its AI-powered contract review software, introducing capabilities that automatically generate custom playbooks from clients’ historical redlines and provide precedent checking against past agreements.

The New York-based legal technology company says the release is a significant advancement in contract review accuracy and enterprise scalability.

This follows its January…

AI-First Tool Unlocks the Power of Every Document for Every Attorney

SEATTLE, May 27, 2025–Lighthouse, a leader in technology-enabled eDiscovery, compliance, and information governance services, today announced the availability of Lighthouse AI Search, an AI-first search tool that allows litigation teams to better identify evidence, understand narratives, and…

The judge presiding over the long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and Ross Intelligence today issued a memorandum opinion explaining his April 10 issuance of an 11th-hour order postponing the scheduled trial to allow Ross to file an interlocutory appeal of the judge’s partial grant of summary judgment.

“Though I am still confident…

Monica Zent is a true pioneer in legal innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the founder of ZentLaw, an award-winning alternative legal services provider that broke the traditional law firm mold when she founded it in 2002. ZentLaw has since grown into a nationwide legal services provider, serving global brands and major corporations…