Articles Posted in May, 2026

Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today issued a new rule that requires the signer of any document filed in any Florida court to represent that “the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.”

The court’s order (Opinion_SC2026-0673) also adds a rule that…

ISBA members will receive discounted access to an award-winning Legal AI platform for contract drafting, review, and negotiation.

Miami, Florida – May 28, 2026 — The Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) and SimpleDocs today announced a strategic initiative to help Illinois attorneys responsibly adopt practical Legal AI technology built specifically for…

For Illinois attorneys who are curious about trying artificial intelligence for contract review, now is their chance to do it for free.

The Illinois State Bar Association and the AI contract review platform SimpleDocs said today that they have entered into a partnership to give ISBA members free 30-day access to the SimpleDocs’…

One-day Conference Explores How AI is Transforming Dispute Resolution

NEW YORK and BOSTON, March 31, 2026 — The American Arbitration Association (AAA®) and Suffolk University Law School will host Arbitration and Mediation in the Age of AI, a one-day conference on Friday, June 12, in Boston. The program will bring together litigators, in-house…

New release allows attorneys to fully edit binders and notes offline with automatic syncing and conflict resolution functionality

WASHINGTON, DC [May 26, 2026] — Align, the only digital case binder platform built by a trial lawyer focused exclusively on litigation workflows, today announced…

The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too late to mitigate and the only course is to react.

That is the premise of Darrow, a company that built its early reputation by scanning the web to surface potential class…

UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the use of generative AI for nearly every step of producing graded work — and prohibiting it outright in any exam. The policy takes effect this summer.

The rule, which the school released…

Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts to sell law enforcement data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily through two products: CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), which provides personal data from a variety of public and non-public sources, and license…

 Company unveils the next evolution of the iManage platform, advancing the secure, governed foundation where organizations’ knowledge, context, and expertise can be safely harnessed for agentic AI

CHICAGO – May 20, 2026 – iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today announced strong momentum at

iManage used the opening of its annual ConnectLive user conference in Chicago earlier this week to introduce what it describes as the next evolution of its document- and knowledge-management platform, a redesign the company says is built to make institutional knowledge usable by AI systems while keeping governance and security controls in place.

The…

Powered by Billables AI, LitifyAI Time Capture autonomously captures billable activities and generates review-ready time entries, improving realization and eliminating manual timekeeping. 

NEW YORK, NY — May 19, 2026 – Litify, the AI-native Platform of Action for law firms and legal departments, today announced

SAN JOSE, CA – LegalType, the company behind the world’s first mechanical keyboard for lawyers, today announced the launch of a free, web-based legal keyboard. Built to help lawyers produce clean, reliable work faster the tool is now available at web.legaltype.com.

Designed for litigators,…