Articles Posted in June, 2026

When I wrote last week about BARBRI’s acquisition of Lega, I had not yet had the chance to speak with Lega founder Christian Lang, who was traveling. So I closed that post with what was admittedly conjecture on my part – that the large-language-model governance product that defined Lega when it launched in…

Supio, the AI platform built for plaintiffs’ personal injury firms, has hired Melissa Graham, chief operating officer of Nevada’s Richard Harris Law Firm for the last 15 years, as its vice president of industry, a newly created role aimed at narrowing the gap between the people who build legal technology and the…

Growth follows Descrybe’s collaboration with Anthropic on the Claude for the Legal Industry launch,  where the company served as one of 22 launch collaborators. 

Boston, Mass — June 29, 2026 — Descrybe, a purpose-built legal AI company, today announced that it  has added more than 700 new paid subscribers in the…

The closely watched copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence returned to the spotlight this month as a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over whether ROSS’s use of Westlaw headnotes to train its legal research system was protected by fair use.

At oral argument June 11…

Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha presented the award at the Trailblazers Summit 2026 in Atlanta

CHICAGO – June 25, 2026 – Litera, the legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, announced that Jackson Lewis P.C.,…

Perplexity, the AI search engine known for delivering sourced answers to user queries, is making an explicit move into the legal market, rolling out legal-specific features within its agentic platform, Perplexity Computer, and positioning the product as what it calls “Computer for Counsel.”

The company highlighted the legal push yesterday at an

Recently I sat through a demo of a product unlike anything I’d seen before, aimed at a segment of the legal profession that legal tech companies have largely ignored – the fractional general counsel, lawyers who serve as outside in-house counsel for multiple companies too small to have their own legal departments.

The product is…

The acquisition expands BARBRI’s AI and skills learning portfolio with Lega’s proven, experiential AI learning model, giving law students, lawyers, and law firms a practical path to AI fluency and professional development

DALLAS, June 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — BARBRI, the trusted global leader in legal education, announced the acquisition of Lega, a platform that helps law…

When I wrote about Abstract in April, I reported on how the New York-based startup was making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, alerting law firms and corporate legal teams to the bills and rules that matter to a client, even when they never mention that client’s industry by name.…

Yesterday, Thomson Reuters made two announcements. It opened early access to the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired Casetext in 2023, and it released its Future of Professionals Report 2026, which warns of a widening gap between AI adoption and…

Once upon a time, a legal tech vendor’s goal in getting seen by potential customers was to rank on the first page of Google search. But in the age of AI, that is no longer enough. Now, when a potential buyer asks ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to recommend a vendor, what matters is whether…

Integration combines lawyer-vetted talent intelligence with the nation’s largest docket database to support stronger talent decisions and unmatched market visibility

BOSTON – June 23, 2026 – Firm Prospects, the legal industry’s leading talent and market intelligence platform, today announced a strategic partnership with