This virtual competition, presented in partnership with Lagniappe Law Lab and LSNTAP, offers selected teams funded build access and hands-on support. Applications open today.
VANCOUVER, BC – September 21, 2026 — LawDroid today announced the LawDroid Hackathon, a virtual, global, open-source competition presented in partnership with Lagniappe Law…
At its second-annual Kaleidoscope customer conference in Las Vegas today, 8am announced new generative AI features, a new Claude MCP connector, and new financial products, including a law firm loan program with quick approval and funding.
Although 8am is the parent company of three law practice management platforms – MyCase, CasePEER and DocketWise…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are a breakthrough technology, helping fuel the AI industrial revolution. OpenAI and Anthropic are market leaders, with extraordinary private valuations. The prospect of their respective trillion-dollar public company valuations, should their initial public offerings come to fruition, has drawn attention to LLM economics.
LLMs are transforming industries including healthcare and the…
Legal AI company Harvey said today that it is launching a dedicated pro bono program in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
In the first phase of the program, the company will work with a selected group of it law firm customers as design partners. Initially, this group consists of senior pro bono…
Legal tech company Clio has long said that its mission is to transform the legal experience for all. Until now, that “all” has largely focused on law firms and their clients, but recently Clio announced a major initiative to develop technology for the judiciary.
As part…
iManage plugin extends permission-bound access to the iManage platform to knowledge workers in ChatGPT, backed by iManage’s open approach to AI tools
CHICAGO, September 17, 2026 — iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today announced a new integration with ChatGPT Enterprise.…
The American Legal Technology Awards has named the finalists for its seventh annual awards program, honoring outstanding achievement and innovation across multiple categories of legal technology.
This year’s winners were selected from 234 submissions across 10 categories. Winners will be revealed at a gala awards dinner Oct. 25 at Suffolk…
Nominations are now open for the 2027 Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award, which recognizes an innovator who, early in their career, has made a significant impact toward making the American legal system work better for everyone.
That description fits the person for whom the award is named. Alli Gerkman died of breast cancer…
Legal professionals can now seamlessly search case dockets and documents across 5,000+ state and federal courts directly within ChatGPT.
TUSTIN, Calif. — September 18, 2026 — UniCourt, the leading litigation data and analytics platform, today announced a plugin that integrates UniCourt’s comprehensive database of litigation data directly into…
A legal operations professional requested a demo earlier this year with a note that intrigued me. She said that she was going to “stack” a CLM solution, and she was looking for the workflow portion (which is what my product, Josef, does).
When we met, I dug in further, finding…
Yesterday, OpenAI released Astra for Law, a GPT-6 model tailored for legal work, as I reported here. The announcement included news of 26 new ChatGPT plugins from legal tech vendors, but it mentioned only four: Harvey, iManage, Legora and Thomson Reuters. When I asked OpenAI for the full list, I got no answer.
However,…
Calling it the beginning of its long-term investment in law, ChatGPT developer OpenAI today released Astra for Law, a version of its latest model, GPT-6 Astra, configured for legal work, including a dedicated legal search index and custom instructions for legal analysis and writing.
“Today, we’re introducing Astra for Law: a new foundation…
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