Articles Posted in September, 2026

Sept. 11, 2026 Charlotte, NC – General counsel, legal operations leaders, compliance professionals, business executives, and Parker Poe attorneys sat side by side on September 10 at the firm’s Charlotte office to build and test AI apps addressing challenges that company leaders and attorneys face together every day. Working in small teams, participants…

Perhaps it is only fitting that a product launched in the cloud should be renamed for the atmosphere it occupies.

The e-discovery company Relativity announced today that it has renamed RelativityOne, its cloud-based platform, as Relativity aiR, giving it the name that had previously been assigned to Relativity’s suite of AI and agentic capabilities.

The…

The mystery of Bridget M. McCormack’s destination has been solved.

Last week, I reported that McCormack, current president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, was leaving her job for an undisclosed opportunity that, as she said at the time, “I could not turn…

Leading attorney, mediator, educator, and legal innovation thought leader joins Descrybe.

BOSTON, Sept. 15, 2026 — Descrybe, the legal research and intelligence platform for people and AI systems, today announced that Susan E. Guthrie has joined the company as a strategic advisor.

Guthrie brings more than 35 years of…

At the recent conference of the International Legal Technology Association, the big legal AI vendors CoCounsel, Harvey and Legora had outsized presences, with ginormous booths in the exhibit hall, major-name performers at their parties, and advertising so ubiquitous it even popped up in people’s Uber apps. (See: Have We Reached ‘Peak Legal Tech?’ Sure…

New online app experience and product enhancements help legal professionals improve writing
and verify what AI gets wrong before their work reaches a client, court or opposing counsel.

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 9, 2026 — BriefCatch, the legal writing and editing tool…

Wednesday morning’s keynote session at ILTACON this year opened with a sobering and moving 25th anniversary tribute to 9/11. ILTA showed a 30-minute film it produced with interviews of ILTA members and friends who were in Manhattan that day, followed by an extended moment of silence as the names of everyone who lost their lives…

89% of consumers say they’d rather speak to a real person than AI when contacting a law firm – up from 84% – as trust in AI-handled calls continues to decline.

Portland, OR – September 9, 2026 – LEX Reception, a 24/7 legal answering service for US law firms, today released its findings…

The legal AI company Harvey said today that it has raised another $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed.

By my calculations, that puts the total amount Harvey has raised since its 2022 launch at north of $1.5 billion.

Other investors participating in this round were Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, a16z,…

Bridget M. McCormack, the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court who joined the American Arbitration Association in 2023 as its president and CEO, helping to spearhead the AAA’s innovation efforts, particularly with regard to its adoption of generative AI, has announced she is stepping down from that role.

Steve Errick, the AAA’s…

The litigation intelligence platform, which handles over 10,000 depositions a month for more than 20,000 legal professionals, takes a new name to reflect a platform built to span the case, from documents to live testimony and beyond.

Bellevue, WA — August 19, 2026 — Deposely today announced it has rebranded as…

Calling it the “intelligence foundation” of its platform, Casepoint today launched Casepoint IQ, a suite of tools within a single AI framework that spans the company’s products for e-discovery, legal holds, FOIA and investigations.

The company says that Casepoint IQ pulls together all of its AI capabilities – including new semi- and fully autonomous…