Boston, MA — March 25, 2026 — Descrybe, the purpose-built legal AI platform, has been selected as an approved e-resource by NELLCO Law Library Consortium, Inc. following a thorough committee review. The designation makes Descrybe available to NELLCO’s network of nearly 150 law libraries across 33 U.S. states, with international members…
Steno Secures $49M Series C to Fuel Rapid Expansion and the Next Evolution of Transcript Genius
Savano Capital Partners’ investment to accelerate Steno’s significant geographic growth and enhance their AI-driven product roll-out as it scales into one of the largest legal tech platforms in the USA.
LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2026 – Steno, the leader in tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support services, today announced it has raised…
Survey Finds Majority of Federal Judges Have Used AI in Their Work, But Daily Use Remains Rare
A first-of-its-kind random-sample survey of federal judges has found that more than 60% have used generative artificial intelligence tools in their judicial work, though fewer than one in four use these tools on a daily or weekly basis.
The study, conducted by researchers at Northwestern University in collaboration with the New York City Bar Association,…
AI That Listens Like a Lawyer: A Side-by-Side Comparison of General AI Notetakers and Legal Conversational Intelligence
AI That Listens Like a Lawyer: Courts Are Exposing the Gap Between What AI Notetakers Promise and What Their Contracts Permit. Purpose-Built Legal Conversational Intelligenceᵀᴹ Tools, Such as Querious®, Offer Attorneys a Defensible Path Forward.
A gap exists between how general-purpose AI notetakers are marketed to legal professionals and…
Exclusive: Smokeball and Thomson Reuters Partner to Integrate CoCounsel Legal AI with Practice Management Platform
Smokeball, the cloud-based practice management platform serving small to mid-sized law firms, and Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership today that will embed Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel Legal AI into Smokeball’s practice management software — a combination the companies say brings together deep legal content and advanced AI capabilities with broad practice management functionality…
Legal Industry Reaches AI Tipping Point: Majority of Lawyers Now Using Gen AI Despite Persistent Reliability Concerns
The legal profession crossed a significant threshold in 2025: For the first time, more lawyers are using generative AI than not, even as firm leaders express widespread concern about the technology’s reliability, according to the 2025 State of the Legal Industry report released today by SurePoint Technologies.
The tension between adoption and apprehension…
Centerbase Launches Native ndMAX Integration, Connecting Practice Management to AI-Powered Document Workflows
Centerbase, a practice management platform for midsized law firms, is announcing today an enhanced native integration with NetDocuments that makes it the first practice management platform to natively connect matter data with ndMAX, NetDocuments’ AI-powered document intelligence system.
Centerbase says that the integration, which it will be demonstrating at ABA TECHSHOW this week…
How Two Litigators Spent Five Years in Stealth Building What They Say Is the Most Comprehensive Litigation Platform on the Market
At the recent Legalweek conference in New York, I sat down with the cofounders of Syllo, a legal technology company that has taken a uniquely ambitious approach to developing technology for litigators.
Rather than focus on any one segment of the litigation process, they have built a unified, AI-powered litigation workspace that spans the…
Data Intelligence Company Relativity Confidentially Files for IPO; Would Be First In Legal Tech Since 2021
The legal data intelligence company Relativity says it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock.
The filing is not yet available to the public, and the number of shares to be offered and the price…
LawDroid Announces AI Conference 2026: “The Year to Build”
Free Two-Day Virtual Event Brings Together Legal AI Innovators, Access to Justice Advocates, and Practitioners from Around the World
Vancouver, BC — March 17, 2026 — LawDroid, Ltd., a leading legal AI company, today announced the LawDroid AI Conference 2026, a free, two-day virtual event taking place April 28–29, 2026.…
LawNext on Location: Visiting Everlaw’s Headquarters For A Conversation with AJ Shankar, Founder and CEO
For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it…
Sixth Circuit Slaps Steep Sanctions on Two Lawyers for Fake Citations and Misrepresentations in Appellate Briefs
In what may be one of the most significant appellate sanctions rulings yet involving fabricated case citations, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has imposed substantial penalties on two Tennessee attorneys for filing briefs containing more than two dozen fake or misrepresented citations.
The court sanctioned attorneys Van R. Irion and Russ Egli, ordering…
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