Bob Ambrogi

Fresh off his first Waymo ride, Ken Crutchfield observes that autonomous vehicles had to be trained to navigate real streets and make life-or-death decisions years before legal tech began exploring agentic AI. Now, as law firms rush to deploy AI agents, there are crucial lessons to be learned from Waymo’s journey, he says.…

Last week brought the 13th annual ClioCon — the annual conference of legal technology company Clio — to Boston, Mass., where cofounder and CEO Jack Newton gave a keynote in which he laid out the company’s vision for a new era of AI-driven legal work. That new era is one in which…

Legal business management company Aderant today announced it has acquired Virtual Pricing Director (VPD), the London-based company that created the legal industry’s first practice management-agnostic pricing platform.

The acquisition brings together Aderant’s financial and matter management products with VPD’s AI-powered pricing tools and the expertise of VPD founder Richard Burcher, who is internationally…

A new benchmark study released by Vals AI suggests that both legal-specific and general large language models are now capable of performing legal research tasks with a level of accuracy equaling or exceeding that of human lawyers.

The report, VLAIR – Legal Research, extends the earlier Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) from February…

In delivering his keynote at the 2025 ClioCon in Boston last week, CEO Jack Newton described the litany of new products and features he announced as “quite literally the biggest wave of innovation in Clio’s history.”

For those in the audience, it was a lot to take in, as Newton announced new products, new features,…

Today, we’re taking a special look at Eve’s new call intake features, which help law firms to field and categorize calls from new and existing clients. Joining me to walk through the product is Eve CEO and Founder Jay Madheswaran.

Eve is a leading Legal AI platform for Plaintiff Law Firms. Eve is designed to…

In his nearly 90-minute keynote at ClioCon last Thursday, CEO Jack Newton laid out an ambitious array of new products that, together, form what he called the Intelligent Legal Work Platform, transforming Clio from a “system of record” to a “system of action.”

Read: To A Sometimes ‘Shell-Shocked’ ClioCon Audience, Jack Newton Presented Clio’s…

Have you ever found yourself present in a moment and realized you were witnessing something historic? It is not an exaggeration to say that is what many of the 2,700 in-person attendees felt who were present for Clio cofounder and CEO Jack Newton’s keynote address that opened the 13th annual ClioCon conference last week…

In the United States, over 90% of civil legal needs go unrepresented – a staggering justice gap that leaves millions of people facing eviction, domestic violence, wrongful conviction and other urgent legal crises without access to an attorney. For these individuals, the difference between getting legal help or going without can literally be…

The legal CRM and marketing automation platform Lawmatics today announced the beta launch of Qualify AI, which it is calling “the most powerful and useful lead score and qualification platform in legal tech.”

The new AI-powered product represents Lawmatics’ first major entry into the application of generative artificial intelligence. It is designed to…

When blogging platform Typepad announced in August that it would shut down on Sept. 30, 2025, it threatened to erase decades of legal blog posts that formed a body of scholarship and commentary. In response, legal blogging platform LexBlog mounted an emergency rescue operation that has preserved 579,162 legal blog posts and migrated…

In a keynote that was equal parts rallying cry and strategic roadmap, Relativity CEO Phil Saunders stood before 1,834 attendees at Relativity Fest 2025 in Chicago last week and delivered an unconventional message for a technology leader: what his company has built “is not enough.”

The refrain became a through-line in Saunders’ remarks at the…