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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…
Bob Ambrogi
Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.
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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…
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…
Aderant Adds AI-Powered Performance Evaluation Tools to Its vi Talent Management Suite
Aderant, the Atlanta-based provider of business management software for law firms, today announced the addition of AI-powered capabilities to its vi by Aderant talent management suite, including AI-assisted employee performance evaluations, real-time sentiment analysis, and auto-summarization features within its viEval and viAllocate products.
The company says these are the first client-facing AI…
Pro Bono Net, the A2J Technology Pioneer, Rebrands As ‘Scale Justice’ to Reflect Its Evolving Mission
Pro Bono Net, the nonprofit that has been a pioneering force in access-to-justice technology since the dawn of the internet era, yesterday announced that it is rebranding as Scale Justice, reflecting an evolution in its mission that has taken it beyond its origins as an organizer of pro bono legal services.
The new name,…
Another Podcast with Clio Founder Jack Newton? Yep, But This Time, It’s Him Interviewing Me In My Seaside Hometown
You know that idiom about the mountain coming to Muhammad? That is how I felt when Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton came to my small seaside town of Rockport, Mass., to interview me, complete with film crew and entourage.
It was Jack turning the tables on me. I’ve interviewed him for…
Legalweek Has Left the Building – and Successfully Landed In A New One
Last week, Law.com Legalweek pulled off something genuinely impressive: It moved.
After 39 years at the New York Hilton Midtown, one of the world’s leading legal technology conferences relocated to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a sprawling glass and steel pavilion 1.6 miles away on Manhattan’s far west side, steps from the entrance…
Clio Launches Clio Capital to Provide Fast, Low-Friction Financing for Law Firms
Clio has officially launched Clio Capital, a financing program designed exclusively for law firms that use the company’s practice management platform.
The product, which went live Feb. 26, provides eligible law firms with pre-qualified access to working capital through a streamlined application process directly within the Clio platform, bypassing the paperwork-heavy, rejection-prone process that…