Bob Ambrogi

I’ll confess: When I heard that Jesse Cole, the founder of the Savannah Bananas baseball team, was to be the keynote speaker at 8am’s Kaleidoscope conference, I found myself scratching my head. After all, what could the founder of a baseball team known for dancing players and a senior-citizen dance squad possibly…

In a marriage of two alternative legal services providers, Repario, a company with a focus on e-discovery and managed review, has acquired UnitedLex, a global company that provides a broader range of services spanning legal process outsourcing, legal operations, litigation, IP, contracts and technology.

Repario said that by blending its agility and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Call it Alex Su, redux. We do not usually have the same guest on LawNext twice in the same year, but there is good reason to have Alex back, as he has just been named president of Latitude Legal, the flexible legal staffing company.

Last February, Alex and I recorded…

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…