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Is the road to ILTACON paved with gold? Global legal technology company Litera may be hoping so, as it rolls out a “Road to ILTACON” series of product launches and enhancements, all leading up to the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, which starts Aug. 10 in National Harbor, outside Washington, D.C.…
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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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Today on Legaltech Week: It’s A Hallucination Hullabaloo, As Lawyers and Judges Get In AI Hot Water; Plus Our AALL Post-Mortem and More
Join us live at 3 p.m. E.T. today for Legaltech Week — our weekly breakdown of the top stories in legal tech — as we have not one, not two, not three, but four new stories about AI hallucinations in legal matters, including one where the fictitious filing was by a federal judge.
Plus we’ll…
Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on Agentic AI in Legal and the Critical Need for Human Supervision
OpenAI just dropped a game-changer: ChatGPT Agent can now access your calendar, communicate with external systems, and perform tasks autonomously on your behalf.
For legal professionals, this isn’t just another AI update — it’s a glimpse into a future where AI doesn’t just answer questions, but actively manages workflows, submits court filings, and orchestrates…
LegalOn Closes $50M Series E, Partners with OpenAI to Develop Advanced AI Agents
LegalOn Technologies, a global company that provides AI-driven software for contract review and matter management, has closed a $50 million Series E funding round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, bringing the company’s total funding to $200 million since its founding in 2017.
The company also today announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI, the…
Report Shows 37% of E-Discovery Professionals Now Using AI, With Cloud Adopters Leading the Charge
Adoption of generative artificial intelligence among legal professionals involved in e-discovery is accelerating rapidly, with 37% of them now actively using the technology in their work, compared to 12% two years ago, according to the newly released 2025 Ediscovery Innovation Report by Everlaw.
The study, conducted in partnership with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists…
At Law Librarians’ Annual Meeting, Panel Tackles the Challenge of Benchmarking AI Research Tools
Legal professionals are struggling to evaluate the rapidly evolving landscape of generative artificial intelligence tools for legal research, according to experts who spoke at a panel discussion during the American Association of Law Libraries annual conference in Portland, Ore., this week.
The panel, titled “AI in Legal Research: Measuring What Matters with Benchmarks and Rubrics,”…
On LawNext: CoCounsel’s Next Generation – TR’s Emily Colbert and Rawia Ashraf on Agentic AI for Lawyers
If generative AI was the biggest story in legal tech in 2023 and 2024, agentic AI is proving to be the most talked-about topic of 2025. Spurring this, at least in part, has been Thomson Reuters’ announcement of its forthcoming release of a new agentic version of CoCounsel, its AI legal assistant, that will be…
At Law Librarians Conference, Keynote Speaker Urges Boldness, Advocacy, During Turbulent Times
In an often rousing keynote address at the annual conference of American Association of Law Libraries in Portland, Ore., yesterday, Roosevelt Weeks, director of the Fort Bend County (Texas) Library, urged law librarians to “be bold” as their profession faces unprecedented challenges and transformation.
Speaking to the hundreds of law librarians gathered…
AffiniPay Partners with Canadian Company Caseway to Bring AI Court Form Automation to MyCase
AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay and other law practice management products, has entered into a partnership with Canadian AI company Caseway that will bring automated court form filling capabilities to MyCase practice management software users.
The partnership introduces a new product developed by the Vancouver-based Caseway — an AI-powered…
Lexitas Launches AI-Powered Deposition Platform for Transcript and Video Analysis and Review
One of the areas of legal practice in which generative artificial intelligence is having a significant impact is litigation, bringing new products designed to handle the time-intensive work of conducting discovery, sifting through evidence, analyzing depositions and preparing for trial.
Now comes another notable example of that, as Lexitas, a company that specializes in…
How It Works: A Demo of Supio Legal AI
On this episode of How it Works, I’m joined by Ed Kirk, Head of Partnerships at Supio, to walk through the Supio Legal AI platform.
Supio specializes in personal injury and mass tort litigation, developing an AI-powered platform that helps law firms organize, analyze and prepare legal cases. Supio combines purpose-built AI models with human…
Contract Review Platform LegalOn Expands Into Matter Management and Updates Its Interface
LegalOn Technologies, a legal technology company that until now has focused on AI-driven contract review, said today that it is expanding into matter management with a major upgrade to its platform that allows legal departments to manage the intake and execution of legal requests.
“We want to help legal…