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A few months ago, I wrote about the new partnership between Masters AI Legal, the newly launched division of The Masters Conference, and Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, to produce a global conference series devoted to making legal professionals “genuinely fluent in…

Somebody once told Antti Innanen that he had built a veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat. He thought it was a fun criticism, but he also thought it missed the point.

That burger is Lavern, an open-source “multi-agent legal system” that Innanen, a Finnish lawyer and law firm founder with…

Harbor, a global professional and technology services firm focused on the legal industry, has acquired CE Global Partners, a specialist in HR transformation, payroll transformation, and people-process change, it announced today.

The acquisition expands Harbor’s Human Capital Management (HCM) Advisory line, which the company launched just last month, on May 5. Harbor said…

Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-powered CRM platform for law firms, is now available across Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company said today.

Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Foundation 365 was formerly known as Peppermint Client Engagement. The product came to Litera through its acquistion last year of Peppermint Technology,…

(This is a guest editorial by Emma Pullman, head of shareholder engagement and responsible investment at the British Columbia General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) in Canada, a minority shareholder in Thomson Reuters, and Sarah Lamdan, a lawyer and librarian who researches and writes about library vendors and service providers, and who wrote a 2019…

The legal industry is turning into a battleground for the two dominant frontier AI companies.

Less than a month ago, Anthropic — developer of the Claude AI assistant — took a major step into the legal market, releasing more than 20 MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments…

Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today issued a new rule that requires the signer of any document filed in any Florida court to represent that “the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.”

The court’s order (Opinion_SC2026-0673) also adds a rule that…

For Illinois attorneys who are curious about trying artificial intelligence for contract review, now is their chance to do it for free.

The Illinois State Bar Association and the AI contract review platform SimpleDocs said today that they have entered into a partnership to give ISBA members free 30-day access to the SimpleDocs’…

The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too late to mitigate and the only course is to react.

That is the premise of Darrow, a company that built its early reputation by scanning the web to surface potential class…

UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the use of generative AI for nearly every step of producing graded work — and prohibiting it outright in any exam. The policy takes effect this summer.

The rule, which the school released…

Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts to sell law enforcement data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily through two products: CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), which provides personal data from a variety of public and non-public sources, and license…

iManage used the opening of its annual ConnectLive user conference in Chicago earlier this week to introduce what it describes as the next evolution of its document- and knowledge-management platform, a redesign the company says is built to make institutional knowledge usable by AI systems while keeping governance and security controls in place.

The…