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Thirty-five years ago, lawyers told me fixed fees could never work. A skyscraper and a quarter helped me address their concerns but nothing ever changed. AI gives us a new reason to listen.

There is plenty of talk today about whether AI will end the billable hour. If work that once took hours can be…

Over the past few years, there have been a few twists and turns in the competition among legal research platforms to be the preferred partner of state and local bar associations.

Once, that competition was almost exclusively between Fastcase and Casemaker. That changed when Fastcase acquired Casemaker in 2021. Then, in 2023, Fastcase merged…

Got conferences? If so, then probably one or more of Legaltech Week’s regular panelists has been there in the last couple weeks — from ClioCon in Boston to the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to NetDocuments Inspire in Orland0 and some smaller ones along the way — and we will be sharing our reports and…

At its annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco this week, the e-discovery company Everlaw unveiled Omni, an agentic AI investigation suite that orchestrates the full range of the company’s tools to answer questions about a case.

The company also launched Workflows, a drag-and-drop tool for automating complex document reviews, and Everlaw for Word, a…

Within the span of 48 hours this week, I was an in-person witness to the legal profession’s divide on AI. Through a bit of karmic coincidence, I was in a room one day dominated by people who fear it as a threat, and then two days later with those who embrace it as an opportunity.…

Clio rolled out a ton of news today, as founder and CEO Jack Newton delivered the opening keynote at the annual ClioCon conference in Boston — from major new products and features, to a new acquisition, and even new branding. While I am too busy here for the next two days to write a detailed…

Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms.

With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely by the hour outnumber firms billing…

Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today.

Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline citations linking back to sources in Blue J.…

Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday.

Silverton Partners led the round, with General Partner Mike Dodd taking the lead. Indicator Ventures, Lightbank, Neon Fund, ZVC, Rosecliff…

Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners.

Microsoft now becomes the fourth major AI company in five months…

Control Risks, a global strategic intelligence and security firm, said today that it has entered into an agreement to spin off two of its businesses, Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics, into a new, stand-alone company that will operate initially under the name of Control Risks – Compliance, Investigations & eDiscovery.

The new company…

Jennie Morawetz, who was named this week as CEO of regulatory intelligence company SCOREalytics, wants the company’s product to become the accepted standard for how lawyers keep up with regulatory change.

“I want using SCORE to be the standard for due diligence, or for a general counsel who’s tasked with staying on top of…