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Fresh off his first Waymo ride, Ken Crutchfield observes that autonomous vehicles had to be trained to navigate real streets and make life-or-death decisions years before legal tech began exploring agentic AI. Now, as law firms rush to deploy AI agents, there are crucial lessons to be learned from Waymo’s journey, he says.…

A new benchmark study released by Vals AI suggests that both legal-specific and general large language models are now capable of performing legal research tasks with a level of accuracy equaling or exceeding that of human lawyers.

The report, VLAIR – Legal Research, extends the earlier Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) from February…

In delivering his keynote at the 2025 ClioCon in Boston last week, CEO Jack Newton described the litany of new products and features he announced as “quite literally the biggest wave of innovation in Clio’s history.”

For those in the audience, it was a lot to take in, as Newton announced new products, new features,…

Have you ever found yourself present in a moment and realized you were witnessing something historic? It is not an exaggeration to say that is what many of the 2,700 in-person attendees felt who were present for Clio cofounder and CEO Jack Newton’s keynote address that opened the 13th annual ClioCon conference last week…

The legal CRM and marketing automation platform Lawmatics today announced the beta launch of Qualify AI, which it is calling “the most powerful and useful lead score and qualification platform in legal tech.”

The new AI-powered product represents Lawmatics’ first major entry into the application of generative artificial intelligence. It is designed to…

When blogging platform Typepad announced in August that it would shut down on Sept. 30, 2025, it threatened to erase decades of legal blog posts that formed a body of scholarship and commentary. In response, legal blogging platform LexBlog mounted an emergency rescue operation that has preserved 579,162 legal blog posts and migrated…

In a keynote that was equal parts rallying cry and strategic roadmap, Relativity CEO Phil Saunders stood before 1,834 attendees at Relativity Fest 2025 in Chicago last week and delivered an unconventional message for a technology leader: what his company has built “is not enough.”

The refrain became a through-line in Saunders’ remarks at the…

As the investment dollars keep flowing into legal tech, today’s beneficiary of that trend is Nexl, an AI-powered CRM and “growth platform” for law firms, which has closed a $23 million Series B funding round.

The round was led by Tidemark Capital, whose founder Dave Yuan said that Nexl “represents a step-function change in…

Earlier this year, Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, launched the beta version of an AI-powered intake feature that the company said would transform how plaintiffs’ law firms capture and qualify potential clients. After a beta program with over 40 firms, Eve has now announced the general availability of its comprehensive…

Passle, a technology company that develops thought leadership and cross-selling tools for law firms, has unveiled a new visualization tool for its CrossPitch AI platform that promises to make cross-selling activity in law firms visible, actionable and measurable for the first time.

The Cross-Selling Intelligence Map, released today, creates a network diagram showing how…

For the second time in a month, I attended a first-time conference. And, once again, the inaugural conference exceeded my expectations.

Several weeks ago, I wrote about Kaleidoscope, the debut conference produced by 8am. This time, I found myself at the Client Experience Summit, the inaugural conference of the legal technology company

Utah has joined the growing movement to rethink attorney licensure in the United States, as the Utah Supreme Court approved Rule 14-703A, establishing an alternate pathway to becoming a licensed attorney that emphasizes hands-on legal training over traditional standardized testing.

The new route, approved Sept. 24 and which will be open to applications…