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Microsoft dominates small law tech, but it’s fumbling the AI agent transition. Google sees the opening. The Unexpected Opening

In most small law offices, you’ll find a familiar tech stack: Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams. Microsoft is the default productivity suite for the legal world. It has been for decades. So, when Copilot was announced, fully…

Five years after Arizona and Utah launched groundbreaking reforms to liberalize legal services regulation, a new comprehensive study from Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession reveals both the promise and the complexities of regulatory innovation in the legal sector.

The report, Legal Innovation After Reform: Five Years of Data…

Two veterans of the legal technology industry, Patrick DiDomenico and Kevin Klein, today announced the launch of LegalTech Connect, a new venture aimed at connecting participants across the legal technology ecosystem through events, advisory services, and educational resources.

“Leveraging more than five decades of combined experience in legal technology, innovation, and large-scale…

As he took the stage before the nearly 1,000 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel in Dallas to open his company’s Momentum Global 2025 user conference May 20, Aderant President and CEO Chris Cartrett said he preferred to think of his talk not as a keynote, but as a…

Earlier today, I wrote about the latest iteration of CoCounsel, the AI product originally developed by Casetext before it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023 for a whopping $650 million in cash. But well before Casetext was acquired, and well before it introduced CoCounsel as one of the very first legal…

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company describes as a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute complex multi-step workflows within professional environments.

Update: Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel Legal…

A legal information website launched this week is designed to help people in Arkansas handle legal problems on their own confidently and affordably.

Called ArkansasLegalNow (ALN), the site was developed by Brandon Haubert, a civil and family lawyer and the CEO of WH Law, a Little Rock law firm.

“We believe legal help…

As many of you know, I’ve long followed and reported on the evolving intersection of law, technology, and access to justice.

That’s why I’m proud to partner with Everlaw for Good, the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, and Paladin on a new survey launched this week at the Equal…

I am thrilled to announce a new regular contributor to our site, Jennifer Case, and tell you about her inaugural column, which was published today. She will be writing each month about AI in legal practice, with a focus on solo and small-firm lawyers.

Jennifer is a California attorney, entrepreneur and AI strategist who helps…

In what has become a distressingly familiar pattern in courtrooms across America, two more cases have emerged of lawyers submitting briefs containing non-existent legal citations generated by AI tools.

At this point, one wonders if the legal profession needs a mandatory continuing legal education course titled, “How to Avoid Becoming the Next AI Hallucination Headline.”…

John Foreman, who has served as chief product officer at two major SaaS companies, has joined law practice management company Clio as its new chief product officer, the company said today.

The company said he will lead its product strategy and delivery across its expanding platform of products, guiding the company’s long-term innovation…

In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Trellis, a legal technology company that provides state trial court data and insights, is partnering with the international labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips to integrate its AI-generated case strategy reports directly into the daily case alerts received by the firm’s attorneys whenever their clients are named in a…