We are rapidly approaching budget season and planning for contingencies in 2027. Perhaps open-weight models should be part of your fall planning.
Last year, DeepSeek created a scare for the American AI industry when it created a model that cost a fraction to develop relative to its U.S. counterparts. OpenAI alleges DeepSeek…
Howard Katzenberg’s idea for a trademark software company began with a trademark fight of his own. Today, he is formally launching that software, called GleanMark, a U.S. trademark research and workflow platform for lawyers.
The platform combines free USPTO search with AI-driven clearance analysis, office-action response drafting, automated deadline tracking, and portfolio monitoring, all…
Rarely do law firms lose clients on merit, argues Cesar Tapia. They lose them before intake ever happens – to missed calls, slow follow-up and dead voicemail.
Today, Tapia and his cofounder Eslam Odeh are launching their answer to that problem – Paravo, a startup emerging from stealth with what it describes…
DISCO is moving beyond e-discovery, the technology that has been its bread and butter ever since its founding in 2013, to launch what it describes as the industry’s first unified litigation solution, an AI-native application that combines the facts of a matter with relevant U.S. case law.
The product, which the company has not yet…
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI technology partners including OpenAI and Amazon Web Services work side by side to design, prototype and test new legal AI capabilities – sometimes iterating on an idea…
When law school AI policies have made news, it has usually been because they were controversial. UC Berkeley School of Law’s restrictive policy, which I wrote about in May, drew national attention for barring generative AI from nearly every stage of producing graded work.
But a new website launched by Andrew Perlman, dean…
At a time when virtually every major AI legal research product is moving toward delivering a single, synthesized answer to your research question, a new product launching today is based on the premise that many litigators want something that sounds almost old school – just the cases.
Align Research, released to general availability this…
In April, I reported here on a dramatic first-quarter 2026 increase in the numbers of legal tech demos law firms were scheduling, with the numbers going up across nearly every major practice area by as much as 40% to 50%.
Now, it appears that trend has reversed, according to a newly released report on…
Since launching its Clio Work AI product in October 2025, Clio says it has been the fastest-adopted product in the company’s 18-year history. But there was one place where Clio Work was not available — Canada, the country where Clio was founded and is headquartered.
Now Clio has brought home the bacon, so to…
It was just 18 months ago that I wrote about the legal research startup Midpage passing what its founder considered a critical threshold in its development, achieving full data coverage of key U.S. case law.
Now the company is crossing another threshold, adding full coverage of the other major chunk of primary law…
Microsoft’s legal department is becoming a Harvey customer.
The legal AI company Harvey announced today that Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization — the roughly 2,000-person unit that houses the company’s lawyers and compliance professionals — will use the Harvey platform to support its legal and compliance operations.
As part of the same…
The legal data company Entegrata, whose data lakehouse platform helps law firms consolidate siloed data into a single source of truth, has hired Andrew Baker, who for more than five years led applied AI and data science at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, as its first chief AI and data strategy officer, where he…
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