First movers in legal tech often win the day, says Ken Crutchfield, but without also anticipating what’s ahead, an early move can be quickly outmoded.
This is particularly true given the pace of development of major AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, Meta and others.
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But what if an AI innovator…
If you’ve never worked in the field of e-discovery, then you might think of it as just another type of technology or just another area of law practice. But for those who work in the field, it is very much also a community. Sadly, that community has lost one of its pillars, as Kaylee Walstad,…
Thomson Reuters President and CEO Steve Hasker believes the legal profession is experiencing “the biggest disruption … in its history” due to generative and agentic artificial intelligence, fundamentally rewriting how legal work products are created for the first time in more than 300 years.
Speaking to legal technology reporters during ILTACON, the International Legal…
Last Friday, Aug. 15, as I began to make my way home from ILTACON 2025, and finally had enough of a break from the conference’s non-stop, four-day flurry of activity to check up on my social media, I took notice of the posts commemorating the 56th anniversary of Woodstock, which, as it happens, began on…
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today introduced Protégé General AI, expanding its artificial intelligence platform to include secure access to multiple general-purpose AI models alongside its existing legal-specific AI tools.
This eliminates the need to switch contexts between legal-specific and general-purpose AI tools and provides a higher degree of security when using the general tools.
Launched…
When Jean O’Grady retired from writing her Dewey B Strategic blog late last year, she also stepped away as a regular panelist on our Friday live podcast Legaltech Week. But this week brought news so big that it drew Jean out of retirement and back on our panel — at least for today.
What…
In an in-depth piece I wrote about HerculesAI last February, I noted that the past year had been a big one for the company. Well, it just got even bigger, as Aderant, a leading global provider of business management software for law firms, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire…
This year’s ILTACON, which starts later this week, marks the second anniversary of Harbor, a global expert services company formed through the merger of three long-established legal consulting firms: HBR Consulting, LAC Group, and Wilson Allen, and that formally launched at ILTACON in 2023.
The company,…
With the legal research startup Casetext now kaput, having been killed off after its acquisition by Thomson Reuters, a newer legal research startup, Descrybe, has secured its spot in the widely used curriculum of the National Society for Legal Technology, joining established players including Lexis+, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law as one of…
As it continues its “Road to ILTACON” series of product announcements leading up to ILTACON starting later this week, legal technology company Litera has announced updates to its Foundation Platform firm intelligence suite, including adding Microsoft Outlook integration and expanded AI capabilities through its Lito assistant.
The Chicago-based company’s Foundation Platform combines client relationship management…
The e-discovery company Reveal Data today announced that it will launch its new generative AI-powered document review platform, which it is calling “aji,” in late September. The company said it is offering full access to the platform at no cost through Dec. 31, in order to enable “the entire legal community to explore and master…
Two months ago, at a media briefing in its New York City offices, Thomson Reuters teased the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company said would be a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and…
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