https://www.lawnext.com/ Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Wed, 13 May 2026 14:02:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/clio-says-it-has-surpassed-500m-in-annual-recurring-revenue.html Wed, 13 May 2026 14:01:05 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53151 Amid all the hubbub yesterday around Claude for legal, Clio quietly slipped in a notable story of its own: that it has now surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue. Since few legal tech companies are public, it is hard to know where that puts Clio on the overall revenue landscape. But based on available […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/each-side-claims-the-same-recent-ruling-supports-its-position-in-thomson-reuters-v-ross-appeal.html Wed, 13 May 2026 12:57:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53145 The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, Inc. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/justice-technology-association-named-access-to-justice-partner-in-anthropics-legal-ai-launch.html Tue, 12 May 2026 17:35:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53131 The Justice Technology Association (JTA), a nonprofit trade group representing mission-driven companies focused on the access to justice crisis, announced today that it has joined Anthropic as a launch partner in what Anthropic is calling its first comprehensive legal vertical initiative. The announcement comes as part of a much-broader announcement by Anthropic of its push […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/two-legal-research-providers-launch-mcp-integrations-with-claude-thomson-reuters-and-free-law-project-connect-their-data-to-ai.html Tue, 12 May 2026 17:24:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53119 Two legal research providers — one a global publicly traded corporation, the other a relatively scrappy nonprofit — are today both announcing integrations with Anthropic’s Claude that allow the AI assistant to tap directly into their legal databases. While the announcements from Thomson Reuters and Free Law Project’s CourtListener arrive on the same day and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/anthropic-goes-all-in-on-legal-releasing-more-than-20-connectors-and-12-practice-area-plugins-for-claude.html Tue, 12 May 2026 17:17:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53136 Anthropic today took its biggest step yet into the legal market, releasing more than 20 new MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run on, along with 12 new plugins tailored to specific legal practice areas. Today’s announcement builds on the legal plugin Anthropic released in early February for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/lawnext-how-ai-is-transforming-the-way-law-firms-win-business-with-ikaun-president-jason-noble.html Tue, 12 May 2026 15:50:56 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53127 Law firms sell experience — but for decades, harnessing and operationalizing that experience has been a largely manual, chaotic process. In this episode, recorded live at the Legal Marketing Association annual conference in New Orleans, host Bob Ambrogi sits down with Jason Noble, president and chief of product strategy at Ikaun, to talk about how his company […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/aderant-introduces-agent-center-at-momentum-global-targeting-law-firm-back-office-operations-with-ai.html Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53113 Aderant, the Atlanta-based legal business management software company, used its Momentum Global 2026 conference this week to unveil the Aderant Agent Center — a new framework for deploying AI agents across law firm financial and operational workflows. The Agent Center, built on the company’s Stridyn platform and powered by its MADDI AI layer, launches initially […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/survey-legal-teams-lack-visibility-into-ai-agents-actions-icertis-research-finds.html Mon, 11 May 2026 15:16:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53108 Nearly half of in-house legal professionals say they would not detect an unauthorized or incorrect action taken by an AI agent until after it had already occurred — sometimes days or weeks later — according to new survey research released today by Icertis, the contract lifecycle management company. The findings, drawn from a survey of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/ediscovery-ai-launches-casebot-a-conversational-ai-assistant-for-case-data.html Mon, 11 May 2026 13:15:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53103 eDiscovery AI, which was acquired in February by HaystackID, today announced the general availability of CaseBot, a conversational AI assistant that allows legal teams to interrogate case data in natural language and receive answers cited back to source documents. The Minneapolis-based company had been running CaseBot in limited release since January 2026. It is now […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/exterro-launches-autonomous-subpoena-tool-unveils-broader-ai-governance-vision-at-cloc.html Mon, 11 May 2026 13:00:25 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53099 Timed to coincide with today’s opening of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Global Institute in Chicago, Exterro is making two related announcements: the launch of a new autonomous subpoena management product and the unveiling of a strategic framework the company calls ARMOUR — Autonomous Risk Management, Orchestration, and Unified Response — that charts its […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/today-on-legaltech-week-mikeoss-legaltech-giants-supporting-ice-ilta-evolve-rethinking-lawyer-training-ai-mansplaining-and-more.html Fri, 08 May 2026 14:57:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53097 Our Friday Legaltech Week panel has been off for a couple weeks, due to travel and other conflicts. But we’re back — live today at 3 p.m. ET — to discuss the latest news in legal tech and innovation. It’s all free, and you can sign up here to attend. Register once and you are […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/ken-crutchfield-when-open-source-meets-legal-how-mikeoss-signals-the-end-of-legals-secret-sauce.html Fri, 08 May 2026 12:38:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53092 Last week, Will Chen released MikeOSS, an open-source project on GitHub that claims to be feature-equivalent to Harvey and Legora. Among other things, MikeOSS has an assistant, a tabular review function, and reusable workflows. While it’s too early to tell how strong the technology is, the response in the development community has been viral. For […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/backstory-how-ted-turner-reshaped-legal-media-and-my-career.html Thu, 07 May 2026 14:33:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53078 Ted Turner died yesterday at 87, and the obituaries are appropriately full of CNN, the Braves, the America’s Cup, the bison, and the billion-dollar pledge to the U.N. But there is a small, largely forgotten chapter of his story that is notable for its impact on shaping legal media as we know it today. It […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/lexisnexis-expands-lexis-with-protege-adding-agentic-skills-collaboration-workrooms-and-customer-held-encryption-keys.html Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53071 Less than three months after replacing Lexis+ AI with Lexis+ with Protégé as its flagship legal AI platform, LexisNexis today is announcing a substantial expansion of that platform – what the company is calling its “next evolution,” combining significant build-outs of existing capabilities with several completely new ones. The expansion, announced today, layers six new […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/california-bar-proposes-rule-requiring-lawyers-to-verify-every-ai-output-and-five-other-ai-focused-ethics-changes.html Tue, 05 May 2026 15:03:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53056 When using any technology — including AI — a lawyer “must independently review, verify, and exercise professional judgment regarding any output generated by the technology that is used in connection with representing a client.” That language appears in a new comment to Rule 1.1 on competence proposed by the State Bar of California’s Standing Committee […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/practice-management-platform-clio-to-discontinue-its-longtime-integration-with-payments-processor-lawpay.html Tue, 05 May 2026 12:35:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53046 Legal technology company Clio‘s integration with the payment processing platform 8am LawPay is discontinuing on Aug. 31, 2026, it has notified customers. After that date, customers of the Clio Manage law practice management platform will no longer be able to use LawPay to process payments. The integration contract between the two companies expires as of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/everlaw-and-legora-announce-integration-to-connect-discovery-and-drafting.html Mon, 04 May 2026 17:03:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53041 Everlaw and Legora have announced a technology partnership that will allow litigation teams to access documents stored in Everlaw directly within Legora’s drafting and collaboration environment. The integration is designed to close the gap between the discovery and drafting phases of litigation. Under the arrangement, attorneys working in Legora — whether on witness statements, deposition […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/legal-marketing-association-president-rachel-shields-williams-on-ai-innovation-and-why-people-still-come-first.html Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:49:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53021 Recorded live at the annual meeting of the Legal Marketing Association in New Orleans, this episode features my conversation with Rachel Shields Williams, president of the LMA and director of client intelligence at Sidley Austin, where she has spent 17 years building out roles at the intersection of marketing, business development, knowledge management and data. Earlier this year, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/the-legal-tech-giants-powering-ice-part-2-the-pushback-employees-shareholders-lawyers-and-the-fight-over-may-31.html Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:52:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52984 On March 11, 2026, some 200 employees of Thomson Reuters – many of them based at the company’s Westlaw operations in St. Paul, Minn. – sent a letter to management with an unequivocal demand: Do not renew the company’s $22.8 million contract with ICE, set to expire on May 31. (See Part 1 of this […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/8am-now-guarantees-next-day-payments-to-its-lawpay-customers.html Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53015 8am, the parent company of a suite of practice and business management products for lawyers and accountants, is now guaranteeing next-day payments for customers of its LawPay and CPACharge payments platforms, it said today. The company also announced new capabilities that it says streamline billing and improve visibility into financial performance for its customers. The […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/the-legal-tech-giants-powering-ice-part-1-how-thomson-reuters-and-lexisnexis-helped-support-americas-immigration-surveillance-machine.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:16:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52982 [Note: Since first publishing this post, I have made several edits and updates based on information provided by Thomson Reuters and other sources. In most cases, I have indicated where I have changed or added information.] For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/gavel-launches-web-based-ai-contract-platform-expanding-gavel-exec-beyond-its-word-add-in.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52992 Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word. “With Gavel Exec for Web, lawyers can chat with an AI purpose-built for legal work, benchmark […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/questel-launches-qaecter-a-new-ai-model-claiming-state-of-the-art-performance-in-patent-search.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52997 Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval. The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are significantly larger, across every query type, technology domain and jurisdiction tested. QaECTER is the product of Questel’s in-house AI […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/abstract-brings-ai-powered-legislative-intelligence-to-law-firms-and-corporate-legal-teams.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:34:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52973 A New York-based legal tech startup called Abstract is making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, offering law firms and corporate legal departments what it describes as a fundamentally different approach to keeping clients and businesses informed about government activity that may affect them. At Legalweek in March, I had a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/flash-justice-aims-to-take-small-claims-plaintiffs-not-just-to-the-form-but-all-the-way-through-filing.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:35:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52965 In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli entrepreneur Erez Vega-Kadoch kept receiving what he considered to be inappropriate text messages from an Israeli company. Never having consented to the messages, he decided to fight back and file a small claims case against the company. But when he searched for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/guest-post-the-intake-form-is-dead-long-live-the-template.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:41:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52961 Legal AI has made lawyers faster. Faster contract review. Smarter redlines. Drafting assistance that saves real time. For the most part, legal AI products have been built around lawyers: how they work and how to make that work better. This isn’t surprising when you consider whose budget pays for legal AI. But the first friction […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/clio-work-clios-ai-workspace-is-now-available-to-solo-and-smaller-law-firms-as-a-standalone-product.html Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:46:10 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52940 Clio has made Clio Work — the AI workspace for legal research, analysis and strategy it launched last October — available as a standalone product for  solo, small and mid-sized law firms, removing the requirement that customers also subscribe to its flagship practice management platform, Clio Manage. The Vancouver-based company, which describes itself as the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/lexisnexis-and-luminance-announce-partnership-to-embed-protege-inside-luminances-contract-platform.html Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52934 LexisNexis and Luminance today announced a partnership that will let mutual in-house legal customers access LexisNexis’s Protégé AI assistant from inside Luminance’s contract negotiation platform, with a pathway to move into Lexis+ with Protégé for more involved legal work. Under the arrangement, users working in Luminance’s natural-language assistant, Lumi, can pose legal questions and receive […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/a-public-service-announcement-legal-tech-companies-here-are-your-celebrity-endorsers.html Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:06:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52926 It started with Harvey, the legal AI company that signed Gabriel Macht – the actor who played Harvey Specter on Suits – as a brand ambassador. Then Legora one-upped everyone by signing the actor Jude Law, building a whole campaign around the tagline, “Law just got more attractive,” and shooting the thing with an Oscar-winning […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/alt-legal-acquires-uk-based-webtms-adding-global-ip-portfolio-management-to-its-trademark-platform.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:00:47 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52911 In its sixth acquisition, Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing and management platform, has acquired WebTMS, a UK-based provider of IP portfolio management software with more than 25 years in business and over 500 clients globally. The acquisition, announced today, brings together Alt Legal’s automation-driven approach to trademark docketing with WebTMS’s deep configurability and global […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/built-on-a-weekend-damien-riehl-and-mike-bommarito-show-what-vibe-coding-can-really-do.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:38:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52908 We don’t usually say this, but for today’s LawNext, you’re going to want to watch the video version, if you can. The audio will be good, but the video will be great. You can find it on YouTube. Why? Because we’re going to be talking today about vibe coding, and you’re going to want to see […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/new-flytech-lawsites-report-on-legal-tech-advertising-finds-market-splitting-between-commoditization-and-competition-as-demand-surges.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:44:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52901 A newly released report on legal technology advertising trends suggests that while demand for legal tech continues to rise, the market is increasingly dividing between commoditized product categories and highly competitive segments tied to revenue generation. The report, Q1 2026 Legal Tech Adoption Report, was produced by FlyTech, a marketing agency specializing in advertising for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/centerbase-launches-ai-powered-business-intelligence-tool-that-gives-firms-citation-backed-answers-from-their-own-data.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:00:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52883 While much of the AI development in legal tech focuses on the practice of law — research, drafting, document review and the like — Centerbase, the practice management platform for midsized law firms, is releasing a new AI feature that focuses on the business of law. Today, the company is announcing the limited release of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/third-circuit-rules-that-upcodes-publication-of-incorporated-building-standards-is-likely-fair-use.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:08:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52875 A federal appeals court has handed a significant win to UpCodes, a legal tech startup that publishes building codes and technical standards online, ruling that its posting of copyrighted standards likely constitutes fair use — at least for now. In a decision issued April 7, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/courtroom5-launches-the-law-accelerator-a-structured-program-to-help-self-represented-litigants-navigate-civil-court.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:41:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52852 It is estimated that more than 75 percent of civil litigants in U.S. state courts have no legal representation. In eviction proceedings, the figure exceeds 90 percent. For decades, the primary response to this explosion of self-represented litigants has been to provide them with information, such as court websites, self-help centers and legal forms. Unfortunately, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/lawnext-podcast-learned-hands-shlomo-klapper-on-why-courts-are-the-next-frontier-for-legal-ai.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:41:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52847 Are courts the next frontier for legal AI? Shlomo Klapper, founder and CEO of the AI-driven judicial case-preparation platofrm Learned Hand, believes they are. A former litigator at Quinn Emanuel and law clerk for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Klapper is building what he calls a “reasoning engine” for judges — AI tools designed to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/practicepanther-launches-pantheraccounting-plus-a-native-trust-and-operating-accounting-suite-for-law-firms.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52834 PracticePanther, the cloud-based legal practice management platform that is part of Paradigm’s suite of legal software products, today launched PantherAccounting Plus, a comprehensive trust and operating accounting feature set built natively into its platform. The new capability enables law firms to manage the full lifecycle of their financial operations – from client retainers to month-end […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/josef-launches-rapid-ingestion-engine-using-ai-to-turn-messy-business-inputs-into-structured-legal-workflows.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:34:33 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52842 Josef, the Australia-based legal automation platform, has launched a new capability it is calling the Rapid Ingestion Engine, which uses AI to convert unstructured business inputs — such as email threads, meeting notes and term sheets — into the structured data that legal workflow templates require. The idea, according to Josef CEO and cofounder Tom […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/universal-migrator-releases-scripts-that-migrate-quickbooks-lexipi-and-ins-zoom-to-clio-mycase-litify-and-lawmatics.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:02:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52827 Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into major practice management tools Clio, MyCase, Litify, and Lawmatics. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 144+ applications, spanning practice management, CRM, billing/accounting, and document management systems. The latest additions […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/clio-adds-agentic-ai-capabilities-to-clio-work-also-launches-vincent-mobile-app.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:51:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52822 Clio today announced two notable updates to its AI product line: the addition of agentic capabilities to Clio Work, and the launch of a standalone Vincent by Clio mobile app for iOS and Android. Agentic Clio Work When Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled Clio Work at ClioCon last October — in a keynote that left […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/the-nfl-has-a-new-official-professional-services-partner-and-yes-its-a-legal-tech-company.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:43:40 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52811 There was a time, not so long ago, when the most exciting sponsorship deal a legal technology company might land was having its logo on a tote bag at an ABA conference. Those days, it appears, are decidedly over. Today, 8am — the company formerly known as AffiniPay and parent of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/in-ai-powered-brand-deal-harvey-partners-with-yet-another-harvey-you-know-its-other-namesake.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:30:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52794 Following its February news that it had entered into a brand partnership withj Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits, the legal AI company Harvey said today that it has entered into another such partnership involving another iconic Harvey — only this time it is using AI to make the partnership […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/on-lawnext-mary-technology-wants-to-solve-litigations-fact-chaos-problem.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:33:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52751 E-discovery platforms have gotten great at narrowing millions of documents down to manageable sets. But what happens next — the grueling work of extracting facts, organizing them, and building a reliable case narrative — has remained largely manual. In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi talks with Daniel Lord-Doyle, cofounder and CEO of Mary […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/a-new-legal-research-conference-coming-soon-and-last-day-before-ticket-prices-increase.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:14:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52789 I have been meaning to write about the new Law Firm Research & Innovation Conference taking place April 28 in New York, and then I realized there is now some urgency to it, as ticket prices go up tomorrow, April 1. The new conference is being organized by LegalTech Connect, the same team that produces […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/collbox-wins-10th-annual-startup-alley-pitch-competition-at-aba-techshow.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:06:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52785 CollBox, a company that helps law firms get paid more quickly, won the 10th annual Startup Alley pitch competition at ABA Techshow last week in Chicago. Second place went to Candle AI, an email assistant that helps small and mid-sized law firms eliminate email overload. The third-place winner was Lawdify, an autonomous AI agent for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/survey-finds-majority-of-federal-judges-have-used-ai-in-their-work-but-daily-use-remains-rare.html Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:50:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52767 A first-of-its-kind random-sample survey of federal judges has found that more than 60% have used generative artificial intelligence tools in their judicial work, though fewer than one in four use these tools on a daily or weekly basis. The study, conducted by researchers at Northwestern University in collaboration with the New York City Bar Association, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-that-listens-like-a-lawyer-a-side-by-side-comparison-of-general-ai-notetakers-and-legal-conversational-intelligence.html Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:15:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52760 AI That Listens Like a Lawyer:  Courts Are Exposing the Gap Between What AI Notetakers Promise and What Their Contracts Permit. Purpose-Built Legal Conversational Intelligenceᵀᴹ Tools, Such as Querious®, Offer Attorneys a Defensible Path Forward. A gap exists between how general-purpose AI notetakers are marketed to legal professionals and what their terms of service permit. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/exclusive-smokeball-and-thomson-reuters-partner-to-integrate-cocounsel-legal-ai-with-practice-management-platform.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52746 Smokeball, the cloud-based practice management platform serving small to mid-sized law firms, and Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership today that will embed Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel Legal AI into Smokeball’s practice management software — a combination the companies say brings together deep legal content and advanced AI capabilities with broad practice management functionality in a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/legal-industry-reaches-ai-tipping-point-majority-of-lawyers-now-using-gen-ai-despite-persistent-reliability-concerns.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:00:50 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52756 The legal profession crossed a significant threshold in 2025: For the first time, more lawyers are using generative AI than not, even as firm leaders express widespread concern about the technology’s reliability, according to the 2025 State of the Legal Industry report released today by SurePoint Technologies. The tension between adoption and apprehension defines the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/centerbase-launches-native-ndmax-integration-connecting-practice-management-to-ai-powered-document-workflows.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:30:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52735 Centerbase, a practice management platform for midsized law firms, is announcing today an enhanced native integration with NetDocuments that makes it the first practice management platform to natively connect matter data with ndMAX, NetDocuments’ AI-powered document intelligence system. Centerbase says that the integration, which it will be demonstrating at ABA TECHSHOW this week in Chicago, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/how-two-litigators-spent-five-years-in-stealth-building-what-they-say-is-the-most-comprehensive-litigation-platform-on-the-market.html Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:11:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52731 At the recent Legalweek conference in New York, I sat down with the cofounders of Syllo, a legal technology company that has taken a uniquely ambitious approach to developing technology for litigators. Rather than focus on any one segment of the litigation process, they have built a unified, AI-powered litigation workspace that spans the entire […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/data-intelligence-company-relativity-confidentially-files-for-ipo-would-be-first-in-legal-tech-since-2021.html Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:40:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52722 The legal data intelligence company Relativity says it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The filing is not yet available to the public, and the number of shares to be offered and the price range […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lawnext-on-location-visiting-everlaws-headquarters-for-a-conversation-with-aj-shankar-founder-and-ceo.html Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:22:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52710 For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it for the long […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/sixth-circuit-slaps-steep-sanctions-on-two-lawyers-for-fake-citations-and-misrepresentations-in-appellate-briefs.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:26:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52701 In what may be one of the most significant appellate sanctions rulings yet involving fabricated case citations, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has imposed substantial penalties on two Tennessee attorneys for filing briefs containing more than two dozen fake or misrepresented citations. The court sanctioned attorneys Van R. Irion and Russ Egli, ordering […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/aderant-adds-ai-powered-performance-evaluation-tools-to-its-vi-talent-management-suite.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:45:05 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52688 Aderant, the Atlanta-based provider of business management software for law firms, today announced the addition of AI-powered capabilities to its vi by Aderant talent management suite, including AI-assisted employee performance evaluations, real-time sentiment analysis, and auto-summarization features within its viEval and viAllocate products. The company says these are the first client-facing AI capabilities within the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/pro-bono-net-the-a2j-technology-pioneer-rebrands-as-scale-justice-to-reflect-its-evolving-mission.html Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:30:53 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52683 Pro Bono Net, the nonprofit that has been a pioneering force in access-to-justice technology since the dawn of the internet era, yesterday announced that it is rebranding as Scale Justice, reflecting an evolution in its mission that has taken it beyond its origins as an organizer of pro bono legal services. The new name, said […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/another-podcast-with-clio-founder-jack-newton-yep-but-this-time-its-him-interviewing-me-in-my-seaside-hometown.html Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:51:33 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52671 You know that idiom about the mountain coming to Muhammad? That is how I felt when Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton came to my small seaside town of Rockport, Mass., to interview me, complete with film crew and entourage. It was Jack turning the tables on me. I’ve interviewed him for my own LawNext […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/hand-arendall-harrison-sale-transforms-document-workflows-and-sees-immediate-roi-with-literas-ai-powered-drafting-and-compare.html Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:42:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52661 Customer results highlight growing demand for unified drafting, comparison, and collaboration within Microsoft 365 and web   NEW YORK – Legalweek 2026 – Mar. 10, 2026 – Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, shared new customer results at Legalweek demonstrating how law firms are transforming document workflows and realizing immediate value with […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/legalweek-has-left-the-building-and-successfully-landed-in-a-new-one.html Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:34:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52640 Last week, Law.com Legalweek pulled off something genuinely impressive: It moved. After 39 years at the New York Hilton Midtown, one of the world’s leading legal technology conferences relocated to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a sprawling glass and steel pavilion 1.6 miles away on Manhattan’s far west side, steps from the entrance to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/guest-post-the-new-physics-of-legal-tech-who-performs-legal-work-in-the-ai-era-part-3-of-3.html Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:10:40 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52632 This is the final installment in a three-part series examining the forces reshaping the legal industry. Part One and Part Two covered the macro dynamics of the AI industrial revolution and also the bending of UPL as consumers turn to AI products such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for legal advice. Consumer behavior will lead, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/clio-launches-clio-capital-to-provide-fast-low-friction-financing-for-law-firms.html Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:03:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52618 Clio has officially launched Clio Capital, a financing program designed exclusively for law firms that use the company’s practice management platform. The product, which went live Feb. 26, provides eligible law firms with pre-qualified access to working capital through a streamlined application process directly within the Clio platform, bypassing the paperwork-heavy, rejection-prone process that has […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/mary-technology-raises-a7m-to-bring-fact-management-platform-to-u-s-market.html Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:59:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52616 An Australian legal tech startup that has built what it describes as the first fact management system for litigation is announcing a A$7 million seed round and its expansion into the United States, including the opening of a San Francisco office and the launch of a self-serve platform aimed at smaller law firms. Mary Technology, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/legal-tech-vendors-roll-out-wave-of-announcements-ahead-of-legalweek-news-from-disco-advocacy-imanage-monjur-reveal-and-chronotracer-and-align.html Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:05:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52607 With Legalweek 2026 set to open Monday in New York City, legal technology companies have been rolling out a string of product announcements and company news in the days leading up to the conference. The pre-conference wave covers a range of developments, from new AI platforms and funding rounds to enhancements in e-discovery tools and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lawnext-on-location-at-a-sonoma-winery-a-conversation-with-briefpoint-ceo-nathan-walter-about-discovery-disruption-and-of-course-wine.html Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:48:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52599 Continuing my on-location interview tour of San Francisco, I head an hour north to Santa Rosa to sit down with Nathan Walter, cofounder and CEO of Briefpoint, over a bottle of red wine at Paradise Ridge Winery, a spot literally around the corner from Nathan’s house, sitting on the edge of the Mayacamas Mountain Range […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/universal-migrator-releases-scripts-that-migrate-docuware-legal-server-and-alfresco-to-imanage-sharepoint-and-netdocuments.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:07:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52597 With each month, Universal Migrator’s library becomes more comprehensive. Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from DocuWare, Legal Server, and Alfresco into major document management systems including iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 141+ applications, spanning practice […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-legal-research-startup-descrybe-launches-legal-reasoning-tool-says-it-outperforms-chatgpt-claude-and-gemini-on-bar-exam-benchmark.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52584 The AI legal research startup Descrybe today launched a “legal reasoning” product, DescrybeLM, that it says outperforms leading general-purpose AI models on a standardized legal reasoning benchmark — and it is publishing the methodology and scoring data to invite scrutiny. The company also launched an all-new website that features the new product while also retaining […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-adoption-among-legal-professionals-has-more-than-doubled-in-a-year-new-8am-report-finds-but-firms-lag-far-behind-individual-practitioners.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:00:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52579 Nearly seven in 10 legal professionals now use generative AI tools for work — a figure that more than doubled in a single year — but the majority of law firms still lack formal AI policies or training programs, according to the 2026 Legal Industry Report released by 8am, the legal technology company behind LawPay, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-reports-say-hackers-claim-access-to-government-and-law-firm-user-data.html Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:37:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52569 LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed that hackers breached its servers and accessed customer and business information, after a threat actor calling itself FulcrumSec publicly posted stolen files and a detailed account of the intrusion. (This story was updated after receiving a statement from LexisNexis.) According to news reports from BleepingComputer, TechRadar, and others, the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/american-arbitration-association-launches-resolution-simulator-expanding-its-ai-arbitrator-tool.html Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:58 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52566 The American Arbitration Association is launching a new AI-powered tool called the Resolution Simulator, which builds on the organization’s previously launched AI Arbitrator to provide simulated, nonbinding dispute outcomes before formal arbitration proceedings begin. The Resolution Simulator is designed for single-party use in documents-only commercial and construction disputes. Users submit their materials and receive an […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/paladin-and-pli-partner-to-connect-law-students-with-pro-bono-training-and-opportunities.html Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52552 Paladin, a pro bono management platform, and Practising Law Institute (PLI), a nonprofit legal education provider, have announced a partnership aimed at integrating skills training with pro bono work for law students. Under the arrangement, law students using Paladin’s platform to find pro bono placements will also have access to PLI’s on-demand training programs. The […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/as-womens-history-month-kicks-off-aderant-makes-history-of-a-sort-naming-its-first-female-cro.html Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:00:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52540 March is Women’s History Month and, as it kicks off, the legal business software company Aderant is announcing an executive appointment that is historic, at least within the context of this nearly 50-year-old company — its first female chief revenue officer. Aderant today said it has named Aisling Fenelon to that position. A veteran of more […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/augusts-new-live-assist-lets-lawyers-be-active-listeners-and-active-fact-checkers.html Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:00:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52537 In every deposition, client call or witness prep session, there is an inherent tension. The more focused attorneys are on listening, the less bandwidth they have to simultaneously verify what is being said against the record. Conversely, the more they are mentally cross-referencing documents, the less present they are in what is being said. August, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/universal-migrator-releases-scripts-to-migrate-tussman-collectmax-and-leaddocket-to-clio-mycase-litify-and-lawmatics.html Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:44:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52534 Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from Tussman, CollectMax and LeadDocket into major platforms including Clio, MyCase, Litify, and Lawmatics. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 138+ applications, spanning practice management, CRM, billing/accounting, and document management systems.   About Universal Migrator Universal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/exclusive-confido-legal-raises-9-million-to-expand-embedded-payments-and-disbursements-for-law-firms.html Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:30:58 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52523 Confido Legal, an embedded payments platform built specifically for law firms and the legal technology companies that serve them, has raised $9 million in financing across two rounds, the company told LawNext in an exclusive advance interview. The latest and larger of the two rounds was led by Aquiline Capital Partners, a global private investment […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lawnext-on-location-the-view-from-tiburon-a-conversation-with-pablo-arredondo-casetext-cofounder.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:50:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52515 As I continue my LawNext on Location series – all recorded live in the San Francisco area at locations of each guest’s choosing – he sits down with Pablo Arredondo at his home in Tiburon, a quaint Marin County town with a history stretching from Mexican land grants to naval outposts to a southern railway […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/three-years-after-launching-as-first-ai-legal-assistant-cocounsel-reaches-1-million-users-and-thomson-reuters-teases-whats-ahead.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52504 CoCounsel, which launched almost exactly three years ago, on March 1, 2023, as the first AI legal assistant built on GPT-4, today marked a notable milestone, reaching 1 million customers across 107 countries and territories. Developed by legal research startup Casetext, Thomson Reuters acquired CoCounsel (and Casetext) just four months after its release, for a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lexisnexis-launches-lexis-with-protege-replacing-lexis-ai-with-an-end-to-end-workflow-platform.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:00:33 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52500 You can bid adieu to Lexis+ AI. LexisNexis is today announcing the general availability in the United States of Lexis+ with Protégé, an integrated flagship platform that  fully replaces Lexis+ AI — which the company now describes as its “first-generation AI experience” — and brings a significantly expanded set of AI workflow capabilities to legal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/sirion-completes-majority-investment-from-haveli-aiming-to-accelerate-ai-push-in-clm-market.html Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:00:35 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52490 Sirion, an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, has completed a majority investment from Austin-based private equity firm Haveli Investments, the companies announced today. With Haveli’s partnership, Sirion said, it will aim to accelerate product innovation, expand its global go-to-market presence, and enable organizations to move from static contract repositories to intelligent, workflow-driven contracting. “Sirion is […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/arizona-republic-investigation-finds-consumer-harm-loopholes-and-conflicts-of-interest-in-arizonas-legal-regulatory-reform.html Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:06:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52435 An in-depth investigation by The Arizona Republic has found that Arizona’s pioneering program allowing nonlawyers to own law firms — a reform long championed by access-to-justice advocates — has become riddled with consumer complaints, legal loopholes, financial conflicts of interest and inadequate oversight. In a series of investigative articles, Republic journalist Laura Gersony paints a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lawnext-on-location-lunch-with-alex-su-of-latitude-legal-in-alameda-calif.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:56:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52481 While I am visiting San Francisco for two weeks, I am sitting down for conversations with legal tech innovators and entrepreneurs “in their natural habitats” – places in the Bay Area they consider special. Today, in the first in this series, I sit down for lunch with Alex Su, chief revenue officer at Latitude Legal, over Thai […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/universal-migrator-reduces-pricing-on-migration-tools-for-imanage-sharepoint-and-netdocuments.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:28:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52478 Universal Migrator today announced reduced pricing for access to its migration script library covering iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments, lowering the cost barrier for legal technology consultants performing document management system transitions. Access to the script library now starts at $3,500, with no additional fees no matter how many migrations are performed or the size […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/altaclaro-and-verbit-launch-deposim-an-ai-powered-deposition-simulator-for-litigators.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:15:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52467 AltaClaro, the legal training company that builds simulation-based experiential learning, is today launching DepoSim, an AI-powered deposition simulator developed in partnership with Verbit.ai, the verbal intelligence and transcription technology company. The product is designed to give litigators unlimited, on-demand opportunities to practice conducting depositions in realistic scenarios, then receive structured, objective feedback on how well […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/simpledocs-launches-contract-intelligence-layer-putting-policy-precedent-and-market-data-inside-microsoft-word.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:30:47 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52459 SimpleDocs today announced the launch of what it is calling its Contract Intelligence Layer, an advanced benchmarking feature that integrates a law department’s internal policies, historical contract precedent and verified market standards directly inside the Microsoft Word add-in where lawyers are already doing their work. The launch builds on the company’s September 2025 acquisition of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/harvey-partners-with-well-harvey-its-namesake-as-brand-spokesperson.html Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:00:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52449 The legal AI company Harvey said today that it has partnered with Harvey — the original one. The Harvey in question — the non-AI one, that is — is Gabriel Macht, the actor who played the role of lawyer Harvey Specter in the television series Suits. Harvey — the AI one — is named for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/the-votes-are-in-here-are-the-15-legal-tech-startups-selected-for-the-2026-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow.html Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:57:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52439 The results are in! Voting has now closed and your votes have been tallied to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to participate as finalists in the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, March 25-28, 2026, in Chicago. These 15 finalists will face off in an opening-night pitch competition that is the opening […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/down-to-the-wire-tomorrow-is-the-deadline-vote-now-for-your-favorite-legal-tech-startups-to-go-to-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow.html Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52424 Tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 13, is the deadline to vote. Your votes determine the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. Below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Which of these companies will end up lucky on Friday the 13th? Remember, your votes determine […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/8am-expands-lawpay-into-full-financial-management-platform-for-law-firms-with-payments-billing-and-reporting.html Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:00:38 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52429 The company formerly known as AffiniPay continues its evolution under the 8am brand, today announcing the expansion of its LawPay payments platform into what it says is a complete financial management solution for law firms. The expanded 8am LawPay now unites payments, invoicing, time tracking, expense management and financial reporting into a single workspace, aiming […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/in-a-marriage-of-legal-editing-tools-briefcatch-has-acquired-wordrake-and-its-12-editing-patents.html Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:03:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52385 When it comes to standalone editing software for legal professionals, there have been basically three choices: BriefCatch, WordRake, and PerfectIt. Now that list is one shorter, as BriefCatch has acquired WordRake. According to Ross Guberman, founder of BriefCatch, his company has acquired WordRake’s core product and technology assets. The WordRake product will be integrated into […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/legalgain-shares-findings-in-whitepaper-on-structural-requirements-for-ai-legal-research.html Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:22:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52413 Legalgain has released Integrity Meets Intelligence: The Training Data and Domain Architecture Standards for Agentic Legal Research, a whitepaper examining the data and architectural requirements necessary for AI systems to perform reliable legal research. The analysis outlines why many current legal AI tools fall short on accuracy and defensibility, and identifies the structural conditions required […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/friday-is-the-deadline-to-vote-here-are-the-current-standings-vote-now-to-pick-the-15-startups-that-will-go-to-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow-in-march.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:00:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52406 This Friday, Feb. 13, is the deadline to vote. Your votes determine the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. Below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Which of these companies will end up lucky on Friday the 13th? Remember, your votes determine […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/disco-launches-scaled-agentic-ai-tool-for-large-discovery-and-fact-investigation-matters.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:29:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52398 Calling it “the industry’s first scaled agentic AI tool for fact investigation and e-discovery,” DISCO today announced an agentic AI enhancement to its Cecilia Q&A tool, which the company says is designed to handle large-scale e-discovery matters with millions of documents and terabytes of data. The Austin-based legal technology company’s new tool adds what it […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/todays-legaltech-week-the-claude-pocalypse-ai-agents-gone-wild-and-much-more-all-live-at-3-et.html Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:56:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52391 As I wrote earlier this week, it was the shot heard ’round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. Meanwhile, AI agents now have their own social network, Moltbook, while another new site is enabling them to rent humans to do […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/guest-post-ken-crutchfield-on-10-reasons-the-market-overreacted-to-claudes-legal-skills-announcement.html Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:21:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52380 When Anthropic announced legal skills inside its Cowork environment this week, shares of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer tanked. Investors appeared to price in a new competitive threat from Claude. But Ken Crutchfield believes the market got it wrong. “I feel the market reaction does not reflect the reality of the situation,” he […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/masters-ai-taps-cat-casey-to-anchor-its-new-global-legal-ai-conference-series-and-learning-ecosystem.html Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:25 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52374 The Masters Conference, which just two months ago announced new leadership and plans to launch a new division, Masters AI Legal, today announced that it has partnered with Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, and former chief growth officer at Reveal. Casey will anchor Masters AI […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/anthropics-legal-plugin-for-claude-cowork-may-be-the-opening-salvo-in-a-competition-between-foundation-models-and-legal-tech-incumbents.html Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:55:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52368 To read today’s news, you’d think it was the shot heard ’round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least. “Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,” reports The Guardian. “Anthropic’s Move Into Legal, Data Services Sinks Software Stocks,” says Bloomberg. “A selloff in … stocks deepened on […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lsc-issues-blueprint-for-narrowing-the-justice-gap-through-technology-innovation-in-civil-legal-services.html Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:37:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52361 In 2013, the Legal Services Corporation published the landmark study, Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice. The report forcefully made the case that technology could be a powerful – indeed, essential – tool in narrowing the justice gap, and its recommendations helped shape the last decade of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/at-the-legal-services-corporations-innovation-conference-talk-of-radical-collaboration-cutting-edge-ai-and-doing-more-with-what-you-have.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:02:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52340 In video remarks that opened the second day of the Legal Services Corporation’s annual Innovations in Technology Conference in San Antonio last week, Bridget Mary McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, urged attendees to engage in “radical collaboration.” “AI alone won’t close the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/with-two-weeks-left-to-vote-here-are-the-standings-for-aba-techshows-startup-alley.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:05:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52338 With just two weeks left to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Remember, your votes determine the 15 companies that get the opportunity to face off in a live pitch competition on the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/guest-post-in-the-second-of-his-three-part-series-ken-crutchfield-looks-at-whether-upl-will-hit-the-breaking-point-in-2026.html Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:57:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52326 Where does all the pressure building in legal tech concentrate? On unauthorized practice of law (UPL), says Ken Crutchfield — and something’s got to give. In Part 1 of his series on “The New Physics of Legal Tech,” Crutchfield examined the macro forces shaping the industry. Now, in Part 2, he zeroes in on the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-customer-to-acquirer-filevines-ryan-anderson-and-pincites-sona-sulakian-on-building-ai-contract-intelligence.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:54:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52329 In this episode of LawNext, we talk with Ryan Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Filevine, and Sona Sulakian, former CEO and co-founder of Pincites, about Filevine’s acquisition of the AI-powered contract redlining company. The deal, which closed in December, marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of the year. Even more notably for this traditionally litigation-focused […]]]>