“Everybody understands the world is volatile, but they don’t necessarily understand why it’s volatile or how to deal with it,” says Sean West, cofounder of Hence Technologies and author of the new book, Unruly: Fighting Back When Politics, AI, and Law Upend the Rules of Business. “Unruly is a play on words. … The world is…

Legal technology company FirmPilot announced today that it has raised $11.7 million in total funding, with Thomson Reuters Ventures and HubSpot Ventures joining as strategic investors in its latest round.

The AI marketing platform for law firms secured $4.7 million in this strategic investment round from the two new backers. This follows $7 million…

Vals AI has put out an open call for legal technology vendors to participate in its legal AI benchmarking studies, including its upcoming evaluation of U.S. legal research tools.

Readers may recall that, in February, Vals AI issued the first-of-its-kind benchmark study of legal AI tools. The Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) was the first…

PERSUIT, a technology company that specializes in outside counsel management for corporate legal departments, has acquired Apperio, a spend-management platform for corporate legal.

The news comes as the CLOC Global Legal Institute, a conference devoted to legal operations professionals in corporate legal, kicks off today in Las Vegas.

“This strategic acquisition reinforces…

One of the best-known idioms about lawyers is the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln, “A lawyer’s time and advice are his stock in trade.” But I doubt you have ever heard this one: “A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows where the law keeps its spare keys.”

Last week, social media…

If you follow legal tech at all, you would be justified in suspecting that Tom Martin has figured out how to use artificial intelligence to clone himself. 

While running LawDroid, his legal tech company, the Vancouver-based Martin also still manages a law practice in California, oversees an annual legal…

This week on How it Works, we’re joined by Daniel Diamond, Chief Revenue Officer at Alexi, for a brief demonstration of the software’s key features.

Alexi is, in their words, a “flexible AI platform trusted by leading law firms to develop proprietary insights, orchestrate high-quality work, and deliver stronger results — in a fully…

Seattle-based legal technology startup Supio has secured $60 million in Series B funding to accelerate the development and adoption of its AI-powered platform for personal injury law firms. The funding round was led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures, bringing Supio’s total funding to $91 million.

Sapphire Ventures is…

Hence Technologies has unveiled Hence Global, an AI-powered platform designed to help businesses and their legal counsel manage geopolitical uncertainties by providing customized risk analysis and insights tailored to specific business roles and needs.

Launched last week, the platform aims to address what the company describes as “the unruly collision of politics, technology, and…

Contract management is emerging as the top use case for generative artificial intelligence in legal departments, according to a new survey of in-house legal professionals released today, the 2025 AI Impact on In-House Legal Teams Survey Report.

Conducted by the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft, the survey finds that a significant majority (70.8%)…

Coheso, an AI-powered intake and work management platform that describes itself as a “legal front door” for corporate legal and compliance teams, today announced a significant enhancement to its platform with the addition of a universal contract lifecycle management (CLM) connector, which it says enables seamless integration and granular data mapping with organizations’ CLM…

Gauvreau CPA, a recognized Clio Gold Partner, has selected Universal Migrator as their solution for migrating client firms into Clio, significantly accelerating their onboarding processes and expanding their service capabilities.

Universal Migrator is a tool that helps law firms and legal organizations migrate their data when moving from one practice management solution or technology…