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…
Two practicing lawyers in Austin, Texas, have built a free connector that plugs Claude directly into millions of court opinions, statutes, regulations and court rules, along with federal court filings via PACER — and they say that, in their own testing, it matches and sometimes beats the Westlaw AI accounts their firms pay for.
The…
Martin Luther King famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” My guest today quoted his words in her 2024 book, Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis. But now, two years after that book’s publication — at a…
Anyone can make sweets, but not everyone can make a Hershey bar.
The debate over legaltech startups offering nothing more than a “thin wrapper” around an LLM begs a deeper analysis of the value of a wrapper, particularly as open-source alternatives take root.
Let’s start with a Hershey bar. You pay for the chocolate, right?…
Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an “expert AI coworker” designed to run the business operations of a firm — from deal screening and conflicts…
Last week, Relativity announced that Chris Brown, its chief product officer since 2018, had been named the company’s president, effective July 13. In the new role, Brown continues to lead Relativity’s product organization while adding marketing and technology partnerships to his scope — a change that coincides with the departure of Chief Marketing Officer…
When I spoke with Chris Cartrett yesterday, just hours after reporting that he will step down Aug. 1 as president and CEO of Aderant, he was emphatic that his departure, after 12 years at the company, including five as CEO, was not about wanting to leave.
“It’s not a matter of wanting…
Legal Decoder, a legal spend analytics company whose billing-review technology has been relied on by Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 firms, as well as fee examiners in major federal bankruptcy cases, is today launching Aperture, a natural language interface that lets law firms and legal departmentss conversationally query legal billing and spend…
Litera, one of the most broadly deployed technology companies in the legal industry, is today unveiling a company-wide relaunch that positions it as the legal AI platform unifying the practice and business of law through one AI agent and one dataset.
The relaunch — going live today at litera.com — includes a new brand…
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