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An android — a human robot — confidently addressing a courtroom, its digital eyes gleaming with intelligence. The judge and jurors, captivated. What’s remarkable isn’t the futuristic…

Recently, legal technology company SurePoint Technologies acquired the legal practice management company ZenCase in a strategic move aimed at enhancing SurePoint’s practice management offerings for mid-sized law firms. In this episode of LawNext, Eric Thurston, who recently marked…

Exterro and Integreon today announced a strategic partnership to deliver managed e-discovery and document review services, combining Exterro’s data risk management software with Integreon’s document review expertise.

The partnership aims to provide enterprise customers with an integrated solution for managing e-discovery processes while improving efficiency and reducing costs, the companies said. The partnership…

Harbor, a consulting company that provides expert services to the legal industry in strategy, technology, operations and intelligence, has acquired CLIENTSFirst Consulting, a marketing firm that provides consulting on client relationship management, data quality, e-marketing and other areas.

Harbor said that the addition of the CLIENTSFirst Consulting team will enable it to expand…

With $4.5 million in seed funding to date and the backing of several legal technology veterans, the legal technology company Entegrata aims to transform how law firms integrate and analyze data across disparate business systems in order to drive data-informed decision-making.

The investment in the company, which was made public today, was led by…

Paladin, a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, is today launching Paladin Insights, a new data analytics platform designed to provide real-time reporting capabilities for pro bono legal teams.

The new platform builds upon technology Paladin acquired when it purchased Pro Bono Manager in December 2023, a  product…

The adoption of generative artificial intelligence in small law firms has almost doubled over the past year, with 53% of small firms and solo practitioners now integrating gen AI into their workflows, up from 27% in 2023, according to the 2025 State of Law Report released today by law practice management company Smokeball.…

The motto of law practice management company Clio is to “transform the legal experience for all.” But for many of its 17 years in business, that “all” has focused primarily on smaller law firms and their clients. Last year, Clio expanded that “all” to include mid-sized firms, and, in the wake of its…

The legal world’s embrace of AI in the past year hasn’t just increased — it’s exploded. Law firms that were cautiously experimenting with AI in 2023 are now integrating it into their daily workflows. The shift has been particularly dramatic among mid-sized firms, who initially watched the Am Law 100 test the waters but…

On this week’s show: LawNext takes you to the movies. Well, to a specific movie, anyway – a documentary being made to raise public awareness and understanding of the access to justice crisis in this country.

Today’s guests are the film’s director, documentary filmmaker Laura Hand, who previously directed The Tent Mender, about…

AffiniPay, the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, including LawPay and MyCase, today released its 2025 Legal Industry Report, based on a survey of over 2,800 legal professionals, primarily in solo and small firms, and it reveals a profession at a critical technological crossroads,…

DeepJudge, developer of an AI-powered search platform for internal law firm data, has launched AI Workflows, a new feature of its product that allows law firms to deploy AI agents and applications across their internal firm data. The feature provides built-in AI workflows and also allows firms to create custom AI applications via a…