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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…