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…

At a time when some courts are still questioning or even banning the use of generative artificial intelligence, a recent decision from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is notable for the fact that both the majority and dissenting opinions openly discussed their use of ChatGPT in their deliberations.

The decision, issued Feb. 20…

The e-discovery company Merlin Search Technologies has launched Alchemy, a “document intelligence platform,” driven by generative artificial intelligence, that is designed to transform unstructured data into actionable intelligence for legal teams.

The Alchemy platform succeeds the previous version of Merlin’s platform, which was called DiscoveryPartner, and introduces several architectural innovations aimed at redefining…

There has been a significant increase in the adoption of artificial intelligence-based tools among law firms, with 30% of respondents now using AI technology compared to just 11% in 2023, according to the just-released 2024 edition of the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Survey Report.

It finds that time savings and increased efficiency remain…

This week on How it Works, Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, along with Tim Parker, account executive at Clearbrief, walk me through the software.

Clearbrief is a software that has been covered extensively on this blog and on LawNext podcast since it placed as a Startup Alley…

Just last week, I wrote about a first-of-its-kind benchmarking study of legal AI tools, and now comes another, much-different study, that is also the first of its kind.

This time, in a randomized controlled trial, researchers have found that the latest generation of AI technologies can significantly enhance both the quality and efficiency of…

“My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are; they have an enormously developed intelligence, but they have no soul.”

With that quote from R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), a 1920 science fiction play by Czech writer Karel Čapek, U.S. District Judge Kai N. Scott, in the…