BriefCatch, a legal technology company whose Microsoft Word add-in helps legal professionals improve their writing, has unveiled two new features that use generative artificial intelligence to enhance legal document preparation: AI-driven Bluebook citation correction and a context-aware writing advisor.

These features, introduced as part of BriefCatch’s release of version 4 of its software,  mark…

Are you still on the fence about whether generative artificial intelligence can do the work of human lawyers? If so, I urge you to read this new study.

Published yesterday, this first-of-its-kind study evaluated the performance of four legal AI tools across seven core legal tasks. In many cases, it found, AI tools can perform…

In a historic development for the legal profession, KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax, and advisory firm, became the first Big Four firm with a subsidiary licensed to practice law in the United States, as the Arizona Supreme Court approved the application of KPMG Law US to be licensed as an alternative…

Intapp, a global company that provides cloud-based software tailored to legal, accounting and financial services firms, has unveiled DealCloud Activator, an AI-enabled growth platform designed to help professional services firms adopt and sustain successful business development practices.

The platform, which combines artificial intelligence with behavioral science to guide professionals in their client relationship management,…

Wolters Kluwer today beefed up its LegalCollaborator product for corporate legal departments with the addition of new summarization functionality driven by generative artificial intelligence and the ability for legal departments to now leverage reverse auction capabilities to drive more competitive law firm bids.

The new summarization capabilities will help corporate legal departments assess…

LexisNexis Legal & Professional and OpenAI today announced plans to work more closely with each other to integrate OpenAI’s large language models and APIs across the LexisNexis product ecosystem.

LexisNexis will incorporate OpenAI’s technology across its various products, including Lexis+ AI and the Protégé personalized AI assistant.

Through this direct collaboration, LexisNexis says, it will…

AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, MyCase, and other platforms, today announced that it will hold its first-ever conference in the fall for legal and accounting professionals.

Called Kaleidoscope, the two-day event will take place Sept. 2-4, 2025, in Austin, Texas. 

AffiniPay said the conference will be “packed with valuable insights and a variety…

A panel of five judges and a professor of law and computer science, all members of the Working Group on AI and the Courts of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence, have published recommended guidelines for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in judicial settings.

The guidelines, “Navigating AI…

You may have heard the news earlier this month that attorneys at plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan — the 42nd largest U.S. law firm by headcount — were facing sanctions over their submission of court filings containing fake legal cases generated by artificial intelligence.

Now, the Wyoming federal judge presiding over the case,…

Earlier this month, a legal tech startup called Fortuna Arbitration launched what it says is the first true AI judge – an automated arbitration system called Arbitrus.ai that the company claims can fully replace human arbitrators in resolving legal disputes. The system promises to cut the cost of arbitration from an average of…

Baretz+Brunelle, which describes itself as a growth advisory firm to elite businesses in the legal industry, has acquired LexFusion, a company that provides go-to-market sales representation of a portfolio of companies acr0ss major categories of legal technology.

LexFusion was founded in 2020 by two well-known veterans of the legal industry, Joe…

Recently, I wrote here about the AI Smackdown presented at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered by three leading platforms – Lexis+AI, Westlaw Precision AI, and vLex’s Vincent AI.

Having been…