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Law firms are adopting Legal Soft’s VA+ model, which pairs AI‑driven automation with a certified virtual assistant who owns the outcome. The hybrid approach replaces the binary choice of hiring more staff or buying unmanaged software, delivering continuous execution, accountability, and scalable leverage. VA+ embeds AI into daily legal workflows—intake, case management, and administrative support—while the human VA monitors, intervenes, and ensures quality. Implementation can be completed in 7‑14 days, allowing firms to shift from task management to outcome management quickly.
Ofcom has opened an investigation into the provider of two anonymous image‑board services to assess compliance with the UK Online Safety Act. The probe focuses on whether the platforms have conducted required illegal‑content risk assessments and implemented safeguards against non‑consensual...
Harvey’s AI agents, launched a year ago, automate multi‑step legal workflows, while the newly released Shared Spaces platform enables real‑time collaboration between in‑house teams and external counsel. The company will host a TalkingTech webinar on 25 March to demonstrate these tools,...
The 2025 edition of Selma Lemes’s arbitration report shows Brazil’s arbitral market rebounding, with new cases rising 30% to 376 annually and the average dispute value jumping 122% to BRL 202 million in 2024. International filings also climbed to 64, the highest...
Tech4Law has posted a password‑protected article titled “AI for Lawyers Feedback on Redacting Documents.” The piece appears to focus on how artificial intelligence can assist lawyers in identifying and removing sensitive information from legal files. While the full content is...
The High Court refused permission for the Charity Commission to seek judicial review of two safeguarding complaints, deeming the claim academic and non‑justiciable. The complaints – one by Damian Murray and another by Lara Hall – had previously been upheld...
The DOJ and FTC under the Trump‑era “Deal Friendly” approach have shifted toward expediting non‑problematic mergers, reviving early termination practices, and favoring structural remedies such as divestitures. In 2025, agencies filed 12 enforcement actions, with nine settled via consent orders,...
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta appointed a multimember technical committee to monitor Google’s adherence to his behavioral‑remedies order. The judge’s final judgment found Google liable for antitrust violations but stopped short of imposing a structural breakup. Both the Department of...
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has launched a digital Criminal Case Tracker to monitor federal prosecutions that employ novel or aggressive charging theories. The platform reveals a growing trend since early 2025 of grand juries issuing "no...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Judge Adam Tanenbaum to the state Supreme Court, marking his final reshaping of the bench. In Tanenbaum’s first oral argument, he asked the deputy solicitor general whether his statutory‑interpretation approach resembled Justice Gorsuch’s textualism in...
Independent journalist Sarah Westall filed a federal lawsuit on March 5, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the United States government, Google LLC, and YouTube LLC. The complaint alleges coordinated government‑coerced censorship, defamation through...
Syrian nationals filed a petition urging the Supreme Court to keep a New York federal judge's order that blocks the Trump administration's attempt to terminate their Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The petition argues the government has not demonstrated irreparable harm,...
A federal judge in Jacksonville blocked Governor Ron DeSantis’s December 2025 executive order that labeled the Council on American‑Islamic Relations (CAIR) a terrorist organization and barred it from state contracts. The court held that the governor lacks authority to make...
Judge Lawrence VanDyke sat down with the University of Florida Federalist Society during the Originalism Conference to discuss his personal journey and judicial philosophy. He explained why his approach on the Ninth Circuit often diverges from his colleagues, emphasizing a...
The article explains that modern litigation now begins with massive streams of digital data rather than physical documents. It defines electronically stored information (ESI) as any digital content—emails, chats, cloud files, and metadata—generated and used in today’s workplaces. As data...
Exterro argues that modern enterprises face relentless litigation and regulatory demands, yet many still reactively manage eDiscovery. The firm contends that treating information governance as a back‑office task undermines efficiency and outcomes. By adopting a process‑first approach—embedding disciplined, intelligence‑driven steps...
Data normalization transforms disparate electronic records into a uniform format, enabling legal teams to search, filter, and review evidence more accurately during eDiscovery. By eliminating inconsistencies in file types, metadata, and structure, it improves search precision, reduces review costs, and...
Lawyers traditionally protect the content of communications, but the surrounding metadata—who, when, where, and how messages are exchanged—offers a far richer behavioral map. Recent advances in AI turn this metadata into powerful pattern‑recognition engines, exposing intimate client details without ever...
Pressure to invest in generative AI is rising across industries, yet a 2026 8am Legal Industry Report finds many law firms feel little urgency. The survey of 1,395 lawyers, paralegals and staff shows 39% of respondents say their firm isn’t...
Universal Migrator announced new migration scripts that enable legal‑technology consultants to move data from DocuWare, Legal Server, and Alfresco into leading document‑management platforms such as iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments. The addition brings the platform’s script library to support more...
Veteran Canadian sport‑law attorney launches a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) series, with the inaugural virtual session on March 26 from noon to 1:30 p.m. EST. The first class targets lawyers and law students with little or no exposure to amateur‑sport...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly mastering tasks traditionally performed by lawyers, from contract drafting to legal research, prompting a crisis of relevance for the profession. The article argues that while AI can deliver cheap, efficient legal assistance, human attorneys still hold...
Brendan Miller’s blog examines how law firms can convert vocal skeptics of new technology into enthusiastic adopters. He illustrates typical resistance: a team member fearing diminished relevance and a senior partner doubting an AI research assistant’s accuracy. Miller outlines practical...
A wave of new education initiatives is targeting legal professionals to boost generative AI literacy. Law schools, bar associations, and corporate training programs are rolling out curricula that cover AI opportunities, ethical considerations, and regulatory risks. Partnerships with technology firms...
Employers in New York City must now provide 32 hours of unpaid safe and sick leave in addition to existing paid time, with expanded usage categories and no rollover. The state’s Trapped at Work Act, which bans mandatory repayment agreements, has...
Coupang announced it is hiring an in‑house legal team dedicated to stablecoin issuance and regulatory compliance. The initiative will enable the e‑commerce giant to embed blockchain‑based digital assets across its South Korean and Taiwanese operations, as well as its Farfetch...
The Ninth Circuit ruled that Tile’s October 2023 email update provided sufficient inquiry notice to bind users to the revised Terms of Service, including a new arbitration clause. The court applied a three‑factor test—transaction context, reasonable disclosure, and lack of alternative...
iManage announced a major upgrade to its Insight+ platform, adding enterprise‑wide contextual integration and direct data‑warehouse connectivity. The enhancement lets the system pull metadata from billing, practice‑management and HR systems, enriching document and email searches with matter profitability, partner responsibility,...
According to 8am’s 2026 Legal Industry Report, 69% of legal professionals now use generative AI tools, more than doubling adoption within a year. While individual practitioners embrace AI for drafting, research, and document summarization, only 46% of law firms have...
In February 2026 two federal judges tackled whether content generated with publicly available generative AI tools is shielded by attorney‑client privilege or the work‑product doctrine. Magistrate Judge Patti, hearing Warner v. Gilbarco, treated AI as a mere drafting tool and...
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted a stay in the Malliotakis case, a move that legal scholars say could broaden the Court’s emergency‑relief jurisdiction to include rulings from state courts. The decision arrives as the Court’s emergency docket is already...
Ivo, a San Francisco‑based contract intelligence platform, announced the opening of new offices in London and New York after reporting a six‑fold revenue increase over the past year. The growth follows a recent $55 million funding round and a plan to...
The SEC Enforcement Division has updated its manual to require two‑level, director‑level approval before a Wells notice can be issued. This formalizes a practice that previously existed informally, potentially creating a bureaucratic bottleneck that slows investigations toward charging decisions. The...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission delivered an interpretive framework to the White House on March 3, outlining how certain crypto assets may be treated as securities. Unlike prior staff memos, this commission‑level guidance carries stronger legal weight without requiring a...
Anthropic unveiled a Claude legal plugin on February 3, 2026, enabling its large‑language model to perform document review and other legal tasks. The announcement triggered a sharp sell‑off in publicly listed legal‑software firms such as Pearson, RELX, Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer and...
The Southern District of New York magistrate ordered Sun to produce a hit report for its 57‑term counterproposal after Sun refused, emphasizing the need for transparent term negotiations. The court also compelled Sun to search director Steven Liu’s cellphone, rejecting...
Beast Industries, the media arm behind YouTube star MrBeast, terminated video editor Artem Kaptur after an internal probe linked him to insider trading on the prediction‑market platform Kalshi. Kalshi’s surveillance flagged Kaptur’s near‑perfect trades on low‑odds contracts that corresponded with...
&AI, a patent‑litigation startup, has launched Opportunities, a real‑time feed that delivers new patent litigation filings within minutes. The platform lets defense teams filter parties and case types, automatically matches cases to the most suitable attorney, and enriches each alert...
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Learning Resources v. Trump is being classified as a non‑recognized (Type 2) subsequent event under ASC 855 for firms that imported goods subject to IEEPA tariffs and have not yet issued financial statements as of February 20, 2026. The...
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has released an “AI and Legal Privilege Guide and Policy Framework” to help organisations manage confidentiality risks when using artificial intelligence. The guide responds to a recent UK court ruling that uploading client documents...
Descrybe, an AI legal research startup, unveiled DescrybeLM, a legal reasoning engine that it claims surpasses leading general‑purpose models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on a standardized bar‑exam benchmark. The company published the benchmark methodology and scoring data, inviting...
The Journal of Private International Law (JPIL) will host its 11th conference at the University of Zurich from 1‑3 April 2027. Scholars and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts of up to 500 words by 30 June 2026, with options for individual papers or...
The University of Oxford will host a two‑day conference on 13‑14 April 2026 to examine the role and future of “assimilated law,” the body of retained EU legislation that remains in the UK post‑Brexit. Organized by Professor Anne Davies and Dr Johannes Ungerer...
On 17 October 2025 the tribunal issued its award in Riverside Coffee v. Nicaragua, finding that Nicaragua’s invocation of the essential security interests clause in Article 21.2(b) of DR‑CAFTA constituted a broad carve‑out from the treaty’s obligations. The tribunal held the clause is...
Legal AI is shifting from static prompt libraries to memory‑driven systems, according to Chamelio CEO Alex Zilberman. Prompt collections quickly become outdated, inconsistent, and brittle as policies and priorities evolve. A memory layer that captures accepted edits, trusted sources, and...
International law firm HFW has named Ashleigh Ovland as its inaugural Head of Legal Technology Adoption, a role designed to embed AI and other legal tech into everyday practice. Ovland, a former aviation partner who built the firm’s “Flight Deck”...
Harvey has launched Shared Spaces, a secure, branded environment that lets law firms and their clients co‑create legal work in real time. The platform replaces traditional client portals and file‑sharing tools with a unified, searchable workspace. Robust governance—including object‑level permissions,...
GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate introduces a homeostatic compliance model that turns compliance from a periodic check into a continuous, adaptive system. It integrates regulatory intelligence, structured obligation management, digital twins, and agentic AI to sense, interpret, and orchestrate changes across...
The SEC’s Corporate Finance Division issued a new Compliance Disclosure Interpretation (CDI) that relaxes the 20‑business‑day rule for broker searches ahead of shareholder meetings. The guidance lets companies set record dates earlier, giving them more flexibility when seeking shareholder approval...
The federal judiciary is confronting a wave of politically charged cases, from the Justice Department’s stalled autopen investigation into President Biden under Trump pressure to a judge ordering over $130 billion in tariff refunds from the previous administration. Simultaneously, the Supreme...
