Know What's Happening in LegalTech
Know What's Happening in LegalTech
Near Field Communication (NFC) is moving beyond contactless payments to become a core tool in anti‑money‑laundering (AML) and know‑your‑customer (KYC) processes. By reading encrypted chips in e‑passports, ID cards and digital badges, NFC provides instant, tamper‑evident verification of identity data. This technology speeds onboarding, cuts manual errors, and creates auditable digital trails that satisfy tightening regulatory expectations. Financial institutions adopting NFC can automate document authentication, reduce fraud risk, and lower compliance costs over time.
Law firms and in‑house teams are now using generative AI daily, yet most AI interactions still occur on laptops. A Harvey‑commissioned study of 200 lawyers shows 86% rely on smartphones or tablets away from the desk, while 75% access AI...
On March 1, 2026, an unidentified projectile struck an AWS data center in the UAE, igniting a fire that knocked out more than 60 services across the Middle East and forced customers to shift workloads to Europe. The physical attack coincided...
The article provides a step‑by‑step guide for law firms on call recording disclosure, outlining the legal landscape across U.S. states and the need for clear consent protocols. It highlights that over 40 states require two‑party or all‑party consent, making compliance...
Lexum, a pioneer in online legal publishing, argues that the era of merely posting statutes and judgments online is over. The firm now focuses on turning raw legal texts into structured, searchable, and AI‑enhanced resources that let users quickly gauge...
Before AI, a junior associate might spend most of their week pulling clauses from old deals, reformatting templates, and chasing redlines across 14 email threads. Now that's a quick task. The question is now what they should be doing.
Developing a new GRC platform and I made a mistake. I started with assessments. You should start with risk. Risk first. Then controls. Frameworks and assessments are just ways to organize risk. But this is easier said than done. Most organizations don't really know...
The FCA has issued a direction that defines the relevant application period for crypto‑asset permissions under section 55U of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. The window opens at 9:00 am on 30 September 2026 and closes at 11:59 pm on 28 February 2027. The direction clarifies...
people will use VPNs to access affordable high quality legal advice, healthcare and education from AI. odd to think that we’re here now. sad really
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) announced it has been named the #1 eDiscovery firm in JD Supra’s 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards, marking its fourth consecutive win. The letter also highlighted HaystackID’s acquisition of eDiscovery AI to accelerate client‑driven generative AI workflows...
The article argues that generative AI tools often hand users a polished draft that masks deeper errors, forcing professionals to spend more time correcting than they would have created the content themselves. This inversion turns the user into an administrative...
LexBlog launched two features aimed at making its legal commentary more discoverable and citable. The first adds automatic anchor links to every subheading and an optional table of contents, enabling deep‑linking to specific sections. The second upgrades JSON‑LD structured data,...
Theresa Spartichino, director of practice technology at Ropes & Gray, highlighted that many law firms struggle to turn promising legal tech concepts into operational reality at scale. She emphasized the need for robust orchestration platforms that can coordinate end‑to‑end workflows,...
Katherine Charonko, a partner at Bailey & Glasser and recipient of the Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award, says the greatest obstacle to legal innovation is the rapid pace of industry change. She argues that technology solutions often lag...
Streamline AI CEO Kathy Zhu argues that cultural resistance and operational silos are the primary obstacles to legal innovation. She highlights how entrenched mindsets and fragmented processes impede AI adoption in corporate legal departments. Zhu also predicts a shift toward...
Anastasia Boyko, a Yale‑trained tax lawyer and legal futurist, argues that law firms are stuck in precedent‑driven habits while AI reshapes market rules. She urges firms to abandon copy‑cat strategies and adopt intentional, outcome‑focused planning. Boyko warns that in‑house legal...
Manish Srivastava proposes a minimal digital kernel that provides the essential shared capabilities for an unbundled state to function as a rule‑of‑law machine. The kernel focuses on legibility, reproducibility, and enforceability, allowing other applications, intermediaries, and fulfillment channels to remain...
Regulators are redefining board accountability for financial‑crime governance, demanding that directors move beyond passive review to actively interrogate AML, CTF and PF risk assessments. The risk assessment has shifted from a compliance checklist to a core governance instrument that demonstrates...
AI has moved from back‑office analytics to active participation in financial institutions' daily communications, creating a new class of "aiComms" that fall under regulatory scrutiny. Theta Lake’s latest report shows 99% of firms plan to broaden AI use on unified...
Chamelio, an AI‑native legal intelligence platform, has teamed up with UpLevel Ops to launch a forward‑deployed service that embeds consulting experts directly within corporate legal departments. The partnership combines Chamelio’s contract‑lifecycle intelligence layer with UpLevel Ops’ workflow redesign, stakeholder alignment,...
August unveiled Live Assist, an AI‑driven tool that operates in real time during depositions, client calls, and witness preparations. The platform listens to spoken dialogue, cross‑references statements against the case record, and surfaces contradictions or missing citations instantly. Lawyers can...
High Risk Education has launched the HRE FinTech Training Center, an on-demand platform that translates complex regulatory obligations into practical guidance for fintech teams. The hub offers four learning tracks covering board‑level strategy, management execution, annual employee refreshers, and sponsor‑bank...
Zachary Catanzaro argues that judges consulting ChatGPT for statutory meaning face a fundamental flaw, not merely a reliability issue. Large language models predict token sequences without true semantic comprehension, making computational legal interpretation a category error. He links this flaw to...
ThetaRay and Matrix USA have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an AI‑driven AML detection overlay that sits on top of banks' existing rules‑based transaction monitoring systems. The solution combines ThetaRay’s cognitive AI engine and investigation suite with Matrix’s two‑decade...
The legal‑tech sector is witnessing a surge of senior lawyers building bespoke internal software, a phenomenon dubbed “vibe coding.” This internal‑build wave is compressing the addressable market for external SaaS providers and driving a sharp re‑pricing of legal‑tech valuations from...
Anthropic announced new partnerships with legal‑tech providers Intapp and LexisNexis to embed its Claude chatbot directly into their platforms. The Claude legal plug‑in can automate contract reviews, regulatory compliance checks, and multi‑document formatting, promising speed gains likened to moving from...
whether or not fair use applies to training AI is the fundamental legal question of our age. mark my words.
Lawyer Zack Shapiro showcased how he leverages Anthropic’s Claude “Skills” to automate contract review and formatting tasks at his boutique firm. By creating custom instruction files that embed his decade‑long analytical framework, Claude can edit Word documents at the XML...
The Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey of 53 professionals reveals a fragmented market for generative AI‑assisted review pricing. Hybrid and per‑document models each account for 28.3% of responses, while per‑GB, per‑token, subscription and outcome‑based models remain niche. When per‑document rates...
Monjur, a Texas‑based legal‑tech firm, launched Monjur Pilot, an AI‑powered legal assistant designed for managed service providers (MSPs). The solution combines large language models with a retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) framework and a proprietary confidence‑scoring system to answer contract questions, redline...
Trial lawyers can leverage generative AI to condense opening statements, improving juror engagement. A recent example shows ChatGPT rewriting the 15‑minute, 2,300‑word opening from the Derek Chauvin trial into a 360‑word, 2½‑minute version, which was then rehearsed using a realistic...
Level Legal’s partner Greg Moreman discussed the firm’s AI integration strategy on EDRM’s Illumination Zone podcast. He highlighted the need for defensible, outcome‑driven models and stressed that an expert human must remain in the loop. Moreman advised starting with small...
so the technology is here to enable better more affordable justice, but not evenly distributed… yet https://t.co/VN4uMD18Qk
Immigration lawyers in Canada launched the nonprofit AIMICI after discovering that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has been using undisclosed automated decision‑making tools such as the Chinook summarisation system, machine‑learning triage, facial‑recognition and generative AI. The group aims to...
China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) clarified that its new inventor‑information rules, effective Jan. 1 2026, obligate Chinese inventors to provide a national ID but do not require foreign inventors to submit passport or other ID numbers at the filing stage. The...
Morgan Lewis’s chief AI and knowledge officer, Colleen Nihill, explained how widespread generative AI adoption will overhaul law‑firm operations. She warned that routine document drafting, research, and due‑diligence tasks will shift from billable hours to AI‑driven efficiencies. Firms that merely...
Unison, a federal acquisition software provider, used its bulk modification tool to issue more than 3,800 contract changes for an unnamed agency in a single click. The automation replaced weeks of manual drafting, handling FAR deviation updates required by the...
The ILTA Just‑in‑Time initiative addresses the rapid digital transformation reshaping the legal profession. New lawyers now graduate into environments dominated by AI‑assisted drafting, cloud‑based research, and remote collaboration tools. ILTA’s on‑demand training modules aim to up‑skill attorneys quickly, bridging gaps...
Filevine has released a comprehensive guide titled “Legal AI: What Government Agencies Need To Consider,” aimed at helping public‑sector legal teams navigate the rapidly expanding AI market. The guide outlines how AI can improve government legal workflows, offers a framework...
Houston-based personal injury firm John K. Zaid & Associates deployed EvenUp’s Proactive Personal Injury AI Platform. The AI rollout generated a 30% month‑over‑month increase in demand drafting and a 300% jump in settlement offers on low‑value claims. Automated medical chronology...
The article proposes a "stochastic sandpit" as a thinking workspace where generative AI is used for exploration rather than as a vending‑machine answer engine. It contrasts two usage modes: insurance mode, which enforces tight guardrails for compliance and predictability, and...
Ironclad, the San Francisco‑based contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, announced that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has topped $200 million, up from $150 million a year earlier and reflecting nearly 40% year‑on‑year growth. The company, valued at $3.2 billion after its 2022 funding...
In Yotta Techs. Inc. v. Evolve Bank & Trust, a California magistrate denied all four of Yotta’s motions to compel production of documents. The court rejected Yotta’s request for unredacted personally identifying information, finding the effort disproportionate and untimely. It...
Legal technology leaders are hosting a March 18 webinar to dissect "data readiness" as the decisive factor for AI success in the legal sector by 2026. They argue that fragmented repositories, inconsistent metadata, and weak governance are the primary obstacles...
AI-driven supervision is now entrenched in financial services, with 94% of firms using or planning AI detection tools. Vendors tout dramatic false‑positive reductions, but Theta Lake warns these claims often rely on misleading accuracy metrics. The underlying base‑rate problem means...
The UK Ministry of Justice is piloting an AI‑driven case‑listing tool in Preston and Isleworth to help clear the chronic criminal court backlog. A new judicial national listing framework, due before summer, will standardise and increase transparency in how criminal...
AI is moving from a bolt‑on feature to the core architecture of financial‑crime compliance, as Flagright CTO Madhu Nadig explains. An AI‑native stack requires a standardized data layer, a decision engine that can act within policy controls, and built‑in governance...
The RegTech market is flooded with legal AI tools that rely heavily on static statutes and generic language models. Zeidler Group warns that these solutions miss the nuanced, practice‑based knowledge that regulators and firms apply daily. By treating its AI...
The recent author panel titled “Artificial Intelligence for the Rest of Us” explored how AI tools are reshaping legal practice. Panelists highlighted practical use cases such as contract review automation, predictive litigation analytics, and e‑discovery optimization. They also addressed data...
The UK legal‑tech sector secured a record £188.8 million in 2025, a 35% increase over the prior year, according to LawtechUK’s Investment Snapshot. Twenty home‑grown firms raised £42 million in the second half of the year, with an average raise of £2.1 million,...
