Exclusive: IManage Set to Announce Platform Evolution “as Significant as the Cloud”
iManage announced that its next‑generation platform will add an AI‑driven inference layer that supplies contextual insight for legal data. The rollout is slated for the company’s ConnectLive 2026 conference, with events in Chicago in May and London in June. CEO Neil Araujo likened the upgrade to the launch of iManage Cloud, emphasizing its role in safely guiding AI‑enabled workflows. The firm stresses the solution will act as a lawyer’s assistant, not a legal services provider.
Ross Intelligence Secures Strong Fair Use Precedent Pre‑Argument
“ROSS Intelligence could not have asked for a better fair use precedent handed down before its oral argument.” 👀
Orbital Founder Launches Farringdon, UK's First AI‑Driven Conveyancing Firm
Orbital co‑founder Ben Boulle announced the launch of Farringdon, the United Kingdom’s first AI‑powered conveyancing firm, which will begin taking instructions in May with an initial team of six lawyers. Backed by Orbital’s recent $60 million funding round, the venture aims...
JT/DL: Leaving the Bardo
Jason Warner announced he will leave the JT/DL "bardo" to become the National Center for State Courts’ director for technology, data, and knowledge management starting in May. The new role places him at the helm of modernizing state court infrastructure,...
Agency in the Age of AI
The article examines the rapid rise of autonomous AI agents, highlighted by OpenAI’s acquisition of OpenClaw, an open‑source tool that can manage emails, bank accounts and more. It questions how such agents will reshape professional services like law and accounting,...
K&L Gates Achieves ISO 42001 Certification for AI Governance – Interview
K&L Gates has become one of the first major law firms to earn ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the global standard for AI management systems. The firm’s AI Management System (AIMS) now governs tool selection, risk assessment, data‑localisation compliance, and continuous monitoring of...
Charting Change in Legal: What Firms Are Really Seeing in AI Return on Investment
The latest episode of the Charting Change in Legal podcast examines how law firms are quantifying the return on investment from generative AI. Drawing on a global study of 31 firms, host Caroline Hill and analyst Ari Kaplan reveal that...
Anthropic General Counsel Jeff Bleich Declares AI Will End the Billable Hour
Anthropic's general counsel Jeff Bleich announced that artificial intelligence will eliminate the economic basis for the billable hour, aligning with a wave of lawyers urging firms to adopt subscription and value‑based pricing. The statement, made on April 13, 2026, has...
Why Design Is the Secret Weapon in AI-Powered Compliance
Quantifind argues that design is as critical as AI for financial‑crime compliance, shaping how investigators interact with complex models. By unifying risk signals, evidence and relationships in a single visual graph, the platform cuts cognitive load and replaces the “enterprise...
Inspire Legal Group Becomes First UK Firm to Integrate Qanooni AI with Actionstep
Inspire Legal Group has become the first UK law firm to embed Qanooni AI within its Actionstep practice‑management platform. The integration links AI‑driven drafting, research and matter summarisation directly into Microsoft Word and Outlook, allowing lawyers to work with live...
Sumsub and ComplyAdvantage Deepen AML Screening Partnership as Compliance Demands Rise
Sumsub and ComplyAdvantage have deepened their partnership by embedding ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh intelligence layer directly into Sumsub’s verification and monitoring platform. The integration adds real‑time sanction and watch‑list updates—delivered within minutes—and a Bring‑Your‑Own‑Key option that lets clients connect their own Mesh...
AI Court Transcripts Could Boost Justice for Victims
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has launched a study to evaluate its in‑house AI tool, Justice Transcribe, for automatically generating court hearing transcripts. The research aims to meet accuracy standards while slashing the current cost, which can run up...
Is AI Replacing Google for Legal Search?
In a Conroy Creative Council podcast, Pete Everitt explains that AI tools like ChatGPT are not replacing Google for legal search, but they are reshaping how users discover information. The shift emphasizes AI-generated overviews, entity mapping, and impressions over traditional...
Harvey’s Gabe Pereyra on Legal Agents + World Models
Harvey co‑founder Gabe Pereyra explains how autonomous AI agents, exemplified by the Spectre platform, are being adapted for law firms. He describes the “world model,” a unified data infrastructure that gives agents firm‑wide context while preserving ethical walls. The interview explores...
Context Is Not A Feature, It Is The System
Alex Zilberman argues that AI in legal cannot rely on isolated prompts; true value comes from embedding multi‑layered context—document, transaction, institutional, workflow, and access—into the system. He notes that most tools only capture fragments, leading to clever but unreliable outputs....
Leegality Crosses Rs 80 Cr Revenue in FY25, Profit Jumps over 2X
Leegality, the Gurugram‑based digital documentation and e‑signature platform, posted FY25 revenue of Rs 81.1 crore (≈$9.8 million), a 2.4‑times increase from FY23. Operating revenue grew 30% YoY to Rs 81.08 crore, while total revenue reached Rs 86.6 crore including other income. Profit surged to Rs 3.7 crore (≈$445 k), more...
Preventing Revenue Gaps Between Case Completion and Payment
Law firms are losing cash flow as revenue sits in “lockup” for an average of 110‑140 days after a matter is completed. Delayed invoicing, unclear payment terms, and manual processing cause final invoices to age, reducing collectability. Structured billing workflows,...
Harvey Secures $200 Million to Scale AI Agents for Legal Work
Harvey announced a $200 million financing round that lifts its valuation to $11 billion. The capital, co-led by GIC and Sequoia, will accelerate deployment of autonomous AI agents across law firms and corporate legal departments, where more than 100,000 lawyers already rely...
Commvault Launches AI‑driven Security Suite to Protect Legal Data Workflows
Commvault Systems unveiled three AI‑powered features—Data Activate, AI Protect and AI Studio—to secure agentic workflows and privileged data. The tools let legal departments classify, govern and recover AI‑driven datasets, tackling the compliance concerns that 60% of AI leaders cite as...
ChatGPT and Claude Roll Out Enterprise Dashboards with Usage Controls
OpenAI and Anthropic have introduced enterprise‑grade plans for ChatGPT and Claude that embed administrative dashboards, role‑based access, audit logs and spend‑limit tools. The move responds to a 97% survey finding that most firms will run generative AI at scale by...
From Competence to Judgment: How AI Compresses Litigation Work and Why That Makes Judgment More Important
Artificial intelligence is rapidly compressing litigation workflows, turning labor‑intensive tasks like document review, chronology building, and issue identification into algorithmic processes. This shift reduces the advantage of sheer scale, allowing small, disciplined teams to achieve analytical results that previously required...
IDenfy Integrates Reusable Digital IDs to Help Businesses Avoid Onboarding Fails
iDenfy has launched a reusable digital ID (eIDV) workflow that lets users complete KYC verification with electronic IDs instead of physical documents. The platform now supports more than 60 digital ID types, including Sweden’s BankID and the UK’s OneID. Since...
GCs See Merits of Data-Driven Outside Counsel Selection but Also Its Limitations
General counsel leaders are increasingly turning to data‑driven tools to choose outside law firms, praising cost transparency and performance metrics while acknowledging gaps in data quality and contextual nuance. The trend coincides with heightened political risk, as recent Trump‑era executive...
AI‑crafted Briefs Look Flawless; Handmade Ones Signal Authenticity
Using AI to make extremely polished brief with no typos and AI assisted legal argument citing cases you didn’t read. -weak -cowering -privileged -ineffectual -soft-penised Filing unpolished brief with argument you though of yourself and case law I actually read, with a typo in...
Court Suggests That Opposing Counsel Also Failed to Check Citations
The Seventh Circuit rebuked counsel for copying AI‑generated, non‑existent citations in Dec v. Mullin and, unusually, criticized opposing counsel for not catching the errors. The court warned that modern tools make citation verification easy and that failure to do so may...
Webinar: What’s the Right Data Strategy for Future AI Success?
Elite is hosting a free webinar on May 7, 2027 to explore how law firms can craft data strategies that unlock AI potential. The session highlights the pitfalls of relying on fragmented best‑of‑breed tools, which impede scaling and governance. Chief Technology Officer...
Litera CTO Says Hybrid AI Beats Pure LLMs in Contract Review
Litera’s chief technology officer announced that a hybrid AI model, which layers generative AI over its 20‑year‑old rules‑based comparison engine, outperformed leading large language models in a Legalweek 2026 benchmark. The findings underscore a shift toward mixed‑technology platforms in legal...
AI Compliance Startup Haast Closes $12m Series A
AI‑native compliance platform Haast announced a $12 million Series A round, bringing its total US capital to $17.05 million. The round was led by Peak XV Partners with participation from DST Global and Airtree, among others. Haast will use the funds to scale its agentic...
Supreme Court Judge Warns AI Must Remain a Support, Not a Substitute, for Judicial Reasoning
Supreme Court Justice Rajesh Bindal told a national conference on judicial process re‑engineering that artificial intelligence must serve only as a supportive instrument and must never override human judicial reasoning. He also warned of data‑confidentiality risks tied to open‑source AI...
Lawyers Aren’t Losing Their Jobs to AI, They’re Losing Their Tasks
Law firms are grappling with AI not because it will replace lawyers, but because it is stripping away many of the routine tasks that have traditionally defined legal work. While AI can draft, research, and review documents faster than humans,...
Why Sanctions Programs Must Move Beyond Name Matching
In 2026 compliance teams face a sharp trade‑off between speed and defensibility as real‑time payments and digital onboarding demand instant decisions. Alessa CEO Holly Sais‑Phillippi warns that reliance on simple name‑matching creates alert noise, high false‑positive rates, and blind spots...
Why Your Practice Management and Document Management Systems Need to Work Together
Midsize law firms often run a practice management system (PMS) and a document management system (DMS) that operate in silos, turning technology from an asset into a hidden cost. Manual data entry and duplicate workspace creation waste attorney time and...
Centerbase Launches AI-Powered Business Intelligence Tool That Gives Firms Citation-Backed Answers From Their Own Data
Centerbase, the practice‑management platform for midsized law firms, announced the limited release of Centerbase IQ, an AI‑powered business intelligence tool that answers firm‑specific questions using the firm’s own data and provides citation links to source documents. The solution leverages a...
Centerbase IQ Delivers Citation-Backed Financial and Operational Answers to Law Firms
Centerbase introduced Centerbase IQ, an AI‑powered natural language decision‑support tool embedded in its legal operating platform for midsize firms. The feature delivers instant, visual answers drawn from billing, financial, matter and productivity data, complete with source citations. By eliminating manual...
6 Ways to Automate Docusign with Zapier
Zapier enables businesses to automate post‑signature processes in DocuSign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform. Using triggers such as Envelope Completed or Status Updated, users can automatically back up contracts to cloud storage, log data in Zapier Tables, and push notifications to...
Hinton’s 2015 Forecast Proven Absolutely True
so…get this…this forecast from professor hinton in 2015 turned out to be absolutely, unequivocally true. https://t.co/tJnhLVqQPh
BMC Boosts DAC8 Compliance Tools in Q1 2026 Operations Report
BMC’s Q1 2026 Operations Report reveals the rollout of enhanced DAC8 compliance software and a surge in advisory services for cross‑jurisdictional firms. The report flags heightened regulatory pressure and predicts continued activity into the next quarter.
When Clients Learn to Love AI
Clients are rapidly embracing artificial intelligence, narrowing the trust gap that once favored law firms. Sophisticated businesses are deploying AI at deeper levels and faster speeds than many attorneys, forcing Big Law to confront a cultural and operational lag. The...
AI-Driven Compliance Accelerates as Data Governance Becomes Critical Infrastructure
AI-powered compliance tools are being woven into risk‑assessment and regulatory reporting, highlighted by the Justice Department’s $14.6 billion health‑care fraud case. Experts say speed alone isn’t enough—clarity and governance are the new priorities for legal‑tech solutions.
AI Enables Affordable, High‑Quality Legal Services for Everyone
the world needs more lawyers, not less. the key is that the lawyers must be affordable AND high quality. AI helps make this a reality. imagine everyone being able to have the same legal services of a large corporation. the...
Expert Witness Credibility Is Destroyed by AI Opinions
The article warns that using generative AI to draft expert‑witness opinions jeopardizes a clinician’s credibility and can trigger Daubert challenges, because AI lacks licensure and accountability. It distinguishes between AI as a production tool—prohibited—and AI as a training aid that...
Crosby Secures $60M B‑Round to Scale AI‑Powered Per‑Page Contract Review
Crosby, a New York‑based AI‑law firm, closed a $60 million Series B led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, valuing the company at $400 million. The funding will expand its AI‑agent‑and‑lawyer hybrid model that reviews contracts by the page, challenging the traditional billable‑hour paradigm.
Anthropic Brings Claude Into Microsoft Word, and Legal Contract Review Leads Its Use Cases
Anthropic launched a public‑beta add‑in that embeds Claude directly into Microsoft Word, showing every AI‑generated edit as a native tracked change. The tool targets legal contract review, financial memo drafting, and iterative editing, and is available to Claude Team ($25 per...
Lack of Comprehensive Legal API Raises Serious Concerns
that the full breadth and depth of citable, current law is not available by API is profoundly concerning
Five9 Acquires Inference Solutions to Boost AI Virtual‑Agent Platform for Legal Services
Five9 announced the acquisition of Inference Solutions, a market‑leading intelligent virtual‑agent platform, to extend its artificial‑intelligence portfolio into legal client intake and support. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, positions Five9 to offer “digital workers” that can automate...
HarassmentHelp.org Unveils Data‑Driven Workplace Harassment Framework for 2026
HarassmentHelp.org introduced a structured, data‑driven workplace harassment framework for 2026, built on more than 8,000 employment matters and 2,000 litigated cases. The tool, created by Phillips & Associates founder William K. Phillips, aims to close the reporting gap that leaves...
Legal Analytics Market Projected to Triple by 2033, Forecast Shows $29.75B Valuation
A new market research report projects the global legal analytics market to expand from $10.65 billion in 2025 to $29.75 billion by 2033, a compound annual growth rate of 13.7%. The growth is attributed to rising AI adoption, increased demand for data‑driven...
Intuit Cuts Tax‑Code Rollout to Hours with AI‑Driven Workflow
Intuit’s TurboTax team leveraged large‑language models, a proprietary domain‑specific language and a custom unit‑test framework to compress a multi‑month tax‑code implementation into a matter of hours. The workflow, built around the 2023 “One Big Beautiful Bill,” demonstrates a repeatable process...
Sheppard Expands AI Practice to Add Robotics and Quantum Teams
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton announced the expansion of its Artificial Intelligence practice to include robotics and quantum, forming a unified AI, Robotics and Quantum industry team led by Jim Gatto, Dan Schnapp and newly appointed co‑leader Townsend Bourne. The...
Think ChatGPT Can Replace Your Lawyer? Think Again
Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are being marketed as legal assistants, but they are not licensed to practice law. Recent high‑profile incidents—Krafton's $250 million contract dispute in South Korea and OpenAI’s $10 million punitive lawsuit in Illinois—show that...