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Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering mediation and arbitration, prompting a debate over whether neutrals should disclose its use. Practitioners are considering three emerging approaches: treating AI as a routine professional tool with no disclosure, offering limited transparency about its administrative role, or fully disclosing when AI influences substantive analysis or decision‑making. Current ADR codes of conduct are largely silent, but institutions such as the ADR Institute of Canada and the American Arbitration Association are publishing guidance that stresses transparency and accountability. The discussion mirrors broader legal‑ethics trends that require competence, supervision, and protection of confidential information when using AI.
Workable announced integrated Form I‑9 and E‑Verify capabilities for U.S. customers, embedding federal hiring verification into its onboarding workflow. The move eliminates separate PDFs and manual steps, aiming to cut compliance risk and accelerate new‑hire processing.
Andy Shovel, co‑founder of vegan food brand THIS, has launched an AI‑powered law firm called Keith, targeting the notoriously stressful conveyancing market. The startup announced a $2.5 million seed round and plans to operate with 30‑40 narrowly focused AI agents that...
Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership with Hotshot to embed its AI‑driven research tools into law school curricula, giving students hands‑on experience with commercial legal tech. Clio introduced new agentic features to its Clio Work platform, automating routine tasks such...
FutureLaw 2026 will convene 500 legal‑tech practitioners, technologists, and policymakers in Tallinn on May 14‑15, focusing on operational AI integration, machine‑readable legal workflows, and cross‑border governance. The two‑day program includes 25 hours of sessions, eight workshops, and discussions on the...
Litigation technology company AI.Law has launched the second version of its AI‑driven platform, AI.Law v2. The upgraded solution expands beyond document management to include case analysis, automated drafting, and new predictive analytics features. It also offers native integrations with leading...
Legal departments are rapidly integrating AI tools into everyday workflows, but recent concerns highlight that any mishandling of privileged information, bias, regulated data exposure, or evidentiary integrity ultimately falls on the organization. General counsel, managing partners, CIOs, and legal operations...
Linked (cloud) attachments remain a critical e‑discovery blind spot, despite tools that can collect and search them. Recent developments—such as the Carvana court‑ordered capability test, the Sedona Conference’s 2025 commentary, and the proposed Reconstruction‑Grade eDiscovery (RG) standard—reinforce the duty to...
New Brunswick will launch centralized virtual bail hearings in Fredericton and Woodstock starting April 9, expanding later to Moncton. The program moves all bail participants online via Microsoft Teams, freeing a courtroom that currently hosts bail hearings two days a week....
U.S. appellate courts are now reviewing a wave of district‑court sanctions issued against attorneys who used generative AI to insert fabricated citations in legal briefs. Judges have imposed monetary penalties and, in some cases, adverse rulings for failing to verify...
Clio announced two major AI‑driven updates: agentic capabilities are now embedded in its Clio Work platform, and a new standalone mobile app, Vincent by Clio, launched for iOS and Android. The agentic layer enables the software to autonomously gather facts, suggest...
Ethio Telecom has launched teleSign, a mobile‑first digital signature and identity verification platform that lets Ethiopian citizens and diaspora authenticate legal documents and access government services online. The service, live since March 30, integrates AI‑powered video verification, liveness detection, and the...
TaxTec, Proxymity and Label announced a strategic partnership to deliver the industry’s first fully connected, end‑to‑end solution for MiKaDiv withholding‑tax compliance. The joint offering links issuer, custodian and investor data, validates it across the custody chain, and produces schema‑driven regulatory...
Construction litigation increasingly relies on e‑discovery, yet firms face five distinct hurdles: massive, heterogeneous data volumes; fragmented custodians across subcontractors; complex technical drawings and BIM files; metadata erosion; and escalating costs. The article outlines practical fixes such as AI‑driven document...
Physical asset tracking remains a critical component of eDiscovery preservation, even as organizations migrate data to the cloud. S2|DATA’s ChainLogix platform provides a barcode‑based system that assigns up to 200 customizable fields per device, delivering a defensible chain of custody...
The article warns legal teams that version uncertainty in Microsoft’s Cloud Attachments can undermine document production reliability. It revisits earlier posts from 2024, highlighting how linked attachments often reference outdated file versions when shared across platforms. The author outlines practical...
Navan unveiled an AI‑driven Audit Engine that adds over 45 configurable checks to its travel‑and‑expense platform, enabling real‑time fraud, compliance and policy violation detection. The system automatically approves roughly 75% of transactions, directing finance teams to the remaining 25% that...
Clio announced two major AI upgrades: an agentic layer for its Clio Work platform and a new mobile app called Vincent. The agentic AI can automatically generate task roadmaps, pull relevant case law, score litigation risk and draft documents, all under...
Universal Migrator announced a suite of new data‑migration scripts that move financial and case‑management data from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into leading practice‑management platforms such as Clio, MyCase, Litify and Lawmatics. The scripts expand the company’s library to over 144...
DailyPay, an earned‑wage‑access platform handling about $30 billion annually, has deployed agentic AI from ComplyAdvantage to bolster its anti‑money‑laundering (AML) operations. The autonomous AI agent gathers and summarizes transaction data, feeding it to human analysts who retain final decision authority. According...
Harvey’s AI agents and Shared Spaces were highlighted in a Legal IT Insider webinar, showcasing how the platform’s agentic workflows can automate complex, multi‑step legal processes. Launched a year ago, the agents can plan, adapt, and interact with users, while...
Norm has assembled 50 attorneys from elite firms to write code for its AI-driven legal platform, branding them as "Legal Engineers." These lawyers, many with no prior programming experience, undergo a rigorous certification to embed deep legal expertise into AI...
Legora has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of its general‑availability launch, serving over 1,000 customers in 50 markets. The legal AI platform has shifted from single‑task tools to multi‑step, agentic workflows, handling large‑scale document reviews and...
Latham & Watkins announced that John McGaraghan has joined its Bay Area office as a partner in the Data & Technology Transactions practice. The move bolsters the firm’s capability in AI, semiconductors, and other high‑growth tech sectors, reflecting surging client demand...
Amped Software will host Amped Connect US 2026 on June 1, 2026 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, targeting professionals who handle video evidence. The one‑day event promises a customized agenda focused on real investigative challenges and courtroom presentations. Registrants who...
In this episode of Technically Legal, host Chad Main talks with husband‑wife founders Kara Peterson and Richard DiBona about their AI‑native legal research app, Describe. The duo explains how a personal employment dispute during the pandemic led them to discover...
Deepak Kapoor argues that India’s intricate, multi‑layered legal system requires AI built specifically for its statutes, courts, and regulatory bodies. Generic, globally trained models often hallucinate citations, miss jurisdictional nuances, and fail to handle multilingual judgments. Native Legal AI, exemplified...
Two recent incidents expose the risks of artificial‑intelligence tools in the courtroom and on the police beat. In Nevada County, California, a prosecutor was stripped of case duties after AI‑generated citations caused errors in four criminal filings. In North Dakota,...
ACEDS Australia & New Zealand’s latest newsletter stresses that successful eDiscovery depends more on lawyer judgement than on technology adoption alone. As organisations rush to integrate generative AI, many still rely on outdated TAR‑era protocols, creating uncertainty around validation and...
A federal court in Michigan ruled that a pro se plaintiff’s ChatGPT‑assisted legal filings are protected by the work‑product doctrine. The decision in Warner v. Gilbarco, Inc. rejected the employer’s demand for all AI‑related communications, finding no waiver of privilege....
“i think AI is a disaster for them [westlaw and lexis]…AI will compress their value to the value of their database of court cases” 👀 - court cases are free though, the law is free
Lawyers at the ABA TechShow report zero encounters with deep‑fake evidence, highlighting a gap between technological capability and courtroom experience. Judge Xavier Rodriguez warned that the legal system still operates on a presumption that photos, recordings, and video are authentic,...
Maryland’s Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure has drafted an amendment to Rule 2‑504.3, the state’s computer‑generated evidence rule, to expressly cover generative AI exhibits. The proposal mandates prior notice, full disclosure of training data and methodology, a pre‑trial...
At the ABA Techshow, Texas Judges Xavier Rodriguez and Roy Ferguson outlined practical eDiscovery guidance for litigators. They urged attorneys to engage opposing counsel early about data production and to use short depositions to expose missing documents before involving the...
Verlata Consulting has partnered with data‑discovery specialist ActiveNav to offer law firms a joint solution for locating, governing, and securing unstructured content stored outside traditional document‑management systems. ActiveNav Cloud scans network shares, cloud storage and local drives, classifying files and...
“the main moat for these tools are (1) the case law database” 👀 - reconcile this with the fact that the law is supposed to be free https://t.co/oETBD2q80h
The EDRM GenAI Working Group surveyed 19 senior legal professionals to gauge how generative AI is being applied across the eDiscovery workflow. Respondents, mainly lawyers at large U.S. firms, report strong success with text‑summarization and document‑drafting, while results for full‑scale...
The Trellis Blog’s latest installment examines how repeat litigants shape case strategy by leveraging state trial‑court data. By tracking parties from filing through resolution, the analysis shows that identifying recurring defendants or plaintiffs can shift uncertainty into tactical advantage. The...
“Been using Notebook LM more than CoCounsel. I think it's better at finding the "needle in the haystack." If you load your own sources, it's more accurate…The tradeoff is that you have to give it the sources yourself.” 👀 - this...
Cellebrite’s 2026 private‑sector report shows digital investigations have become a core business capability, supporting risk management, data protection, and continuity. eDiscovery remains the top use case at 54%, but data‑theft and network‑exploit investigations are also rising, reflecting cross‑functional demand. The...
At TechShow, Jordan Furlong and Nilay Patel delivered back‑to‑back keynotes that converged on a single insight: the human lawyer remains indispensable. Furlong framed the lawyer as a trusted guide who can walk clients through complex valleys, while Patel emphasized law’s...
Opendoor announced the acquisition of Doma’s AI‑powered closing and escrow business, bringing 85 Doma employees into its operations. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, gives Opendoor access to machine‑learning tools that accelerate title and escrow work and lower...
Uber’s vice‑president and chief deputy general counsel, Katie Waitzman, highlighted that AI‑driven legal tech will transform productivity and knowledge management within corporate legal teams. She argued that collaboration, not rigid standardization, should guide the deployment of these tools. Uber’s legal...
Google X’s senior discovery and litigation strategy leader, Alex Ponce de Leon, announced that generative AI is fundamentally reshaping corporate legal departments and their reliance on outside counsel. He highlighted that AI‑driven tools are cutting document review times by up...
airSlate SignNow has launched the first native eSignature application inside OpenAI's ChatGPT, allowing users to prepare, send, track and complete agreements through natural‑language prompts. The integration lets customers connect their SignNow accounts directly within ChatGPT, eliminating the need to switch...
Legal IT Insider’s Inside View podcast reveals that Webber Wentzel’s innovation arm, Fusion, has spun off into an independent subsidiary, positioning itself as a full‑service product development and advisory firm. The new structure grants Fusion greater agility to serve legal...
Law firms are turning to private‑equity to fund AI and other technology upgrades, with UK mid‑size firms leading the trend. A recent MHA‑Law Society survey shows seven out of ten firms have been approached by PE firms and 65% already...
Global law firms have jointly committed to a self‑built legal‑tech platform called Esperantogix, aiming to replace a patchwork of 14 separate tools for document, practice, and case management as well as email. The new system promises to reduce password fatigue...
Codified Strategy offers technology strategy, implementation, fractional CTO, and compliance services to law firms, barristers’ chambers, and in‑house legal teams at a fraction of Big 4 fees. Its portfolio includes road‑mapping, practice‑management system selection, AI policy, AML and cybersecurity guidance, plus...
Goughs, a 130‑person family‑law firm in Wiltshire, accelerated its digital overhaul during the pandemic but now regrets not moving faster to the cloud. Partner‑lawyer Ross Phillips, who also heads IT, has built a modest tech stack using managed services, legal...
