Meta Is Pulling Back From the Metaverse: Is This the End for Virtual Law Offices?
Meta announced a major pullback from its metaverse ambitions, slashing the Horizon Worlds budget and postponing the launch of next‑generation VR headsets. The decision follows stagnant user growth, rising development costs, and a strategic shift toward artificial intelligence and its core social apps. Law firms that previously opened virtual offices in platforms like Horizon Worlds are now winding down those spaces, citing limited client adoption and weak return on investment. The retreat raises doubts about the viability of immersive legal service models.
Possible $5K Sanctions for Repeated Mis-Citation in Coomer V. Lindell / My Pillow Election-Related Libel Suit
The federal court in Denver has taken a firm stance against careless use of generative AI in litigation. In the defamation suit Coomer v. Lindell, Judge Nina Wang issued an Order on Post‑Trial Motions compelling the defense to show cause...
EDiscovery and AI in 2026: What Two Legal Tech Founders Really Think Is Coming
Two leading legal‑tech founders outline how AI will reshape eDiscovery by 2026, forecasting that automated document review will handle the majority of workload and that predictive coding will become self‑training. They predict cloud‑native platforms will become the default for midsize...
The Blueprint for Construction eDiscovery: EDiscovery Best Practices
Construction eDiscovery faces distinct hurdles because project data lives in specialized platforms like Procore and Primavera, often spread across many custodians and devices. The article outlines how most critical information can be exported as CSV, Excel, XML, or PDF, providing...
The Operating System Real Assets Has Been Missing, Now Powered by AI
Intapp unveiled Celeste, an agentic AI platform that embeds reasoning and execution directly into firm workflows, moving beyond generic chatbots. At Amplify 2026 the company demonstrated DealCloud with Celeste, allowing users to query and update deal data in plain English,...
Nonsensical Spellings and Fabricated Authority Signal Improper Use of Artificial Intelligence
U.S. District Court in California dismissed the plaintiff’s copyright‑infringement complaint after finding that the filings were likely produced using generative AI. The court highlighted nonsensical spellings in AI‑generated images and “hallucinated” citations to nonexistent cases as clear indicators of artificial‑intelligence...
Illumination Zone: Episode 228 | Jon Robins of Level Legal Sits Down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson
Jon Robins, CTO and VP of eDiscovery at Level Legal, joins EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson on the Illumination Zone podcast to discuss the firm’s system‑building philosophy. He stresses the importance of asking the right initial questions and maintaining...
DigiCert Document Trust Manager Enhancements Improve Document Security and Compliance
DigiCert has upgraded its Document Trust Manager to counter AI‑driven document fraud by centralising signing key management and workflow visibility. The enhancements add unified monitoring, a secure certificate repository with MFA, and pre‑integrated support for DocuSign, Adobe Sign and other...
Thomson Reuters to Launch ‘Thomson’ Legal LLM This Summer, Leveraging Open‑Source Foundations
Thomson Reuters announced that its new legally‑trained large language model, “Thomson,” will go live this summer. Built on open‑source model weights and the company’s massive legal data set, the LLM will power CoCounsel and can be deployed on‑premise, offering firms...
Legal Industry Reaches AI Tipping Point: Majority of Lawyers Now Using Gen AI Despite Persistent Reliability Concerns
In 2025, a majority of lawyers embraced generative AI, with 63% of mid‑sized firms formally adopting tools such as Microsoft Copilot. Yet 81% of firm leaders voiced concerns over reliability, highlighted by a ten‑fold rise to 487 AI‑related hallucination cases...
Dentons Deploys Lexis Everyfile Within Its UK Legal Delivery Centre
Global law firm Dentons has completed a phased rollout of LexisNexis’s web‑based matter management solution, Lexis Everyfile, across its UK Legal Delivery Centre. The platform centralises case files, documents, and workflow steps, giving teams greater visibility and reducing operational friction....
Signus.ai Launches AI-Native Contract Platform, Partners with AAA
Signus.ai announced the public launch of its AI-native contract intelligence and e‑signature platform and a collaboration with the American Arbitration Association. The partnership embeds AAA’s ClauseBuilder® AI into contract workflows, aiming to tighten dispute‑resolution clauses and reduce post‑signing risk.
CUBE Partners with Microsoft to Automate RegTech at Scale
CUBE has teamed with Microsoft to launch its RegPlatform on Azure, delivering AI‑driven regulatory intelligence that automates compliance for global financial institutions. The integration leverages Microsoft Azure’s secure, globally distributed cloud and data services, enabling real‑time tracking of thousands of...
A Startup Lawyer Vibe-Coded an AI Version of Himself
Synthesia's general counsel Gabe Stern created an AI avatar lawyer, Willow, using the company's low‑code video platform and a custom OpenAI ChatGPT model in about two weeks. The avatar can greet prospects, answer routine contract questions and guide users through...
Exclusive: Smokeball and Thomson Reuters Partner to Integrate CoCounsel Legal AI with Practice Management Platform
Smokeball, a cloud‑based practice management platform for small‑to‑mid‑size law firms, announced a strategic partnership with Thomson Reuters to embed the firm’s CoCounsel Legal AI directly into its software. The integration combines Thomson Reuters’ extensive legal content library with AI‑driven drafting,...
OpenAI's Erotica Policy Forces LegalTech Firms to Overhaul Moderation and Compliance
OpenAI announced it will permit adult‑oriented erotica on ChatGPT for verified users, igniting a scramble among compliance platforms, legal‑tech providers and the adult‑entertainment industry. The shift raises immediate questions about age‑verification, liability and the need for new moderation safeguards.
Half of Clients Think AI Can Replace Solicitors
Half of UK law‑firm clients believe AI could replace a solicitor for routine matters, with 36 % confident AI can handle such tasks and another 14 % thinking it could manage most issues. Yet 46 % maintain that a qualified solicitor must always...
Automation in Personal Injury Claims: The Evolving Legal Risks
Automation is now entrenched in personal injury law firms, with software reading medical reports to manage high caseloads. The 2021 whiplash tariff reforms shifted evidential weight to medical evidence, assuming static report formats. In 2025, over 60,000 reports were auto‑assessed,...
Eudia Launches Expert Digital Twins, Partners With ServiceNow
Eudia announced the launch of Expert Digital Twins, AI‑driven replicas of an organization’s top subject‑matter experts that codify decision logic for legal, risk, and compliance functions. The twins are built with proprietary MIND decision engines and promise expert‑grade accuracy, consistency,...
Canada’s Firms Lead in Adopting Emerging Technology Such as Legal-Specific AI: LEAP Research
LEAP Legal Software’s 2026 Global Report shows Canadian law firms are leading the legal sector in adopting emerging technologies, especially AI. 75 percent of surveyed professionals say AI saves moderate to significant time, with 23 percent reporting a significant reduction—the highest worldwide....
TECHSHOW 2026: Where The Legal Tech Family Gathers
The ABA TechShow 2026 launches Wednesday in Chicago, positioning itself as the premier gathering for legal‑tech professionals. The event features two high‑profile keynotes from Jordan Furlong and Nilay Patel, a Saturday rule‑of‑law session with three ABA presidents, and 47 educational...
AI Transformation in Legal Services: Complete Guide for Law Firms and Legal Departments
The legal sector is at an inflection point as AI moves from optional advantage to operational necessity. Technologies such as NLP, predictive analytics, RPA, and blockchain‑enabled smart contracts are reshaping contract review, litigation strategy, and compliance. Ian Khan outlines a...
HaystackID CoreFlex Wins 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award for Advancing GenAI-Driven Legal Workflows
HaystackID announced that its CoreFlex platform has won the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award from the Business Intelligence Group, recognizing its generative‑AI‑driven legal and investigative workflows. CoreFlex provides a cloud‑native interface that consolidates matter management, data ingestion, reporting and automation,...
How AI Agents Are Cutting Costs in AML Operations
AI agents are transforming AML operations by automating the labor‑intensive alert review and decisioning stages, where most costs reside. WorkFusion’s Evan can analyze adverse media results in two to three minutes, cutting review time by 80‑90% compared with human analysts....
AI Vs. Automation in eDiscovery: What’s Different, What’s the Same, and Why It Matters Now
The article clarifies that AI and automation, while related, serve distinct roles in eDiscovery. Automation executes repeatable, rule‑based tasks such as legal‑hold notifications and workflow routing, whereas AI interprets data, classifies documents, and generates insights. Legal teams are urged to...
ELTEMATE CEO: Legal Departments &Lsquo;Leading the Way' With AI Adoption
ELTEMate co‑CEO Dr. Sebastian Lach says corporate legal departments are outpacing other functions in adopting generative AI. He argues that true success will depend on a holistic approach that blends technology, policy, and talent. The commentary follows Hogan Lovells' recent...
Fragmented Contract Management Fuels ‘Project Gremlins’ Risk
A recent Sypro poll of tier‑one contractors, consultants and owners reveals that only 19% of construction contracts are managed through a fully digital system, while 52% use a hybrid of digital tools and manual processes and 15% rely mainly on...
The AI-Native Law Firms Is Atrium LTS All over Again
The article draws a parallel between emerging AI-native law firms and the short‑lived legal‑tech startup Atrium LTS, suggesting that the new wave may repeat past mistakes. While AI promises to automate routine tasks and lower costs, many of these firms...
Beyond Keywords: AI Classification For Forensic Email Review
Traditional keyword searches often fail to surface the nuanced, context‑driven emails that signal financial fraud, leaving investigators with thousands of irrelevant hits. Technology‑Assisted Review (TAR) mitigates volume but suffers from a cold‑start problem and requires extensive training, making it ill‑suited...
DeepJudge Launches SuperSearch
DeepJudge announced SuperSearch, a next‑generation, intent‑based search platform for law firms. The tool surfaces granular, actionable insights across a firm’s internal data, enabling cross‑matter intelligence without manual tagging. Built on DeepJudge’s existing AI engine, SuperSearch creates a unified intelligence layer...
PointOne Secures $16 Million Series A to Automate Lawyer Timesheets with AI
PointOne announced a $16 million Series A round, led by 8VC, to expand its AI‑powered platform that silently records lawyers' computer activity and generates billable timesheets. The funding underscores growing venture interest in niche SaaS tools that streamline professional workflows in...
Why Speaker Diarization Is Now a Compliance Must-Have
In regulated industries, Microsoft Teams is now the primary communication hub, but standard recordings omit speaker metadata, exposing firms to compliance risk. Theta Lake’s certified Teams recorder captures audio directly from the source and adds automated speaker diarization, delivering verifiable,...
Survey Shows 83% of Legal Teams Use AI, but Trust in Outputs Remains Low
A fresh ALSP Factor survey of more than 200 in‑house and law‑firm leaders reveals that 83% now have broad AI access, up from 61% a year ago. Yet just 22.1% report high trust in AI outputs, and 69.7% of results...
Harvey Names Former Google Privacy Chief Keith Enright as Chief Strategy Officer
Harvey, the AI‑driven contract automation platform, has hired former Google chief privacy officer Keith Enright as its new chief strategy officer. The move is aimed at strengthening Harvey’s AI policy, privacy, and enterprise‑vertical strategy as competition for top tech talent...
Relativity Files Confidential IPO Registration, First Legal‑Tech Public Offering Since 2021
Legal data intelligence firm Relativity has confidentially filed a draft S‑1 registration with the SEC, positioning it as the first legal‑tech company to pursue an IPO since 2021. The filing, which does not disclose share count or price range, comes...
Why Law Firms Fail: People, Tech, Finance Patterns
Swipe through this to see how many times I failed 👉 I found a pattern in failing. It all revolved around 1. People 2. Technology 3. Finance Join us with our Vice president of Finance & Risk (Ahmed Awad) as we go over...
Real-World OpenClaw Uses Needed, Not Just Demos
OpenClaw is cool, but utility is king👑 Who’s actually using it for more than just a demo? Tell me your best real-world use case.
UPDATE: March 20, 2026 Deadline for Comments on GSA’s Proposed AI Clause Extended to April 3, 2026
On March 6, 2026 the General Services Administration issued a draft contract clause, GSAR 552.239‑7001, that would embed AI‑specific safeguarding requirements into GSA Schedule contracts. The comment deadline was extended from March 20 to April 3, 2026, and the clause will be considered...
Court Allows Discovery Into Insurer’s Use of AI to Deny Claims
A Minnesota federal court granted plaintiffs discovery into UnitedHealth’s AI system nH Predict, which the insurer uses to evaluate and deny post‑acute care claims. The ruling required production of documents describing the AI’s development, functionality, and oversight, while limiting some financial...
Orange Rag Legaltech Clinic: “How Should Firms Go to Market to Select the Best Compliance Technology?”
Natalie Kuebler, managing director of Alt‑V Law, highlighted that compliance technology has become a strategic priority for law firms worldwide. She noted rising regulatory expectations and increasingly complex client due‑diligence requirements, driving firms to seek auditable, specialized solutions. Kuebler’s research...
Proudly South African AI Legal Assistant
Murphy’s Law is a South African‑built AI legal assistant trained by local practitioners to deliver jurisdiction‑specific advice. The platform automates compliance workflows, litigation document generation, contract drafting, legal research, and due‑diligence, while offering a chat interface, project vault, and courtroom...
Centerbase Launches First Native ndMAX Integration, Connecting Practice Management Data with AI-Powered Document Workflows
Centerbase announced a native integration with NetDocuments’ ndMAX, linking practice‑management matter data directly to AI‑driven document workflows. The integration automatically extracts parties, dates and obligations from saved documents and writes them back into Centerbase for reporting and automation. It also...
Mi Lv Intelligence Teams with Alibaba Cloud to Launch AI‑Driven Contract Automation Platform
Mi Lv Intelligence, a Chinese legal‑tech specialist, announced a deep partnership with Alibaba Cloud to build an AI‑driven contract‑intelligence platform. The collaboration will integrate Mi Lv’s MeCheck and MeFlow products with Alibaba Cloud’s DAMO Academy and industry‑cloud marketplace, aiming to digitize and...
Uh-Oh, You Built a Compliance Automation Tool & Everybody Hates It
The article highlights a trust gap in compliance automation where control owners and auditors distrust system‑generated evidence, leading to parallel manual processes. Even though technology works, resistance stems from loss of professional identity and lack of auditor‑friendly documentation. Successful programs...
Legal AI in 2026: Market Signals, On-Prem Reality, and the Business Model Problem
Legal AI is reaching a pivotal moment in 2026 as enterprises shift toward on‑premise deployments to safeguard sensitive case data. Market signals show a 40% year‑over‑year rise in self‑hosted solutions, challenging the dominance of cloud‑based subscription models. Vendors now grapple...
New York’s Anti-AI Bill Looks Like Protectionism – Updated
New York Senate Bill S7263 seeks to impose liability on AI chatbots that impersonate licensed professionals in law, medicine and other fields. While the sponsor emphasizes targeting false credential claims, the bill’s language broadly bans AI from delivering substantive advice...
Vanta Introduces Automation Tools to Streamline Enterprise Compliance
Vanta unveiled a new suite of automation tools aimed at streamlining enterprise compliance and privacy management. The offering introduces three context‑aware agents—Compliance, Third‑party Risk Management, and Customer Trust—that continuously monitor evidence, assess vendor risk, and automate security query responses. New...
Why Legal AI Keeps Getting Context Wrong
Legal AI tools deliver fluent, fast contract language but often miss the nuanced context that drives commercial decisions. The article argues that the gap isn’t model intelligence but the lack of organisational, transactional, and market context fed into the system....
Live From LegalWeek with Abdi Shayesteh & Patricia Libby
In this Legal Week live episode, Abdi Shayesteh, CEO of Alta Clara, and Chief Learning Officer Patricia Libby discuss their AI‑driven training platform that simulates depositions and other oral advocacy scenarios. They explain how the new DepoSim uses AI‑generated witnesses,...