Feedzai and Neterium Partner to Streamline Financial Crime Screening
Feedzai and regtech specialist Neterium have announced a strategic partnership that merges Feedzai’s Watchlist Screening with Neterium’s Transaction Screening. The combined, cloud‑native platform delivers real‑time financial‑crime detection, leveraging AI‑driven matching to cut false positives. By consolidating multiple compliance tools into a single API‑first solution, banks can accelerate deployments and simplify audit reporting. The joint offering is now available to financial institutions seeking end‑to‑end risk management.
Metaprompting for Lawyers: The Smart Way to Craft Smarter Prompts
The article introduces metaprompting, a technique where lawyers use AI to help craft the very prompts they feed back into the model. It outlines a step‑by‑step process for building prompts from scratch, refining existing ones, and extracting a personal writing...
The People Advantage: Why Clients Still Choose People Over AI in Legal Services
A recent LEX Reception survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers shows that despite AI’s growing role in legal back‑office tasks, clients overwhelmingly prefer human interaction for front‑line service. Eighty‑four percent want to speak to a real person, and 87% actively bypass...
Sanctions Data Has Outgrown the Systems Built to Manage It
Sanctions‑related securities have multiplied severalfold since early 2022, turning a niche compliance issue into a real‑time operational variable. A SIX survey of 291 financial institutions shows senior executives now expect sanctions data to create material challenges across trading, risk and...
You’ve Got Jmail
The episode explores Jmail, a web tool that lets users browse Jeffrey Epstein’s email archive in a Gmail‑like interface, created by AI programmer Luke Igel and developer Riley Walz to make the massive DOJ data dump hyper‑legible. Igel discusses how AI enabled...
iDox.ai Launches Real-Time Guardrail to Prevent Sensitive Data Exposure in AI Workflows
iDox.ai unveiled Guardrail, a real‑time endpoint agent that stops confidential data from reaching generative AI tools. The solution applies policy‑based controls as users type, paste, or upload content, automatically blocking, sanitizing, or allowing actions based on risk. Guardrail targets legal,...
A.I. Documents Deemed Not Privileged
A U.S. District Judge in New York ruled that a Texas financial‑services executive cannot claim attorney‑client privilege over 31 documents he created with an artificial‑intelligence tool. The judge found the AI outputs were not communications with counsel, lacked confidentiality, and...
Regulator-First AI: Vivox Brings Atomic Workflows to Compliance Operations
Vivox AI offers a regulator‑first compliance platform that automates repetitive first‑line tasks using atomic workflow steps, ensuring each action is auditable and explainable. The solution, live in about 100 countries, targets fintechs, payments firms and digital banks struggling to scale...
8am Expands LawPay Into Full Financial Management Platform for Law Firms, with Payments, Billing and Reporting
8am has upgraded its LawPay platform into a full‑service financial management solution for law firms, adding invoicing, time‑tracking, expense management, and real‑time reporting to its existing payments engine. The new offering features Smart Spend, an automated expense tool powered by...
Understanding the Limits of Generative AI Tools
A senior lawyer’s preference for generative AI over a junior associate sparked debate about the true capabilities of AI tools. The article stresses that current models, even Retrieval‑Augmented Generation systems, can hallucinate and lack genuine understanding. It argues that lawyers...
In A Marriage Of Legal Editing Tools, BriefCatch Has Acquired WordRake and Its 12 Editing Patents
BriefCatch announced the acquisition of WordRake’s core product, technology assets, and its twelve editing patents. The deal merges two leading legal‑writing tools into a single platform, with WordRake CEO Scott Johns joining BriefCatch as a strategic advisor. The integration follows...
Digital Forensics Round-Up, February 11 2026
The February 11 digital forensics round‑up highlights a wave of open‑source tools—including triagectl for macOS, Hindsight v2026.01’s Chrome Sync parsing, a chunked BitLocker‑key recovery script, a Velociraptor Notepad++ artifact, and FOSSOR for malware hash lookup—aimed at streamlining evidence collection. It also...
AI NDA Reviews Threaten Traditional Billable Legal Work
My first rodeo with Claude Cowork Legal plugin. This is the /legal:triage-nda call that reviews NDAs against a set of criteria (you can specify your own criteria or go with Claude's market-standard defaults). This is a real review of an...
Complyance Raises $20M to Help Companies Manage Risk and Compliance
Complyance, a Boston‑based AI‑native governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform, closed a $20 million Series A round led by GV. The solution embeds AI agents into existing tech stacks to automate continuous data‑compliance checks and third‑party risk assessments, cutting audit cycles from...
Automated Redaction Tool Speeds Client Image Sharing
Another useful Claude Code skill I built: /redact I take a screenshot (or multiple), Claude uses tesseract to find and hide terms and phrases from a list of categories. When in doubt, Claude will over-redact. Benefit: I can share social images...
GDPR Joint Controller Agreements
Eight years after GDPR’s rollout, joint controller agreements remain a complex, under‑defined area for privacy teams. Article 26 creates joint controllership when multiple parties jointly decide the purposes and means of processing, making the arrangement inseparable. Unlike standard DPAs, these agreements...
Legalgain Shares Findings in Whitepaper on Structural Requirements for AI Legal Research
Legalgain released a whitepaper titled "Integrity Meets Intelligence" outlining structural requirements for reliable AI legal research. The report identifies three core pillars: high‑integrity legal data, domain‑specific model architecture, and agentic multi‑step workflows. It argues that many current legal AI tools...
When Law Becomes Data: What Brazil’s LexML Reveals About Akoma Ntoso
Brazil’s LexML portal, built on the open‑source Akoma Ntoso XML standard, aggregates official texts, court decisions, and bills into a single searchable system. While the platform centralizes legislative documents, it fails to integrate political metadata such as bill sponsors or...
DISCO Launches Scaled Agentic AI Tool for Large Discovery and Fact Investigation Matters
DISCO unveiled a scaled agentic AI extension to its Cecilia Q&A platform, targeting massive e‑discovery projects with millions of documents and terabytes of data. The enhancement introduces an autonomous multi‑step reasoning engine that can independently break down complex legal queries...
I’ve Taken Steps To Protect My Client’s Documents: But What Happens Post-Production?
Law firms are increasingly worried that once discovery documents are produced, opposing counsel could feed sensitive client information into large language models like ChatGPT. Stephen Embry highlights the gap between traditional document‑protection measures and the emerging risk of AI‑driven data...
Today’s Legaltech Week: The Claude-Pocalypse, AI Agents Gone Wild, and Much More – All Live at 3 ET
Anthropic’s Claude legal app debuted this week, sending legal‑tech stocks sharply lower and sparking industry debate. At the same time, AI agents have launched a dedicated social network, Moltbook, and a new marketplace that lets them contract human labor. These...