Becoming a Pro in the Rapidly Evolving World of eDiscovery: EDiscovery Webinars
Lexbe is hosting an encore webinar titled "The Fundamentals of eDiscovery" at 2 pm ET, aimed at teaching legal professionals the core building blocks of modern eDiscovery. The session will cover the surge in electronically stored information (ESI), best practices for identification, preservation, collection, processing, and culling, as well as modern review and production workflows. A key focus is the responsible use of generative AI (GenAI) to accelerate fact‑finding, reduce review drag, and maintain defensible processes. Attendees will also learn prompting techniques for summarizing, issue spotting, timeline creation, and privilege analysis.
Exterro: Navigating eDiscovery Triggers and Strategic Disclosure
Exterro released an article titled “Navigating eDiscovery Triggers and Strategic Disclosure,” completing a series on building modern eDiscovery playbooks for in‑house legal teams. The piece defines a preservation trigger as an event that creates a duty to preserve electronically stored...
Melina Efstathiou: The Femme Verdict—By the Book
The Law Society has urged the Ministry of Justice, the SRA and HM Courts to issue clear guidance on responsible AI use in litigation. A recent case, Rodney v Gee’z Micro Bar & Pitstop, highlighted the risk when a solicitor...
Trudy Knockless: How In-House Teams Are Using AI Agents—Without Letting Risk Run Wild
Legal departments face pressure to accelerate work while maintaining risk controls. In-house leaders are turning to AI agents—software that executes goal‑driven, multi‑step tasks across systems—while keeping lawyers in the loop. These limited agents are being deployed for contract triage, due...
Harvey Announces Contract Intelligence for Inhouse
Harvey unveiled Contract Intelligence, an AI‑powered platform built for in‑house legal teams, with a waitlist for early access and a planned general release in Q3 2026. The solution streamlines contract intake, triage, and review, surfaces fallback positions and clause language...
Claude for Legal and Access to Justice: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown
Anthropic unveiled Claude for Legal, adding more than 20 MCP connectors, 12 practice‑area plugins and native integrations with Microsoft Office apps. The rollout partners the Justice Technology Association and Free Law Project, embedding CourtListener, Courtroom5, BoardWise and Descrybe as free...
Littler Rolls Out DepoSim After Partnering on Employment Law Capability
AltaClaro announced that its AI‑powered deposition simulation platform, DepoSim, now includes employment‑law scenarios, a capability co‑developed with leading labor firm Littler. The partnership expands DepoSim beyond civil litigation, enabling lawyers to rehearse workplace‑dispute depositions using realistic, data‑driven mock sessions. Littler’s...
Most Law Firms Are Watching a Competitive Shift Happen. Some Are Building a Strategy Around It.
A new Thomson Reuters report shows 78% of law firms still lack a formal AI strategy, while a Wolters Kluwer survey finds 61% of legal professionals believe their firms can adapt. The gap isn’t about awareness—most firms are watching the shift—but...
New Intapp Time Release Brings AI Deeper Into the Time Entry Workflow to Capture More Billable Hours and Protect Earned...
Intapp unveiled the latest version of its Time tracking platform, embedding AI directly into the time‑entry workflow. New features include AI‑driven work‑code prediction, configurable narrative compliance, a chronological timeline view, and mobile enhancements with Siri voice commands. The upgrades aim...
An MCP Connection to Claude May Soon Be a Necessity for Legal Tech Companies and Their Customers
Trellis Law, an AI‑driven legal research platform focused on state trial courts, has launched an integration with Anthropic’s Claude using the Model Connectivity Protocol (MCP). The service aggregates trial‑court data from 45 U.S. states, structuring judges, opposing counsel, dockets and...
Walk Through: SpotDraft – AI-Powered CLM
Artificial Lawyer’s AL TV featured a walkthrough of SpotDraft, an AI‑powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform. The demo highlighted automated contract upload, AI‑driven data extraction, issue‑spotting guides, version comparison, and metadata querying. Product manager Jaskaran Bhatia explained how the system...
Building a Defensible Legal Hold Process: EDiscovery Best Practices
Designing a defensible legal hold is now a strategic capability, not a simple administrative task. Modern enterprises must preserve electronically stored information (ESI) across cloud platforms, collaboration tools, mobile devices, and even generative‑AI systems when litigation, regulatory inquiries, or internal...
The Claude-Pocalypse Bypassed Legal Aid; LawDroid’s New Plugin Remedies That, with 15 Targeted Skills
Anthropic’s recent rollout of 12 legal‑specific Claude plugins ignored the needs of civil legal‑aid providers. In response, LawDroid launched a free, open‑source Legal Aid Plugin built for low‑income service organizations, offering 15 AI‑driven skills such as intake screening, document drafting,...
The Claude-Pocalypse Bypassed Legal Aid; LawDroid’s New Plugin Remedies That, with 15 Targeted Skills
LawDroid introduced an open‑source plugin that integrates Anthropic’s Claude AI into civil legal‑aid workflows, delivering 15 targeted capabilities such as intake automation, eligibility screening, and document drafting. The move directly addresses the omission of legal‑aid tools in Anthropic’s recent rollout...
Harvey Launches ‘Command Center’ for Managing Enterprise AI Adoption, and Partners with DeepJudge on Institutional Knowledge
Harvey unveiled Command Center, a dashboard‑style platform that lets law firms track AI usage, costs, compliance and performance in real time. The tool also enables governance policies and reporting for senior leadership. Simultaneously, Harvey partnered with DeepJudge to embed a...