Exclusive: The Barrister Group Launches Standalone Operations Business to Help Modernise Chambers
The Barrister Group has spun off its operational platform as a standalone service called VENTRiQ, offering technology‑enabled back‑office support to UK barristers' chambers. The new proposition handles everything from workflow automation and diary management to invoicing and cybersecurity, leveraging an API that syncs with the UK courts system. VENTRiQ currently processes around 2,000 cases per month for 3,000 client organisations annually, and will be presented at the group’s spring conference. The service aims to let chambers focus on reputation‑building while outsourcing administrative burdens.
Simmons & Simmons Takes Digital Regs in Its STRIDE
Simmons & Simmons has unveiled STRIDE, an AI‑backed digital regulation tracker that aggregates live, analyst‑grade data across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The platform uses a multi‑channel processing (MCP) approach, allowing AI agents to be queried directly via LLM...
Exclusive: Confido Legal Raises $9 Million to Expand Embedded Payments and Disbursements for Law Firms
Confido Legal, an embedded payments platform for law firms, raised $9 million across two financing rounds, with the larger tranche led by Aquiline Capital Partners. The funding will accelerate product development, API integration, and geographic expansion. Confido’s solution embeds billing, escrow,...
HaystackID Acquires Data Intelligence Startup eDiscovery AI
HaystackID announced the acquisition of eDiscovery AI, a data‑intelligence startup focused on AI‑driven electronic discovery solutions. The deal builds on a pre‑existing partnership and is aimed at bolstering HaystackID's generative AI capabilities across its legal‑tech platform. By integrating eDiscovery AI's...
Legal Marketing Company FirmPilot Raises $22M in Series A Funding
Legal marketing platform FirmPilot announced a $22 million Series A round, with Thomson Reuters Ventures among the backers. The capital will fund new integrations with leading case‑management systems and the creation of a proprietary generative AI model. FirmPilot aims to broaden its...
HaystackID: AI Copyright Cases Spotlight Key Discovery Practice Issues
Federal courts are tightening discovery limits in AI copyright lawsuits, citing the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure’s reasonableness standard. Recent rulings in the In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation and Onan v. Databricks restrict late‑stage depositions and document requests....
Exterro: “Good Enough” Isn’t Enough for Litigation Readiness
Exterro’s latest Data Xposure podcast spotlights the gap between reactive legal tactics and true litigation readiness. Host Jenny Hamilton and Hilltop Securities’ legal‑operations leader Patrick Butts argue that a playbook‑driven approach is essential for regulated firms. The discussion moves beyond...
Reveal: What FedRAMP Authorized Should Mean in eDiscovery
FedRAMP, the federal cloud security authorization program, is becoming a critical benchmark for eDiscovery solutions as U.S. courts anticipate over 400,000 lawsuits this year. Legal teams must verify that their cloud‑based discovery tools meet FedRAMP standards to prevent security breaches,...
Sam Bock, Relativity: What Legal Leaders Should Know About Shadow AI
Shadow AI, the unsanctioned use of generative AI applications, is emerging as the latest incarnation of shadow IT, infiltrating legal departments’ workflows. As employees adopt chatbots, code generators, and document‑analysis tools without IT approval, firms confront heightened data‑privacy, security, and...
Justin Smith, Everlaw: From Mobile Data to Generative AI: Your Guide to Navigating the New Era of Ediscovery
Everlaw’s Justin Smith outlines a comprehensive eDiscovery guide that addresses the exploding volume, variety, and velocity of electronically stored information, especially from mobile sources. The guide highlights how generative AI is reshaping document review, offering faster, more defensible workflows. It...
Michael Gennaro: Black Box Nature of AI Systems Creating Legal Land Mines for Companies
A Dataiku survey of 800 global data leaders reveals that 95% cannot fully trace how their AI systems reach decisions, exposing a massive explainability gap. The same study shows 59% have already faced business crises due to AI hallucinations or...
Cloud Software Provider Intapp Launches Multi-Industry Agentic AI Platform
Intapp announced Celeste, a multi‑industry agentic AI platform that embeds autonomous agents into its cloud software suite. The launch follows recent strategic partnerships with Anthropic and Harvey, giving Celeste access to large‑language models and domain‑specific legal AI. Celeste is positioned...
Direct-to-Business Legal AI Startup Inhouse Announces $5M in Seed Funding
Inhouse, a direct‑to‑business legal AI startup, announced a $5 million seed financing round. The capital will be deployed to strengthen its agentic AI platform that blends machine learning with on‑demand human lawyers. By focusing on small and midsize enterprises, Inhouse aims...
NetDocuments Announces 7 New Pre-Built ndMax Apps
NetDocuments introduced seven new pre‑built ndMax applications designed to automate key legal workflows. The suite covers discovery response generation, contract analysis and review, and assistance with USPTO office‑action replies. By leveraging the low‑code ndMax platform, these apps can be deployed...
The End of the Magic Wand: Why 2026 Demands Resilience Prompting
Law firms have moved beyond chasing the perfect prompt and now face a deeper challenge: generative AI reasoning systems can produce fluent, persuasive answers that are subtly incorrect. The article argues that lawyers must treat every AI output as a...
From Market Meltdown to Strategic Realignment: Harvey and LexisNexis Chart Diverging Paths with Anthropic
Anthropic’s new legal plugin sparked market concern as a potential disruptor, prompting divergent responses from two legal‑tech players. Harvey announced a direct integration with Anthropic’s Claude model, allowing enterprise users to invoke Harvey’s legal workflows inside Claude threads. LexisNexis, meanwhile,...
The End of the Magic Wand: Why 2026 Demands Resilience Prompting
Law firms have shifted from chasing a perfect AI prompt to recognizing that modern reasoning models can produce fluent but subtly incorrect answers. The article introduces "Resilience Prompting," a workflow mindset that assumes every AI output may be wrong and...
Draftwise Launches AI-Driven Playbook Studio
Draftwise unveiled Playbook Studio, an AI‑driven tool that scans a firm’s contracts and deal history to generate a customized, deployable playbook in roughly five minutes. The solution reportedly slashes NDA drafting and review time from an hour to two minutes...
BRYTER Offers Vibe Coding, Returns to Its Roots
Bryter, originally a no‑code workflow platform for lawyers, has launched a general‑release of “vibe coding,” a conversational AI‑driven approach that lets users build applications by describing logic in natural language. The feature blends Bryter’s no‑code roots with generative AI, enabling...
Prosecuting Insider Trading in the AI Era – Business Law Today From ABA
The article examines how artificial‑intelligence tools are reshaping insider‑trading prosecutions. Defendants may argue that AI‑generated analysis, rather than material nonpublic information (MNPI), drove their trades, invoking a routine‑strategy or diversification defense. It also explores the “mosaic theory,” suggesting AI can...
Wordsmith + Cognia Partner For AI Powered Managed Services
Wordsmith and ALSP Cognia Law have announced a strategic partnership to provide AI‑powered managed legal services. The collaboration combines Wordsmith's generative AI platform with Cognia's legal engineering and delivery expertise, offering technology, implementation, and operational support to in‑house legal teams....
Walk Through: Ayora – AI-Driven Matter Pricing
Ayora launched an AI‑driven matter pricing and tracking platform for law firms. Its proprietary data enrichment engine cleans historic matter and time records, addressing the “garbage in/garbage out” challenge. The solution offers agentic pricing, allowing lawyers to set rates and...
How I Use ChatGPT to Create a CLE PowerPoint Deck
Jennifer Ellis details a step‑by‑step workflow for using ChatGPT to produce a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) PowerPoint on cybersecurity. She shares the exact prompts, citation handling, and design cues that let the AI generate a polished deck in minutes. The...
Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files
The Department of Justice released more than three million documents tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including several grand‑jury subpoenas directed at Google. The leaked files reveal Google’s formal responses on company letterhead, detailing the data it produced for specific...
Connecticut Supreme Court Reckons With AI Hallucinations
The Connecticut Supreme Court confronted the reliability of AI‑generated evidence, focusing on the risk of hallucinations that blur fact from fiction. Justice Ecker warned that AI makes truth verification increasingly difficult. The justices examined recent filings that relied on AI...
LawNext on Location: The View From Tiburon – A Conversation with Pablo Arredondo, Casetext Cofounder
Pablo Arredondo, co‑founder of legal‑tech startup Casetext, discussed his journey from early experiments to the launch of CoCounsel, the first GPT‑4‑powered AI legal assistant. CoCounsel debuted on Morning Joe in March 2023, leading to Thomson Reuters acquiring Casetext for $650 million cash four...
What the Science Says About Hallucinations in Legal Research
A growing body of academic research shows that AI hallucinations in legal research are both common and systematic, with general‑purpose models like GPT‑4 fabricating or mischaracterizing authority in over half of pure‑question queries. Specialized, retrieval‑augmented tools such as Lexis+ AI and...
The Market Shift Reshaping Legal AI: Here’s What Comes Next
Clio highlights how consumer‑facing AI, like Claude’s legal plugin, can lower barriers to legal information for the 70% of people who never see a lawyer. At the same time, the firm warns that generic foundation models lack the verified, jurisdiction‑specific...
Detecting Deep Fakes
Legal tech expert Craig Ball was invited to speak in Texas about the growing threat of deep‑fake evidence in litigation. He highlighted how AI‑generated videos can now mimic real people with near‑photographic fidelity, complicating evidentiary verification. The article outlines emerging...
Pinsent Masons Selects Legora for Corporate, Commercial and Property Groups – Interview
Pinsent Masons announced on 23 February that it has rolled out the legal GenAI platform Legora across its corporate, commercial and property groups, expanding its user base to 1,000 lawyers. The firm completed a focused pilot that began in November,...
The Rising Tide of AI-Washing Cases in Securities Fraud Litigation
Public companies are increasingly inflating AI capabilities to attract investors, a practice dubbed AI‑washing that has sparked a surge in securities fraud litigation. Recent cases such as Opendoor and Upstart illustrate how exaggerated AI claims led to false statements, stock...
TR’s CoCounsel Hits 1 Million Users Despite Claude Crash
Thomson Reuters announced that its CoCounsel AI platform has reached one million professional users across 107 countries, covering legal, risk, compliance, tax, accounting, audit and global trade functions. The milestone was highlighted alongside a 10.25% intraday rise in TR’s share...
Hotshot + Legora Partner For AI Training Program
Hotshot, a legal learning platform, has teamed up with AI‑driven contract tool Legora to deliver a joint training program for law firms. The collaboration will produce high‑level, use‑case‑driven videos and instructor‑led workshops that let lawyers practice Legora on simulated matters...
Elevate Launches ELMA Agentic Capability
Elevate has introduced ELMA, an agentic capability that extends its cloud‑based ELM platform for in‑house legal teams. ELMA lets users create workflows via natural language and integrates with over 200 enterprise applications, automating document processing, data extraction, and browser‑based tasks....
Former Goodwin COO Mary O'Carroll Joins Legal Tech Startup Sandstone as Product Adviser
Former Goodwin chief operating officer Mary O'Carroll has joined legal‑tech startup Sandstone as a product adviser. O'Carroll, who previously held senior roles at Ironclad and Google, will serve in a part‑time capacity. The appointment comes just weeks after Sandstone announced...
Three Years After Launching As First AI Legal Assistant, CoCounsel Reaches 1 Million Users — and Thomson Reuters Teases What’s...
CoCounsel, the first GPT‑4‑powered AI legal assistant, celebrated hitting one million users across 107 countries three years after its March 2023 launch. Developed by Casetext, the platform was acquired by Thomson Reuters just four months after release, accelerating its market penetration....
TMI: How Your Client’s Need for Likes Is Hurting Their Case
Attorneys must proactively counsel clients on social‑media evidence because posts, likes, tags and even privacy settings can become admissible proof in criminal, civil and family matters. Deleting content after an investigation begins often triggers spoliation claims, while third‑party activity can...
Intapp and Anthropic Collaborate to Bring Expert AI Agents to Highly Regulated Professional Firms
Intapp announced a partnership with Anthropic to embed Claude, the company’s advanced language model, into its governed AI platform for professional services. The collaboration will produce industry‑specific AI agents that fuse Claude’s reasoning power with Intapp’s proprietary data, workflow playbooks,...
LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ with Protégé, Replacing Lexis+ AI with an End-to-End Workflow Platform
LexisNexis announced the U.S. general availability of Lexis+ with Protégé, a unified legal platform that supersedes its earlier Lexis+ AI offering. The new solution integrates advanced generative AI, workflow automation, and analytics into a single end‑to‑end environment for research, drafting,...
The 10 Best Apps For Lawyers In 2026
The 2026 roundup identifies the ten most effective legal‑tech apps, ranging from AI‑powered client communication platforms to cloud‑based billing and discovery tools. Selections were based on features, user ratings, security certifications, integration depth, and pricing. Apps such as Case Status,...
Before We Predict The End Of Lawyers, Let’s Take A Deep Breath
Generative AI is being touted as a productivity breakthrough for law firms, but the author argues it may actually increase workload. Drawing on the Solow paradox, the piece suggests that more information leads to more analysis, verification, and billable hours...
Before We Predict The End Of Lawyers, Let’s Take A Deep Breath
Stephen Embry argues that generative AI, while touted as a productivity miracle for law firms, may actually generate more work rather than reduce it. He frames this counter‑intuitive outcome with the Solow paradox, which observes that new technologies often raise...
Modernising Case Management Systems: What Every Law Firm Needs to Know in 2026
Law firms are confronting sluggish, legacy case management systems that erode margins and impede AI adoption. A February 26 webinar hosted by LIMA’s product head Ollie Potts will outline why CMS optimisation has become a profitability and data‑strategy priority. Attendees...
Sirion Completes Majority Investment From Haveli, Aiming to Accelerate AI Push in CLM Market
Sirion, an AI‑native contract lifecycle management platform, completed a majority investment from Austin‑based private‑equity firm Haveli Investments, giving Haveli a controlling stake and buying out earlier backers such as Sequoia and Tiger Global. The recapitalization, described as a strategic board‑level simplification...
Sirion Completes Majority Investment From Haveli, Aiming to Accelerate AI Push in CLM Market
Sirion, an AI‑native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, has completed a majority investment from Austin‑based private‑equity firm Haveli Investments. The capital infusion gives Haveli a controlling stake and will be used to speed up AI‑driven product innovation and broaden Sirion’s...
Back to Basics: 14 Risk Oversight Rules You Know (But May Be Ignoring)
Jim DeLoach’s article revisits 14 timeless risk‑oversight principles, urging leaders to refresh them with today’s digital capabilities. He stresses that avoiding risk is itself a risk, and that AI, machine learning, and real‑time data can dramatically improve early‑warning systems. The...
NotebookLM for Lawyers: A Small Hammer for Big Document Problems
Google’s NotebookLM, an AI‑powered private notebook, lets lawyers upload up to 300 documents per notebook and query them with citation‑backed answers. The tool excels at digesting litigation files, clustering discovery material, and generating timelines, briefs, and cross‑examination outlines without pulling...
The Post-Truth Purgatory
By 2026, up to 90 % of online content is expected to be synthetically generated, thrusting the legal profession into a crisis of evidentiary authenticity. Courts are grappling with deepfakes and AI‑hallucinated citations, forcing lawyers to prove not just that an...
AI Is an Amplifier, Not an Autopilot: What Today’s General Counsel Should Double Down On
General Counsel roles have expanded from pure legal advisers to strategic partners overseeing talent, data, spend, and broader governance, especially in volatile African markets. While AI promises efficiency, the article warns that it merely amplifies existing operating models—good or bad—so...
I Switched Everything to Local AI and Stopped Sending My Documents to the Cloud
A tech writer realized that uploading confidential documents to cloud‑based AI services violated data‑privacy expectations and switched to a fully local solution. After reviewing terms of service, they adopted AnythingLLM, an open‑source desktop application that runs AI models entirely on...