Intapp to Partner with Harvey Bringing Ethical Wall Enforcement Directly Into the Platform
Intapp and Harvey announced a strategic partnership to embed Intapp Walls for AI directly into Harvey’s generative AI platform for legal professionals. The integration will automatically synchronize Intapp’s ethical‑wall policies with Harvey’s Assistant, Vault, and Workflows modules, ensuring AI‑driven work respects confidentiality and regulatory obligations. By making AI interactions permissioned, auditable, and compliant, the joint solution tackles the governance gap that has plagued law firms as they scale AI usage. The collaboration targets global firms, leveraging Harvey’s 1,000+ customers across 60+ countries.
AI Prompting for Legal Professionals
The article outlines how legal professionals can harness generative AI by treating prompts like legal questions, emphasizing that vague inputs produce useless outputs. It introduces the 7 Ps Framework—persona, product, prompt, purpose, prime, privacy, and polish—as a systematic method for crafting...
The Pricing Pulse: Forensic Collection, Examination, and Testimony Insights From the Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey
The Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey of 53 U.S.-centric participants reveals stable hourly rates for forensic collections—$250‑$350 for both onsite and remote work—while remote services show modest downward pressure and greater pricing model diversity. Per‑device pricing for desktops, laptops, and...
A Fun Way to Build AI Fluency
In a recent CLE session, a Texas lawyer highlighted how lawyers have progressed from no AI exposure to daily usage within three years. He urged attorneys to develop AI fluency by engaging with ChatGPT through spoken, hands‑free interactions while driving....
Optimizing GRC Platform
Optimizing a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform requires a holistic strategy that blends integration, user‑centric design, automation, and continuous improvement. Organizations should start with a thorough current‑state assessment and stakeholder feedback to pinpoint gaps. Seamless API‑driven connectivity, centralized data...
Registrations Now Open: “Digitalisation of Justice: Perspectives From Germany and the Netherlands”
A symposium on the digitalisation of justice will be held in Groningen on 29 May 2026, hosted by Dr. Benedikt Schmitz. The event features a keynote by Germany’s Justice Minister Benjamin Grimm and expert panels covering private international, civil, criminal, and administrative law. Emerging...
AI Silos: The New Data Fragmentation Problem Inside Law Firms
Law firms are rapidly adopting a patchwork of AI applications, but the lack of a unified architecture is creating isolated data silos. These "AI silos" prevent seamless knowledge sharing across practice groups and hinder the firm’s ability to leverage collective...
Legaltech Rundown: Reveal Announces Expanded Capabilities for Logikull, HaystackID Announces Launch of AI Governance Services, and More
Reveal has rolled out new functionalities for its Logikull platform, adding advanced contract analytics and automated compliance checks. HaystackID introduced AI Governance Services aimed at helping law firms monitor and control generative AI usage. Both announcements come amid heightened regulatory...
Time to Tame the Beast? Rethinking Document Production in International Arbitration
The Swiss Arbitration Association User Council issued a whitepaper titled “Taming the Beast” urging tighter limits on document production in international arbitration. It recommends redefining relevance and materiality under the IBA Rules and proposes contractual, tribunal and institutional measures to...
Latitude59 2026 to Advance “The Global Village Experiment” In Tallinn, Bridging Nordic, African, and Asian Startup Ecosystems
Latitude59 2026 will convene in Tallinn, Estonia, under the theme “The Global Village Experiment,” bringing founders, investors, and ecosystem builders from more than 70 countries across the Nordics, Africa, and Asia. The three‑day conference spotlights artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology,...
AI Risk Tool
AI Risk tool, a browser‑only privacy layer, anonymises sensitive data before it reaches any generative AI model. The solution runs entirely client‑side, ensuring no text is transmitted, stored, or tracked on external servers. By eliminating the need for accounts, it...
How to Back Up Your WordPress Website Effectively
Law firms rely on WordPress sites for client intake, branding, and confidential communications, making website continuity critical. The article outlines a practical backup strategy, recommending daily off‑site backups using plugins such as UpdraftPlus, BackupBuddy or BlogVault, and storing copies in...
&Lsquo;No Brainer': Attorneys See Risks of Open Gen AI Systems in Claude Privilege Ruling
A New York federal judge ruled that AI‑generated documents created with Claude are not protected by attorney‑client privilege. The decision highlights that open‑gen AI outputs are treated as ordinary evidence, not confidential communications. Attorneys warn that the ruling exposes firms...
&Lsquo;No End in Sight': 5th Circuit Expresses Concern Over AI Hallucinations in Briefs
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit warned that AI‑generated legal briefs can contain hallucinations, after attorney Heather Hersh submitted a brief riddled with inaccuracies. The court imposed a $2,500 sanction for her failure to verify the content...
Homeostatic Third-Party GRC in GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate
GRC is evolving from static third‑party risk management to a homeostatic, ecosystem‑wide approach that treats suppliers, cloud providers and partners as living nodes within an extended enterprise. GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate introduces a digital twin that maps interdependent relationships, objectives and...
A Reflection on eDiscovery Today’s 2026 State of the Industry Report: The AI Adoption Gap and What’s Next for eDiscovery
The 2026 State of the Industry Report from eDiscovery Today highlights a widening AI adoption gap across legal firms. Only about 35% of respondents report using advanced AI tools for document review, while the majority remain reliant on legacy workflows....
Strengthening Deployment Architecture – The Rise of BYAIM in eDiscovery
In 2026 eDiscovery has moved from experimental AI tools to a foundational, industry‑wide nervous system. Generic, off‑the‑shelf models now face a "Plateau of Generalization," prompting firms to seek strategic control over their intelligence. The Bring Your AI Model (BYAIM) approach...
Guest Post: Six Tech Revolutions that Were Supposed to Shrink Legal but Grew It. Will AI Be Different?
The legal profession has repeatedly expanded whenever new technology—typewriters, word processors, computerized research, e‑discovery, and document automation—was introduced, contrary to predictions of job loss. Each wave cut the cost of producing legal work, which in turn created more demand, higher...
Bonterms Launches Docusign IAM Extension App
Bonterms has introduced a DocuSign IAM extension that links its library of standard agreements and guided‑negotiation playbooks directly to DocuSign’s webform and Navigator platform. The app enables users to launch a deal, negotiate terms, sign electronically, and automatically sync contracts...
AI On Lawyers And AI
Law firms are rapidly integrating AI chatbots into legal workflows, but the technology brings significant pitfalls. AI-generated drafts can hallucinate, producing fabricated citations that have already led to attorney sanctions. Recent rulings, such as USA v. Heppner, show courts treating...
Paine Schwartz Partners Chooses Intapp DealCloud to Accelerate Firm Growth Through AI Innovation
Private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners (PSP) has selected Intapp DealCloud to modernize its data, relationship, and pipeline management. With $6.5 billion in assets under management, PSP will use DealCloud’s AI‑driven relationship intelligence, sourcing, and Microsoft SharePoint integration to centralize deal...
Epsteinalysis.com
A new platform, Epsteinalysis.com, launched under the alias Axiomofinfinity, offers a searchable database called Epstein Files Explorer containing over one million documents and two million pages released by the DOJ. The site employs spaCy’s named‑entity recognition and similarity clustering to...
Structured Litigation Workflows for Case Planning, Budgeting & Updates
Litigation firms often struggle with fragmented processes that lead to duplicated work, missed deadlines, and opaque budgeting. CARET Legal offers a single, cloud‑based platform that centralizes case strategy documents, financial records, and status updates, leveraging version control and searchable libraries....
Reveal: How Reveal Preserves Deployment Choice and Data Portability
Reveal emphasizes data portability to avoid vendor lock‑in, offering eDiscovery solutions that can be deployed in cloud, on‑premises, or hybrid environments. The company cites an EE Times survey showing 83% of technology leaders plan to repatriate workloads this year, underscoring...
EDiscovery AI: Trial, Deposition, and Discovery Preparation with Early Case Intelligence Solutions
eDiscovery AI introduced its Early Case Intelligence™ suite—Insight ECI™, Case Elements™, and CaseBot™—to accelerate litigation preparation. The platform leverages AI to turn raw electronically stored information into actionable intelligence, supporting deposition strategy, discovery planning, and trial readiness. By automating early...
Jimmy Hoover: Can AI Give You a Seat Inside the Supreme Court?
The nonprofit project On the Docket uses artificial intelligence to generate video avatars of U.S. Supreme Court justices reading their opinions aloud, pairing AI‑created visuals with authentic archival audio. By recreating the experience of the court’s public gallery, the initiative...
Josh Aaron: The Hidden Technology Risk Law Firms Can No Longer Treat as Background Noise
Law firms are increasingly confronted with demanding security questionnaires from Fortune 500 clients, requiring verifiable endpoint protection within tight deadlines. Many firms still rely on manual or semi‑automated processes, leaving gaps in device visibility and patch compliance. This lack of...
Everlaw: Generative AI’s Growing Strategic Value for Corporate Law Departments
Everlaw and the Association of Corporate Counsel released a survey showing generative AI use in corporate law departments has more than doubled, reaching 52% of U.S. respondents. The share of firms merely planning AI projects fell to 14%, while outright...
Gov.UK: Update on the Serious Fraud Office’s E-Discovery Review
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has completed its e‑discovery review of historic fraud convictions that relied on the legacy Autonomy system. Out of 66 identified cases, only three remain under final review, and the SFO reports no material that...
Opus 2 Winter Release Accelerates Case Strategy and Preparation Workflows Following Strategic Acquisition
Opus 2 announced its winter 2026 release, embedding Uncover’s AI technology into the Opus 2 Cases platform after a three‑month integration. The update introduces an AI Assist suite—Matter Assist, Document Assist, General Assist, and a Prompt Library—enabling rapid, secure analysis, drafting and...
Parambil Launches New Agentic AI Platform for Personal Injury Firms
Parambil has unveiled an agentic AI platform tailored for personal injury law firms, featuring four specialized AI agents that automate core case workflows. The suite includes agents for intake, document generation, claim tracking, and settlement analysis, with a fifth agent...
When Conflicts Become Compliance Crises: SEC and DOJ Enforcement Lessons From the Real World
Regulators are treating conflicts of interest as operational threats rather than abstract compliance check‑boxes. Over the past 18 months the SEC has levied multi‑million penalties on advisers for undisclosed incentive structures, while the DOJ has pursued criminal cases where personal...
Work Product Vs. Evidence: Why Your Firm’s DMS Is Not an eDiscovery Platform
The article clarifies that a firm’s document management system (DMS) is not a substitute for a dedicated eDiscovery platform. While DMS tools excel at storing and retrieving files, they typically lack features such as legal holds, privilege tagging, and forensic...
SimpleDocs Launches ‘Contract Intelligence Layer,’ Putting Policy, Precedent and Market Data Inside Microsoft Word
SimpleDocs unveiled its Contract Intelligence Layer, a Microsoft Word add‑in that fuses internal policy playbooks, precedent data, and Law Insider’s market standards into a single interface. The feature lets lawyers benchmark clause changes against an organization’s historical agreements and global contract...
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[Educational Webcast] eDiscovery Lessons for 2026: Spotlighting the Top ESI Cases and Trends From 2025
HaystackID hosted an educational webcast titled “eDiscovery Lessons for 2026,” where moderator Philip Favro and a panel of experts dissected the most influential 2025 court decisions on electronically stored information. The discussion highlighted emerging challenges around AI‑generated content, evolving definitions...
Your Foreign AI Vendor’s Black Box Is an Ethics Problem, Not a Technical One
Boards and senior leaders are confronting a growing dilemma: critical AI systems supplied by foreign vendors operate as opaque black boxes, delivering efficiency while limiting auditability. Ethicists Vera Cherepanova and Brian Haman argue this is fundamentally an ethical issue of...
LawNext on Location: Lunch with Alex Su of Latitude Legal In Alameda, Calif.
In a LawNext on Location lunch, Alex Su, chief revenue officer of Latitude Legal, outlines the company’s AI‑driven contract automation platform and its recent $30 million Series B round. He explains how Latitude Legal is expanding from large enterprises to mid‑size law...
SimpleDocs Launches ‘Contract Intelligence Layer,’ Putting Policy, Precedent and Market Data Inside Microsoft Word
SimpleDocs introduced a Contract Intelligence Layer that embeds a law department’s internal policies, historical contract precedent, and verified market standards directly into its Microsoft Word add‑in. The AI‑powered feature surfaces relevant clauses and benchmarks as lawyers draft, cutting manual research...
Universal Migrator Reduces Pricing on Migration Tools for iManage, SharePoint, and NetDocuments
Universal Migrator announced a price cut for its migration script library, now starting at $3,500. The library covers major legal document management platforms iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments. The new pricing eliminates per‑migration or size‑based fees, allowing consultants to run...
Stella Legal and Ironclad Enter Into Partnership
Stella Legal, a rapidly scaling UK‑US legal‑tech consultancy, announced a partnership with CLM leader Ironclad on 18 February. The collaboration merges Ironclad’s advanced AI infrastructure with Stella’s service‑first methodology to create a proactive, data‑driven contracting model. Stella, founded a year...
Webinar: The State of Legal Tech – An End to the Status Quo?
Legal IT Insider announced a free webinar on March 4 featuring Clio’s senior director of product management, Robin Chesterman, to discuss the firm’s new State of Legal Tech report. The study surveyed more than 2,000 legal professionals in the UK...
Electronic Evidence Workbook 2026
LegalTech Daily announced the release of the Electronic Evidence Workbook 2026, a comprehensive guide for lawyers and forensic specialists handling digital data. The workbook updates the 2025 standards, adds new AI‑driven preservation tools, and includes practical checklists and templates. It...
Actionstep Completes SOC 2® Type 2 Examination, Reinforcing Commitment to Law Firm Security
Actionstep, a cloud‑based practice‑management platform used by nearly 5,000 law firms, announced completion of its SOC 2 Type 2 examination conducted by Prescient Assurance. The audit evaluated both the design and operating effectiveness of the company’s security controls over a defined period, providing...
Joe Cohen Joins Harvey as Legal Innovation Partner
Harvey has hired Joe Cohen as a legal innovation partner to help law firms reimagine AI‑driven service delivery, business models, and operations. Cohen will work with firm leaders to align AI strategies with long‑term business priorities. He arrives after a...
Joe Cohen Joins Harvey as Legal Innovation Partner
Harvey has appointed Joe Cohen as its new legal innovation partner, tasked with helping law‑firm leaders reshape service delivery, business models, and operations through AI. Cohen brings over a decade of legal‑tech experience, most recently directing Advanced Client Solutions at...
AltaClaro and Verbit Launch DepoSim, an AI-Powered Deposition Simulator for Litigators
AltaClaro, a legal‑training specialist, unveiled DepoSim, an AI‑driven deposition simulator built with Verbit.ai. The platform creates realistic, on‑demand deposition scenarios and automatically transcribes witness testimony using Verbit’s speech‑to‑text engine. After each session, litigators receive structured, objective performance metrics and actionable...
Organization's Copilot Use Sparks Tricky Legal, E-Discovery Questions: A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Noah Koerner
Microsoft Copilot is rapidly being deployed across enterprises, prompting a deep dive into its legal ramifications. Noah Koerner, director of information governance at Lighthouse, highlighted how AI‑generated content can blur attorney‑client privilege and complicate e‑discovery. He warned that vendor‑provided logs...
Sphinx Raises $7M Seed Round for AI Compliance Agents
Sphinx announced a $7 million seed round, led by Cherry Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures and Singularity Capital. The San Francisco‑based startup builds browser‑native AI agents that embed directly into existing case‑management systems, third‑party portals and internal dashboards...
Why Legal AI Fails without Trusted Data: Key Takeaways From Our Denodo Webinar
Legal AI adoption is accelerating, but many firms see pilots stall in production. Errol Rodericks of Denodo explained that the root cause is untrusted, fragmented data rather than weak models. Law firms rely on disparate systems lacking enterprise‑wide governance, forcing...
South West UK Firm Barcan+Kirby Rolls Out Legl Firmwide
Barcan+Kirby, a South West UK law firm, has rolled out Legl’s client intelligence and lifecycle management platform across the entire organization. The solution delivers firm‑branded, client‑facing workflows for identity verification, form submission and e‑signatures, while automating AML and regulatory compliance...