LegalTech Blogs and Articles
LegalTech Blogs and Articles
LegalTech Pulse
EMAIL DIGESTS
Daily
Every morning
Weekly
Tuesday recap
EMAIL DIGESTS
Daily
Every morning
Weekly
Tuesday recap
Norm has assembled 50 attorneys from elite firms to write code for its AI-driven legal platform, branding them as "Legal Engineers." These lawyers, many with no prior programming experience, undergo a rigorous certification to embed deep legal expertise into AI agents. The initiative underpins Norm Law, an AI-native firm serving institutional clients, and is supported by a dedicated software engineering team that builds the underlying infrastructure. The model aims to create trustworthy, lawyer‑crafted AI tools for complex legal work.
Legora has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of its general‑availability launch, serving over 1,000 customers in 50 markets. The legal AI platform has shifted from single‑task tools to multi‑step, agentic workflows, handling large‑scale document reviews and...
Deepak Kapoor argues that India’s intricate, multi‑layered legal system requires AI built specifically for its statutes, courts, and regulatory bodies. Generic, globally trained models often hallucinate citations, miss jurisdictional nuances, and fail to handle multilingual judgments. Native Legal AI, exemplified...
ACEDS Australia & New Zealand’s latest newsletter stresses that successful eDiscovery depends more on lawyer judgement than on technology adoption alone. As organisations rush to integrate generative AI, many still rely on outdated TAR‑era protocols, creating uncertainty around validation and...
Lawyers at the ABA TechShow report zero encounters with deep‑fake evidence, highlighting a gap between technological capability and courtroom experience. Judge Xavier Rodriguez warned that the legal system still operates on a presumption that photos, recordings, and video are authentic,...
At the ABA Techshow, Texas Judges Xavier Rodriguez and Roy Ferguson outlined practical eDiscovery guidance for litigators. They urged attorneys to engage opposing counsel early about data production and to use short depositions to expose missing documents before involving the...
Verlata Consulting has partnered with data‑discovery specialist ActiveNav to offer law firms a joint solution for locating, governing, and securing unstructured content stored outside traditional document‑management systems. ActiveNav Cloud scans network shares, cloud storage and local drives, classifying files and...
The EDRM GenAI Working Group surveyed 19 senior legal professionals to gauge how generative AI is being applied across the eDiscovery workflow. Respondents, mainly lawyers at large U.S. firms, report strong success with text‑summarization and document‑drafting, while results for full‑scale...
The Trellis Blog’s latest installment examines how repeat litigants shape case strategy by leveraging state trial‑court data. By tracking parties from filing through resolution, the analysis shows that identifying recurring defendants or plaintiffs can shift uncertainty into tactical advantage. The...
At TechShow, Jordan Furlong and Nilay Patel delivered back‑to‑back keynotes that converged on a single insight: the human lawyer remains indispensable. Furlong framed the lawyer as a trusted guide who can walk clients through complex valleys, while Patel emphasized law’s...
Uber’s vice‑president and chief deputy general counsel, Katie Waitzman, highlighted that AI‑driven legal tech will transform productivity and knowledge management within corporate legal teams. She argued that collaboration, not rigid standardization, should guide the deployment of these tools. Uber’s legal...
Google X’s senior discovery and litigation strategy leader, Alex Ponce de Leon, announced that generative AI is fundamentally reshaping corporate legal departments and their reliance on outside counsel. He highlighted that AI‑driven tools are cutting document review times by up...
Legal IT Insider’s Inside View podcast reveals that Webber Wentzel’s innovation arm, Fusion, has spun off into an independent subsidiary, positioning itself as a full‑service product development and advisory firm. The new structure grants Fusion greater agility to serve legal...
Global law firms have jointly committed to a self‑built legal‑tech platform called Esperantogix, aiming to replace a patchwork of 14 separate tools for document, practice, and case management as well as email. The new system promises to reduce password fatigue...
Draftable, known for its document comparison solution, has launched Draftable Clean, a metadata‑cleaning tool aimed at law firms. The new desktop and Outlook add‑in automatically strips comments, author details, and revision history before emails are sent. The product integrates with...
Compliance is moving from a reactive, post‑incident model to an AI‑driven, forward‑looking strategy. The Optro report shows that high‑maturity firms are six times more likely to embed AI across GRC functions, with 72% using it for proactive risk tracking and...
Mary Technology introduced an AI‑driven platform that tackles the "fact chaos" that follows e‑discovery. While existing tools can filter millions of documents, Mary automates the extraction, organization, and narrative building of key facts. The solution promises to cut manual review...
Researchers at Urban tested retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) with large language models on Minneapolis' 467‑page zoning code to see if AI can simplify permit queries. The benchmark showed that RAG‑enhanced models returned more accurate, context‑aware answers than baseline LLMs. City officials...
Recent justice‑technology news highlights a surge of AI‑related legal mishaps, from an Oregon attorney fined for citing AI‑generated case law to a wave of AI‑driven lawsuits cluttering courts. The FBI’s admission of purchasing Americans’ location data and a 93 GB breach...
General Legal, an AI‑native law firm, uses a full‑stack artificial intelligence engine to draft and review commercial contracts, allowing it to deliver standard agreements for as little as $500 while maintaining 40‑50% profit margins. By automating roughly 80% of the...
Effective AI oversight now hinges on the ability to reconstruct a single AI‑influenced decision with verifiable records. The EU AI Act makes automatic event logging a compliance prerequisite for high‑risk systems, but merely having policies is insufficient. A "proof drill"—a...
The article warns that the entrenched billable‑hour model could cost corporate legal departments up to $285 billion each year as per‑seat software pricing collapses. It highlights that hourly billing inflates spend, hampers budgeting and slows adoption of subscription‑based legal technology. Recent...
Jordan Furlong’s ABA TechShow keynote warned that AI will commoditize legal knowledge, automate routine tasks, and reshape law‑firm economics. He argued that future success will depend less on depth of expertise and more on being a trusted partner in crises....
The Kansas District Court granted Defendants’ motion to amend a protective order, restricting the use of open‑AI generative tools on any discovery material while permitting closed‑AI solutions that meet security standards. The judge rejected plaintiffs’ claims that the amendment would...
Casepoint’s Amit Dungarani recapped a presentation at the 23rd Annual e‑Discovery, Records and Information Management Conference, emphasizing how AI is moving from experimental hype to operational use in legal, FOIA and records environments. He argued that AI deployments must be...
Seyfarth Shaw labor‑and‑employment partner David Baffa urges law firms to fund AI curricula in law schools and launch associate‑level training programs. He argues that current business barriers—budget constraints, legacy systems, and cultural resistance—stifle innovation. By embedding AI skills early, firms...
Meta’s associate general counsel Jen Fryhling highlighted that emerging legal technology, especially AI, is fundamentally reshaping the outsourcing model for law services. She argued that client‑firm relationships will evolve from transactional engagements to strategic partnerships, driven by custom AI tools...
Thomson Reuters announced a $500 million investment to develop a proprietary legal large‑language model (LLM) aimed at automating research and drafting tasks. The company projects the new AI‑driven service could generate $1.2 billion in revenue by 2029, leveraging its existing data assets...
Sequoia Capital estimates that AI‑driven “autopilot” tools could absorb roughly $60 billion of legal work currently handled by external providers, covering paralegal/LPO services ($36 billion) and transactional contracts ($20‑25 billion). The firm’s Julien Bek frames legal services as a spectrum between “intelligence” – rule‑based,...
ComplexDiscovery launched an interactive calculator that applies its Total Success Predictor Rating (TSPR) framework to evaluate eDiscovery vendor viability. The tool lets users rate up to five vendors across four categories—Capability, Communication, Commerce, and Authenticity—over configurable periods, producing Success Predictor...
The market now hosts more than 70 AI‑assisted IP software firms, most younger than two years. These companies do not build their own large language models; instead they wrap existing frontier LLMs such as Gemini, Claude, or GPT with domain‑specific...
FOLIO introduced an AI‑driven suite that automatically categorizes and tags legal documents using a shared ontology. The tools integrate via APIs with existing case‑management systems, requiring no code changes. Pricing starts at $199 per month, with enterprise options for on‑premise...
Thomson Reuters unveiled an AI Advisory Board composed of leading technologists and legal scholars to steer its next generation of AI‑driven research and workflow tools. At the same time, DocuSign introduced an AI Contract Review Assistant that automatically extracts, analyzes,...
Grant Cleveland, CTO of Cleveland & Co, says AI is deepening client‑firm partnerships by creating shared intelligence across platforms. The firm recently earned the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Most Innovative Law Firm/Client Tech Collaboration, underscoring its pioneering...
Troutman Pepper Locke’s chief knowledge management and innovation officer, William Gaus, says artificial intelligence will speed the shift toward self‑service intelligence tools in legal departments. The firm recently earned the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Innovations in Knowledge...
Law firms rely heavily on email for client instructions, draft circulation, and negotiation, creating a hidden productivity bottleneck. Emerging AI tools now scan inboxes, automatically classify messages, extract action items, and summarize long threads. These capabilities link directly to document...
The legal‑tech market is witnessing a rapid surge in demand for legal engineers as generative AI reshapes contract analysis, compliance automation, and litigation support. Job postings for legal engineers grew 48% year‑over‑year in the first quarter of 2026, with median...
Legal tech vendor Querious released a side‑by‑side comparison highlighting the shortcomings of generic AI notetakers for law firms. While general‑purpose tools promise automatic transcription, their terms of service often prohibit storing privileged information and limit data ownership. In contrast, Querious’s...
Steno, a cloud‑based court reporting provider, closed a $49 million Series C round led by The Legal Tech Fund. The capital will fuel a U.S. market expansion, accelerate development of its AI‑driven transcription engine, and support the launch of new workflow tools...
In‑house legal departments are increasingly drafting the first version of litigation documents rather than relying on external partners. Advanced AI and legal‑ops platforms enable faster, more strategic creation of complaints, motions and discovery plans. This shift gives corporations tighter control...
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Nippon Life Insurance alleging its ChatGPT platform engaged in the unauthorized practice of law after a former policyholder used the tool as co‑counsel. The client, Graciela Dela Torre, fired her attorney, filed 21 motions and...
Recent rulings in United States v. Heppner and Warner v. Gilbarco illustrate how courts are grappling with the intersection of generative AI and evidentiary protections. Heppner held that AI‑generated content, created without direct attorney instruction, is not shielded by lawyer‑client...
Exterro’s recent article highlights how unchecked litigation data can balloon costs, citing Marathon Petroleum’s experience of amassing 100 terabytes of largely redundant information. The legal‑ops leader, Greg Gruic, describes the unsustainable storage expense caused by preserving everything “just in case.”...
Petra Pasternak of Everlaw warns that organisations are underestimating the growing cost and risk of data subject access requests (DSARs). Recent UK legislation – the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 – together with updated ICO guidance and the Ashley...
Reveal highlights that most litigation failures stem from poor data control rather than data scarcity. As data volumes surge and regulations tighten, organizations must choose between processing eDiscovery at source—on‑premises or private infrastructure—and migrating workloads to a shared or public...
Thompson Hine unveiled SmartPaTH Plus, a generative‑AI upgrade to its legal service platform that now automates over 100 workflows. The enhancement adds AI‑driven contract analysis, predictive cost modeling, and real‑time compliance alerts, aiming to boost predictability and transparency for corporate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
