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Intapp unveiled Celeste, an agentic AI platform that embeds reasoning and execution directly into firm workflows, moving beyond generic chatbots. At Amplify 2026 the company demonstrated DealCloud with Celeste, allowing users to query and update deal data in plain English, eliminating manual friction. Intapp also re‑branded its TermSheet acquisition as Intapp Properties, a purpose‑built operating system for real‑asset firms that unifies acquisition, development, accounting and performance analytics. The announcements signal a shift toward AI‑driven, end‑to‑end operating systems that replace spreadsheets and siloed tools.
In 2025, a majority of lawyers embraced generative AI, with 63% of mid‑sized firms formally adopting tools such as Microsoft Copilot. Yet 81% of firm leaders voiced concerns over reliability, highlighted by a ten‑fold rise to 487 AI‑related hallucination cases...
Global law firm Dentons has completed a phased rollout of LexisNexis’s web‑based matter management solution, Lexis Everyfile, across its UK Legal Delivery Centre. The platform centralises case files, documents, and workflow steps, giving teams greater visibility and reducing operational friction....
Smokeball, a cloud‑based practice management platform for small‑to‑mid‑size law firms, announced a strategic partnership with Thomson Reuters to embed the firm’s CoCounsel Legal AI directly into its software. The integration combines Thomson Reuters’ extensive legal content library with AI‑driven drafting,...
Eudia announced the launch of Expert Digital Twins, AI‑driven replicas of an organization’s top subject‑matter experts that codify decision logic for legal, risk, and compliance functions. The twins are built with proprietary MIND decision engines and promise expert‑grade accuracy, consistency,...
The ABA TechShow 2026 launches Wednesday in Chicago, positioning itself as the premier gathering for legal‑tech professionals. The event features two high‑profile keynotes from Jordan Furlong and Nilay Patel, a Saturday rule‑of‑law session with three ABA presidents, and 47 educational...
The legal sector is at an inflection point as AI moves from optional advantage to operational necessity. Technologies such as NLP, predictive analytics, RPA, and blockchain‑enabled smart contracts are reshaping contract review, litigation strategy, and compliance. Ian Khan outlines a...
The article clarifies that AI and automation, while related, serve distinct roles in eDiscovery. Automation executes repeatable, rule‑based tasks such as legal‑hold notifications and workflow routing, whereas AI interprets data, classifies documents, and generates insights. Legal teams are urged to...
ELTEMate co‑CEO Dr. Sebastian Lach says corporate legal departments are outpacing other functions in adopting generative AI. He argues that true success will depend on a holistic approach that blends technology, policy, and talent. The commentary follows Hogan Lovells' recent...
Soxton, an AI-native law firm startup, announced the acquisition of Cipher Technologies. The purchase is intended to sharpen the accuracy of Soxton's AI agents and embed a dedicated security layer for its users. By integrating Cipher's technology, Soxton aims to...
Epiq announced the acquisition of LitLingo, an AI‑powered communication monitoring platform that uses machine learning to scan internal employee messages for security threats. LitLingo, previously backed by investors from legal tech firm DISCO, brings automated risk detection capabilities to Epiq’s...
The article draws a parallel between emerging AI-native law firms and the short‑lived legal‑tech startup Atrium LTS, suggesting that the new wave may repeat past mistakes. While AI promises to automate routine tasks and lower costs, many of these firms...
DeepJudge announced SuperSearch, a next‑generation, intent‑based search platform for law firms. The tool surfaces granular, actionable insights across a firm’s internal data, enabling cross‑matter intelligence without manual tagging. Built on DeepJudge’s existing AI engine, SuperSearch creates a unified intelligence layer...
Natalie Kuebler, managing director of Alt‑V Law, highlighted that compliance technology has become a strategic priority for law firms worldwide. She noted rising regulatory expectations and increasingly complex client due‑diligence requirements, driving firms to seek auditable, specialized solutions. Kuebler’s research...
Murphy’s Law is a South African‑built AI legal assistant trained by local practitioners to deliver jurisdiction‑specific advice. The platform automates compliance workflows, litigation document generation, contract drafting, legal research, and due‑diligence, while offering a chat interface, project vault, and courtroom...
Centerbase announced a native integration with NetDocuments’ ndMAX, linking practice‑management matter data directly to AI‑driven document workflows. The integration automatically extracts parties, dates and obligations from saved documents and writes them back into Centerbase for reporting and automation. It also...
The article highlights a trust gap in compliance automation where control owners and auditors distrust system‑generated evidence, leading to parallel manual processes. Even though technology works, resistance stems from loss of professional identity and lack of auditor‑friendly documentation. Successful programs...
Legal AI is reaching a pivotal moment in 2026 as enterprises shift toward on‑premise deployments to safeguard sensitive case data. Market signals show a 40% year‑over‑year rise in self‑hosted solutions, challenging the dominance of cloud‑based subscription models. Vendors now grapple...
New York Senate Bill S7263 seeks to impose liability on AI chatbots that impersonate licensed professionals in law, medicine and other fields. While the sponsor emphasizes targeting false credential claims, the bill’s language broadly bans AI from delivering substantive advice...
Legal AI tools deliver fluent, fast contract language but often miss the nuanced context that drives commercial decisions. The article argues that the gap isn’t model intelligence but the lack of organisational, transactional, and market context fed into the system....
ACEDS announced ChronoTracer as a new affiliate partner via its Emerging Partner Program. ChronoTracer provides technology that structures evidence into searchable, chronological timelines, handling cases with tens of millions of documents and complementing existing e‑discovery platforms. The partnership reflects a...
Factor’s 2026 GenAI in Legal Benchmarking Report shows rapid adoption of generative AI across law firms, with nearly 70% planning new AI procurements this year. However, confidence in these tools remains low, as only about a fifth of respondents trust...
Billables AI co‑founder Nancy Jeng argues that behavioral inertia, not technology, is the primary obstacle to legal innovation. She notes that mounting financial pressure on law firms is compelling them to seek AI‑driven efficiency, yet entrenched habits slow adoption. Billables...
Tonkean’s General Manager of LegalWorks, Aaron Bromagem, says legal‑tech buyers are shifting from isolated point solutions to integrated platforms that support end‑to‑end workflows. Buyers now prioritize interoperability, autonomy, and rapid adoption to streamline operations. Tonkean recently earned the Legalweek Leaders...
SurePoint Technologies' chief brand and market strategy officer, Olivia Mockel, highlighted that cultural resistance and poor system integration are major obstacles to legal innovation. Despite winning the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Innovation in Hiring, Staffing & Recruitment,...
Law firms recognize AI’s potential, but fragmented data and siloed systems limit tool performance. In a Legal IT Insider webinar, NetDocuments AI director Brandon Nelson highlighted the need for clean, organized data, consistent metadata, and a standardized taxonomy before scaling...
Troutman Pepper Locke announced that its proprietary AI legal assistant now incorporates a deep‑research engine, allowing the bot to pull from internal databases and extensive case law repositories. Relativity unveiled aiR, a new AI‑driven case‑strategy platform designed specifically for government...
Corporate legal teams still manage legal holds manually using spreadsheets, email threads, and shared folders. These manual workflows create hidden costs, including lost time, reduced visibility, and heightened compliance risk. As matters multiply and data environments grow, the inefficiencies become...
Construction eDiscovery demands a clear roadmap for handling diverse file types, from native CAD drawings to BIM models and project‑management data. The article outlines essential formats, metadata considerations, and the critical questions legal teams should pose to custodians and IT...
Law firms are grappling with a flood of AI options, causing either paralysis or over‑investment. A recent 8am Legal Industry Report shows 75% of lawyers already rely on general‑purpose models such as ChatGPT and Claude, yet 71% report their firms...
LawNext’s on‑Location series concluded with a visit to Everlaw’s Oakland headquarters, where founder and CEO AJ Shankar discussed the company’s evolution, AI strategy, and long‑term product roadmap. Everlaw, founded in 2013, has grown into a cloud‑native e‑discovery platform serving major...
Eve Legal is hosting a March 25 webinar to unveil its AI Agents designed for plaintiff law firms. The platform promises to triple attorney capacity and shave more than 60 days off case resolution times by automating routine tasks around the...
Attorney Ernie Svenson explains why he abandoned ChatGPT for Anthropic's Claude, citing the CoWork feature that lets the AI interact directly with local files. He leveraged Claude’s Projects to build legal training courses in under three hours, generating quizzes automatically....
Kim, founded by legal‑tech pioneer Karl Chapman, has launched an execution layer that converts AI‑generated requests into deterministic, governed workflows for enterprises. The platform offers a no‑code configuration tool that integrates across existing systems, ensuring reliable outcomes without locking customers...
In-house legal teams face rising litigation, investigations, and tighter budgets, with document review consuming roughly 75% of e‑discovery costs. Over 70% of companies generating more than $1 billion in revenue already have or plan to acquire document‑review technology. Exterro argues that...
London & Naor P.C., a boutique civil litigation and white‑collar defense firm in Oakland, used Everlaw’s cloud‑based e‑discovery platform to handle terabytes of data and complex cases with a lean staff. By leveraging Everlaw’s AI‑driven document review, analytics, and collaborative...
Opus 2 announced that its AI‑enabled intelligent legal solution platform is now available to law firms beyond litigation, allowing them to design custom workspaces, trackers, and client portals. The adaptable platform combines structured data worksheets, collaboration portals, dashboards and AI...
Legal analyst Jordan Furlong predicts that AI will become the productivity engine for law firms, shifting lawyers from billable‑hour tasks to relationship‑building, empathy, advocacy, and judgment. Joe Calve argues that this shift creates a new business model—"Judgment as a Service"—where...
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is a conceptual framework, not a prescriptive workflow or technology stack. It maps the essential stages of e‑discovery—information governance, identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, production, and presentation—without dictating how they must be executed. Misunderstanding...
Brett Burney, senior director at Nextpoint, explained to Legal Tech Daily that using screenshots to capture mobile device data in eDiscovery is unreliable because screenshots lack metadata, can be altered, and fail to preserve the full context of the original...
An appellate ruling by the Madras High Court in Softgel Healthcare v. Pfizer refused to execute U.S. Letters Rogatory seeking manufacturing records from an Indian API supplier, citing four provisions of the Hague Evidence Convention. The court rejected the request...
Law firm AI adoption is becoming more selective, according to Jeffrey Chivers, CEO of Syllo. While competitive pressures push firms to integrate AI, the technology also threatens traditional billable‑hour models, prompting careful evaluation of tools. Syllo, a recent Legalweek Leaders...
Craig Ball argues that the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) isn’t fundamentally broken; its perceived flaws stem from widespread misunderstanding. He outlines common misconceptions, such as conflating distinct stages and applying outdated workflows to modern technology. The piece stresses that...
TransLegal unveiled a multilingual legal translation engine that tackles the inaccuracies of generic large language models. Leveraging the world’s largest legal terminology database covering 75 jurisdictions, the platform embeds verified terms and comparative‑law context directly into legal‑tech workflows. The solution...
Third‑party risk management is undergoing a fundamental shift, requiring AI, cybersecurity and broader technology risk to be embedded in core vendor assessments. Traditional categories like corruption and sanctions remain relevant but are insufficient as vendors now provide cloud services, AI...
The legal community is confronting deepfakes—AI‑generated audio, video and images—as a credible evidentiary threat, prompting courts to demand rigorous authentication rather than deference. Existing Federal Rules of Evidence lack specific guidance, leaving judges to apply case‑by‑case standards while experts and...
The post walks readers through building a Contract Analyzer using ChatGPT or Claude, turning any agreement into a plain‑English clause‑by‑clause summary, risk ranking, obligation map, and negotiation playbook. By feeding the contract text into a series of four prompts, users...
Anthropic has unveiled the Claude Partner Network, a $100 million initiative to accelerate enterprise adoption of its Claude large‑language model. The program enlists consulting giants such as Deloitte and Accenture to provide implementation, engineering, and go‑to‑market support. While the network promises...
At Legalweek, Michel Sahyoun of NopalCyber warned that law firms are dangerously complacent about cybersecurity in the era of generative AI. Breaches are exploited in an average of 29 minutes, and AI tools can scan for vulnerabilities at scale. The...
At Legalweek, Michel Sahyoun of NopalCyber warned that law firms are overlooking cybersecurity as generative AI becomes mainstream. He highlighted that the average time to exploit a breach is just 29 minutes, and AI tools can continuously scan for weaknesses....
