How Is AI Transforming Interactive Services for Law Firms?
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how law firms interact with clients, moving from manual intake to automated, AI‑driven services. AI‑powered chatbots and virtual assistants now field routine inquiries, schedule consultations, and even draft basic documents, cutting response times dramatically. Predictive analytics help firms triage cases early, allocating resources more efficiently and lowering operational costs. As a result, firms can offer faster, more affordable legal support while freeing attorneys to focus on complex, high‑value work.
Legaltech Rundown: Thomson Reuters Teams Up With Hotshot in Law Schools, Clio Adds Agentic Features to Clio Work, and More
Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership with Hotshot to embed its AI‑driven research tools into law school curricula, giving students hands‑on experience with commercial legal tech. Clio introduced new agentic features to its Clio Work platform, automating routine tasks such...
FutureLaw 2026 Heads to Tallinn: Where Legal Innovation Meets One of Europe’s Most Captivating Capitals
FutureLaw 2026 will convene 500 legal‑tech practitioners, technologists, and policymakers in Tallinn on May 14‑15, focusing on operational AI integration, machine‑readable legal workflows, and cross‑border governance. The two‑day program includes 25 hours of sessions, eight workshops, and discussions on the...
Litigation Tech Provider AI.Law Releases 2nd Version of Its Platform
Litigation technology company AI.Law has launched the second version of its AI‑driven platform, AI.Law v2. The upgraded solution expands beyond document management to include case analysis, automated drafting, and new predictive analytics features. It also offers native integrations with leading...
AI in Legal Workflows Raises a Hard Question: Who Owns the Risk?
Legal departments are rapidly integrating AI tools into everyday workflows, but recent concerns highlight that any mishandling of privileged information, bias, regulated data exposure, or evidentiary integrity ultimately falls on the organization. General counsel, managing partners, CIOs, and legal operations...
A Dog and Its Tail: Don’t Let Version Uncertainty Cloud Linked Attachment Production
Linked (cloud) attachments remain a critical e‑discovery blind spot, despite tools that can collect and search them. Recent developments—such as the Carvana court‑ordered capability test, the Sedona Conference’s 2025 commentary, and the proposed Reconstruction‑Grade eDiscovery (RG) standard—reinforce the duty to...
Solve Intelligence Acquires AI Patent Litigation Startup Palito.ai, Announces Munich Office
Solve Intelligence announced the acquisition of AI‑driven patent‑litigation startup Palito.ai and the opening of a new office in Munich. The deal adds Palito.ai’s automated validity analysis and case‑law research tools to Solve Intelligence’s existing platform. The Munich location signals a...
&Lsquo;Seminal Cases'? Appeals Courts Confront Fake Cites in Wave of AI-Related Sanctions Orders
U.S. appellate courts are now reviewing a wave of district‑court sanctions issued against attorneys who used generative AI to insert fabricated citations in legal briefs. Judges have imposed monetary penalties and, in some cases, adverse rulings for failing to verify...
Clio Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Clio Work, Also Launches Vincent Mobile App
Clio announced two major AI‑driven updates: agentic capabilities are now embedded in its Clio Work platform, and a new standalone mobile app, Vincent by Clio, launched for iOS and Android. The agentic layer enables the software to autonomously gather facts, suggest...
5 Unique Challenges in Ediscovery for Construction Litigation and How to Solve Them
Construction litigation increasingly relies on e‑discovery, yet firms face five distinct hurdles: massive, heterogeneous data volumes; fragmented custodians across subcontractors; complex technical drawings and BIM files; metadata erosion; and escalating costs. The article outlines practical fixes such as AI‑driven document...
Physical Asset Tracking Is an Important Part of Preservation: EDiscovery Best Practices
Physical asset tracking remains a critical component of eDiscovery preservation, even as organizations migrate data to the cloud. S2|DATA’s ChainLogix platform provides a barcode‑based system that assigns up to 200 customizable fields per device, delivering a defensible chain of custody...
A Dog and Its Tail: Don’t Let Version Uncertainty Cloud Linked Attachment Production
The article warns legal teams that version uncertainty in Microsoft’s Cloud Attachments can undermine document production reliability. It revisits earlier posts from 2024, highlighting how linked attachments often reference outdated file versions when shared across platforms. The author outlines practical...
Clio Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Clio Work, Also Launches Vincent Mobile App
Clio announced two major AI upgrades: an agentic layer for its Clio Work platform and a new mobile app called Vincent. The agentic AI can automatically generate task roadmaps, pull relevant case law, score litigation risk and draft documents, all under...
Universal Migrator Releases Scripts that Migrate Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom to Clio, MyCase, Litify and Lawmatics
Universal Migrator announced a suite of new data‑migration scripts that move financial and case‑management data from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into leading practice‑management platforms such as Clio, MyCase, Litify and Lawmatics. The scripts expand the company’s library to over 144...
Webinar Replay: Inside Harvey’s AI Agents & Shared Spaces
Harvey’s AI agents and Shared Spaces were highlighted in a Legal IT Insider webinar, showcasing how the platform’s agentic workflows can automate complex, multi‑step legal processes. Launched a year ago, the agents can plan, adapt, and interact with users, while...
Legal Quants on Wall St: Why I Have 50 Attorneys From Top Firms Writing Code in the World Trade Center...
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...
Legora Surpasses $100m Annual Recurring Revenue
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...
Why Native Legal AI Is Required for India
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: Lawyers, Not Just Adoption Technology
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...
Deepfakes: A Problem In Search Of A Problem?
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,...
Do’s and Don’ts for Attorneys From Two Texas Judges: EDiscovery Best Practices
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...
Exclusive: Verlata Partners with ActiveNav to Tackle Unstructured Data Risks for Law Firms
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 Survey Results: AI and eDiscovery Trends
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...
Repeat Litigants: How Party Patterns Change Case Strategy
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...
The Furlong And Patel TECHSHOW Keynote Bookends: Saying The Same Thing, Differently
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 Chief Deputy GC: Legal Tech &Lsquo;Collaboration Must Replace Standardization'
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 Discovery, Litigation Strategy Leader: Gen AI Is &Lsquo;Fundamentally Reshaping' The Legal Department, Outside Counsel Relationship
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...
Inside View Podcast: Fusion’s Spin‑off From Webber Wentzel and some AI Home Truths
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 Standardise Around Esperantogix, a Single Platform for DMS, PMS, CMS, Email, Etc
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...
Exclusive: Draftable Makes First Move Outside of Comparison with Draftable Clean
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...
Proactive Compliance Requires More Than Automation — It Demands AI-Driven Strategy
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...
On LawNext: Mary Technology Wants to Solve Litigation’s ‘Fact Chaos’ Problem
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...
Could Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Large Language Models Help Make Local Zoning Codes Easier to Navigate?
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...
JT/DL: AI-Fueled Lawsuits; Police & Self-Surveillance
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...
How Do AI-Native Law Firms Work?
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 Through Proof Drills
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 $285 Billion Warning: Why Legal Departments Must Move Beyond the Billable Hour Now
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 TECHSHOW Keynote: The Lawyers Who Will Thrive In The New World Order Will Be Entrepreneurs — And Humans
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....
Access to Open AI Tools for Reviewing Discovery Materials Denied by Court: EDiscovery Case Law
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...
AI and Modernization in Legal and FOIA: EDiscovery Best Practices
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...
LTC4 Launches Milestone ‘Working with AI’ Core Competency
LTC4, the nonprofit legal‑technology training organization, has introduced a new core competency called “Working with AI.” Developed with input from lawyers, IT professionals and adoption specialists, the program outlines standards for AI literacy, workflow integration, oversight, and ethics. Firms can...
Seyfarth Shaw Partner: Law Firms Should Invest in AI Training in Law Schools or Via Associate Programs
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 AGC: &Lsquo;Legal Tech Is Fundamentally Shifting the Outsourcing Paradigm'
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...
So Thomson Reuters Is Betting on Legal LLM's, Here's a Calculation What It Means...
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...
Autopilots Can Absorb $60bn of Legal Work – Sequoia
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,...
EDiscovery Vendor Viability Scoring Tool: Making the Subjective Objective
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...
Artificial Intelligence in Federal Courts: A Random-Sample Survey of Judges
A new study surveyed 502 federal judges, receiving 112 responses, to gauge AI usage in the judiciary. While most respondents have tried AI tools, 38% admit they never use them, and daily or weekly use remains rare. Judges favor integrated...
AI in Discovery: Some Tools Are Ready. Others Are Not.
Generative AI is rapidly entering legal discovery, promising faster document analysis but still facing reliability gaps. While some AI‑driven platforms can automate routine review, many fall short of the rigorous standards required for privileged document handling. Jerry Lawson argues that...
Is AI-IP Software Just Expensive Wrapping Paper?
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 Launches New AI-Powered Tools for Categorizing and Tagging Legal Information
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...