Navigating AI Governance & Information Governance
Speakers defined AI governance as a practical framework that balances the technology’s risks—bias, hallucinations, regulatory exposure—with its operational benefits, likening current needs to moving from stop signs to air traffic control as AI scales. They stressed building principled, forward-looking rules of the road rather than retrofitting old controls, and recommended cross-functional governance with legal and compliance at the table. Panelists described starting points including company-wide policies, alignment with existing codes of ethics, and adapting to client and regulator demands (e.g., EU and U.S. state laws). The discussion emphasized iterative governance that anticipates future capabilities while enabling productive, accountable AI use today.
Spending in 2026: What Legal Operational Professionals Must Know
Legal operations leaders and outside counsel executives said AI is already reshaping how legal work is sourced and priced: companies like Hilton are using AI to generate first drafts, issue-spot lists and negotiation playbooks so outside firms bill less for...
The CLOC + Harbor SOTI Survey
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) partnered with Harbor to release the State of the Industry (SOTI) Survey, delivering fresh data on legal operations trends. The report highlights rising budgets, faster contract cycles, and growing reliance on automation and analytics....
How SettlementDoneEasy Eradicates Mail Fraud and Paper Checks in the Personal Injury Settlement
The video introduces SettlementDoneEasy, a fintech solution that digitizes personal injury settlements, moving payments directly from insurance carriers to law‑firm trust accounts instead of mailing paper checks. The presenter highlights the U.S. market’s reliance on physical checks, noting that...
Context Is Everything: CEO Neil Araujo on iManage's AI Strategy
The Law Next interview with iManage co‑founder and CEO Neil Araujo centers on the company’s evolving AI strategy, highlighted by the launch of a “context fabric” that layers content, context and governance to make generative‑AI outputs both fluent and trustworthy. Araujo...
Viacheslav (Slava) Rudenko and Julia Neusner - CodeX Group Meeting May 21, 2026
The CodeX group meeting featured Vyacheslav “Slava” Rudenko unveiling an open‑source AI application designed to automate the preparation of O‑1A immigration petitions. Drawing on his personal refugee experience, Rudenko built a workflow that couples Claude’s large‑language‑model capabilities with a curated...
Abdi Shayesteh and Jeanine Conley Daves on AI, Deliberate Practice, and the Future of Legal Training
The podcast episode spotlights two parallel developments reshaping legal practice: a new European survey measuring AI adoption across law firms, and AltClaro’s AI‑driven deposition simulator that brings deliberate practice to associates. Nikki Shaver explains how the survey, conducted with Lexo,...
Legal AI Is Growing Up. Chatbots Were Just the Awkward Phase.
The episode centers on Anthropic’s Claude AI, highlighting its shift from simple chatbots to robust legal‑focused tools. Sam Harden walks listeners through Claude’s latest offerings—Claude Chat, Claude Co‑Work, and the newly released legal plugin that plugs directly into the software...
Charting Change In Legal: Pricing and the Evolving Dialogue Around the Billable Hour
The episode of “Charting Change in Legal” examined the growing debate over the billable‑hour model, spotlighting Meta’s legal‑operations chief Mike Haven’s claim that the traditional hourly rate could disappear within five years. Research cited from LexisNexis CouncilLink shows that alternative fee...
05/22/26: ChatGPT Confesses to Crime It Didn't Commit, Smart Glasses in Courtrooms, and More
Legal Tech Week’s May 22 episode opened with a round‑table of hosts discussing the latest buzz in legal technology. The conversation quickly turned to ALM’s recent rebrand to the newly minted "Centellic" umbrella, a move critics say obscures the company’s legacy...
Arbitration and Mediation in the Age of AI
Law Next host Bob Ambrogi introduced an upcoming Suffolk Law and American Arbitration Association conference dedicated to exploring artificial intelligence’s impact on arbitration and mediation. The three‑day event, anchored by the June 12 conference, follows the ODR Forum at Harvard and...
How Contract Documents Cause Construction Problems and Build a Zero Disputes System with Josh Levy
Josh Levy, a former corporate lawyer turned tech entrepreneur, leads Document Crunch in reshaping construction contract management. The company’s culture‑first approach and a bold “Zero Disputes” vision aim to surface contract risks before they trigger claims. A strategic partnership with...
AI Initiative Speaker Series: From Counsel to Code: A Lawyer’s Year Building with AI with Mark Pike
The AI Initiative’s speaker series featured Mark Pike, Anthropic’s Associate General Counsel, unveiling Claude for Legal—a suite of AI‑driven plugins that embed directly into lawyers’ everyday tools. Launched on Tuesday, the offering leverages Claude Code and the Cowork platform to...
LTH Demo Dozen - May, 2026
Legal Tech Hub’s May Demo Dozen showcased 13 short vendor demos, opening with Harvey, a unified legal AI platform that combines large local document vaults, enterprise DMS integrations and external legal databases like Lexis into a single workspace. Harvey demonstrated...
LTH Product Briefing - QorusDocs 2026 Update
QorusDocs (branded in the briefing as Chorus Docs) released a 2026 update that layers agent-driven automation on top of its existing pitch and RFP workflow platform for law firms. The product integrates Microsoft Azure, Office apps and OpenAI models with...