BLTF 2026 Video – “What's the Hardest Truth About AI ROI that Firms Aren't Ready to Hear Yet?”
Speakers argue the hardest truth about AI ROI is that technology alone doesn’t create value—firms must redesign processes, measure how workflows change, and embed governance to demonstrate real savings. Many firms underestimate the full costs: software, integration, training, slower initial productivity and ongoing maintenance. Clients also fear commoditization if firms disclose AI use, while accuracy limits and dispersed knowledge create legal and operational risks. Executives must rethink operating models, roles and data ownership to capture sustainable ROI rather than treating AI as a plug-and-play efficiency boost.
Legal AI Startup Legora Raises $550 Million for US Expansion
Legal AI startup Legora announced a $550 million financing round led by top venture investors, earmarked for aggressive expansion across the United States. CEO Max Junestrand told Bloomberg Tech that the infusion will accelerate product rollout and help the firm scale...
Horace King - Lextar AI - CodeX Group Meeting March 5, 2026
In a CodeX group meeting on March 5, 2026, Horace King, co‑founder and CEO of Lextar AI, introduced a governance‑grade legal reasoning platform designed for regulated environments. He framed the discussion around responsible AI, emphasizing that the product is built to meet...
Harvey Adds AI Agent Builder for Law Firms
Harvey, a legal‑tech AI provider, announced an AI Agent Builder that enables law firms to design their own custom agents. The tool offers a low‑code environment for automating routine tasks such as document review, research, and client intake. CEO Winston...
Niki Black on AI Adoption, Billing Pressure, and the Governance Gap in Legal
The episode centers on the newly released 8 a.m. Legal Industry Report 2026, which examines how solo, small and midsize firms are grappling with rapid AI adoption, mounting billing pressures, and a glaring governance vacuum. Host Marlene Gabau and legal‑tech strategist Nikki...
Ethics of Wearable Technology: Privacy, PHI and IP Considerations
The session examined the growing ethical and legal challenges posed by wearable health technologies, focusing on privacy, personal health information (PHI), and intellectual‑property considerations. Speakers highlighted how these devices have evolved from simple pedometers to medical‑grade sensors that collect continuous...
02/20/2026: Law Firm Recruiting Turns to AI Bots, Harvey Partners with Harvey, and More
The Legal Tech Week panel highlighted a rapid shift in the legal industry as AI moves from peripheral tools to core operational assets. Discussions ranged from law firms deploying AI-driven bots to streamline recruiting, to the new partnership between...
Matthew Kerbis - Practi - CodeX Group Meeting - February 26, 2026
Matthew Kerbis, co-founder and CEO of Practi, presented a subscription-billing platform designed to help law firms pivot away from the billable hour as AI reduces time-based revenue. Practi lets firms sign up free, build subscription packages, and currently charges $20/month...
How Datavillage Uses AI to Accelerate Fraud Investigations
The video features a product‑owner from DataVillage speaking at the FF Tattoo Studio during Cypus 2025, introducing the company’s AI‑driven fraud‑investigation platform. DataVillage encrypts client data before feeding it to machine‑learning models, allowing multiple financial institutions to share information securely. The AI...
LTH Product Briefing - altumatimOS by Altumatim
The Legal Tech Hub briefing introduced Ultimatum OS, an AI‑powered e‑discovery platform that centers on a story‑driven workflow. Co‑founder David Gasky demonstrated how users input a narrative—ranging from a single sentence to a full complaint—and the system’s “super agent” instantly...
How Fenergo Is Strengthening Financial Crime Prevention
At the FF Salon in Frankfurt, Fenergo unveiled a new native identity‑verification (IDV) module embedded in its Financial Operating System. The announcement signals the company’s next‑generation approach to financial crime prevention and client onboarding. The IDV capability ties an individual’s identity...
UniCourt Launches New Legal Analytics for DART Featuring Judgment and Attorney Comparison Analytics
UniCourt announced three new core capabilities for its DART platform: a judgment search tool, judgment analytics, and attorney comparison analytics. The features extend DART, originally launched in 2025, by allowing users to locate specific court judgments, analyze verdict patterns, and...
Roy Swisa on $DJCO
The episode features Roy Swissa, who recently consulted for Daily Journal (DJCO) as the company navigates a pivotal transformation. Swissa explains DJCO’s three‑legged business model: a court‑case management SaaS platform, a legacy legal‑journal printing operation, and a sizable portfolio of...
How Eastnets Reinvented Compliance in Global Payments
The video features an interview with the founder of Eastnet, a Middle‑East‑based payments‑technology firm, tracing its 40‑year journey from a modest computer‑hardware reseller to a compliance‑focused global payments platform. Early on, the founder leveraged the 1980s PC boom to sell 10,000...
LTH Product Briefing - DealCloser
The briefing, hosted by Legal Tech Hub CEO Nikki Shaver and DealCloser Director Johnny Dumenna, unveiled the latest version of DealCloser, a transaction‑management platform that has been rebuilt around artificial‑intelligence capabilities to streamline the closing phase of complex deals. DealCloser now...
Gen AI in E-Discovery: How to Test, Trust, and Thrive in a New AI Era- Shared
The ASIDS webinar, sponsored by Relativity, examined how generative AI is reshaping e‑discovery and the legal workflow, focusing on the central question of trust. Panelists from law firms, in‑house teams, and Relativity discussed the need for transparent, auditable AI processes...
How Finastra Is Redefining the Operating Model in Trade Finance
The video outlines how Finastra is reshaping the operating model for trade finance amid sweeping regulatory reforms that now recognize electronic documents as legally equivalent to paper. Banks across Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Southeast Asia...
Government eDiscovery Needs and Challenges I CIO Talk Network
The CIO Talk Network interview spotlights the growing complexity of eDiscovery within the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division. Host Sanjok speaks with Allison Stanton, the newly created Director of eDiscovery, to explore how the federal government tackles both affirmative...
Rebranding, Letting Go, and Other Terrifying Lawyer Decisions
The Lawyers Podcast episode focuses on how small law firms can break the "family" myth, establish measurable standards, and strategically rebrand to enable growth and eventual exit. Hosts discuss the pitfalls of vague accountability, emphasizing the need for defined job descriptions,...
How He Built a €1.1B Giant - Interview with Enrico Giacomelli, the Founder of Namirial
The EU Startups podcast features Enrico Giacomelli, founder of Italy’s digital‑trust specialist Namirial, which has grown into a €1.1 billion enterprise. Giacomelli walks through the company’s 30‑year journey from a modest paper‑selling venture in 1991 to a market‑leading platform for electronic...
Gemara: GRC Engineering Model for Automated Risk Assessment | OpenSSF Project Spotlight
Jamara, the GRC Engineering Model for Automated Risk Assessment, is an OpenSSF‑hosted open‑source project that defines a multi‑layer logical model for integrating governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) directly into software engineering pipelines. Its purpose is to replace fragmented, tool‑specific data...
EDiscovery Best Practices and Trends I CIO Talk Network
The CIO Talk Network episode reframes eDiscovery as a strategic data‑governance and risk‑management function rather than a purely reactive legal task. Vivian Tero of IDC and host Sanjog Aul discuss enterprise confidence gaps, the surge of AI‑driven automation, and the...
Bridget McCormack on American Arbitration Association’s Partnership with QuantumBlack for Impact
The American Arbitration Association (AAA) announced a strategic partnership with QuantumBlack, the advanced analytics arm of McKinsey, to co‑develop an AI‑driven arbitrator platform. The collaboration builds on three years of internal AI experimentation across case management, legal, engineering, and marketing...
LTH Product Briefing - V4 Final
The Legal Tech Hub briefing introduced V4 Final, a cloud‑based platform designed to streamline in‑house legal operations by treating legal requests like IT tickets. Founder Maddie Neistat explained that the tool arose from her own frustration managing competing priorities across...
US-UK On Fair Use
The webinar examined the rapidly evolving landscape of AI‑generated content and copyright law, centering on the landmark UK trial between Getty Images and Stability AI. The case, heard in the Patents Court—a specialist IP forum within the Chancery Division—originally featured...
California’s Cybersecurity Audit Rule
The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology hosted Jim Dempsey to explain California’s newly adopted cybersecurity audit rule, part of a broader package that also addresses automated decision‑making technology and risk assessments. Adopted on July 24 by the California Privacy Protection...
BCLT-Oregon Start-Up Series: (Session 5) Understanding Exclusivity Provisions
The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology hosted a webcast featuring Greenberg Traurig partners Brent Sokol and Alex Linhardt, dissecting exclusivity provisions in technology agreements. The session clarified how such clauses function, highlighted judicial interpretations that define their permissible scope, and outlined...
Women + AI Summit, Real Talk: Leadership, Learning, and Not Letting “The Trap” Write Your Story
The podcast episode introduced “The Law Firm Rebooted,” a new series exploring the rise of AI‑first law firms that place artificial intelligence at the core of service delivery. Stephanie Wilkins explained that dozens of firms launched since late 2024, ranging...
How Eastnets Is Using AI to Transform Banking Compliance
The video features Dian Nab, deputy CEO of Eastnets, outlining how the firm is leveraging artificial intelligence to overhaul banking compliance. He explains that Eastnets, with four decades in payments and security, is shifting AI from a mere efficiency tool...
CBC Project – February 12, 2026 Codex Group Meeting
The CBC Project, presented by Alexandre, introduces a novel analytics framework that extracts human behavioral signals from corporate litigation, board compensation, and stakeholder feedback to classify companies by sector and jurisdiction. By mapping these behavioral cues, the team seeks to...
Welcome to UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology!
Vince Juraliman, director of the Life Sciences Law and Policy Center at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), outlines the center’s mission to equip students, legal professionals, and the public with resources on technology law and policy. BCLT...
The Impact of Prosecution Length on Patent Litigation Outcomes
The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology webcast featured Baker Botts partner Matt Avery presenting a Harvard Tech Law Journal paper that examined how the length of patent prosecution—measured by the number of office actions before allowance—correlates with litigation outcomes....
LTH Product Briefing - Cicero by Automatise 2026 Update
Legal Tech Hub’s 2026 briefing introduced the latest version of Cicero, Automatise’s matter‑analysis platform designed to accelerate fact‑finding in litigation and high‑volume transactional disputes. Cicero now supports up to 500,000 documents (≈2 million pages) and blends traditional predictive‑coding techniques with generative AI...
02/13/2026: Legal Tech Rushes to Integrate Claude's Legal Plugin, CA Rules on Outsourcing Work to AI
Legal Tech Week’s Friday‑the‑13th edition highlighted two seismic shifts in the legal industry: the rush to embed Anthropic’s Claude legal plugin into practice‑management platforms, and a landmark California ruling that AI‑generated materials are not shielded by attorney‑client privilege. Panelists dissected...
The Future of U.S. Innovation - Navigating Regulation and Its Impact
The panel convened by Berkeley Law’s Center for Law and Technology examined the intersecting forces shaping U.S. innovation—namely the power grid, semiconductor supply chains, and artificial intelligence—while probing how regulation will either enable or constrain progress. Speakers highlighted that electricity demand,...
SwiftLaw – February 12, 2026 Codex Group Meeting
At the Feb. 12 CodeX meeting, Saketh, CEO and founder of SwiftLaw, showcased a vertical AI platform that automates fund formation for emerging managers—generating term sheets, LPAs and subscription documents from a native DOCX editor and enabling client onboarding and...
Why Legal AI Fails without Trusted Data: Key Takeaways From Our Denodo Webinar
The Denodo webinar, hosted by Legal IT Insider’s Caroline Hill, examined why legal‑focused artificial intelligence projects frequently stall despite sophisticated tools. Speakers argued that the root cause is not algorithmic weakness but the inability of law firms to rely on...
Is DIY eDiscovery Right For You? I CIO Talk Network
The CIO Talk Network interview with Jonathan Rudolph, eDiscovery manager at CRB, explores whether organizations should adopt a DIY approach to electronic discovery. Rudolph outlines the financial pressures that drive companies—especially heavily regulated ones—to reconsider outsourcing and examines the strategic...
LTH Product Briefing - InfoTrack
The video is a product briefing for Infotra, a litigation‑focused legal‑tech company that has expanded from Australia to the U.K. and now the United States. It outlines the firm’s mission to modernize e‑filing, reduce manual errors, and integrate directly with...
Why AI Won’t Replace Lawyers—But Will Expose Them.
In episode 602 of the Lawyers Podcast, host Stephanie interviews AI specialist Damian Reel to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping legal practice, ethics, and the very notion of agency. The conversation moves from a light‑hearted preview of the upcoming...
LTH Product Briefing - T3 by Lexsoft
The briefing introduced Lexoft’s latest T3 platform, highlighting how the company blends two decades of legal‑tech expertise with generative AI to modernize knowledge management for Spanish‑speaking law firms and corporate legal departments. Lexoft’s solution centers on creating “extended knowledge profiles” that...
This AI Knows Which Leads You Should Ignore
The episode of the Lawyers Podcast features Matt Spiegel, CEO of Lawmatics, discussing how artificial intelligence is being integrated into legal‑tech SaaS platforms, with a focus on the newly launched Qualify AI agentic tool. Spiegel contrasts the slow, cautious adoption of...
The Inside View: The Growth, Benefits and Risks of Vibe Coding
The episode of Talking Tech focuses on "vibe coding," a method where users describe desired software in plain language and large language models generate the code. Helder Santos, head of legal tech at Bird & Bird, explains how the firm...