Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. 2026-06-15T13:34:16Z https://www.lawnext.com/feed/atom WordPress Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53437 2026-06-15T13:34:16Z 2026-06-15T13:34:16Z

Relativity, the Chicago-based legal data intelligence company best known for the e-discovery and litigation platform RelativityOne, has acquired Gavel, the Los Angeles-based document automation and AI drafting company founded by Dorna Moini (pictured above). Relativity said the move will enable it to extend Relativity’s AI platform into the place where lawyers actually write, Microsoft Word. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53429 2026-06-11T17:16:34Z 2026-06-11T17:16:34Z

In all my years of covering legal tech, I cannot remember a week quite like this. And I say that for a very specific reason: This week brought an unusual concentration of leadership changes at legal tech companies. Four companies announced new chief executives, and a fifth named a new president. Is that much C-suite […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53419 2026-06-11T13:00:24Z 2026-06-11T13:00:24Z

“We want to be the intentional multipliers which can deliver the predictable, purposeful and scalable solutions to our stakeholders.” That is the message Krishna Nacha is delivering to his employees as he steps into the role of chief executive officer of Integreon, a global provider of technology-enabled legal and business solutions. Integreon announced today that […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53357 2026-06-11T02:03:13Z 2026-06-11T12:45:51Z

Five months after introducing what it called an “AI workforce” for plaintiff law firms, legal AI company Eve is taking its next step with the launch of EveOS, which it describes as an AI-native operating system designed to run a firm’s operations across the full case lifecycle. Eve says that today’s release is the company’s […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53403 2026-06-10T13:25:36Z 2026-06-10T13:25:36Z

Clio has acquired Jurisage, the Canadian legal AI and data company, in a deal it is describing as “a foundational investment in the future of legal AI in Canada. The deal brings together one of Canada’s most comprehensive AI-ready legal datasets with Clio’s “Intelligent Legal Work Platform,” the name the company uses to describe its […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53395 2026-06-10T12:14:10Z 2026-06-10T12:45:34Z

Law practice management company Smokeball has now partnered with 28 state bar associations to offer its trust accounting and billing software free to their members — a milestone that extends the offer to more than 900,000 lawyers, or roughly two-thirds of the 1.4 million lawyers in the United States. The latest additions are The Florida […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53400 2026-06-10T12:20:39Z 2026-06-10T12:20:39Z

When Thoma Bravo took a majority stake in Casepoint in January 2025 and merged it with the government-software company OPEXUS, it set the e-discovery pioneer on a broader course — deeper into the government market and squarely into FOIA and case management. Now the company has a new leader to see that course through: Paul […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53360 2026-06-09T14:02:14Z 2026-06-09T14:02:14Z

Two years ago, Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, named Prabhdeep Singh as its chief operating officer to help accelerate the company’s growth. Apparently, he did a good job, because today the company announced his appointment as chief executive officer, succeeding cofounder Greg Hong, who will continue to support the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53371 2026-06-09T14:49:04Z 2026-06-09T12:23:03Z

8am, the parent company of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and other law practice technology products, has a new CEO: Jeff Hughes, a member of 8am’s board since 2024 and recently its executive chairman. Hughes succeeds Dru Armstrong, who joined the company formerly known as AffiniPay as CEO in 2021. The news was announced May 19. Armstrong led […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53363 2026-06-08T23:51:46Z 2026-06-09T10:00:15Z

AI patent drafting platform DeepIP has acquired PatentMaker, a patent workflow tool built by and for European IP practitioners, in a move the companies say positions them as the leading AI platform for patent drafting and prosecution in Europe. The deal brings together two complementary operations. DeepIP, founded in 2024 by François-Xavier Leduc and Edouard […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53365 2026-06-08T20:52:23Z 2026-06-08T20:52:23Z

Clio said today it has promoted Ronnie Gurion to president and chief operating officer, expanding the role he has served as an executive who has been with the company since joining as COO in 2021. The company said that Gurion played a pivotal role in what has been the most consequential growth phase in its […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53350 2026-06-08T11:41:31Z 2026-06-08T12:15:36Z

Casepoint has named Paul Colangelo, a longtime government- and enterprise-software executive, as its chief executive officer, the company announced this morning. He will oversee the company’s continuing integration following its January 2025 acquisition by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo and merger with OPEXUS, as well as the growth of its e-discovery, legal hold, Freedom of Information […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53341 2026-06-04T18:35:20Z 2026-06-04T18:35:20Z

A few months ago, I wrote about the new partnership between Masters AI Legal, the newly launched division of The Masters Conference, and Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, to produce a global conference series devoted to making legal professionals “genuinely fluent in AI.” On June 17, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53335 2026-06-04T13:50:52Z 2026-06-04T13:50:52Z

Somebody once told Antti Innanen that he had built a veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat. He thought it was a fun criticism, but he also thought it missed the point. That burger is Lavern, an open-source “multi-agent legal system” that Innanen, a Finnish lawyer and law firm founder with a background […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53325 2026-06-03T12:24:21Z 2026-06-03T13:00:57Z

Harbor, a global professional and technology services firm focused on the legal industry, has acquired CE Global Partners, a specialist in HR transformation, payroll transformation, and people-process change, it announced today. The acquisition expands Harbor’s Human Capital Management (HCM) Advisory line, which the company launched just last month, on May 5. Harbor said the combination […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53319 2026-06-03T12:03:16Z 2026-06-03T12:03:16Z

Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-powered CRM platform for law firms, is now available across Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company said today. Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Foundation 365 was formerly known as Peppermint Client Engagement. The product came to Litera through its acquistion last year of Peppermint Technology, the U.K. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53314 2026-06-02T19:09:07Z 2026-06-02T19:09:07Z

Neil Araujo, the CEO and cofounder of iManage, was last on this podcast almost exactly two years ago. In the dog years of the legal industry’s AI age, that feels like a long time ago. Our conversation then was about law firms still feeling their way around generative AI. But now, as you will hear […]]]>

Universal Migrator, [Sponsored Post] https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53294 2026-06-01T19:38:53Z 2026-06-02T16:35:39Z

Universal Migrator has launched a brand-new website designed to make legal data migrations easier to research, explain, plan, and execute. The new site gives migration consultants, IT professionals, legal technology advisors, and law firm leaders a clearer way to understand what Universal Migrator can do across hundreds of migration scenarios. Instead of forcing migration experts […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53297 2026-06-02T19:29:15Z 2026-06-02T12:38:07Z

The legal industry is turning into a battleground for the two dominant frontier AI companies. Less than a month ago, Anthropic — developer of the Claude AI assistant — took a major step into the legal market, releasing more than 20 MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53282 2026-05-28T18:23:27Z 2026-05-28T18:22:16Z

Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today issued a new rule that requires the signer of any document filed in any Florida court to represent that “the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.” The court’s order (Opinion_SC2026-0673) also adds a rule that expressly […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53277 2026-05-28T12:45:37Z 2026-05-28T12:41:38Z

For Illinois attorneys who are curious about trying artificial intelligence for contract review, now is their chance to do it for free. The Illinois State Bar Association and the AI contract review platform SimpleDocs said today that they have entered into a partnership to give ISBA members free 30-day access to the SimpleDocs’ product SimpleAI […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53259 2026-05-27T14:19:52Z 2026-05-27T14:19:52Z

The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too late to mitigate and the only course is to react. That is the premise of Darrow, a company that built its early reputation by scanning the web to surface potential class actions. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53255 2026-05-27T13:16:39Z 2026-05-27T13:16:39Z

UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the use of generative AI for nearly every step of producing graded work — and prohibiting it outright in any exam. The policy takes effect this summer. The rule, which the school released last […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53249 2026-05-26T17:47:18Z 2026-05-26T17:47:18Z

Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts to sell law enforcement data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily through two products: CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), which provides personal data from a variety of public and non-public sources, and license plate […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53241 2026-05-22T12:56:08Z 2026-05-22T12:56:08Z

iManage used the opening of its annual ConnectLive user conference in Chicago earlier this week to introduce what it describes as the next evolution of its document- and knowledge-management platform, a redesign the company says is built to make institutional knowledge usable by AI systems while keeping governance and security controls in place. The announcement […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53229 2026-05-21T13:18:36Z 2026-05-21T13:18:36Z

Last week, when Anthropic released its biggest legal push to date — more than 20 MCP connectors, 12 practice-area plugins,a and integrations with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint — much of the coverage focused on what the announcement means for law firms, in-house teams, and the legal tech ecosystem. That is where the bulk […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53217 2026-05-20T13:45:39Z 2026-05-20T13:45:39Z

As legal AI company Harvey kicks off the two-day Harvey Forum today in New York City, it is announcing the launch of Command Center, a new product designed to help law firms and legal teams manage, measure, and optimize enterprise AI adoption. In addition, Harvey today announced a partnership with legal AI company DeepJudge designed […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53209 2026-05-20T13:00:57Z 2026-05-20T13:00:57Z

In last week’s Claude-pocalypse, Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, released 12 legal-specific plugins for its Claude AI assistant. It was big news, signalling a frontier AI company’s deeper push into the legal space. Notably, however, not one of those plugins was designed for legal aid. Rather, they covered legal tasks common […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53200 2026-05-19T15:55:07Z 2026-05-19T15:55:07Z

Harvey, the legal AI company whose valuation recently hit $11 billion, recently released what it is calling the Legal Agent Benchmark, or LAB — an open-source evaluation framework designed to measure how well AI agents can perform extended, real-world legal work rather than the discrete reasoning tasks that have dominated legal AI benchmarks to date. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53194 2026-05-19T12:24:05Z 2026-05-19T13:00:57Z

A five-month-old Swedish startup that says its AI agents can do the heavy lifting of patent invalidity and infringement analysis has raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world’s most prominent venture capital firms, the company is announcing today. Stockholm-based Stilta, founded in December 2025 by four former McKinsey […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53188 2026-05-15T13:51:47Z 2026-05-15T13:51:47Z

The American Association of Law Libraries has named Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal the recipient of its 2026 New Product Award, the organization announced yesterday. AALL’s New Product Award recognizes commercial information products that enhance law library services or improve access to legal information and the research process. To be eligible, products must have been introduced […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53185 2026-05-14T17:51:55Z 2026-05-14T17:51:55Z

EvenUp, the personal injury AI company that reached a $2 billion valuation last fall, is making a significant shift in its business model – one that extends it beyond software vendor to something closer to an outsourced operations partner for PI firms. The San Francisco-based company announced yesterday the launch of what it calls Pre-Litigation […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53168 2026-05-14T15:18:48Z 2026-05-14T15:18:48Z

A new legal technology product called eDig365 is making its public debut this week at the CLOC Global Institute in Chicago, offering a reporting and observability layer built on top of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery. The product is designed to address a gap that its founders say is common in corporate legal departments. Legal operations and […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53159 2026-05-14T11:54:53Z 2026-05-14T12:00:06Z

NetDocuments today announced what it calls the first legal context graph — a proprietary knowledge infrastructure that the company says continuously maps the relationships among every matter, document, communication and person across a firm’s entire document repository, while preserving existing permissions and ethical walls. Alongside it, the company is launching a substantial redesign of its […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53151 2026-05-13T14:02:20Z 2026-05-13T14:01:05Z

Amid all the hubbub yesterday around Claude for legal, Clio quietly slipped in a notable story of its own: that it has now surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue. Since few legal tech companies are public, it is hard to know where that puts Clio on the overall revenue landscape. But based on available […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53145 2026-05-13T12:57:12Z 2026-05-13T12:57:12Z

The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, Inc. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53131 2026-05-12T17:35:23Z 2026-05-12T17:35:23Z

The Justice Technology Association (JTA), a nonprofit trade group representing mission-driven companies focused on the access to justice crisis, announced today that it has joined Anthropic as a launch partner in what Anthropic is calling its first comprehensive legal vertical initiative. The announcement comes as part of a much-broader announcement by Anthropic of its push […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53119 2026-05-12T17:48:24Z 2026-05-12T17:24:39Z

Two legal research providers — one a global publicly traded corporation, the other a relatively scrappy nonprofit — are today both announcing integrations with Anthropic’s Claude that allow the AI assistant to tap directly into their legal databases. While the announcements from Thomson Reuters and Free Law Project’s CourtListener arrive on the same day and […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53136 2026-05-12T17:46:58Z 2026-05-12T17:17:06Z

Anthropic today took its biggest step yet into the legal market, releasing more than 20 new MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run on, along with 12 new plugins tailored to specific legal practice areas. Today’s announcement builds on the legal plugin Anthropic released in early February for […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53127 2026-05-12T15:50:56Z 2026-05-12T15:50:56Z

Law firms sell experience — but for decades, harnessing and operationalizing that experience has been a largely manual, chaotic process. In this episode, recorded live at the Legal Marketing Association annual conference in New Orleans, host Bob Ambrogi sits down with Jason Noble, president and chief of product strategy at Ikaun, to talk about how his company […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53113 2026-05-12T12:43:31Z 2026-05-12T14:00:48Z

Aderant, the Atlanta-based legal business management software company, used its Momentum Global 2026 conference this week to unveil the Aderant Agent Center — a new framework for deploying AI agents across law firm financial and operational workflows. The Agent Center, built on the company’s Stridyn platform and powered by its MADDI AI layer, launches initially […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53108 2026-05-11T15:16:49Z 2026-05-11T15:16:49Z

Nearly half of in-house legal professionals say they would not detect an unauthorized or incorrect action taken by an AI agent until after it had already occurred — sometimes days or weeks later — according to new survey research released today by Icertis, the contract lifecycle management company. The findings, drawn from a survey of […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53103 2026-05-11T12:38:37Z 2026-05-11T13:15:11Z

eDiscovery AI, which was acquired in February by HaystackID, today announced the general availability of CaseBot, a conversational AI assistant that allows legal teams to interrogate case data in natural language and receive answers cited back to source documents. The Minneapolis-based company had been running CaseBot in limited release since January 2026. It is now […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53099 2026-05-11T12:30:59Z 2026-05-11T13:00:25Z

Timed to coincide with today’s opening of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Global Institute in Chicago, Exterro is making two related announcements: the launch of a new autonomous subpoena management product and the unveiling of a strategic framework the company calls ARMOUR — Autonomous Risk Management, Orchestration, and Unified Response — that charts its […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53097 2026-05-08T14:57:45Z 2026-05-08T14:57:45Z

Our Friday Legaltech Week panel has been off for a couple weeks, due to travel and other conflicts. But we’re back — live today at 3 p.m. ET — to discuss the latest news in legal tech and innovation. It’s all free, and you can sign up here to attend. Register once and you are […]]]>

Ken Crutchfield https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53092 2026-05-08T12:38:49Z 2026-05-08T12:38:49Z

Last week, Will Chen released MikeOSS, an open-source project on GitHub that claims to be feature-equivalent to Harvey and Legora. Among other things, MikeOSS has an assistant, a tabular review function, and reusable workflows. While it’s too early to tell how strong the technology is, the response in the development community has been viral. For […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53078 2026-05-07T14:33:37Z 2026-05-07T14:33:37Z

Ted Turner died yesterday at 87, and the obituaries are appropriately full of CNN, the Braves, the America’s Cup, the bison, and the billion-dollar pledge to the U.N. But there is a small, largely forgotten chapter of his story that is notable for its impact on shaping legal media as we know it today. It […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53071 2026-05-07T01:50:57Z 2026-05-07T12:00:02Z

Less than three months after replacing Lexis+ AI with Lexis+ with Protégé as its flagship legal AI platform, LexisNexis today is announcing a substantial expansion of that platform – what the company is calling its “next evolution,” combining significant build-outs of existing capabilities with several completely new ones. The expansion, announced today, layers six new […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53056 2026-05-05T15:05:44Z 2026-05-05T15:03:09Z

When using any technology — including AI — a lawyer “must independently review, verify, and exercise professional judgment regarding any output generated by the technology that is used in connection with representing a client.” That language appears in a new comment to Rule 1.1 on competence proposed by the State Bar of California’s Standing Committee […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53046 2026-05-05T15:47:44Z 2026-05-05T12:35:32Z

Legal technology company Clio‘s integration with the payment processing platform 8am LawPay is discontinuing on Aug. 31, 2026, it has notified customers. After that date, customers of the Clio Manage law practice management platform will no longer be able to use LawPay to process payments. The integration contract between the two companies expires as of […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53041 2026-05-04T17:03:01Z 2026-05-04T17:03:01Z

Everlaw and Legora have announced a technology partnership that will allow litigation teams to access documents stored in Everlaw directly within Legora’s drafting and collaboration environment. The integration is designed to close the gap between the discovery and drafting phases of litigation. Under the arrangement, attorneys working in Legora — whether on witness statements, deposition […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53021 2026-04-29T16:49:44Z 2026-04-29T16:49:44Z

Recorded live at the annual meeting of the Legal Marketing Association in New Orleans, this episode features my conversation with Rachel Shields Williams, president of the LMA and director of client intelligence at Sidley Austin, where she has spent 17 years building out roles at the intersection of marketing, business development, knowledge management and data. Earlier this year, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52984 2026-05-06T20:06:09Z 2026-04-29T14:52:11Z

On March 11, 2026, some 200 employees of Thomson Reuters – many of them based at the company’s Westlaw operations in St. Paul, Minn. – sent a letter to management with an unequivocal demand: Do not renew the company’s $22.8 million contract with ICE, set to expire on May 31. (See Part 1 of this […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53015 2026-04-27T21:22:13Z 2026-04-28T13:00:09Z

8am, the parent company of a suite of practice and business management products for lawyers and accountants, is now guaranteeing next-day payments for customers of its LawPay and CPACharge payments platforms, it said today. The company also announced new capabilities that it says streamline billing and improve visibility into financial performance for its customers. The […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52982 2026-04-29T15:07:55Z 2026-04-27T16:16:19Z

[Note: Since first publishing this post, I have made several edits and updates based on information provided by Thomson Reuters and other sources. In most cases, I have indicated where I have changed or added information.] For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52992 2026-04-27T02:29:24Z 2026-04-27T13:00:59Z

Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word. “With Gavel Exec for Web, lawyers can chat with an AI purpose-built for legal work, benchmark […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52997 2026-04-27T13:04:50Z 2026-04-27T13:00:24Z

Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval. The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are significantly larger, across every query type, technology domain and jurisdiction tested. QaECTER is the product of Questel’s in-house AI […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52973 2026-04-23T15:34:44Z 2026-04-23T15:34:44Z

A New York-based legal tech startup called Abstract is making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, offering law firms and corporate legal departments what it describes as a fundamentally different approach to keeping clients and businesses informed about government activity that may affect them. At Legalweek in March, I had a […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52965 2026-04-23T13:35:15Z 2026-04-23T13:35:15Z

In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli entrepreneur Erez Vega-Kadoch kept receiving what he considered to be inappropriate text messages from an Israeli company. Never having consented to the messages, he decided to fight back and file a small claims case against the company. But when he searched for […]]]>

Tom Dreyfus, Cofounder & CEO, Josef https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52961 2026-04-22T17:41:48Z 2026-04-22T17:41:48Z

Legal AI has made lawyers faster. Faster contract review. Smarter redlines. Drafting assistance that saves real time. For the most part, legal AI products have been built around lawyers: how they work and how to make that work better. This isn’t surprising when you consider whose budget pays for legal AI. But the first friction […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52940 2026-04-22T16:03:44Z 2026-04-21T16:46:10Z

Clio has made Clio Work — the AI workspace for legal research, analysis and strategy it launched last October — available as a standalone product for  solo, small and mid-sized law firms, removing the requirement that customers also subscribe to its flagship practice management platform, Clio Manage. The Vancouver-based company, which describes itself as the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52934 2026-04-21T01:35:08Z 2026-04-21T12:00:36Z

LexisNexis and Luminance today announced a partnership that will let mutual in-house legal customers access LexisNexis’s Protégé AI assistant from inside Luminance’s contract negotiation platform, with a pathway to move into Lexis+ with Protégé for more involved legal work. Under the arrangement, users working in Luminance’s natural-language assistant, Lumi, can pose legal questions and receive […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52926 2026-04-17T14:06:45Z 2026-04-17T14:06:45Z

It started with Harvey, the legal AI company that signed Gabriel Macht – the actor who played Harvey Specter on Suits – as a brand ambassador. Then Legora one-upped everyone by signing the actor Jude Law, building a whole campaign around the tagline, “Law just got more attractive,” and shooting the thing with an Oscar-winning […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52911 2026-04-16T12:29:51Z 2026-04-16T15:00:47Z

In its sixth acquisition, Alt Legal, the cloud-based trademark docketing and management platform, has acquired WebTMS, a UK-based provider of IP portfolio management software with more than 25 years in business and over 500 clients globally. The acquisition, announced today, brings together Alt Legal’s automation-driven approach to trademark docketing with WebTMS’s deep configurability and global […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52908 2026-04-15T18:38:20Z 2026-04-15T18:38:20Z

We don’t usually say this, but for today’s LawNext, you’re going to want to watch the video version, if you can. The audio will be good, but the video will be great. You can find it on YouTube. Why? Because we’re going to be talking today about vibe coding, and you’re going to want to see […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52901 2026-04-15T14:44:43Z 2026-04-15T14:44:43Z

A newly released report on legal technology advertising trends suggests that while demand for legal tech continues to rise, the market is increasingly dividing between commoditized product categories and highly competitive segments tied to revenue generation. The report, Q1 2026 Legal Tech Adoption Report, was produced by FlyTech, a marketing agency specializing in advertising for […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52883 2026-04-12T16:42:20Z 2026-04-13T13:00:45Z

While much of the AI development in legal tech focuses on the practice of law — research, drafting, document review and the like — Centerbase, the practice management platform for midsized law firms, is releasing a new AI feature that focuses on the business of law. Today, the company is announcing the limited release of […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52875 2026-04-10T13:08:11Z 2026-04-10T13:08:11Z

A federal appeals court has handed a significant win to UpCodes, a legal tech startup that publishes building codes and technical standards online, ruling that its posting of copyrighted standards likely constitutes fair use — at least for now. In a decision issued April 7, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52852 2026-04-08T14:46:18Z 2026-04-08T14:41:18Z

It is estimated that more than 75 percent of civil litigants in U.S. state courts have no legal representation. In eviction proceedings, the figure exceeds 90 percent. For decades, the primary response to this explosion of self-represented litigants has been to provide them with information, such as court websites, self-help centers and legal forms. Unfortunately, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52847 2026-04-07T16:41:59Z 2026-04-07T16:41:59Z

Are courts the next frontier for legal AI? Shlomo Klapper, founder and CEO of the AI-driven judicial case-preparation platofrm Learned Hand, believes they are. A former litigator at Quinn Emanuel and law clerk for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Klapper is building what he calls a “reasoning engine” for judges — AI tools designed to […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52834 2026-04-07T00:19:10Z 2026-04-07T14:00:11Z

PracticePanther, the cloud-based legal practice management platform that is part of Paradigm’s suite of legal software products, today launched PantherAccounting Plus, a comprehensive trust and operating accounting feature set built natively into its platform. The new capability enables law firms to manage the full lifecycle of their financial operations – from client retainers to month-end […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52842 2026-04-07T12:34:33Z 2026-04-07T12:34:33Z

Josef, the Australia-based legal automation platform, has launched a new capability it is calling the Rapid Ingestion Engine, which uses AI to convert unstructured business inputs — such as email threads, meeting notes and term sheets — into the structured data that legal workflow templates require. The idea, according to Josef CEO and cofounder Tom […]]]>

Universal Migrator, [Sponsored Post] https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52827 2026-04-02T19:02:37Z 2026-04-02T19:02:37Z

Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into major practice management tools Clio, MyCase, Litify, and Lawmatics. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 144+ applications, spanning practice management, CRM, billing/accounting, and document management systems. The latest additions […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52822 2026-04-02T17:53:10Z 2026-04-02T17:51:32Z

Clio today announced two notable updates to its AI product line: the addition of agentic capabilities to Clio Work, and the launch of a standalone Vincent by Clio mobile app for iOS and Android. Agentic Clio Work When Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled Clio Work at ClioCon last October — in a keynote that left […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52811 2026-04-02T16:14:07Z 2026-04-02T14:43:40Z

There was a time, not so long ago, when the most exciting sponsorship deal a legal technology company might land was having its logo on a tote bag at an ABA conference. Those days, it appears, are decidedly over. Today, 8am — the company formerly known as AffiniPay and parent of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52794 2026-04-01T12:27:55Z 2026-04-01T12:30:51Z

Following its February news that it had entered into a brand partnership withj Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits, the legal AI company Harvey said today that it has entered into another such partnership involving another iconic Harvey — only this time it is using AI to make the partnership […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52751 2026-03-31T21:33:43Z 2026-03-31T21:33:43Z

E-discovery platforms have gotten great at narrowing millions of documents down to manageable sets. But what happens next — the grueling work of extracting facts, organizing them, and building a reliable case narrative — has remained largely manual. In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi talks with Daniel Lord-Doyle, cofounder and CEO of Mary […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52789 2026-03-31T14:14:26Z 2026-03-31T14:14:26Z

I have been meaning to write about the new Law Firm Research & Innovation Conference taking place April 28 in New York, and then I realized there is now some urgency to it, as ticket prices go up tomorrow, April 1. The new conference is being organized by LegalTech Connect, the same team that produces […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52785 2026-03-31T13:06:28Z 2026-03-31T13:06:28Z

CollBox, a company that helps law firms get paid more quickly, won the 10th annual Startup Alley pitch competition at ABA Techshow last week in Chicago. Second place went to Candle AI, an email assistant that helps small and mid-sized law firms eliminate email overload. The third-place winner was Lawdify, an autonomous AI agent for […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52767 2026-03-30T12:50:13Z 2026-03-30T12:50:13Z

A first-of-its-kind random-sample survey of federal judges has found that more than 60% have used generative artificial intelligence tools in their judicial work, though fewer than one in four use these tools on a daily or weekly basis. The study, conducted by researchers at Northwestern University in collaboration with the New York City Bar Association, […]]]>

Querious (Sponsored Post) https://rebrand.ly/Querious-LawSites https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52760 2026-04-04T19:32:37Z 2026-03-26T18:15:49Z

AI That Listens Like a Lawyer:  Courts Are Exposing the Gap Between What AI Notetakers Promise and What Their Contracts Permit. Purpose-Built Legal Conversational Intelligenceᵀᴹ Tools, Such as Querious®, Offer Attorneys a Defensible Path Forward. A gap exists between how general-purpose AI notetakers are marketed to legal professionals and what their terms of service permit. […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52746 2026-03-25T02:59:12Z 2026-03-25T14:00:43Z

Smokeball, the cloud-based practice management platform serving small to mid-sized law firms, and Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership today that will embed Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel Legal AI into Smokeball’s practice management software — a combination the companies say brings together deep legal content and advanced AI capabilities with broad practice management functionality in a […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52756 2026-03-25T02:58:35Z 2026-03-25T13:00:50Z

The legal profession crossed a significant threshold in 2025: For the first time, more lawyers are using generative AI than not, even as firm leaders express widespread concern about the technology’s reliability, according to the 2025 State of the Legal Industry report released today by SurePoint Technologies. The tension between adoption and apprehension defines the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52735 2026-03-24T12:37:14Z 2026-03-24T12:30:20Z

Centerbase, a practice management platform for midsized law firms, is announcing today an enhanced native integration with NetDocuments that makes it the first practice management platform to natively connect matter data with ndMAX, NetDocuments’ AI-powered document intelligence system. Centerbase says that the integration, which it will be demonstrating at ABA TECHSHOW this week in Chicago, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52731 2026-03-23T14:11:30Z 2026-03-23T14:11:30Z

At the recent Legalweek conference in New York, I sat down with the cofounders of Syllo, a legal technology company that has taken a uniquely ambitious approach to developing technology for litigators. Rather than focus on any one segment of the litigation process, they have built a unified, AI-powered litigation workspace that spans the entire […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52722 2026-03-23T12:40:14Z 2026-03-23T12:40:14Z

The legal data intelligence company Relativity says it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The filing is not yet available to the public, and the number of shares to be offered and the price range […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52710 2026-03-19T15:24:15Z 2026-03-19T15:22:44Z

For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it for the long […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52701 2026-03-18T19:38:08Z 2026-03-18T14:26:07Z

In what may be one of the most significant appellate sanctions rulings yet involving fabricated case citations, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has imposed substantial penalties on two Tennessee attorneys for filing briefs containing more than two dozen fake or misrepresented citations. The court sanctioned attorneys Van R. Irion and Russ Egli, ordering […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52688 2026-03-18T12:26:40Z 2026-03-18T12:45:05Z

Aderant, the Atlanta-based provider of business management software for law firms, today announced the addition of AI-powered capabilities to its vi by Aderant talent management suite, including AI-assisted employee performance evaluations, real-time sentiment analysis, and auto-summarization features within its viEval and viAllocate products. The company says these are the first client-facing AI capabilities within the […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52683 2026-03-17T14:30:53Z 2026-03-17T14:30:53Z

Pro Bono Net, the nonprofit that has been a pioneering force in access-to-justice technology since the dawn of the internet era, yesterday announced that it is rebranding as Scale Justice, reflecting an evolution in its mission that has taken it beyond its origins as an organizer of pro bono legal services. The new name, said […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52671 2026-03-17T12:51:33Z 2026-03-17T12:51:33Z

You know that idiom about the mountain coming to Muhammad? That is how I felt when Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton came to my small seaside town of Rockport, Mass., to interview me, complete with film crew and entourage. It was Jack turning the tables on me. I’ve interviewed him for my own LawNext […]]]>

Litera http://litera.com https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52661 2026-03-16T15:42:01Z 2026-03-16T15:42:01Z

Customer results highlight growing demand for unified drafting, comparison, and collaboration within Microsoft 365 and web   NEW YORK – Legalweek 2026 – Mar. 10, 2026 – Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, shared new customer results at Legalweek demonstrating how law firms are transforming document workflows and realizing immediate value with […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52640 2026-03-16T23:52:06Z 2026-03-16T12:34:12Z

Last week, Law.com Legalweek pulled off something genuinely impressive: It moved. After 39 years at the New York Hilton Midtown, one of the world’s leading legal technology conferences relocated to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a sprawling glass and steel pavilion 1.6 miles away on Manhattan’s far west side, steps from the entrance to […]]]>

Ken Crutchfield https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52632 2026-03-12T17:10:40Z 2026-03-12T17:10:40Z

This is the final installment in a three-part series examining the forces reshaping the legal industry. Part One and Part Two covered the macro dynamics of the AI industrial revolution and also the bending of UPL as consumers turn to AI products such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for legal advice. Consumer behavior will lead, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52618 2026-03-09T14:03:30Z 2026-03-09T14:03:30Z

Clio has officially launched Clio Capital, a financing program designed exclusively for law firms that use the company’s practice management platform. The product, which went live Feb. 26, provides eligible law firms with pre-qualified access to working capital through a streamlined application process directly within the Clio platform, bypassing the paperwork-heavy, rejection-prone process that has […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52616 2026-03-09T12:59:16Z 2026-03-09T12:59:16Z

An Australian legal tech startup that has built what it describes as the first fact management system for litigation is announcing a A$7 million seed round and its expansion into the United States, including the opening of a San Francisco office and the launch of a self-serve platform aimed at smaller law firms. Mary Technology, […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52607 2026-03-08T14:05:30Z 2026-03-08T14:05:30Z

With Legalweek 2026 set to open Monday in New York City, legal technology companies have been rolling out a string of product announcements and company news in the days leading up to the conference. The pre-conference wave covers a range of developments, from new AI platforms and funding rounds to enhancements in e-discovery tools and […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52599 2026-03-06T14:48:54Z 2026-03-06T14:48:54Z

Continuing my on-location interview tour of San Francisco, I head an hour north to Santa Rosa to sit down with Nathan Walter, cofounder and CEO of Briefpoint, over a bottle of red wine at Paradise Ridge Winery, a spot literally around the corner from Nathan’s house, sitting on the edge of the Mayacamas Mountain Range […]]]>

Universal Migrator, [Sponsored Post] https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52597 2026-03-05T20:07:55Z 2026-03-05T20:07:55Z

With each month, Universal Migrator’s library becomes more comprehensive. Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from DocuWare, Legal Server, and Alfresco into major document management systems including iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 141+ applications, spanning practice […]]]>

Bob Ambrogi https://www.lawnext.com/ https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52584 2026-03-05T14:19:37Z 2026-03-05T15:00:22Z

The AI legal research startup Descrybe today launched a “legal reasoning” product, DescrybeLM, that it says outperforms leading general-purpose AI models on a standardized legal reasoning benchmark — and it is publishing the methodology and scoring data to invite scrutiny. The company also launched an all-new website that features the new product while also retaining […]]]>