What’s ahead for legal tech and innovation in 2026? In today’s live broadcast of Legaltech Week, our panel of  journalists and experts will share their predictions for the year ahead.

We will also look back at our predictions from last year — and see how we did.

The show is live today at 3 p.m.…

Legal AI company Harvey today announced plans to develop Memory, a product that will allow users to choose to retain and carry forward the context of their work, including matter details, relevant precedent, working preferences and approved best practices, with the goal of enabling users to achieve greater consistency, efficiency and connectedness.

The company also…

The year 2025 marked a genuine inflection point in legal technology – the moment when AI moved from experimental novelty to operational necessity, when a billion-dollar deal reshaped the competitive landscape, and when regulatory reform appeared to gain renewed momentum.

As I look back over the stories I have covered this year, they chronicle an…

The biggest deal of 2025 – in fact, the biggest deal ever in legal tech – was legal tech company Clio’s acquisition of vLex for $1 billion. A global legal research company founded in Spain, vLex had, just two years earlier, merged with the U.S.…

Law firms dramatically accelerated their technology investments in 2025, with spending on tech and knowledge management tools growing 9.7% and 10.5% respectively — the fastest real growth likely ever experienced in the legal industry, according to the newly released 2026 Report on the State of the US Legal Market from Thomson Reuters and Georgetown…

Last month, I reported on key hires and a rebranding at The Masters Conference, a legal education and thought leadership forum, as it announced its new identity as Masters LegalAI and brought on legal industry veteran Kevin Vermeulen as its new chief executive officer, along with Mike Dalewitz, a veteran e-discovery entrepreneur, as…

Forget the bold predictions. Ken Crutchfield is focusing on something more fundamental: the physics of the legal tech market.

In the wake of a banner 2025 — with Harvey hitting an $8 billion valuation, Filevine raising $400 million, and Clio’s acquisition of vLex — it is tempting to either celebrate the boom or fret about…

BriefCatch, a legal technology company devoted to helping legal professionals improve their legal writing, has raised a $6 million Series A led by the growth equity investing firm Full In.

BriefCatch says the round comes amid its highest revenue growth rate to date, with 126% net enterprise revenue retention among large law-firm customers.…

Attention all legal tech startups: This is your final reminder. Today is the last day to apply for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW.

This competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s…

Augment or empower? The new split in AI for legal.

There are still no “AI lawyers,” no bots running matters end to end or standing up in court. 

What we’re seeing instead is far more interesting: hundreds of focused solutions that chip away at specific problems. Taken together, they’re quietly reshaping…

Legal technology company Filevine has acquired Pincites, an AI-powered contract redlining company, in a deal that moves the company further into corporate and transactional law, complementing its strong presence in litigation, and that furthers its AI strategy.

The deal marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of 2025, following its April acquisition of…