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…

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…

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.

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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…

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…

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…

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…

Nearly seven in 10 legal professionals now use generative AI tools for work — a figure that more than doubled in a single year — but the majority of law firms still lack formal AI policies or training programs, according to the 2026 Legal Industry Report released by 8am, the legal technology company…

LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed that hackers breached its servers and accessed customer and business information, after a threat actor calling itself FulcrumSec publicly posted stolen files and a detailed account of the intrusion.

(This story was updated after receiving a statement from LexisNexis.)

According to news reports from BleepingComputer, TechRadar, and…

The American Arbitration Association is launching a new AI-powered tool called the Resolution Simulator, which builds on the organization’s previously launched AI Arbitrator to provide simulated, nonbinding dispute outcomes before formal arbitration proceedings begin.

The Resolution Simulator is designed for single-party use in documents-only commercial and construction disputes. Users submit their materials and receive…

Paladin, a pro bono management platform, and Practising Law Institute (PLI), a nonprofit legal education provider, have announced a partnership aimed at integrating skills training with pro bono work for law students.

Under the arrangement, law students using Paladin’s platform to find pro bono placements will also have access to PLI’s on-demand training…