“We’ve reached peak legal tech.”

That was the takeaway of a veteran legal tech CEO while attending this week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association.

The conference was in Nashville, but it should have been in Texas, because everything was bigger this year. Consider:

Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts.

The hiring marks Clio’s first dedicated move into the judiciary,…

The legal AI company Harvey and the court data company PacerPro have announced an integration partnership that gives litigation teams working in Harvey access to their firm’s complete litigation record, including the filings and case context from matters the firm has previously handled and those currently on the docket.

PacerPro captures state and…

It certainly has been no secret that Thomson Reuters has been building its own proprietary large language model. In fact, in my June interview with TR’s CEO Steve Hasker, he talked openly about it, and just a few weeks ago, I reported on TR’s release of preliminary benchmarking data that showed impressive results…

LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced what it is calling the next generation of Lexis+ with Protégé, its generative AI legal assistant, unveiling new agentic capabilities designed to enable legal professionals to move from an initial idea to review-ready work product in one intuitive AI experience.

Branding it the LexisNexis Legal Intelligence Engine, the release…

Law practice company Clio said today that it is bringing AI to Clio Grow, its client intake and relationship management product.

Clio describes the new Grow AI as a set of features within Grow “that work around the clock to turn inquiries into clients.”

The product targets a problem documented by Clio’s Legal Trends…

The document management company NetDocuments today announced two additions to its platform’s AI capabilities. One, Tabular Review, is a tool that lets users analyze collections of documents in a structured table. The other, Legal Authorities, automatically extracts case citations from documents as they are saved to the platform and links them to the full…

Did you know that the law practice management company Smokeball is named for a famous court case — Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. — that stands for the proposition that a company has a duty to deliver on its promises?

It is fitting, then, that Smokeball is today unveiling a new global…

When Clio acquired vLex in 2025, a key asset it gained was Docket Alarm, one of the world’s largest litigation databases containing more than 1 billion filings from federal and state courts. At the ClioCon user conference last year, Clio relaunched it as Clio Docket.

Now, Clio is making Clio Docket available…

Trellis, a legal research company that provides state trial court data and insights, has expanded agentic AI access to its data with a new plugin for OpenAI’s ChatGPT and a native assistant called Trellis Chat, both of which are in addition to the Trellis MCP connector for Claude that the company launched…

Perform legal work in Harvey, get a draft time entry created automatically in Aderant’s iTimekeep.

That is the upshot of a integration announced today by the two companies.

With the integration, law firms that are customers of both Harvey and iTimekeep can connect the two products so that work done in Harvey is…