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…
On LawNext: Mary Technology Wants to Solve Litigation’s ‘Fact Chaos’ Problem
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
A New Legal Research Conference Coming Soon — And Last Day Before Ticket Prices Increase
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…
CollBox Wins 10th Annual Startup Alley Pitch Competition At ABA Techshow
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…
Survey Finds Majority of Federal Judges Have Used AI in Their Work, But Daily Use Remains Rare
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,…
AI That Listens Like a Lawyer: A Side-by-Side Comparison of General AI Notetakers and Legal Conversational Intelligence
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 Intelligence™ Tools, Such as Querious®, Offer Attorneys a Defensible Path Forward.
A gap exists between how general-purpose AI notetakers are marketed to legal…
Exclusive: Smokeball and Thomson Reuters Partner to Integrate CoCounsel Legal AI with Practice Management Platform
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…
Legal Industry Reaches AI Tipping Point: Majority of Lawyers Now Using Gen AI Despite Persistent Reliability Concerns
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…
Centerbase Launches Native ndMAX Integration, Connecting Practice Management to AI-Powered Document Workflows
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…
How Two Litigators Spent Five Years in Stealth Building What They Say Is the Most Comprehensive Litigation Platform on the Market
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…
Data Intelligence Company Relativity Confidentially Files for IPO; Would Be First In Legal Tech Since 2021
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…
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