SurePoint Technologies, a company that provides practice-management, finance and growth technology products for mid-sized law firms, named Jeff Steinberg its chief executive officer on July 23, elevating Eric Thurston, who had led the company since 2023, to executive chairman. Two…

DISCO is moving beyond e-discovery, the technology that has been its bread and butter ever since its founding in 2013, to launch what it describes as the industry’s first unified litigation solution, an AI-native application that combines the facts of a matter with relevant U.S. case law.

The product, which the company has not yet…

Thomson Reuters says the large language model it has been quietly building in-house now performs competitively with the best general-purpose AI models in the world, and it has released its first benchmarking results to back up the claim.

In a July 31 post on the company’s innovation blog, Chief Technology Officer Joel Hron…

A poorly managed shutdown can create significant risk. Customers may claim that they lost access to data, were not given a reasonable opportunity to retrieve it, or received exports that were incomplete or unusable.

While no technology can eliminate legal risk, a documented and organized offboarding process can…

LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI technology partners including OpenAI and Amazon Web Services work side by side to design, prototype and test new legal AI capabilities – sometimes iterating on an idea…

When law school AI policies have made news, it has usually been because they were controversial. UC Berkeley School of Law’s restrictive policy, which I wrote about in May, drew national attention for barring generative AI from nearly every stage of producing graded work.

But a new website launched by Andrew Perlman, dean…

At a time when virtually every major AI legal research product is moving toward delivering a single, synthesized answer to your research question, a new product launching today is based on the premise that many litigators want something that sounds almost old school – just the cases.

Align Research, released to general availability this…

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In April, I reported here on a dramatic first-quarter 2026 increase in the numbers of legal tech demos law firms were scheduling, with the numbers going up across nearly every major practice area by as much as 40% to 50%.

Now, it appears that trend has reversed, according to a newly released report on…

As chief technology officer at Casetext, Ryan Walker helped build CoCounsel, one of the first and most consequential generative AI legal assistants — a product so significant it led to the company’s $650 million acquisition by Thomson Reuters. But Walker came away unsatisfied. Although the legal tech tools kept getting better, he believed, clients were…

Since launching its Clio Work AI product in October 2025, Clio says it has been the fastest-adopted product in the company’s 18-year history. But there was one place where Clio Work was not available — Canada, the country where Clio was founded and is headquartered.

Now Clio has brought home the bacon, so to…