March is Women’s History Month and, as it kicks off, the legal business software company Aderant is announcing an executive appointment that is historic, at least within the context of this nearly 50-year-old company — its first female chief revenue officer.
Aderant today said it has named Aisling Fenelon…
In every deposition, client call or witness prep session, there is an inherent tension. The more focused attorneys are on listening, the less bandwidth they have to simultaneously verify what is being said against the record. Conversely, the more they are mentally cross-referencing documents, the less present they are in what is being said.
Confido Legal, an embedded payments platform built specifically for law firms and the legal technology companies that serve them, has raised $9 million in financing across two rounds, the company told LawNext in an exclusive advance interview.
The latest and larger of the two rounds was led by Aquiline Capital Partners, a global private…
As I continue my LawNext on Location series – all recorded live in the San Francisco area at locations of each guest’s choosing – he sits down with Pablo Arredondo at his home in Tiburon, a quaint Marin County town with a history stretching from Mexican land grants to naval outposts to a southern railway…
CoCounsel, which launched almost exactly three years ago, on March 1, 2023, as the first AI legal assistant built on GPT-4, today marked a notable milestone, reaching 1 million customers across 107 countries and territories.
Developed by legal research startup Casetext, Thomson Reuters acquired CoCounsel (and Casetext) just four months after its release,…
You can bid adieu to Lexis+ AI. LexisNexis is today announcing the general availability in the United States of Lexis+ with Protégé, an integrated flagship platform that fully replaces Lexis+ AI — which the company now describes as its “first-generation AI experience” — and brings a significantly expanded set of AI workflow capabilities to legal…
Sirion, an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, has completed a majority investment from Austin-based private equity firm Haveli Investments, the companies announced today.
With Haveli’s partnership, Sirion said, it will aim to accelerate product innovation, expand its global go-to-market presence, and enable organizations to move from static contract repositories to intelligent, workflow-driven contracting.…
An in-depth investigation by The Arizona Republic has found that Arizona’s pioneering program allowing nonlawyers to own law firms — a reform long championed by access-to-justice advocates — has become riddled with consumer complaints, legal loopholes, financial conflicts of interest and inadequate oversight.
In a series of investigative articles, Republic journalist Laura Gersony paints a…
While I am visiting San Francisco for two weeks, I am sitting down for conversations with legal tech innovators and entrepreneurs “in their natural habitats” – places in the Bay Area they consider special. Today, in the first in this series, I sit down for lunch with Alex Su, chief revenue officer at Latitude…
AltaClaro, the legal training company that builds simulation-based experiential learning, is today launching DepoSim, an AI-powered deposition simulator developed in partnership with Verbit.ai, the verbal intelligence and transcription technology company.
The product is designed to give litigators unlimited, on-demand opportunities to practice conducting depositions in realistic scenarios, then receive structured, objective feedback…
SimpleDocs today announced the launch of what it is calling its Contract Intelligence Layer, an advanced benchmarking feature that integrates a law department’s internal policies, historical contract precedent and verified market standards directly inside the Microsoft Word add-in where lawyers are already doing their work.
The launch builds on the company’s September 2025 acquisition…
The legal AI company Harvey said today that it has partnered with Harvey — the original one.
The Harvey in question — the non-AI one, that is — is Gabriel Macht, the actor who played the role of lawyer Harvey Specter in the television series Suits.
Harvey — the AI one…
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